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Councilman Brooks understood that the second paragraph in Attorney Collins' letter means that if Fellsmere doesn't go along and refuses to pass the impact fee program, they cannot expect any improvements to CR -507. He asked if that is correct. Director Davis confirmed -that to be correct, and explained that Attorney Collins wrote this letter when Fellsmere stopped collecting the impact fees without adopting a resolution or enacting an ordinance. The County's Fair Share Roadway Improvements Ordinance was written to be inclusive of all the municipalities unless the municipality opted out by the adoption of an ordinance. Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that the County is collecting for more than just the incorporated area of District 7. In fact, most of the money is coming from the unincorporated portion, so it is not really fair to say that no improvement will take place on CR -507 because it may be needed for the unincorporated area of the district. That is the dilemma here to see that everybody pays their fair share. Attorney Tsamoutales asked if anyone has calculated the amount of fees that would have been collected since Fellsmere stopped collecting the fees, and Director Davis explained that $9,000 had been collected from the incorporated area over the 12-16 month, and if the fees had been collected at that steady pace, you can figure about $7,500 a year. Councilman Brooks asked for further explanation on how CR -507 could be widened since it goes through an already developed area, and Director Davis advised that in looking at how we can spend the impact fees, we have to look at roads that benefit most of the area. Roads like CR -507 and CR -512 benefit the whole area because most of the residents in that district travel from Willow Street onto CR -512. So we designate only collector roads and arterial roads for impact fee use because most of the new development use those roads in one way or another. BOOK. k `2 J99U