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x COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER LEFT THE MEETING AT 3:40 O'CLOCK P.M. ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD A REPORT OF THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. JAMES BEINDORF, COUNTY CONSULTING ENGINEER AND MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE, EXPLAINED THAT CERTAIN AREAS WITH CERTAIN POPULATION ARE BEING DESIGNATED TO COME UP WITH A RESOURCE RECOVERY PLAN BY 1978. HE STATED THAT THE COMMITTEE, AFTER REVIEWING THE REPORT OF THE STATE, RECOMMENDS THAT THE COMMISSION WRITE A LETTER TO THE STATE ASKING THAT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE RESOURCE RECOVERY PROGRAM. HE NOTED THAT ST. LUCIE AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES ARE BEING CONSIDERED AS A JOINT AREA AND THEY BARELY FALL WITHIN THE CRITERIA SET UP BY THE STATE, MR. BEINDORF STATED THAT THE COMMITTEE FEELS SUCH A DESIGNATION"WOULD.BE AN UNDUE BURDEN FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY AND NOTED THAT ST. LUCIE / COUNTY HAS ALREADY WRITTEN A LETTER ASKING TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS PROGRAM. ADMINISTRATOR KENNINGS COMMENTED THAT ST. LUCIE COUNTY ADMINIS- TRATOR WELDON LEWIS, IN ADDITION TO WRITING A LETTER ASKING TO BE -RE- LIEVED OF THIS DESIGNATION, HAS ADVISED THE DIRECTOR OF THE RESOURCE RECOVERY COUNCIL THAT ST, LUCIE COUNTY, THE CITY OF FORT PIERCE AND THE " FORT PIERCE UTILITY AUTHORITY, HAVE ALL AGREED THAT THEY REQUEST TO BE EXEMPTED FROM THIS PROGRAM, PROFESSOR LUCAS, OF THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, EXPLAINED TO THE BOARD THAT THE PYROLYTI'C METHOD OF WASTE .RECOVERY SUGGESTED BY THE STATE IS NOT'ONLY EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE BUT IS STILL STRICTLY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL STAGE, ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER MASSEY, CHAIRMAN SIEBERT AND COMMISSIONER WODTKE VOTED IN FAVOR, THE BOARD AUTH- ORIZED THE ADMINISTRATOR TO WRITE A LETTER AS RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE; APPROVED OUT -OF -COUNTY TRAVEL FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR TO ATTEND A PUBLIC 'r HEARING IN REGARD TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SARASOTA .JUNE 17, 1976; AND i INSTRUCTED THE ADMINISTRATOR TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE CITY OF VERO BEACH ASKING THEM TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN REGARD TO THE RESOURCE RECOVERY ! PROGRAM. 49