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.f 1 COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT HE SHARED SOME OF a COMMISSIONER MASSEY'S CONCERN ABOUT THIS COST. ATTORNEY BURCH ASKED, "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO-WITH-THE i GROWING POPULATION?" COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN STATED, 'THERE ARE GOING TO BE MANY PROBLEMS, I AM SURE. MANY LOW INCOME PEOPLE DO OWN PROPERTY AND SOME EXCEPTIONS MAY HAVE TO BE MADE." COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED, "WHAT EXCEPTIONS ARE YOU i GOING TO M AKE?" ATTORNEY BURCH STATED THAT YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT EXCEPTIONS. I` DR.. SMITH WAS THEN ASKED HOW THIS HAD BEEN HANDLED IN OTHER CASES, DR. SMITH REPLIED THAT GENERALLY EXTREME HARDSHIP CASES ARE HEARD BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND IN,SOME CASES THEY DO GIVE j ASSISTANCE, DR. SMITH ALSO CALLED TO THE COMMISSIONERS' ATTENTION THAT THE LAYOUTS ARE BASED ON PRELIMINARY DESIGNS AND CAN BE CHANGED; MR. BEINDORF THEN STATED THAT THE THIRD AND LAST ITEM NEEDED TO BE DISCUSSED WAS THE PUBLIC RELATIONS ASPECT OF THE PROJECT, DR. SMITH THEN DISCUSSED THE LETTER WHICH THE COMMISSIONERS HAD RECEIVED FROM THE FARMER'S HOME ADMINISTRATION RELATIVE TO PRO— CEEDING WITH THE PROJECT, HE STATED THAT ON .JULY 31, 1973, MR, GREEN AND MR. WEATHERS OF THE F.H.A. HAD ASKED THEM TO COME IN AND DISCUSS i THE PROJECT, SIMPLY STATED THE F.H.A. HAS APPROVED A VERY FAVORABLE LOAN IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY AND THEY HAVE EXPRESSED DEEP CONCERN THAT THINGS WERE NOT MOVING ALONG WITH THE PROJECT AS THEY SHOULD BE. HE ALSO POINTED OUT TO THE COMMISSIONERS THAT THE CURRENT RATE OF INFLATION WAS ABOUT 1% A MONTH. DR. SMITH STATED THAT MR. GREEN HAD ASKED HIM TO SPEAK TO THE COMMISSIONERS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY INTEND TO PROCEED WITH THE PROJECT. THE DETAILS COULD THEN BE HANDLED AT A LATER TIME. OTHERWISE, THE LOAN COMMITMENT MIGHT BE WITHDRAWN. AUG 141973 -3- E, oo 17 PAU340