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INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN AND SEBASTIAN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY REGARDING THE INSTALLATION OF UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE SEBASTIAN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT (the "Agreement'), made and entered the last date signed below by the parties, between the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners (hereinafter the "County") the City of Sebastian, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida (hereinafter the "City"), and the Sebastian Community Redevelopment Agency, a dependent special district of the City of Sebastian, (hereinafter "CRA"), or collectively "CITY/CRA" to outline the cooperation of the County, the City and the CRA with respect to a sewer main installation program to facilitate septic to sewer conversions within the boundaries of the CRA. WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, Florida Statutes, Chapter 163, known as the "Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969," authorizes local governmental units to make the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other localities and thereby provide services and facilities in a manner and pursuant to forms of governmental organization that will accord best geographic, economic, population and other factors influencing the needs and development of local communities; and WHEREAS, Florida Statutes, Chapter 166, "Municipalities", §166.021, "Powers", authorizes the City to exercise any power for municipal purposes, except when expressly prohibited by law, and WHEREAS, Florida Statutes, Chapter 125, "Counties," §125.01, "Powers and duties" authorize the County the power to carry on county government to the extent not inconsistent with general or specific law; and WHEREAS, in 1995, the City of Sebastian and Indian River County executed an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) that provided the County the affirmative duty to supply water and wastewater services within the incorporated area of the City in exchange for valuable consideration; and WHEREAS, Section 4. Duties and Responsibilities of the County, (a)(4) of the ILA establishes the manner in which the County will provide water and wastewater service; and WHEREAS, Section 6.08. Concurrency; System Expansion, subsection (4), of the ILA provides, "The County will provide wastewater service ... if the City requests such service in writing, and the County has the wastewater treatment capacity available and a financing plan approved by the City and County is developed for providing such service; and WHEREAS, in 2023, Florida Statute §373.469 was enacted by the State of Florida, requiring that onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems (OSTDS) located within Central Indian River Lagoon Basin Management Action Plan Area connect to central sewer if available by July 1, 2030, or upgrade conventional OSTDS to enhanced nutrient -reducing onsite sewage treatment and disposal system (ENR-OSTDS); and 3120250025591 RECORDED IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF Page 1 of 8 RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK OF COURT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY FL BK: 3777 PG: 2364 Page 1 of 16 5222025 3:22 PM