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Service Provided: Responses to the above (i.e., 10 to 14 months would be the completion time for a typical petition assessment project) Meeting with homeowner(s) groups after normal working hours, as required Providing petition forms, plat maps, rate charts Standard costs, impact fees, meter fees Line extension fees Temporary expedited service agreements Information regarding developer's agreements Receiving and processing petitions Setting up files Researching easements Assigning project number Preparing agenda items Obtaining Board of County -Commission authorization for new assessment projects Preparing and managing the assessment project DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 1997 TO: INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THRU: TERRANCE G. PINTO DIRECTOR OF UTILITY SERVICES FROM: JAMES D. CHASTAIN MANAGER OF ASSESSMENT PROJECTS SUBJECT: INDIAN RIVER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF UTILITY SERVICES SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT PROJECT PROCEDURES SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT PROJECT PROCEDURES Indian River County Ordinance No. 92-28 (copy attached) contains procedures by which the Board of County Commissioners may provide for local services or improvements on a special assessment basis by its own initiative or upon petition by owners to be benefitted thereby. The ordinance encompasses: requirements and form of petitions, publication and adoption of the services or improvements, preliminary assessment roll and hearing, notice to the owners, final assessment roll, payment of assessments, assessments to become liens, and providing authority to borrow funds. Services and improvements include: streets and roads, water and sewage systems, water and sewage treatment plants, drainage, street lighting, sidewalks, and such other services or facilities which may be deemed essential. The procedure authorized by the Board of County Commissioners for the Department of Utility Services is (although not limited to) the square foot method of assessment of properties. This is the only method of assessment which has been upheld by the Florida Supreme Court. Staff in the Department of Utility Services have performed extensive evaluations of alternative assessment methods. on June 14, 1991 in a special meeting before the Board of County Commissioners, staff reviewed these results and presented examples of same (the meeting was covered by the news media). The minutes of the meeting and the discussion regarding special assessments follow. A State statute mandated the adoption of a Comprehensive Plan, which Indian River County adopted in 1990. The Comprehensive Plan requirements set forth in Objective 2 of the Water Sub -Element require the installation of water facilities to serve the urban service areas, giving priority to subdivisions having undersized lots and/or health problems. The Department developed a phased plan to meet the Comprehensive Plan requirements. 38 FEBRUARY 3, 1997 DOOK FACE X64