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VIRGINIA HARRIS, REAL ESTATE AGENT STATED THAT <br />APPROXIMATELY 97 EMPLOYEES WOULD BE HIRED FOR THIS PRISON AND <br />LOW TO MIDDLE INCOME HOUSING WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO FIND IN <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />MURIEL FRIEND ASKED IF STATE OWNED LAND WAS AVAILABLE. <br />MR. THORNTON STATED THAT STATE OWNED LAND WAS <br />EXPLORED BUT DID NOT FIT THIS NEED. <br />LOIS KRAMER STATED THAT THESE EMPLOYEES WOULD <br />PROBABLY HAVE TO LIVE IN ST. L.UCIE COUNTY. <br />CHESTER CLEM, STATE REPRESENTATIVE STATED THAT THE <br />LEGISLATURE HAS A GREAT IDEA IF THE CRIME RATE IN INDIAN RIVER <br />COUNTY WAS HIGH, BUT IT IS LESS THAN 1/3 OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY <br />AND 1/50 OF THE PALM BEACH AREA. THIS INSTITUTION SHOULD BE <br />IN AN AREA WHERE THERE IS A HIGH RATE OF CRIMES COMMITTED. <br />.JEROME KRAMER APPEARED AND STATED THAT THIS <br />INSTITUTION WOULD HINDER THE GROWTH IN THIS COMMUNITY AND THE <br />r BOARD SHOULD PRESENT A RESOLUTION STATING THEIR REASONS FOR <br />OPPOSING THIS PRISON IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />MR. NORTON STATED THAT THIS INSTITUTION IS NOT GOOD <br />FOR THE COMMUNITY, OR BUSINESS AND IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CONSIDER <br />THIS FOR THIS COUNTY. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN, SECONDED BY <br />y COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED ADOPTING <br />A RESOLUTION N0. 73-71 OBJECTING TO THIS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION <br />IN ALL.RESPECTS AND THAT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY DRAFT SUCH A RESOLUTION <br />GIVING ALL THE DIFFERECT OBJECTIONS VOICED TODAY AND THAT THE <br />CHAIRMAN BE AUTHORIZED TO SIGN THE RESOLUTION. <br />- 21 - <br />NOV 71973 <br />saaK 18 nc IUD <br />J <br />