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professionals already are regulated by'state and federal agencies. t Mr. Paradise stated that he was not arguing against the fee, he was simply saying that if he has to pay the fee, then everyone should have to pay the fee. If not, don't charge anyone. Chairman Eggert explained that as our law stands now all professionals should be covered and this would be something that we would have to make clear. Attorney Vitunac explained that the ordinance in our new Code is a recapitulation of the one adopted back in 1985 or 1986. The occupational license law was set up by State law in 1971 when the State said that they were getting out of the occupational license business and that counties could do it on their own, but could not exceed the rates charged by the State in 1971. Around 1985, the State said that the counties could take all those old fees and double them, no more, on a one-time basis, and that was done through the committee chaired by Commissioner Wodtke. This is the result of that committee from years ago, other than this real estate agent issue. Attorney Vitunac felt it was time to look at the whole concept of it. Commissioner Scurlock understood then that the County Attorney's Office didn't reevaluate the entire ordinance, that it was just updated to put into the new Code book. Attorney Vitunac confirmed that to be the case and reiterated that the only exception was the real estate agent question which was readdressed with the Commission's authorization. Now, however, it turns out that perhaps there are more problems than anyone knew and it may be time to go through it again. Bill Koolage, 11 Vista Gardens Trail, didn't understood about the duplicate collection of fees, and Attorney Vitunac explained that everyone living in the county pays an occupational license fee, but some people living in Vero Beach and Sebastian also pay a city fee. Mr. Koolage had understood from the discussion this morning that we are considering doing away with the fees. He didn't feel that was the thing to do because the fees don't sound that high at all. He felt there is some advantage to having occupational licenses and that it is no concern of ours what the cities do. Chairman Eggert explained that all we are doing now is changing the effective date of Ordinance 92-23 to October 1, 1992 and perhaps directing staff to review the entire ordinance. There being no others who wished to be heard, the Chairman closed the Public Hearing. 33 AUG 2 5 1992 d BOOK 8 � F,.G 4, ,