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REFUGE MANAGEMENT AGENT HAROLD .JOHNSON INFORMED THE BOARD THAT <br />HE HAS MET WITH HIS REGIONAL DIRECTOR, AND THEY ARE GOING TO -APPLY FOR <br />FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $220,000 UNDER THE BICENTENNIAL LAND HERITAGE ACT <br />AND FEEL THEY HAVE AN EXCELLENT CHANCE OF BEING FUNDED. HE CONTINUED THAT, <br />SINCE THEY DON IT OWN THE LAND, BEFORE THEY CAN BE FUNDED, THEY MUST HAVE <br />A COMMITMENT FROM THE COUNTY ON A LONG-TERM LEASE, AT LEAST 50 YEARS. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED IF THE PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD INCLUDE A <br />SEWAGE.'TREATMENT PLANT. <br />AGENT .JOHNSON STATED THAT BESIDES THE ENVIRONMENTAL BUILDING AND <br />A SHORT NATURE TRAIL, AN 1,000 G.P.D. SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT IS PROPOSED. <br />THE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF THE AREA WILL BE FENCED FOR SECURITY, <br />AGENT JOHNSON ANSWERED THAT THEY HAD NOT CONTEMPLATED FENCING THE <br />AREA, BUT NOTED THAT THE BUILDING WILL BE LOCATED SOME DISTANCE FROM THE <br />PARKING LOT BACK IN THE WOODED AREA AND HE FELT IT WILL BE PROTECTED, <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT IT IS THE BOARDS CONCERN THAT <br />THE FACILITY BE KEPT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND THAT THE AREA NOT BE <br />ALLOWED TO TURN INTO A "BEER DRINKING" PARK. <br />INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATOR THOMAS AGREED THAT THERE IS A TRE- <br />MENDOUS PROBLEM WITH VANDALISM AND FELT SOME PROVISIONS SHOULD BE MADE.FOR <br />SECURITY. <br />AGENTS, WINELAND AND .JOHNSON STATED THAT THEIR ORGANIZATION WILL <br />PROVIDE ADEQUATE SECURITY, AND AGENT WINELAND ADDED THAT THEY DID NOT IN- <br />-TEND TO ALLOW USE OF THE FACILITY AFTER SUNDOWN AND ALSO THAT IT -WOULD BE <br />INCLUDED AS A PART OF THEIR REFUGE OPERATION. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS ASKED IF THEY WISHED TO LEASE THE ENTIRE TRACT. <br />AGENT .JOHNSON STATED THAT THEY DO AND WISHED TO FIND OUT WHETHER <br />THEY WOULD HAVE TO LEASE THIS FROM THE COUNTY OR THE STATE AS HE BELIEVED <br />IT IS UNDER LEASE TO THE COUNTY FROM THE TRUSTEES OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVE- <br />MENT FUND. <br />IN DISCUSSION, IT WAS FELT THAT THE COUNTY HAD ACQUIRED THIS <br />PROPERTY FROM THE T.I.I.F. AND THAT IT WAS NOT UNDER LEASE. <br />.ATTORNEY COLLINS REVIEWED A COPY OF THE DEED -AND INFORMED THE <br />BOARD THAT HE FELT A DUAL DOCUMENT WOULD BE NECESSARY AS THIS PROPERTY WAS <br />20 <br />it <br />