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OCT' BOOK 78 FA:GE 110 program can buffer the assessments, but we are going to have cases like this coming in rapidly in the next 5 years, and we need a short term instrument to handle it. Commissioner Bird asked if we could take just one district and work out the numbers on it for the R/W we need and have staff bring that back. Administrator Chandler asked for some clarification. He believed a key element is timing, and pointed out that we may not need some R/W for many years. Commissioner Scurlock noted that we are never going to acquire R/W cheaper than present day dollars. He explained that in District 5, for instance, you would go in and identify all the R/W needed in that district; you then would immediately draw up an acquisition amount it would take to fund that; and that would be your special assessment back to the benefitting property. Attorney Vitunac felt it would be far too complicated to do assessments by benefit. He thought we were talking about a taxing district where there is just an additional special tax every year to fund the budget to acquire R/W for that year. Commissioner Bird stressed that he would like to see us look at this in just one district, and Director Davis noted the intent was not to look at all the R/W in one district and try to buy that in 7 or 8 years. The intent was to establish a budget for each district each year, and as these cases came in, only buy the R/W for those particular cases. Commissioner Eggert felt that may not be the most cost effective way for the County to proceed when the price of land keeps moving up. Commissioner Scurlock stated that he also would like to get a study going on this so we can get some numbers and kick around some philosophies because until we find a funding mechanism, we will continue to have the inequities and not the R/W. Chairman Wheeler stressed the need to be consistent and wished to know where we draw the line, especially in regard to 19