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10.B. PUBLIC DISCUSSION ITEMS <br />1. REQUEST TO SPEAK FROM BRIAN HEADY REGARDING THE <br />ECONOMY AND WHAT WE CAN DO FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY FOR <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />Brian Heady complained about government spending among politicians, and <br />asked the Board to consider what a "Buy American" plan would do for us. He also asked the <br />Board to adopt a resolution to send to our congressional delegation, with a directive as to how we <br />want them to represent us. His three-point plan being: <br />1. Stop sending money to banks and eliminate the middle man, and give <br />stimulus dollars to the Small Business Administration with instructions to <br />lend that money to small businesses, to taxpayers facing foreclosures. <br />2. We need to enforce immigration laws. <br />3. All stimulus dollars must be spent on American workers and products and <br />not on foreign corporations. <br />Mr. Heady further requested that the Board also adopt some form of policy that <br />instructs the County Administrator to instruct his employees that any stimulus money at all is to <br />be spent on American-made products, if at all possible. He also requested that a notice be sent to <br />our congressional delegation that at the grassroots level, the constituents are opposed to govern- <br />ment spending. <br />Chairman Davis remarked that to the best of his knowledge, the items we are <br />eligible for in the stimulus projects are mostly resurfacing projects on roads, and he imagined <br />that asphalt would be local and would be contracted out to corporations that are local. <br />19 <br />April 21, 2009 <br />