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UNDER DISCUSSION: Vice-Chairman Chandler suggested the committee have a discussion on the possible negative impacts it would have to the County and future projects and opined there was no way of measuring potential future economic impacts. Attorney Polackwich remarked if a business were to move into the EZ from out of the zone and established a business, they would have to pay impact fees. He said if the County did not collect the impact fees, the County would have to make it up. He brought up the issue of how often that would happen and felt it was difficult to predict. He raised the question of how often a business would expand enough in such a way to call for new impact fees. Ms. Caseltine asked if this was only for projects in the unincorporated County. At which time Attorney Polackwich explained some impact programs were County-wide, so for example, transportation impact fees were collected for businesses expanding into the City because it was a County-wide program, and other impact fees were only in the County. He said the greatest impact fees were in transportation. Mr. Zimmerman asked if the shortfall would be made up out of the general fund. At which time Attorney Polackwich responded he felt they could be made up through fuel tax revenues (transportation) and thought other revenues like the one-cent sales tax. He said there could be other means of sources but usually the first place was the general fund. Attorney Polackwich stated it was complicated because if it came from fuel tax, the complicated formulas used to determine, what if any, was the proportionate share and what would be the amount of the impact fee to be paid. Attorney Polackwich said it was assumed the shortfall would come out of the general fund. Mr. Godfrey Gipson asked if this was applicable for new projects in established areas, or was it just for un-developed areas. Attorney Polackwich answered it would apply primarily for new businesses. Attorney Polackwich explained if a business were constructing a new building to house their business, whether or not it were in a developed area or un-developed area, the business would have to pay impact fees. Attorney Polackwich explained in some cases impact fees were based on square footage, for example, if you have a one-thousand square-foot building, the business would pay X amount in impact fees and a business that had two-thousand square-foot building would pay XX amount in impact fees based on that square footage. Attorney Polackwich explained if a business had a one-thousand square-foot business and would then expand to a two-thousand square foot-building the business would be required to pay the impact fees based on the expanded footage (one thousand feet). EZDA UN-APPROVED 4 November 08, 2012 CADocuments and Settings\apolackwich\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\5ERVKF3F\11-08-12.doc 125