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1 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1973 THE CHAIRMAN FURTHER STATED THAT OIL DISTRIBUTORS WERE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS MEETING. PRESENT WERE .JOE EARMAN OF EARMAN OIL COMPANY AND JOHN GLAZE OF TREASURE COAST OIL INC. MACMILLAN OIL COMPANY INFORMED THE CHAIRMAN THAT -THEY COULD NOT HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE TODAY, PSR. EARMAN STATED THAT THERE ARE DISTRIBUTORS WHO ARE NOT SUPPLYING THEIR DEALERS WITH HOME HEATING FUELS, WHO IN TURN CANNOT SUPPLY THE CONSUMER WITH HEATING FUEL. IT WAS FURTHER STATED THAT UNDER THE FEDERAL MIDDLE DISTILLATE FUEL ASSOCIATION PROGRAM, A DEALER CAN ONLY SUPPLY CONSUMERS WHO HAD PURCHASED HEATING FUEL FROM HIM EXACTLY A YEAR AGO.•AND SINCE THERE fACE34Q C. 12 1973 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE COURTHOUSE, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1973 AT 8;30 O'CLOCK A.M. PRESENT WERE ALMA LEE Loy, CHAIRMAN; EDWARD J. MASSEY, VICE CHAIRMAN; WILLARD W. SIEBERT, JR.; JACK U. DRITENBAS; AND RICHARD P. BOGOSIAN. ALSO PRESENT WERE JACK G. JENNINGS, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR; PAUL D. BURCH, ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WAS ABSENT AND ATTORNEY GEORGE C. COLLINS, JR. REPRESENTED THE BOARD IN HIS ABSENCE. ALSO PRESENT WERE L.S. THOMAS, COUNTY FINANCIAL COORDINATOR; ROY KIRKLAND AND ELIZABETH FORLANI, DEPUTY CLERKS. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AND STATED THAT THIS MEETING WAS CALLED AS A RESULT OF THE CURRENT SHORTAGE OF HOME HEATING FUEL. LETTERS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF .COUNTY_ COMI.SSIONERS AND GOVERNOR REUB.IN Q'D. ASKEW REQUESTING THE BOARD TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE, ON AN EMERGEN LY BASIS, RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OF A COUNTY FUEL ALLOCATION OFFICER. THE FUEL ALLOCATION OFFICER WOULD '-- HANDLE ALL PAPERWORK INVOLVED, ..TO ASSIST THE CONSUMER, AND TO REFER THEIR PROBLEM TO FUEL OIL DISTRIBUTORS WHO HAVE STATED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO WORK WITH THE BOARD DURING THIS FUEL EMERGENCY, THE CHAIRMAN FURTHER STATED THAT OIL DISTRIBUTORS WERE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS MEETING. PRESENT WERE .JOE EARMAN OF EARMAN OIL COMPANY AND JOHN GLAZE OF TREASURE COAST OIL INC. MACMILLAN OIL COMPANY INFORMED THE CHAIRMAN THAT -THEY COULD NOT HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE TODAY, PSR. EARMAN STATED THAT THERE ARE DISTRIBUTORS WHO ARE NOT SUPPLYING THEIR DEALERS WITH HOME HEATING FUELS, WHO IN TURN CANNOT SUPPLY THE CONSUMER WITH HEATING FUEL. IT WAS FURTHER STATED THAT UNDER THE FEDERAL MIDDLE DISTILLATE FUEL ASSOCIATION PROGRAM, A DEALER CAN ONLY SUPPLY CONSUMERS WHO HAD PURCHASED HEATING FUEL FROM HIM EXACTLY A YEAR AGO.•AND SINCE THERE fACE34Q C. 12 1973