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Ms. Joann G. Slay Attorney for Gadsden County Post Office Box 300 Quincy, Florida 32351

Dear Ms. Slay:

You ask on behalf of the county commission substantially the following question:

May the county appropriate, through the budget process, money from the general revenue fund to offset a shortfall in revenues received from the mandatory garbage collection program in the unincorporated areas of the county?

In sum, I am of the opinion:

While the collection of waste, thereby eliminating a source of pollution, may well constitute a substantial benefit to the incorporated areas, such a determination…