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600K 107 pxn 833 7 Agency (EPA) has several funding programs that would offer match and full grants for stormwater management plans. I believe the timing is now to begin an effort to address the goals, objectives, and policies that have been in our Comprehensive Land Use Plan since the 1980s. Jim Davis and his limited staff have done an outstanding job in keeping the county's roads and bridges together and addressing the drainage for these as they go. They have also found time and funding sources through already established programs to prepare drainage plans for the older communities. The poor drainage or no drainage in these areas effect the health and welfare of the people living there - not to mention the property values. Tun hopes to have some additional talented folks on his staff shortly, so the timing may be right to begin the planning toward a stormwater management system. I would like to request Public Works to consider a "multi -phased countywide" stormwater management plan as part of their department's goals for the coming year, I would also like to offer my help in any way toward this effort. Commissioner Stanbridge believed it was time to be pro -active in stormwater management planning. She suggested funding sources might be available and that Public Works Director James Davis might possibly use his new staff members towards this goal. She felt he had done an excellent job with the county's bridges and roads and in keeping up with the drainage, and noted he had taken the time and sought funding to go after some drainage in some of the older communities that were in desperate need. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Stanbridge, SECONDED BY Commissioner Adams, to request Public Works to consider a multiple -phase countywide storinwater management plan as part of their goals for the coming year. Commissioner Ginn thought the State was going to require that. She felt the ramifications of it tend to be frightening as to what it means for the average homeowner. Public Works Director James Davis agreed that the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) process is going to a new level where smaller communities of 50,000 to 100,000 people will be affected by 2002. The County will be required to have a stormwater management plan, have to do better mapping of the watershed areas, and have to begin planning to reduce pollutant loadings to the Indian River Lagoon and the Sebastian River. It will be a laborious process, even before 2002, to start accumulating the data, a lot of which we have already begun to do. We certainly will need to refine our stormwater management mapping of our watersheds, as the technology comes down in cost. He supported completely what Commissioner Stanbridge was proposing. He recalled that six years ago, staff had proposed a stormwater utility preliminary document, but the opportunity December 8, 1998 40 0 is