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factor would not be 5.28, and Mr. Fry advised that if the closure costs had been put in for this year, we would have had negative coverage. Commissioner Scurlock did not feel you would put the closure costs all in any one particular year anyway. He would imagine you anticipate closure costs and should be funding that each year so that when you get to the closure, there is no big surprise unless the DER made a major change, and Mr. Fry noted that is exactly what they did. Further discussion ensued regarding the Statistical Section, and Commissioner Scurlock commented that on Page 154, for example, you kind of get an idea of where the County is spending its money. Obviously Law Enforcement and Public Safety used to be almost equal to General Government, and now Law Enforcement and Public Safety is 39% as compared to 20% for General Government. Then on the next pages, it says the County has adopted a philosophy of new development funding itself with user fees, impact fees, etc., while actually our reliance on ad valorem taxes has increased from 51% in 1979 to where today 64% of our funds are coming from taxes. Mr. Fry clarified that there are the ad valorem taxes and then the franchise taxes also; it is not all ad valorem. Commissioner Scurlock continued that going from 1979 to 1988, we went from a fairly constant level of 4 mills and then jumped 2 mills in a fairly short period of time. He feels the Statistical Section says a lot to us, but is what it says really valid? In fact, last year we ended up levying almost 2 mills that it now appears we didn't have to and created this reserve, which is nice to have, but the bottom line is that we went out and taxed someone almost 11 mills and apparently didn't render the service they were taxed for. Mr. Fry could not argue that, but he felt the Statistical Section is very useful in that it does show the 10 year trend in many various areas. MAY 2 S 1989 It also shows population trends, and our 37 BOOK 7Fa.Cc. ��