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DATE: SEPTEMBER 14p 1992 <br />TO: JAMES E o CHANDLER <br />COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR <br />FROM: TERRANCE G. PINTO <br />DIRECTOR OF UTIL12 SERVICES <br />SUBJECT: COUNTRYSIDE MEETING <br />on Wednesday, September 9, at 10:00 a.m., county Attorney Charles <br />Vitunac,, Harry Asher,, and I met with Robert Hatfield and Robert <br />Peters, the owners of Countryside Mobile Home -Park. <br />We discussed the connection of -the mobile home park sewer system to <br />Indian River county's west regional system. <br />The mobile home park ownerof Position-wAs that they will not connect <br />until they are in a position to pass through m6fi-Iffi—ly charvaiL, This <br />position, of course, i -e -not -in accord with their signed contract. <br />since we are at a deadlock,, we must decide our next course of <br />action. Please advise on how you prefer to proceed. <br />Attorney Block reiterated that they are not saying that they <br />didn't know about the base facility charge because obviously they <br />have been receiving bills since October. They are saying that they <br />had an issue with the County about the base facility charge and <br />have talked with the County Administrator and County Attorney manyl <br />many times. <br />Chairman Bird related that a prior Commission made the <br />decision in setting up our rate structure that the system would be <br />run and financed through a base facility charge. Utilities staff <br />and other experts convinced us that was the most fair and equitable <br />way to do it and he didn I t know that we can back of f from that. <br />Some people have been paying bade facility charges for years on a <br />vacant piece of property. He felt it would be considered if there <br />were extenuating circumstances that would give the Board some <br />latitude in granting some relief from the base facility charge, but <br />the base facility charge has been a very vital part of our utility <br />system for a long time, unpopular as that may be with the people <br />who are paying it. <br />Director Pinto understood from Attorney Block that the issue <br />today is whether there should be special circumstances based on the <br />dispute about the location of the connection. <br />Commissioner Eggert felt we could do more about the penalties <br />than the base facility charges, but Commissioner Macht felt that <br />04 <br />J 1993 BOOK 89 ,,,4u 746 <br />