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Committee Chair Dr. Varner responded they can review this issue when they are doing the compact fees and budget planning. He asked Mr. Horvath if they could have that bill they are ready to vote on tonight. Mr. Horvath responded they are giving each division an estimate of what their water bill will be and that is going to be built into the 2017 budget so that they can start paying for it. That will be done for all departments and we will have to probably put meters on some of those buildings. In terms of the bill on the table, this is the forgiveness piece of the plan along with cutting the water compact fees out. What this does is give us time to figure whether or not we want to have exemptions and what they would look like. If the compact fees don't start until January Pt we will have the time to sort out those questions we all have. Committee Chair Dr. Varner stated the problem with compact fees as it exists is that it's the belief of the City that they already exist and their intent is to start charging them on January 1st If we pass this and nothing happens from now until January then they are being charged and we don't know how much effort will be made to change the exemptions. We still have to address the compact fees and how they are set up today. We are all in favor of providing the forgiveness for the installation charges and the compact fees. The issue of the compact fees going forward needs to have a larger discussion. It is possible that nothing will happen but we need to have a clear understanding of how they will be assessed. Committeemember Davis asked if we can get this together where we will have agreement on something tonight. Council Attorney Cekanski- Farrand stated the items that need to be addressed are the statement of the purpose of intent while eliminating the compact fee language and then also Section 17 -86 which is the waiver of annexation and City compact fees. If you eliminate those two (2) items then everything else that has been discussed and summarized can move forward. Mr. Horvath asked if they are not making changes to 17 -86 then the Council is telling us we don't need to enforce 17 -86 and charge compacts back to 2002. All we were doing was trying to find an effective date to institute the forgiveness. Committee Chair Dr. Varner stated that would then open up the door to starting to charge compacts because it is an existing ordinance. Council Attorney Cekanski- Farrand responded correct and it gives the opportunity to the other parties the Administration has spoken to have that discussion heard by the Council. Mr. Horvath stated he doesn't understand because all they thought this compact language did was establish an effective date of January Pt 2016 as the forgiveness date. If we take that language out then it's not forgiven. Council Attorney Cekanski- Farrand responded it forces a second ordinance on compact fees themselves. 9