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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />Peter D. O`Bryan <br />Chairman <br />District 4 <br />Wesley S. Davis <br />Vice Chairman <br />District 1 <br />Senator Joe Negron <br />412 Senate Office Building <br />404 South Monroe Street <br />Tallahassee FL 32399-1100 <br />April 8, 2014 <br />Re: All Aboard Florida - Delay Funding for Quiet Zones <br />Dear Senator Negron, <br />y1 -IV <br />/yi.2 • <br />201q•0117 <br />Joseph E. Flescher <br />District 2 <br />Tim Zorc <br />District 3 <br />Bob Solari <br />District 5 <br />The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County is concerned that the State <br />of Florida will be funding the proposed All Aboard Florida project which will be <br />negatively impacting the citizens of Indian River County, St. Lucie County and Martin <br />County without giving the public a better opportunity to understand the issue. <br />At this time very little information has been made available to the residents and elected <br />officials of Indian River County about the project. Because so little information has been <br />made available there is a great deal of speculation about the finances of the project, the <br />financial burden that it will place on taxpayers at the Federal, State and local levels and <br />most importantly the damage that the project may do to the health and safety of our <br />communities. <br />Given this, the Board of County Commissioners is asking that you remove any funding <br />for quiet zones from this year's budget. This will give our communities the time to <br />understand the project and hopefully get the information that they need to have a <br />rational basis to either give or withhold their support for this project <br />We believe that this delay, necessary for elected officials to perform their due diligence <br />is the right thing in a free society such as ours. In what is supposed to be an open and <br />transparent society our residents and elected officials should have all available <br />information available to them, before elected officials at any level provide any support <br />for what we were initially told was to be a private project paid for with private funds <br />1801 27th Street, Building A <br />Vero Beach, FL 32960 <br />(772) 226-1490 <br />