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INDIAN RIVER SHORES HAS BEEN NOTIFIED AND THEY ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT ALL IN -COMING TELEPHONE CALLS WILL. GO DIRECTLY TO THE CITY OF VERO BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT. IF THEY WERE TO HAVE A DIRECT LINE, THEY MUST HAVE AN OP- ERATOR ON DUTY 24 HOURS PER DAY AND THEY ARE NOT EQUIPPED ,TO HAVE THIS. WE HAVE HAD A REQUEST FROM THE FORESTRY SERVICE FOR A DIRECT LINE FROM THE 911 SWITCHBOARD SO THAT THEY CAN BE NOTIFIED OF GRASS FIRES, THE VERO BEACH VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE CALLS WILL GO THROUGH THE SWITCHBOARD FROM THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT AND THEN RADIOED TO THE IORTH COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE IF NECESSARY. COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT THE STATE HAS REQUESTED THAT THE COUNTY ADOPT A 911 PLAN THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IN OPERATION, WHEN THEY HAVE THE MONEY, AT THIS TIME WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED FOR ANY COSTS AND NO MONEY IS TO BE COMMITTED, WHEN THE STATE PLAN IS ADOPTED, WE HAVE A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS TO ORDER THE SYSTEM, AND THE TELEPHONE COMPANY HAS A MAXIMUM OF 24 MONTHS TO INSTALL THE SYSTEM. COMMISSIONER WODTKE REQUESTED THE BOARD TO REVIEW THE MATERIAL PRESENTED AND INFORMED THEM THAT THERE WILL BE ANOTHER MEETING IN JANUARY WITH THE FIRE CONTROL PEOPLE; THEN A FULL COMMITTEE MEETING TO FINALIZE THE 911 PROGRAM; AND THEN IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL AND ADOPTION, HE. STATED THAT HE HAS VERBAL ASSURANCE FROM TALLAHASSEE THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEMS IN THEIR ACCEPTING THE PLAN THE COMMITTEE IS NOW WORKING ON, DEC 171975. 21 O24 . Ef210