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CLAUDE HUDSON ASKED HOW LONG BEFORE THE OTHER PRISONS GET OVERCROWDED AND YOU,WILL SEND THEM ON HERE? DAVE BACHMAN STATED IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO SAY. THE LEGISLATURE MANDATED THIS PROGRAM. JACK TAYLOR, REPRESENTING THE TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION, STATED THAT THEY INDICATED THEY OPPOSED THE PRISON BY PETITION. HE THEN ASKED HOW MANY OF THE 56 PRISONERS WERE YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS. MR. BACHMAN STATED HE DID NOT KNOW AND APOLOGIZED. MR.TAYLOR STATED THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO MENTION OF MARTIN COUNTY, THE AREA OF JONATHAN DICKINSON STATE PARK - WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN CONSIDERED? MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE A SURVEY, AND IT IS NOT AVAILABLE. MR. TAYLOR THEN ASKED WHY COULDN'T WE GO TO THE POLLS. IT WOULD BE A LOT CHEAPER THAN BRINGING YOUR PEOPLE HERE. CHAIRMAN LOY ANSWERED THAT WE ARE FACED WITH A TIME SCHEDULE AND THEY ARE, T00, BUT THIS COMMISSION WOULD TAKE THEIR CHANCES ON A STUDY FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE PLACE TO PUT THESE FACILITIES. THE CHAIRMAN TEEN ASKED WHAT WAS THE CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION AND WHERE IS THE STUDY? JUST BECAUSE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE AN INSTITUTION, I CANNOT ACCEPT THIS AS A REASON. NANCY O'DONALD STATED THAT SHE HAS WORKED WITH THE RETARDED AND THE HANDICAPPED, AND SAID, "IF I WERE IN A LARGER AREA, I WOULD ASK TO HAVE IT HERE. I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE LOCATED CLOSER TO THE FAMILIES INVOLVED. YOU NEED FAMILY INVOLVEMENT FOR THIS." COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT THEY MAY NOT KNOW HOW MANY YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HAS, BUT WE DO. THE ANSWER IS THAT WE HAVE FOUR. COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN STATED HE HAS HEARD A LOT OF QUES- TIONS, BUT HE HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ANSWERS. HE ASKED WHAT POPULATION CRITERIA DO THEY USE? HOW MANY FELONS FROM DADE COUNTY DO YOU HAVE IN STATE PRISONS? MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED, "SIX HUNDRED FORTY-NINE." JAN W-4 r.. q BOOK FACE 11