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Councilmember Simchick remarked that the operative word in the ILA is "services" and they have not discussed water, which is a primary concern. She was told by her City Manager that if they cannot get past the boundaries, it was not worth talking about the services. She asked if the other municipalities were willing to put at least "water" on the table as well. Attorney Stringer added that when this was brought up there were two approaches: (1) they could go ahead and try to master plan it out now, but the thought was there is not the political patience to set back a couple years and let us master -plan -out the County; (2) or use the backup provision where they would set up the structure, so that when something comes in, it would go to the USAC with staff reports and at that point, they would have the structure to analyze services. He recalled that Director Keating thought it would be very hard to determine now, where the services were going to be, for something that may come in 15 years from now. Assistant County Attorney George Glenn acknowledged that to a certain degree, that was correct. He said they did want to talk about services at the beginning, but there was a thought that there was no way of predicting how they would be able to provide services going out. He did not want the group to think that at the annexation stage they would have all the answers. He pointed out that the annexation stage review is not very thorough, and there probably would not be a lot of information at that time. He stated that the first opportunity they would probably have to look at services, is if there is an increase in height or density; and looking at services is first in the Comp Plan changes. He disclosed that ideally, the way the Florida Statutes is set up, one would go ahead and examine services at the annexation stage, but that was not the process or the path the County took. 31 July 23, 2008 / Joint Workshop ISBA, Sebastian