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ATTORNEY COLLINS INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT THE WORDING OF THE SPECIAL ACT TRACKS THE LIMITATIONS IN THE GENERAL STATUTE 421 THAT APPLIES TO ORANGE AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES, AND IN SECTION 4 THE WORDING IN THE GENERAL STATUTE HAS BEEN RESTATED FOR EMPHASIS. REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT ASKED -THE COMMISSIONERS IF THEY WISHED TO MAKE ANY REMARKS AT THIS TIME, AND THEY DID NOT. HE THEN OPENED THE FLOOR TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. • ROBERT RAMSDELL ASKED IF THERE WILL BEA CHANCE LATER TO SPEAK ABOUT IDEAS OTHER THAN A HOUSING AUTHORITY. HE NOTED THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL HERE WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THAT SUBJECT. REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT STATED THAT HE COULD NOT SPEAK FOR THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, BUT NOTED THAT BEFORE THE COMMISSION CAN ESTABLISH A HOUSING AUTHORITY, THEY HAVE TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, AT WHICH TIME THE WHOLE THING CAN BE TALKED OVER. FRAN ROSS, 4161 28TH AVENUE, GIFFORD, CAME FORWARD REPRESENTING• THE GIFFORD PROGRESSIVE CIVIC LEAGUE. SHE ASKED IF THIS BILL CAN BE CHANGED OR IF THIS IS THE WAY IT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATURE, REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT STATED THAT IT CAN BE CHANGED AT THIS POINT, BUT IF IT IS PASSED AS IT IS, IT WILL BE INTRODUCED AS IT IS. MS. ROSS STATED THAT THEY WOULD LIKE A HOUSING AUTHORITY TO R BE ESTABLISHED, BUT WOULD ALSO LIKE IT TO EXIST AS A SEPARATE UNIT. ATTORNEY COLLINS EXPLAINED THAT IF THE COUNTY COMMISSION PASSES A RESOLUTION THAT A HOUSING AUTHORITY IS CREATED, THAT AUTHORITY WILL BE MANNED BY APPOINTEES OF THE GOVERNOR, THEY ARE SEPARATE FROM THE COUNTY COMMISSION. REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT INFORMED MS. ROSS THAT THE GOVERNOR t MAKES THE.APPOINTMENTS, NOT THE COUNTY COMMISSION. HE CONTINUED THAT IT E WOULD REQUIRE A GENERAL ACT TO EXEMPT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY FROM THIS REQUIREMENT, AND HE DID NOT BELIEVE SUCH AN ACT WOULD PASSi REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION MAKES -RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR, AND HE CAN PICK FROM THAT LIST OR CAN PICK ANYBODY HE WANTS. 4 aa 39 ,Au ""h