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He believed that some of the people in the MSTU were thinking only of drainage and the master plan, and he wished to know the total number of dollars that will be raised from the 2 areas that seem to be in opposition. Director Davis believed we are probably talking about 15% of 3,000 acres. A gentleman from the audience interjected that there are 60 acres in Less Pine Lake Estates, and Director Davis noted that those acres at $50 a parcel/acre would generate $3,000. Commissioner Scurlock then asked if you just took the drainage control structure (the one big box culvert), how much is that improvement alone. Director Davis estimated that the culvert itself, including labor probably would be $8,000, and then the head walls are another $6/7000; so, altogether you are probably talking $20,000 for the drainage pipe beneath 89th Street. Commissioner Scurlock commented that, in other words, the benefit would be about $20,000 and only about $3,000 would be generated from that area. He felt that puts it more in perspective. Chairman Bird opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard. Richard Cook, Less Pine Lake Estates, informed the Board that he has 5 acres of A-1 AG zoning listed as one unit for 5 acres, and as far as getting his moneys worth for the proposed assessment, he stated that he is not. He wished to know the size of the culvert that Mr. Davis intends to put in. Director Davis believed it is about 48", and while he does not have the actual design for all of it, the one culvert on 89th Street has been designed and it would be approximately 60/70' long. The cost of the culvert usually runs about $50 a foot. We use reinforced concrete pipe and we would put it in a DOT Class 2 bedding; therefore, with the pipe, the bedding material, the backfill, wing walls, and there is more than one of those pipes that serve that canal, basically it would amount to the figures he stated earlier of $15,000/20,000. Mr. Cook asked Director Davis if this project has to be paid for in two years and cannot be stretched out, and Commissioner Wheeler noted that decision cannot be made by Mr. Davis. That was the Board's decision to make along with input from the community. Mr. Cook then referred back to the Minutes of the July 16th which state that a Stormwater Utility is a proposed program as part of the Drainage Element of our Comprehensive Land Use Plan and cited Mr. Davis as saying that a typical stormwater utility 35 BOOK 0 SLP . 199