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Memo to: <br />County Commissioners 2 April 21, 1980 <br />Commissioner Lyons agreed that the community might back <br />this project, but felt if they shouldn't that it is a <br />legitimate expenditure for County funds. <br />Commissioner Loy volunteered to work with the Exchange <br />Club in trying to locate appropriate space for the pro- <br />posed Youth Manor." <br />Since that meeting, the Exchange Home of Indian River County, Inc. <br />was set up as a non-profit corporation. For your background, the <br />subscribers to the corporation were: <br />The Honorable Charles E. Smith <br />The Honorable G. Kendall Sharp <br />Eugene J. O'Neill <br />Alan Jackson <br />Samuel A.Block <br />The initial Directors are: <br />The Honorable D. C. Smith <br />Robert Harris <br />William J. Stewart <br />Bruce Jacobs <br />Claude Smith <br />Sam T. Joyce <br />Eugene J. O'Neill <br />William G. Rogers <br />The initial Officers are: <br />Joseph Cianfrone, President <br />Robert Veres, Vice President <br />Warren Lewis, Treasurer <br />Marie M. Anderson, Secretary <br />Both prior to, and since, incorporation, we have had a land committee <br />which has met on numerous occasions, including several meetings with <br />Alma Lee Loy who has worked with us in reviewing the best possible <br />site for the Exchange Home. The committee has concluded that the <br />best site is the County -owned property on Rebel Road just west of <br />43rd Avenue. <br />From the attached sketch, you can see that the proposed site would <br />have no neighbors on three sides, and on the east side there are only <br />a couple of neighbors. Despite the rather rural area, there have <br />been neighbors of the proposed site who have written you opposing <br />that location for a home for dependent children. These persons have <br />been advised by letter as to our intentions and the nature of the <br />Exchange Home. We also have advised those persons of the recently <br />scheduled meeting of April 23, 1980. (See attached) <br />Despite what objections, if any, now remain, the Exchatnge Home of <br />Indian River County, Inc. and the persons or organizations which <br />will work with the Exchange Home continue to feel the Rebel Road <br />site is best. It is with the purpose, then, of asking you to ap- <br />prove the Rebel Road site that we will appear before you on April <br />23. <br />We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday so that we can really <br />get this worthwhile project closer to completion. We regret the <br />time it has taken to meet with you again, but we have,in addition <br />to setting up the corporation and our various committees, raised <br />over $12,000 for the project and will officially kick off a fund <br />raiser after a land site is approved. <br />cros <br />Attachments <br />MAY 71980 Booz 43 PACE U <br />