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TO: Charles Balczun DATE: May 20, 1988 FILE: <br />County Administrator <br />SUBJECT: Division Forestry <br />Fire Protection Assessment <br />r� <br />FROM: Doug Wright, Director REFERENCES: <br />Emergency Management Services <br />It is requested that the information herein presented be given <br />formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at the <br />next regular meeting. _ <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br />authority contained in Section 125.27, Florida Statutes, the <br />rlorida Division of Forestry is permitted each year to enter into <br />agreements with each county in the State for the establishment and <br />maintenance of countywide fire protection of all forest and wild <br />lands within the County jurisdiction. Each county is assessed a <br />share of the cost of providing such fire protection a sum in dollars <br />equal to the total forest and wild land acreage in the County mul- <br />tiplied by three ($.03) cents. This year the Division of Forestry <br />has recommended that 102,657 acres in Indian giver County be assessed <br />at the above stated rate for a total cost of $3,079.71. This is <br />a reduction in cost from last year's charge (4,097.43) resulting <br />from a reduction in acreage charge base from 136,581 acres. Unit <br />cost of $0.03 acres remains the same. <br />ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS <br />Since Indian River County does not presently maintain an inventory <br />� non -urban land in sufficient resolution or detail to determine <br />-ie correctness of the assessed acreage as stated by the Division <br />of Forestry, certification or verification of the stated acreage <br />cannot be accomplished. <br />It appears that the assessment acres were derived from the sum of <br />upland forest, range, scrub/brush, marsh, wetland forest, and rural/ <br />urban transition. Information for the assessment was also obtained <br />from mapping and monitoring of the Agricultural Lands Project 1984- <br />1987 provided by the Department of Community Affairs and checked <br />against the 1987 Forest Survey by the Division of Forestry. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Forest Area Supervisor. Joe Spataro of the Division of Forestry will <br />be available for questions by the Commission when the issue is consid- <br />ered. Staff recommends approval and payment of the assessed fee for <br />rural fire protection as noted in the Cooperative Fire Control <br />Agreement and requests the Chairman be authorized to execute the <br />agreement. <br />MAY 3 1 T388 68 <br />BOOK 72 E'AGE 473 <br />