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JAN 919 o locK 42 pAcE420 STUDIES, 17TH STREET BRIDGE OPENING, SOLVING OF THE GIFFORD SEWER AND WATER PROBLEMS, THE LANDFILL, AND SUPPLYING WATER TO THE SOUTH COUNTY. THE ATTORNEY NOTED THE BOARD HAS BROUGHT IN A HIGH CALIBER OF PERSONNEL, AND FELT THE COUNTY WILL NOW HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT WILL BE FACING THEM IN THE FUTURE. ATTORNEY COLLINS THEN CONGRATULATED THE ENTIRE BOARD. ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT HE WOULD ENTERTAIN NOMINATIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF A CHAIRMAN TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR THE COMING YEAR. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, SECONDED BY COMMIS- SIONER SIEBERT, TO NOMINATE COMMISSIONER LOY TO SERVE AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD FOR THE COMING YEAR. COMMISSIONER LOY DECLINED THE NOMINATION AND REQUESTED THAT HER NAME BE WITHDRAWN BECAUSE PRESSURES OF BUSINESS WOULD NOT ALLOW HER TO ACCEPT. COMMISSIONER LYONS WITHDREW HIS NOMINATION AND COMMISSIONER r SIEBERT WITHDREW HIS SECOND. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COM- MISSIONER LOY, TO NOMINATE COMMISSIONER SIEBERT TO SERVE AS CHAIRMAN FOR THE COMING YEAR, ATTORNEY COLLINS ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY FURTHER NOMINATIONS AND THERE WERE NONE. HE THEN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY, AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT WAS ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT COMMENTED THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHAIRMAN WODTKE; HE THEN PRAISED HIM FOR THE WORK HE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE PAST THREE YEARS. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT THEN PRESIDED OVER THE MEETING AND OPENED THE FLOOR FOR NOMINATIONS FOR VICE CHAIRMAN. MOTION WAS MAKE BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, SECONDED BY COM- MISSIONER WODTKE, TO RE-ELECT COMMISSIONER LOY AS VICE CHAIRMAN. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY, AND COMMISSIONER LOY WAS RE-ELECTED AS VICE CHAIRMAN. 77 I" _I