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COMMISSIONER MASSEY REPORTED TO THE BOARD THAT HE HAS BEEN WORK- <br />ING WITH BILL THOMPSON IN REGARD TO A POSSIBLE SWAP OF PROPERTY AT AMBER - <br />SAND BEACH PARK. HE STATED THAT HE HAD DETERMINED THAT THE GENTLEMAN <br />ADJACENT TO AMBERSAND BEACH PARK ON THE SOUTH OWNS THAT LOT THROUGH FROM <br />OCEAN TO RIVER. COMMISSIONER MASSEY NOTED THAT THE COUNTY HAS TWO LOTS <br />ON THE RIVER (THE PORTION OF AMBERSAND BEACH PARK THAT HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY. <br />CLOSED), AND THIS GENTLEMAN HAS ONE LJT ON THE OCEAN, HE FELT A SWAP OF <br />THESE PROPERTIES WOULD BE FAVORABLE PRICEWISE TO THE COUNTY <br />IN DISCUSSION, IT WAS GENERALLY AGREED THAT SUCH A SWAP WOULD <br />BE A GOOD IDEA AND THAT WE SHOULD CHECK WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO SEE <br />WHAT CAN BE DONE IN THIS REGARD, <br />COMMISSIONER MASSEY INFORMED THE BOARD THAT AT THE COUNTY PARK <br />AT WABASSO THERE ARE NO RESTROOM FACILITIES, AND HE FELT THIS SITUATION <br />SHOULD BE RECTIFIED. <br />ADMINISTRATOR .JENNINGS POINTED OUT THAT THESE FACILITIES WERE <br />CONTINUOUSLY DESTROYED BY VANDALISM. HE AGREED THAT SUCH FACILITIES WERE <br />NEEDED, BUT FELT IF THEY WERE ONCE AGAIN INSTALLED, THEY SHOULD BE PRO- <br />TECTED WITH A HEAVY CHAIN AND BARBED WIRE FENCE AND LOCKED UP EVERY <br />EVENING. <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED IN REGARD TO LOOKING INTO VANDAL PROOF <br />FACILITIES AND ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING SOME TYPE OF CONCESSION <br />STAND AT WABASSO BEACH PARK. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT INSTRUCTED THE !DM•INISTRATOR TO CHECK INTO THE <br />COST OF PUTTING RESTROOMS WITH APPROPRIATE SAFEGUARDS AT Y*ASSO REACH PARK. <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER INFORMED THE BOARD OF THE URGENT NEED FOR <br />RESTROOM FACILITIES AT THE BALLFIELDS ON 16TH STREET ACROSS FROM THE SENIOR <br />HIGH SCHOOL AND STATED THAT HE FELT SERIOUS CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO REMEDY- <br />ING THIS SITUATION. <br />ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS ANNOUNCED TO THE BOARD THE HE HAD RECEIVED <br />A CALL FROM WELDON LEWIS, THE ADMINISTRATOR OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY, INFORMING <br />HIM THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY WISHED TO SET UP A <br />MEETING WITH THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REGARD- <br />ING THE SELECTION OF ENGINEERS TO PREPARE THE TECHNICAL DATA NECESSARY TO <br />BACK UP OUR REQUEST TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RESOURCE RECOVERY PROGRAM AS THEY <br />FEEL IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE TWO BOARDS TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER BEFORE MING BACK <br />TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. <br />29 <br />_'k 2 -v-157 <br />JUL 7197.E <br />