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GEAR 19 199 �U�� '� F„UE 9115 of Florida -Atlantic and getting a new owner that would treat the residents right. At that time both phases were under one operation and one owner, and we had to address the impact fees in order to solve all the issues with the one owner. Commissioner Scurlock felt there was no question in his mind that in 1985 when he brought the committee's recommendation to the Board, it was a new agreement to wipe out the old. The entire committee concurred with the recommendation and no one raised an objection. Maybe it was a bad decision, maybe we should have taken a different approach, but it was an effort to solve the issue. Mr. Nelson asked if the County assumes that all the money came from the tenants, and Attorney Vitunac stated that we do not assume that. Our agreement was with the property owner, the mobile home park owner, who was obligated to pay the money, and that is all we know. Commissioner Scurlock advised that during this morning's break, a gentleman in the audience had shown him cancelled checks written by individual owners in Village Green that were made out to Indian River County. That was the first time he had ever seen any checks made out directly to Indian River County, and, quite frankly, if he had known that then, he would have said to send them back and have the park owner convey the money over to the County. That was the first time he had ever seen any documentation that we ever received any money directly from the individual home owners, and he was surprised that we accepted it. However, those checks were written after 1985. Director Pinto pointed out that the park owner sent them over to give us the money. After almost three hours of discussion on this issue, Chairman Bird asked for some direction from the Board as to where we need to go with this, and Commissioner Eggert felt that this should be brought back after a full accounting because we are all starting to repeat ourselves. Chairman Bird asked Mr. Nelson if he and his people would be satisfied with as full an accounting as we can possibly make from the 1985 agreement and the funds that were transferred and collected since that date, if we can document and produce that information. In a way, he guessed it is an embarrassment to us that our accounting system and our turn -over in personnel prior to 1985 probably wasn't what it should have been and there may be some discrepancies in some accounts prior to that time. Mr. Nelson stated that they didn't expect any decision at this time, and admitted he should have asked for a full 45 L J