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ti 19 ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER Loy, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE ERRORS AND INSOLVENCIES OF.THE 1974 AND 1975 TAx ROLLS AS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK, THE REPORT OF THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT FOR JUNE, 1976, WAS RECEIVED AND PLACED ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK. VAL BRENNAN, COUNTY PLANNER, APPEARED TO DISCUSS THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT REGARDING TREASURE COAST PLA'•'NING COUNCIL. ALSO PRESENT WERE MAYOR ROLAND.MILLER OF THE TOWN OF INDIAN RIVER SHORES, MAYOR F. EUGENE CRAGG OF SEBASTIAN, MAYOR HOMER SIMPSON OF FELLSMERE, AND PAT LYONS, CITY OF VERO BEACH COUNCILMAN. MR. BRENNAN REPORTED THAT AT A MEETING TWO DAYS AGO IN STUART, ALL FOUR OF THE COUNTIES INVOLVED IN THE NEW PLANNING DISTRICT WERE REPRESENTED AND A FEW OF THE CITIES. HE STATED THAT THEY WENT OVER THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND WERE GENERALLY IN ACCORD WITH ITS PROVISIONS. HE THEN WENT ON TO GIVE A BRIEF RESUME OF THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT AND INFORMED THE BOARD THAT REPRESENTATION ON THE COUNCIL CALLS FOR TWO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FROM EACH OF ST. LUCIE, MARTIN AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES AND FOUR FROM PALM BEACH COUNTY. IT IS PROPOSED TO HAVE ONE REPRESENTATIVE, CALLED A PARTICIPATING MEMBER, TO BE SELECTED FROM AMONG THE CITIES OF EACH OF THE THREE SMALLER COUNTIES, AND TWO TO BE SELECTED BY THE MUNICIPALITIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. ' MR. BRENNAN CONTINUED THAT THE OTHER MATTER RECEIVING THE MOST ATTENTION WAS THAT OF COST. THE COUNTIES ARE TO PAY THE TOTAL COST TO CARRY OUT THIS -REGIONAL PLANNING OPERATION WITH COOPERATION BY THE STATE. THE ESTIMATED BUDGET IS NOW ABOUT $100,000 WITH $32,000 TO BE ADDED BY THE STATE. EACH COUNTY'S ASSESSMENT IS TO BE BASED ON POPULATION, AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY'S SHARE WOULD BE $7,400.00. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT NOTED THAT THERE IS NO PARTICIPATING MEMBER FEE AND THE COST FOR THE PARTICIPATING MEMBERSHIPS WILL BE DIVIDED AMONG FOUR COUNTIES. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT PALM BEACH COUNTY HAS ALREADY UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT. VERO BEACH CITY COUNCILMAN PAT LYONS APPEARED AND SUGGESTED THAT THE COUNCIL BE ENLARGED BY THREE SEATS - ONE FOR EACH PRINCIPAL CITY IN MARTIN, ST. LuclE AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES - AS HE FELT EACH OF THESE PRINCIPAL CITIES WOULD WANT',AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE PLANNING COUNCIL AND I � w r AUt -, z 5. r�.