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MR roadway. The drainage system that has been proposed for Vero Lakes Estates as a whole is over one million dollars. We have not been implementing the drainage program except for pipe under the roadway, and we will not have a total functioning drainage system until we implement that program. Mrs. Lindsey continued to contend that the proposed roads will only make the drainage problem worse. She pays $600 taxes. now, and if she has to pay more, then she wants her money put into drainage. She also claimed that the ambulance people cannot find her home because the county does not have a comprehensive plan of Vero Lakes Estates. Commissioner Wheeler believed we already are asking the Legislature to expand the Mosquito Control District, and we did spend extra money last year just to cover this particular area. Sharon Kinchen, 8915 104th Avenue, advised that she owns 5 acres in the back of this area, and she bought out there because it was a country area with dirt roads. If she wanted paved roads, she would have bought in the Highlands. She is definitely against the paving and feels it is too much money for taxes on a 5 acre tract. Truman Patterson, 8856 100th Avenue, spoke against the paving. He pointed out that the County has a petition paving program, and if people want paved roads, let them use that program and pay for it themselves. Mrs. Manning commented that several people have mentioned they like the country. Well, she bought a big piece of property in this area, too; she was informed that because of the MSTU, the roads would be paved on a reasonable time schedule; and she pays $1,200 taxes. The horrendous road conditions are aggravated by the weather, and she was involved in a very serious accident out there. Because of the condition of the streets, the ambulance had to go blocks out of the way to find a way to get there. Anot=her benefit of paved roads is that they improve the value of property. Mrs. Manning thought one thing that has not been brought up tonight is the Clean Water Act which has been adopted by the state and will force the county to put in a drainage program; therefore, she felt the money generated by the MSTU should be spent on roads and not on drainage which the county will have to implement in the future anyway. Mrs. Manning believed the people here are not aware that in the future we will have to pay a utility fee for the county to get the water run off our property. She then referred to a letter written by Mr. Ansin, who is a very Large property owner in this area, when the MSTU was established, in which he stated the top priority in his view 15 BOOK Niu J-L