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Comprehensive Plan Capital Improvements Element Court Related All costs of operating the judicial branch of Indian River County Government are classified here . This category includes the County Court, Circuit Court, State Attorney 's Office and Public Defender. As shown in table 6. 5 , expenditures from this category totaled $6,210,614-. W5.. 630.734 . 00 in FY 20034/045. Between fiscal years 20023/034 and 20044/045 , Court Related expenditures indecreased by 3-54934%. Beginning in FY 1997/ 1998 , the State of Florida mandated that the county begin recording Court Related costs as a separate expenditure item. Court Related costs represented 4.393 . 77% of all county expenses in FY 20034/045 . Debt Service Debt service consists of interest and payments made by the county on its debt. This figure includes principal retirement, interest and other miscellaneous debt service. As table 6. 5 indicates, total county debt service expenditures were $3 ,727,534 . 1,495 . 500. 00 in FY 20044/045 . Between fiscal years 20023 /034 and 20034/045 , debt service expenditures decreased by -1-746 . 22%. Since FY 19989/992000. debt service expenditures have ixdecreased by 32 . 1643_58 %. Debt service expenses represented 242 . 34% of all county expenses in FY 20034/045 . Existing Outstanding Debt At the end of FY 20044/045 , Indian River County ' s outstanding debt, comprised mostly of revenue bonds, stood at $ 108 , 545 ,000. This is shown in table 6 . 6. In 1993 , the county took advantage of lower interest rates and refunded any debt that had reasonable future economic savings. Enterprise Funds support 84 . 6% of the overall debt (Utility Dept 76 . 7% ; and Golf Course 7. 8%), leaving only $ 16, 050,000 in bonds paid from general governmental funds. In November 2001 , Indian River County issued the remaining $ 11 ,000,000 of the $26,000,000 voter approved Environmentally Sensitive Land Acquisition general obligation bonds . This is the most recent bond series issued by Indian River County . Also in 2001 , the County issued $ 16 , 810,000 in Spring Training Facility Bonds to finance the acquisition and expansion of the Dodgertown spring training facility . Finally, two bonds were refinanced in 2003 to take advantage of lower interest rates : the 1993 Series Refunded Recreational Revenue Bonds and the 1995 Series Environmental Lands Acqusition Bonds. Community Development Department Indian River County 22