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• A RESOLUTION OF POLICY BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
CONNISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA CON-
CERNING THE COUNTY WATER-SEWER DISTRICT.
WHEREAS, the creation of the County Water-Sewer District
was overwhelmingly approved by vote of the electorate in a
referendum election held November 4, 1969, and
WHEREAS, the boundaries of the water-sewer district
approved by the electorate consisted of that area known as
coastal Collier County, and , •3
WHEREAS, the said boundaries were chosen as a result of
engineering studies done in 1969 by Black, Crow & Eidsness,
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• Inc. based upon logical boundaries for providing water and '
sewer services in the rapidly expanding urban area of
Collier County, and
WHEREAS, these district boundaries were recently re- •
confirmed by the 201 Study conducted by Smally, Wellford, ~ . •
Nalven, Incorporated/Russell & Axon, Incorporated, and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the district, besides the
financing and constructing of water and sewer improvements,
is to regulate all water and sewer services within the
District by both governmental and private purveyors , and
WHEREAS, the District boundaries comprise an area which
includes the Coastal Ridge Aquifer, the Cocohatchee River
.... Basin, and the Gordr'n River Basin, all of which could .
potentially be adversely affected by lack of comprehensive
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regulation of utility services within the District, and
WHEREAS, the harmful effects of said lack of regulation
would be felt by the residents of said District, and
WHEREAS, it has been and continues to be the policy of
the Board of County Commissioners to finance the improve-
ments constructed by the District from revenues and assess-
meats derived from the land specially benefited by such
improvements, and
WHEREAS, it is not the policy of the Board of County
IIIIIICommissioners to finance the activities of the District
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IOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, that:
1. It is the policy of the Board of County Co: mis-
sioners to maintain the District boundaries as originally
established by vote of the electorate in 1969 based upon the
factors outlined above.
2. It is not the policy of the Board of County Com.,mis-
sioners to finance the activities of the District through
levying of ad valorem taxes, and to that end the Board does
hereby direct that any ordinance creating, recreating,
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ratifying, or affirming the creation of said District shall
include appropriate provisions to the end that no general ad
valorem tax shall over be levied by the District over all the
lands of the District.
3. It is the policy of' the Board of County Commis-
sioners that, should it ever be necessary to levy ad valorem
taxes on any parts of the District in order to finance
improvements to be constructed by the District, to raise •
said ad valorem taxes by the establishment of municipal
service taxing units to comprise only those lands which brill •
be specially benefited by the improvements to be constructed.
This Resolution adopted after motion, second and roll
• call vote as follows: •
Commissioner Pistor - motioned and aye
Commissioner Archer - seconded and aye
Commissioner Wenzel - aye
Commissioner Brown - aye
Commissioner Wimer - aye
DATED: January 10 , 1978.
BOARD OF COU::TY CO:•=•:ISSIONERS
ATTEST: COLLIER LINTY, FLORIDA
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C. R. Russ mer
• Chairman
Approved as to form and legal
sufficiency:
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Donald A. Pickworth,
Collier County Attorney
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