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ROOK 64 FMAY 7 1986 A,E X64 Commissioner Wodtke asked if Director Pinto was contem- plating that the County Utility Department will be able to run all the little plants on the long list he displayed, and Director Pinto confirmed that he actually did not feel the County has any choice but to go ahead with this. He noted that he was not saying there are no service people in the county capable of maintaining a wastewater plant as there are some good operators out there who contract privately, but when you have a develop- ment, the utility is secondary, and if there happens to be a money crunch when a repair is needed, the utility is overlooked. He felt where we made our mistake was to think we could franchise these small operations, and expect that they would operate -as a full fledged utility company. General Development Utilities is a different story; they actually are in the utility business. Director Pinto continued to emphasize that when you are talking about someone who is not in the utility business, that utility should be considered part of the cost of the development and should be written off into the project. Further discussion ensued about how taking over these systems and having the County operate them would work, and Director Pinto advised that this is being done in Orlando now, and as long as the developers pay their impact fees, this works very well. ON MOTION by Commissioner Lyons, SECONDED by Commissioner Bowman, the Board unanimously directed that the Utilities Department further pursue the matter of seeing which utilities should be put together into a county system and come back with a recommendation. Discussion ensued re the fact that this Motion deals with long range planning but not with recouping the delinquent monies, and Board members wanted to know just how we go about -this. 78