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Chairman Scurlock credited Utilities Director Pinto with finding this grant money. He noted that with the two grants and the acquisition of the North Beach system, we are looking at about 6 million in savings to the county. Director Pinto advised that there are still some negotia- tions that have to go on to fine tune the numbers. The county, however, is facing a 7 million dollar expenditure with or without the grant. If we take the grant, it only means we are going to get at least 1.8 million. Following this approval, we will have to have the work authorizations for the engineering and go through the bid processes. This is a sludge and septage manage- ment program that has to be put together to treat sludge and septage from all the plants within the county, including the City of Vero Beach. It is just the beginning of the process. Commissioner Eggert asked if there are extra strings to this federal grant as there are with the library construction. Chairman Scurlock advised that we analyzed accepting this 1.8 million in terms of the impact of meeting additional requirements, and it is way to our advantage. The other thing he wished to point out to the Board is that this does allow the Utility Director, Mr. Pinto, to modify the agreement from time to time, and that is necessary. However, he believed the Board's policy always has been that needs to come to the Board of County Commissioners eventually for final approval. Director Pinto explained that some numbers need to be cleaned up. Also, this is the very last of the grants - starting next year there are just loans, and he is going to try to get the unfunded portion of this project included under the loan program. ON MOTION by Commissioner Eggert, SECONDED by Com- missioner Bowman, the Board unanimously adopted Resolution 88-119 accepting an offer of a grant for $1,836,570 from the EPA for a Regional Sludge Facility. 92 NOV 1 1988 BOOK 75 5 PAGE 92