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0 <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED THAT THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT <br />THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES MEETING WHICH THE COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES <br />WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND AND A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDING IN REGARD TO THE GRANT <br />FUNDS BEING MEANT TO BE USED FOR "911" EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS. <br />INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATOR STATED THAT AT THIS MEETING A RESO- <br />LUTION SUPPORTING AN APPLICATION FOR A $409,000 EMS GRANT FOR THE 4 -COUNTY <br />DISTRICT WAS DISCUSSED. HE NOTED THAT THE EMS DISTRICT IS INSIST'NG THAT <br />FACH COUNTY HAVE A -FULL-TIME EMS COORDINATOR TO WORK WITH THE FIRE DEPART- <br />MENT, POLICE, HOSPITALS, RESCUE SQUADS, ETC., AND INFORMED THE BOARD THAT <br />OUT OF OKEECHOBEE COUNTY'S SHARE OF THE FUNDS ($21,000), $14,000 IS EAR- <br />MARKED FOR THE FULL-TIME COORDINATOR, WHICH WOULD ONLY LEAVE THEM $7,000 <br />FOR THE PROGRAM. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED THAT OUT OF THE $29,000 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />IS SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE, $14,000 IS TO BE FOR AN EMS COORDINATOR. HE STATED <br />THAT IT WAS INFERRED THAT AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK THEY WERE HANDING OUT <br />GRANT MONEY WHILE THIS IS ACTUALLY ONLY AN APPLICATION FOR A GRAFT FOR 1973. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED DR. FLOOD, COU:: -.Y HEALTH DIRECTOR, FOR HIS <br />VIEWS, AND DR. FLOOD SAID HE HAD FELT THE BIGGEST AMOUNT OF THE GRANT WAS <br />MEANT TO BE FOR TRAINING OF EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIANS. <br />THE CHAIRMAN ASKED INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATOR THOMAS TO KEEP <br />THE BOARD ADVISED OF THE SITUATION. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A REQUEST <br />FROM THE WABASSO PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA, BUT HAD <br />DETERMINED THAT ALL THE ITEMS THEY WANT TO TAKE UP, EXCEPT ONE, DEAL WITH <br />COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. THE CHAIRMAN CONTINUED THAT HE ADVISED THEM TO PRE- <br />SENT THEIR CONCERN IN REGARD TO THESE MATTERS TO THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COM- <br />MITTEE OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, AND THEN, IF THEY ARE STILL <br />UNSATISFIED, TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD. <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER STATED HE WILL NOTIFY THE WABASSO PROGRES- <br />SIVE LEAGUE OF THE NEXT MEETING OF THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY REPORTED ON HER TRIP TO WASHINGTON IN REGARD TO <br />THE TRACKING STATION PROPERTY AND STATED THAT EVENTS WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE <br />THAT WE ARE NOW ON A ROAD THAT WILL ALLOW US EVENTUALLY TO ACQUIRE THIS <br />PROPERTY, SHE NOTED THAT THE AIR FORCE AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAVE COME <br />TO AN AGREEMENT ON A NEW LOCATION AT THE SOUTH END OF .JONATHAN DICKINSON <br />PARK, AND IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE DOCUMENTS THAT WILL PERMIT THE AIR <br />35 <br />FEB 2 3 1977 icor ?8 49® <br />