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treatment plant that had been totally obligated as far as capacity, and the total cost of that plant was being funded by those who were paying impact fees. What the agreement meant to the Utility Department and the County was that the minute we entered into the agreement, we had to obligate for the total capacity required for that entire mobile home park. Addressing that during the negotiations, the agreement was struck that $143,000 would be turned over to the County in lieu of the responsibility of paying base facility charges up until the time of connection to the County system. Of course, all the fees would be required to be paid on a monthly basis at the time they did connect. Since the $143,000 was not money that came from any specific mobile home owner or from the new owner of the mobile home park, everyone, including the residents, felt it the very best thing to turn that money over to the County because someone else would be paying the base facility charges which may be required to be paid in the future. Commissioner Eggert asked what amounts we are talking about for base facility charges from the time of that ordinance until now, and Attorney Vitunac advised that a rough calculation shows it would be around $300,000, but certainly more than $143,000. Director Pinto confirmed that it was an extensive amount. Another aspect was that when a resident sold their unit and paid their impact fee, that impact fee was locked in and could never increase again even though they were not connected to the system yet. We had to be very careful not to run into the same problem that they ran into with the original agreement regarding those impact fees. The agreement contained a carefully structured arrangement, and staff felt it was a good agreement and the County Attorney and County Commission agreed. Continuing, Director Pinto explained that after the west county wastewater treatment plant was completed, the County put the present park owner on notice to connect. He is currently in violation of that notice, and if he doesn't connect in a short amount of time, that specific issue will have to come before the Board in a public hearing where the Board will have to take some formal action on whether or not to go to litigation. However, the park owner has hired engineers, who are doing the design of the internal connection system. Director Pinto emphasized that the County has always tried to avoid litigation in these matters because of the cost that would be borne by the users of the system, and Commissioner Scurlock added that another reason has been because of the fear 34 BOOK. ®F' Gt MAR 19 1991 _ J