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BEING RUN, WITH SUGGESTED ADDITIONS OF MORE PICNIC FACILITIES, AN <br />ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND BOAT LAUNCHING FAILITIES. <br />THE COMMITTEE'S THIRD ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE ABOUT THE SAME AS <br />THE SECOND CHOICE, EXCEPT SOME COSTS, SUCH AS -ANIMAL MAINTENANCE AND <br />PROPERTY TAXES, INSURANCE, EQUIPMENT RENTAL, DUES AND.;SUBSCRIPTIONS, <br />FOOD, WOULD BE ELIMINATED. <br />MR. PATCHETT STATED THAT THE COMMITTEE IS INTERESTED IN <br />CONTINUING THEIR EFFORTS TO OBTAIN THE GARDENS- HE INFORMED THE <br />BOARD THAT THERE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION TO BUY THE GARDENS. <br />MR. PATCHETT SUGGESTED THAT THE NEXT STEP SHOULD BE THE <br />BOARD'S AUTHORIZATION FOR A SECOND APPRAISAL. <br />DR. HERBERT KALE, PRESIDENT OF THE PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON <br />SOCIETY AND A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY APPEARED AND STATED THAT AT <br />MCKEE JUNGLE GARDENS THERE ARE 'COASTAL HAMMOCKS° WHICH WE DO NOT <br />HAVE -ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTY AND DR. KALE URGED THE COMMISSIONERS <br />TO PROCEED WITH THE PROPOSED PURCHASE OF THE GARDENS. <br />JEROME KRAMER, REPRESENTING THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION <br />APPEARED AND AGREED THAT ANOTHER APPRAISAL IS NECESSARY AND SUGGESTED <br />THAT THE BOARD AUTHORIZE THIS. <br />AFTER DISCUSSION A MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, <br />SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, TO AUTHORIZE HAVING AN APPRAISAL <br />MADE OF MCKEE JUNGLE GARDENS. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT QUESTIONED THE COST OF AN APPRAISAL. <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER WITHDREW HIS MOTION AND COMMISSIONER <br />WODTKE WITHDREW HIS'SECOND. <br />A MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, SECONDED BY <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE COUNTY, <br />ATTORNEY TO CONTACT AN APPRAISER AND FOR THEM TO ADVISE US OF THE <br />APPROXIMATE COST OF AN APPRAISAL OF THE TOTAL PROPERTY PACKAGE OF <br />MCKEE JUNGLE GARDENS, BUT TO SEPARATE THE PROPERTY THAT IS NOT <br />CONTIGUOUS. <br />JACELYN BLOCK, WITH THE YOUTH GUIDANCE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM <br />APPEARED REQUESTING THE BOARD'S APPROVAL OF THE YOUTH GUIDANCE VOL- <br />UNTEER PROGRAM FOR 1975-76 AND ITS BUDGET. <br />MARGARET KULCZYCKI, A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR AT THE CITRUS <br />ELEMENTARY SCHOOL APPEARED STATING THAT SHE IS USING THE SERVICES OF <br />THE YOUTH GUIDANCE PROGRAM AND HAS SEEN GOOD RESULTS. MRS.KULCZYCKI <br />