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AUG 24 199' BOOK 90 FAGE319 ANALYSIS Under the Agreement, the County provides wastewater treatment for the City to be billed under the County bulk rate agreed to in the Agreement. The County, at the request of the City, provides no water service. The City has requested, by the attached letter, "County Commission approval for 70 ERUs of wastewater capacity in the North Indian River County Wastewater Treatment Plant to be purchased for the Sebastian Lakes development. This request is understood to be only for the assurance that Sebastian Lakes will receive County permission to allow connection to the County's wastewater system in the future. It is further understood that there will be no guarantee that the 70 ERUs will be reserved at the plant for Sebastian'Lakes until such time as the impact fees are paid in full to Indian River County." County policy is to reserve and commit capacity only upon receipt of payment of impact fees. The Department would agree to the request for. 70 ERUs of capacity for Sebastian Lakes upon payment of the required impact fees. Because the County revised its master plan, removing the City from its water and wastewater service area at the City's request, the Department would request that before additional capacity is committed, the City analyze its total requirements for capacity that it cannot serve and submit a request for those requirements. The request would require a revision of the Utility Master Plan and the City would be required to pay for the revision. RECOMMENDATION The Department of Utility Services recommends commitment of the 70 ERUs of requested capacity upon payment of impact fees and, if the City has decided that they cannot provide capacity as first indicated and requests the County to provide the capacity, the County must revise its Utility Master Plan to include the City capacity at the City's expense. Utility Services Director Terry Pinto advised that the City of Sebastian previously asked to be eliminated from the Utilities Master Plan. He probably would have recommended against providing service to Sebastian Lakes, but this particular project was in existence when the original Utilities Master Plan was developed, and we can accommodate them without any major changes to the system. Therefore, Director Pinto recommended approving the allotment of 70 ERUs of capacity. He added that up to 400 units, including the commercial area, could be connected eventually. The County will bill the City of Sebastian, which will then bill the individual customers. 28 1