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OV 1 <br />7V7) 9 <br />BOOK 18 PAGE 368 <br />Attorney Vitunac explained that this is a public hearing <br />required by state law whenever the County undertakes to buy or <br />take over a utility system. The factors required in state law <br />are listed in the backup material and the public hearing is for <br />the people of the mobile home park or utility system to give <br />their concerns. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked if the $625 impact fee was the <br />normal fee, and Attorney Vitunac explained that the lower fee was <br />just for the RVs, not the mobile homes. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked the cost of constructing the 340 <br />feet of sewer line, and Utilities Director Terry Pinto estimated <br />the cost would be around $26,000. <br />Attorney Vitunac explained that this agreement talks about <br />the big issue of who is going to pay these impact fees to the <br />County -- the owner of the mobile home park or the tenants who <br />own the individual units. There is some language in the <br />agreement which some people think requires the tenants to pay, <br />but actually, the County's position is that we don't care who <br />pays. All the County wants is someone to pay for each site. <br />Therefore, the agreement states that each site must pay an impact <br />fee. It doesn't say whether it is the owner who pays or the <br />tenant who pays. If it is the tenants, there is a financing <br />mechanism in this agreement to make it easier for them to pay. <br />Commissioner Eggert understood that the financing mechanism <br />wasn't for the owner, but Director Pinto advised that the owner <br />would have the same ability. However, there seems to be a <br />question of whether the owner can pass the charges through to the <br />tenant, and the questions extends even further of whether the <br />charges can be passed through to certain tenants and not to other <br />tenants due to certain agreements with the park owner. <br />Therefore, we have structured this agreement the same way we <br />structured agreements with other mobile home parks where the <br />impact fee comes due at the time of a sale of a unit. The impact <br />fees are due at that time whether or not the owner of the park has <br />12 <br />