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. _ _.---- <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED HE WISHED TO MAKE CLEAR THAT THE <br />LEGISLATURE MANDATED AN URBAN AREA FOR THE INSTITUTION. <br />REPRESENTATIVE CLEM STATED THAT LOCAL PEOPLE WILL NOT BE <br />HIRED HERE NECESSARILY - DON'T BE MISLEAD DOWN THIS PATH. HE ASKED, <br />"WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER TO HAVE IT IN DADE COUNTY?" MR. CLEM CON- <br />TINUED THAT THE MANDATE OF THE LEGISLATURE WAS NOT WHAT MR. WAINWRIGHT <br />STATED. IT WAS TO QUIT PUTTING THE CRIMINALS OF LARGE CITIES IN <br />SMALL COUNTIES. WHAT THE LEGISLATION INTENDED WAS DEFINITELY NOT TO <br />HAVE THEM IN SMALLER COUNTIES SUCH AS INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />CHAIRMAN LOY THEN ASKED ALL THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT <br />WERE OPPOSED TO PLEASE STAND UP. BETTER THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE <br />STOOD UP. THE CHAIRMAN THEN ASKED THE CITIZENS WHO WERE FOR IT TO <br />STAND UP. LESS THAN ONE-THIRD STOOD UP, INCLUDING THE THIRTEEN MEM- <br />BERS OF THE STAFF FROM TALLAHASSEE. <br />JERRY KRAMER STATED THAT HE IS A RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY <br />AND HE ASKED MR. WAINWRIGHT, "WOULDN'T LOGIC DICTATE THAT THE <br />INSTITUTION SHOULD BE LOCATED IN A MORE CENTRAL LOCATION OF THE <br />ENTIRE DISTRICT INSTEAD OF THE NORTHERNMOST COUNTY?" <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED,WE ARE PUTTING ONE IN DADE AND BROWARD <br />COUNTIES. WE FELT IT REASONABLE TO PLACE IT HERE. IF WE THOUGHT IT <br />LOGICAL TO PLACE THIS ONE THERE, WE WOULD HAVE DONE SO, BUT WE DID <br />NOT HIVE THE BENEFIT OF SOME OF THE EXPERTS HERE. WE THOUGHT WE HAD <br />THE BEST PLANNING. <br />MR. KRAMER STATED,'"'YOU HAVE NOT STUDIED AND YOU HAVE NO <br />LOGIC. DIDN'T YOU JUST WANT TO SPEND YOUR MONEY BEFORE YOU LOST IT?" <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED THAT MR. KRAMER WAS ENTITLED TO HIS <br />OPINION, BUT THEY HAVE LOOKED AT LAND IN THREE COUNTIES. <br />MR. KRAMER STATED HE THOUGHT THIS WAS MISLEADING. <br />SUSAN SPINAGLE ASKED REPRESENTATIVE CLEM WHY SHOULD WE TAKE <br />PRIME LAND? THERE IS LAND AT BLUE CYPRESS LAKE. REPRESENTATIVE <br />CLEM STATED THAT THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN <br />AND CAN TAKE LAND ANYWHERE THEY WANT. <br />CAROL SHERMAN ASKED WHAT IS NEEDED FOR A PRISON IN THIS AREA? <br />HOW MANY DO WE SEND TO PRISON? THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HAVE TAKEN A <br />SHAMEFUL POSITION. <br />- 10 - <br />JAN 8 1974 0oax 19 PacE 10 <br />