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JUL 16' BOOK 83 PAGE Director Davis explained that the impact fee program is divided into districts. The Vero Lakes Estates area is in District 7 of this program, and the impact fee you pay is for road capital improvements, particularly the collector roads and the arterial road expansion to meet growth demands of new development in each district. In the Vero Lakes area we did use $30,000 of the impact fee revenues to pave 87th Street. Basically, Mr. Davis believed there is $95,000 in the District 7 account, and those funds are earmarked for improvements to the intersection of CR 510 and CR 512, as well as probably some road widening on 510 when the new high school comes. He does not anticipate any of that revenue. being used for this project, but he assured Mr. McMillan that none of the money he pays in impact fees is spent outside District #7 - all that revenue is spent within the district in which it is collected Mr. McMillan continued to protest that nothing is done in this area, but Mr. Davis again pointed out that $30,000 of these funds were used towards paving 87th Street. He explained that District #7 includes the whole area west of the City of Sebastian all the way to the west County line and the north County line; the south boundary is somewhere south of Wabasso Road. Mr. McMillan asked about 61st Street that got paved in Wabasso. He noted he drove down it and there are nothing but little shanties on it. Those people have no money, but it got paved. Mr. Davis advised that is 61st Drive; it was a petition paving project; and the residents on the street paid 75$ of the cost. Mr. McMillan didn't believe they paid anything because nobody on that street works, but he was assured that the property owners on that street paid their share. Juanita Lindsey, 8211 93rd Ave., just wanted to say that she is against the paving, and her reasons are that they have no mosquito control in Vero Lakes Estates. She has a 14 acre parcel, and if she is going to be assessed $100 a year, she wants to have mosquito control and decent drainage and some type of canal crossings so her children don't have to walk so far to get the bus. Mrs. Lindsey was concerned that when you do put in a road on 91st, it will be built up higher and the water will filter down to her property. Chairman Bird believed as these roads are paved, a drainage system will be put in along with the paving that will help alleviate some of the problem. Director Davis clarified that the drainage system that goes in when the road is paved is that drainage system beneath the 14