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CITIZENS WHEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SENT TO RED CHINA AND USED TO PUT <br />PEOPLE ON THE MOON AND THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT THAT. REVEREND BROWN STATED <br />THAT YOU MUST HAVE SOMEONE RELIABLE TO GOVERN A HOUSING AUTHORITY AND <br />HE IS NOT AGAINST THE COUNTY COMMISSION HAVING SOME CONTROL OVER THE <br />AUTHORITY. HE NOTED THAT MANY OTHER -PLACES SUCH AS MELBOURNE, STUART, <br />FORT PIERCE, ALL HAVE HOUSING AUTHORITIES, AND THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY <br />TROUBLE. <br />REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT INFORMED REVEREND BROWN THAT THE <br />LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION DOES NOT DECIDE"WHETHER THERE WILL BE A HOUSING <br />AUTHORITY OR NOT; THE COUNTY COMMISSION MUST DECIDE THAT. THE DELEGATION <br />IS HERE ONLY TO TALK ABOUT A LOCAL BILL TO ESTABLISH WHAT CONTROLS CAN <br />BE SET OVER A HOUSING AUTHORITY. <br />COMMISSIONER LYONS STATED THAT HE WORRIES ABOUT HAVING A <br />POWERFUL AUTONOMOUS NONELECTED BODY IN THE COUNTY, AND ASKED WHETHER <br />THERE ARE ANY FURTHER POSSIBLE RESTRICTIONS WITHIN THE LAW WHICH WOULD• <br />ALLOW US TO MAINTAIN AS -MUCH CONTROL AS POSSIBLE OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF <br />A HOUSING AUTHORITY. 1p <br />REPRESENTATIVE PATCHETT NOTED THAT THIS BILL ORIGINATES FROM <br />ORANGE AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES AND IS THE ONLY TYPE OF RESTRICTION THAT <br />HAS EVER BEEN ADOPTED BY THE It LEGISLATURE. HE DID NOT BELIEVE THEY HAVE <br />THE AUTHORITY TO DO ANYTHING MORE THAN THIS. <br />VICTOR HART, OF 4659 84TH AVENUE, TOOK THE FLOOR REPRESENTING <br />THE NAACP. HE STATED THAT SECTION 1, AND ESPECIALLY SECTION 2, OF THE <br />PROPOSED BILL SCARES HIM, MR. HART NOTED THAT IS OR 20 YEARS AGO A <br />PREVIOUS BOARD WAS INFLUENCED BY A GROUP WHO WISHED TO RESTRICT THE <br />ACTIVITIES OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN GIFFORD, AND CONSEQUENTLY THEY <br />PREVENTED GIFFORD, WHICH TODAY CONTAINS SOME 7,000 INHABITANTS, FROM <br />INCORPORATING. HE NOTED THAT THE PRESENT BOARD IS NOW PAYING FOR THIS <br />'.� DECISION. MR. HART CONTINUED THAT TODAY THEY HAVE ANOTHER GROUP OPPOSING <br />THEM WHO HAVE THEIR MINDS CLOSED TO THE BETTERMENT OF POOR PEOPLE, WHITE <br />AND BLACK, AND INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT IT IS HIS CONCLUSION THAT <br />THIS BILL IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE <br />BLACK PEOPLE AND THE LESS FORTUNATE WHITE PEOPLE IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />BOOK 39 PAGE 77 <br />FEB 121979 <br />