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RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve the fol- lowing items: 1. Letters of Conditions from Farmers Home Administration; 2. Contract for engineering services between Indian River County and Masteller and Moler Associates, Inc.; 3. Authorize the engineers to proceed with the design of the revised Gifford Wastewater Project. Commissioner Scurlock expressed his gratitude to the Gifford community for not only supporting the program but expanding the program to another $1 -million of improvements. He commended Ralph Lundy for his outstanding efforts in presenting the program to the community. Director Pinto advised that we are now at the point for the Board of County Commissioners to give their approval by authorizing staff to go into final commitment with FmHA and sign the engineering contracts. He explained FmHA has required the County to enter into an agreement with one basic engineering firm and then any other necessary engineering would come under that one contract. He recalled that sometime back we retained the services of Masteller & Moler Associates and Camp Dresser McKee, Inc. to do this type of work for us. Staff is recommending that we retain the services of Camp Dresser McKee for their expertise in effluent disposal. Their contract actually would be subcontracted under Masteller & Moler, but the fees would be determined on the curve set by FmHA, which is far lower than the curve normally used by engineers. Director Pinto advised that the FmHA is going to allow us to go in and repave any roads which have to be disturbed during construction, but only to the extent they were before construction. In conjunction with our road department, however, they have agreed to allow us to bring those roads up to a point where they could be paved. We are estimating that $1 -million 45 NOV 1 1985 BOOK PacE 753