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effect on the feasibility of us building a stand-alone facility or does it push us into the position that we need to go into a combined project with neighboring communities so we won't overload our customer base. Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that if we were to reduce the size of what is proposed, with the City now being almost half, we would have to do a redesign. Commissioner Bird felt we then need to go out to neighboring counties in order to add to the customer base. Director Pinto informed the Board that they have done that analysis and will give the Board the numbers, and even with the absence of what the City of Vero Beach will take out, they still think the final numbers are livable numbers. He continued that if we adopt that the project will work with the numbers that have been proposed here without the City (which we think it will), then if you get into negotiating with a neighboring community to utilize unused capacity of your system at the very least until such time as you need that capacity, then that would even drop it more. He emphasized that what we have to do, however, is base our decision on the numbers for here. Commissioner Scurlock agreed that you have to demonstrate a guaranteed stream of revenue. The Board continued to go over the various factors involved, including customer base, rate structure, etc., and Director Pinto impressed on the Board that we really don't have an alternative not to do it. We have to treat our sludge and we have to treat our septage. He stressed that the Board must keep in mind that our permit on the Gifford treatment plant and the west treatment plant is based on the County continuing in the direction to build an adequate sludge treatment facility. Discussion next ensued regarding the numbers involved with the City's pull out as shown in the following graph: DEC 211989 17 F=` .� P,OOK PAGE d4