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JUL 3 01,980 BooK .44 p4rE,196 COME UP WITH A PROPOSED METHOD OF PROCEDURE TO PROVIDE FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE OF WETLANDS, ETC. THEY WILL HAVE ANOTHER MEETING AND VERY LIKELY WILL ASK US TO COME TO ANOTHER MEETING IN TALLAHASSEE VERY SHORTLY. COMMISSIONER LYONS BELIEVED THEY ARE MAKING PROGRESS AND THAT OUR PATH MAY BE FEASIBLE. BUDGET MEETING SCHEDULES CHAIRMAN SIEBERT DISCUSSED THE SCHEDULE FOR BUDGET SESSIONS, WHICH WAS SET FOR MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH, ALL ON IN-HOUSE DEPARTMENTS, STARTING AT 3:00 EACH AFTERNOON. THE FOLLOWING WEEK, MONDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 12TH AND 14TH, ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE OUTSIDE AGENCIES AND- ARE SET TO START AT 1:00 P.M. AFTER FURTHER DISCUSSION, IT WAS DECIDED TO MEET AT 3:00 P.M. INSTEAD. THESE SESSIONS ARE TO BE HELD AT THE SCHOOL BOARD FACILITIES. RESTROOM FACILITIES AT PROPOSED SOCCER COMPLEX CHAIRMAN SIEBERT REPORTED THAT THE PROPOSED THREE-WAY AGREE- MENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF VERO BEACH, THE COUNTY, AND THE SCHOOL BOARD ON A PROPOSED SOCCER COMPLEX HAS BEEN REJECTED BY THE CITY OF VERO BEACH. THEY HAD TWO RESERVATIONS ABOUT IT, ONE BEING THAT ALL THE FACILITIES WERE LOCATED IN ONE PLACE AND THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF RECREATION; SECONDLY, THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE COUNTY WAS GOING TO DO IN WAY OF LONG RANGE RECREATIONAL. PLANS BEFORE THEY MADE ANY COMMITMENT. THE CHAIRMAN CONTINUED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS MET SINCE THEN AND STATED THAT THEY WOULD REGRETFULLY, IF NECESSARY, DO IT ON THEIR OWN. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT STATED THAT, IN VIEW OF THE CITY DROPPING OUT AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NO ORGANIZED RECREATION PROGRAM, HE DID NOT SEE HOW WE CAN GO INTO THIS PROJECT EVEN IF OUR BUDGET ALLOWED. HE DID NOT BELIEVE WE COULD JUSTIFY OUR PARTICIPATION UNLESS WE WERE READY TO GO INTO A FULL SCALE ORGANIZED RECREATION PROGRAM. THE CHAIRMAN BELIEVED THAT THE SCHOOL _I