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y <br />DEC <br />RIFLE ASSOCIATION STANDARDS FOR A SMALL ARMS AND RIFLE RANGE. <br />VERNON WRIGHT, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CORRECTIONAL <br />INSTITUTE, AGREED THAT SUCH A'RANGE IS VERY MUCH NEEDED FOR QUALIFYING <br />AND REQUALIFYING THEIR PEOPLE AND POINTED OUT THAT THEY ARE WITHIN 100 <br />YARDS OF THE ACCESS INTO THE LANDFILL WHERE THERE IS FILL DIRT, <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED HE WOULD 'LIKE TO SEE THE COUNTY CO- <br />OPERATE IN ANY WAY THEY CAN, BUT ASKED WHO WILL PAY FOR THE CONSTRUC- <br />TION OF THE RANGE, <br />MR. WRIGHT STATED THAT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WILL AND HAVE <br />ALREADY APPROPRIATED $5,000 TOWARDS THIS PURPOSE. HE NOTED THAT BASI- <br />CALLY ALL THEY ARE ASKING FOR IS DIRT FORA 15' BERM ABOUT 120' LONG. <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER ESTIMATED THAT THIS WOULD REQUIRE <br />ABOUT 3,000 TO 4,000 YARDS OF DIRT. <br />ALEX SMITH OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION SUGGESTED THAT <br />THIS BACKSTOP WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO DISPOSE OF OLD TIRES WHICH TEND <br />TO HOLD THE DIRT IN PLACE. <br />ADMINISTRATOR .JENNINGS NOTED THAT THE FIRST THING NECESSARY <br />TO DETERMINE IS THE AMOUNT OF DIRT NEEDED AND FELT WE SHOULD BE SUP- <br />PLIED WITH A CONSTRUCTION PLAN, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO PLACEMENT <br />OF ANY TIRES, HE STATED HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE THE RANGE WILL <br />BE PLACED AND WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE AS THERE IS A HIGHWAY ON ONE <br />SIDE AND THE LANDFILL ON THE OTHER. <br />MR. WRIGHT STATED THAT THE RANGE WILL BE ON STATE PROPERTY, <br />AND THEY WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPERVISION AND INSURANCE. <br />IN FURTHER DISCUSSION, THE BOARD AGREED THAT THEY WOULD BE <br />RECEPTIVE TO COOPERATING WITH THIS PROJECT, BUT WOULD FIRST LIKE TO <br />SEE A PLAN. <br />THE BOARD NEXT DISCUSSED THE MATTER OF APPROVING THE ADMIS- <br />:SION OF SHAWNA LANCASTER TO THE FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE <br />BLIND. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY NOTED THAT IN THE PAST THIS WAS AN AUTO- <br />MATIC PROCEDURE, BUT NOW IT MUST BE CERTIFIED THAT THE APPLICANT IS A <br />RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY, AND A LETTER HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM TED ARENDAS <br />CERTIFYING THAT SHE IS A RESIDENT, <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />10 <br />r <br />it <br />