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COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NEXT DISCUSSED PROBLEMS INVOLVED WITH THE TOWN OF INDIAN RIVER SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PRESENTED FOUR POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES: 1. STAND BY THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT AND HOPE THAT IT IS ENFORCEABLE: 2. SET A DEFINITE FUTURE TIME THAT THE COUNTY WOULD TAKE OVER THE DEPARTMENT: 3. TAKEOVER THE INDIAN RIVER SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY; OR 4. ACCEDE TO THE WISHES OF THE TOWN OF•INDIAN RIVER SHORES AND CANCEL THE AGREEMENT. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THREE OF THESE ALTERNATIVES WOULD RESULT IN COURT ACTION AND NOTED THAT HE HAD ASKED THE SPECIFIC QUESTION AS TO WHETHER ANY OF THIS IS NEGOTIABLE AND WAS TOLD THAT IT IS NOT. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT CONTINUED THAT HE FELT IF WE TAKE THE DEPARTMENT OVER, WE SHOULD NEGOTIATE WITH THE CITY OF VERO BEACH TO CONTRACT TO OPERATE IT. HE FELT IT MIGHT BE WISE TO TAKE IT OVER AND NOTED THAT HE AND ATTORNEY COLLINS HAVE EXPLORED THIS POSSIBILITY WITH ONE MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY MANAGER AND THE FIRE CHIEF,' ALL OF WHOM r ARE RECEPTIVE TO THE -IDEA. COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER ASKED HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST US TO CONTRACT THIS, AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED HIS RECOMMENDA- TION WAS' THAT THEY WOULD CONTRACT WITH INDIAN RIVER SHORES FOR THE EXACT COST INVOLVED. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT IF THE CITY OF VERO BEACH DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT PUMPER, THEY ARE GOING TO PUT ONE IN THEIR BUDGET. HE FURTHER NOTED THAT THE TOWN OF INDIAN RIVER SHORES.HAS ESTIMATED $183,000 IN THEIR BUDGET FOR THE COST OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT THEN WENT ON TO DISCUSS THE POSSI- BILITY OF HAVING A SOUTH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT AND STATED THAT HE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT ALL THE CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY WOULD BE SERVED TO THE ULTIMATE BY HAVING A SEPARATE COUNTY SYSTEM. HE DISCUSSED POSSIBLE LOCATIONS FOR FIRE STATIONS IF A SOUTH COUNTY DISTRICT WERE ESTABLISHED. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT DID NOT FEEL IT WOULD BE FAIR TO IMPOSE ON THE NORTH COUNTY THE EXPENSES IMPOSED 157 35 r�,,459 J U L 19 1978