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category will reflect adequately the operation of a commercial/retail/industrial park and that the rates are reasonable. Mini -Warehousing has been rounded -off and Churches have been split to more accurately reflect the majority of debris from churches. Staff has also attempted to ease the petition process. If someone can prove, either by statistical information or a survey that staff will perform, that they are 30% outside of the average, higher or lower, the District can make an adjustment immediately, without the need for a petition. Staff has also budgeted some equipment that will allow us to weigh the garbage and study it for a specific amount of time in order to make whatever changes are needed to the roll. If there are several within the same category and the same change is made, then the entire category will be changed to reflect it. Staff is having a timing problem in that, once an appeal is filed, there is such a short period of time to do an analysis based on the petition. Staff proposes to take the petitioner's information and use it for that petition year, allowing the adjustment. Subsequently, during the balance of the year, staff would study the situation and, if the petitioner is right, continue the change. If they are wrong, the adjustment would be made in the following year's assessment. Commissioner Bird questioned the "racetracks" category and Director Pinto said that he would check this out and advise the Board. Commissioner Bird commented that we must have a pretty upstanding community as we only have 26 nightclubs, bars and lounges and 164 churches. Director Pinto continued that the assessment roll is taken from the tax roll so a lot of the descriptions are ones that must be used because that is the way the tax roll sets them up. Material that comes into the Landfill is charged a tipping fee. An evaluation has been done based on the actual cost of handling different types of materials so there will be an adjustment in the tipping fees, depending on what the final budget is. we are having problems at the transfer stations and the Landfill with out -of - county materials, specifically yard waste. Yard waste is covered in the assessment charge, while other landfills in Florida cover it in a tipping fee. Staff believes that they are trying to avoid the tipping fee in other counties by bringing their yard waste into Indian River County. However, sometimes the cost of policing becomes too expensive and also becomes something of a harassment to the public. MAY 229 1995 Boos ^5 P,,A52