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BGGK' F'A�E b4 Administrator Chandler advised that this ties into a number of different factors. This property is adjacent to residential; it is zoned R-6; but the money originally set up and budgeted did not include all the expenses, part of which were for the driveway and parking area. Also significant questions were raised by P&Z members and the neighboring residents about the buffering of that site, and that also caused additional expense. Commissioner Scurlock wondered if possibly Staff should evaluate whether this is a good site for this facility. Administrator Chandler pointed out that the size of this site gives potential to expand this facility -in the future. Utilities Director Pinto advised that Staff is satisfied that it is a good site. He explained that when we took over this site it contained an old wastewater treatment plant owned by Ixora and an old water treatment plant and we have spent about 1/4 million dollars in removing that old plant and the old drying beds and replacing them with a warehouse. This actually is a considerable improvement to that piece of property. He further noted that the site is very heavily buffered with vegetation that has grown over the years, melaleucas, pepper trees, etc., which are now considered undesirable and they are asking us to remove all that and come in with some other type of vegetation. Chairman Bird agreed with Commissioner Scurlock that even as painful as it can be, sometimes it is good that the County gets a taste of what the private sector runs into on their projects with all these requirements. Commissioner Scurlock believed that no one really understands what the new Safe Drinking Water Act and Stormwater Management is doing to us. These permits go to St. Johns and we have no control over them. Development costs, besides just what the County is requiring, have skyrocketed. He, therefore, just wondered, in view of the increased costs, if we are sure we still want this site. Director Pinto confirmed that Staff still feels it is a good site. ON MOTION by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Commissioner Wheeler, the Board unanimously authorized the Chairman to execute the contract with Hunley'Hubbard Construction in the amount of $44,480 and authorized the spending of not more than $170,000 to finalize the project, all -as recommended by Staff. SAID DOCUMENT IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF CLERK TO THE BOARD. 34