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but to do that kind of ratemaking has put us in a spot where we're charging rates based on our cost of service. Mr. Brown said, but the City got here by agreeing to do that for the Town. I mean we can talk about we don't know how we got here, but I know how you got here because the County was proposing serving the town back in 2012, the Town chose the City, no qualms there, but it was based on a proposal from the City that said we'll charge County rates. That's how we got here. Mr. Falls said we got to that point because the service territory was not brought up and discussed back then so we are here today and previously because we had a territorial dispute. We think that we have gotten close to solving that with the County. We thought the County wanted to have the South Beach residents charged the same rates as we charge everyone else in our service territory and that's where we're moving. We feel confident that we have the law on our side to be able to do that and we are going to move forward with the rates study and in an open and transparent process we're going to do that. We're going to have public hearings where every person in the service territory will have the opportunity to comment. Mr. Reingold said I will just say that this is a huge struggle for Mr. Brown and Ito come back to our Board based upon this discussion. I mean, I've been told for a while now, why won't the County honor an agreement from 1989 and what I'm hearing from the City is you won't honor an agreement from 2012. Can you just help me understand why it's okay for you guys to no longer abide by this agreement_(2012), but I'mstuck abiding by a 30-plus year agreement. That makes no sense to me. Ms. Lawson said a couple of things,again the City Manager pointed out,we're going to have that separate conversation with Indian River. Shores. But, can I just offer thiscomment, a lot of the County rate/City rate thing has revolved around this notion that somehow City rates are higher er and are and the veryfact that byadopting County rates for e It depends on who you that is not true. p those customers, we, the City y collected exactly thesame amount of revenue at the bottom line as we did with City rates will logically tell you that your rates are not less across the board. It depends on how much water you use and some people pay less and some people pay more. It's just rate making and I think that's been a part of the reason everyone's so concerned about going to City rates that somehow they're higher and that's not the case. I think part of this will unfold as we said over the course of the next six (6)to nine (9)months as we do this rate study and we provide everyone with the information they need to see how it affects their particular circumstance. So this is not something that's happening tomorrow. Mr.Reingold said I absolutely agree with you. We have a different sort of rate structure. Ours is more conservation based and yours is more, as I understand, sort of flat based. I get that. I think we were looking for a sort of five (5) year transition. We were not looking for the City to be permanently tied to the County rate structure. We were looking at this as kind of a we could help you guys by agreeing with you on the territorial thing and in response we would have a phase in to the City rates and then kind of a little bit of a cap for a couple years and then after that point 4 07/22/21 Conflict Resolution