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BOOK 94 PAGE 7411 felt they deserve credit for that because they have to deliver services for all the roads in the County. The $572,000 reduction on the expenditure side related to a $610,000 reduction in transfers in from the taxing fund which was very helpful in keeping expenditures and taxes down. The ESD is down $38,000 from the prior year. Our expenditures are considerably less than we originally predicted in our ESD plan. All these reductions in expenditures relate to millage. The general fund came in this year below rollback, the MSTU is .5% below rollback, and ESD was 2% below rollback. In the aggregate, the County was 1% below rollback which was not easy to accomplish when you take into consideration the change in the tax roll we had this year. This year we only had a 1% growth in the general fund tax roll and the MSTU was down 2.5%, primarily in the area of existing property. The primary reason was in the area of devaluation of citrus groves. The ESD taxing district was down .5% in the tax roll which was a $60,000,000 change in existing property, again attributed to the reduction in the appraised value of citrus groves. In 1989-1990, the County aggregate millage was 7.4838. The millage is now 6.8158 which is a 9% reduction in that time period. Director Baird next addressed the Solid Waste Disposal District, which is a non ad valorem assessment district. We have reduced expenditures $1,000,000 this year. However, our Waste Generation Unit charge went up $11.69. When you relate that to equivalent residential units, it went up $18.71, caused by instituting residential recycling and commercial recycling in the last 2 years, the cost of which has never been passed on to the consumer. We had utilized our existing cash reserve, absorbing those costs which resulted in our cash forward balance dropping from almost 2.5 million last year down to $369,000. This cost has now been passed on to the consumer, causing the increase even though there was a $1,000,000 reduction in expenditures. Our forecast for the .coming year includes obligations that are measurable and some that are not measurable at this time. We know we will have to take into consideration the new courthouse. The security at the courthouse was taken from contingency funds this year in the amount of $335,000 but will be an additional expenditure next year, together with the full year operating costs, consisting of building and grounds, maintenance, electrical costs, and utilities, which will probably be $80,000 _more for the courthouse. SWDD has the extra hours which were added to the transfer stations of $48,000. If a decision were made to go back to a 7 -day week, we would need to add approximately $81,000. The northwest fire station is slated in our emergency services plan to open next year, which has an effect on the—taxing funds of FEBRUARY 14, 1995 42 M