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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1980 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 1053 20TH PLACE, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1.8, 1980, AT 8:30 O'CLOCK A.M. PRESENT WERE COMMISSIONERS WILLIAM C. WODTKE, JR., AND PATRICK B. LYONS. PRESENT WERE COMMISSIONERS ELECT DICK BIRD, ALFRED GROVER FLETCHER, AND DON C. SCURLOCK, JR-. ALSO PRESENT WERE NEIL A. NELSON, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR; L. S. "Tommy" THOMAS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATOR; GEORGE G. COLLINS, JR., ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; JEFFREY K. BARTON, FINANCE OFFICER; AND VIRGINIA HARGREAVES, DEPUTY CLERK. ATTORNEY COLLINS PRESIDED AND CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. COMMISSIONER LYONS LED THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, AND DR. JULIUS RICE, PASTOR, COMMUNITY CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, GAVE THE INVOCATION. ATTORNEY COLLINS INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS TO INSTALL THE NEWLY ELECTED COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND TO HAVE A REORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD. HE NOTED THAT IT IS VERY SELDOM THE ATTORNEY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE GAVEL AND PRESIDE, AND THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY RARE HAPPENING WHEN THERE IS ONLY A MINORITY OF COMMISSIONERS REMAINING IN OFFICE, ATTORNEY COLLINS ANNOUNCED THAT HE HAD REQUESTED CIRCUIT JUDGE CHARLES SMITH TO SWEAR IN THE NEW COMMISSIONERS. CIRCUIT JUDGE CHARLES E. SMITH APPEARED AND CALLED THE COMMISSIONERS ELECT FORWARD, HE SPOKE BRIEFLY OF THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, NOTING THAT IT IS A UNIQUE GOVERNING BODY IN THAT IT SERVES BOTH AS A LEGISLATIVE AND GOVERNING BODY FOR THE COUNTY. JUDGE SMITH THEN ADMINISTERED THE OATH OF OFFICE TO THE NEWLY -ELECTED COMMISSIONERS, WHO HAD RECEIVED THEIR COMMISSIONS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS: ALFRED GROVER FLETCHER SE No. 9807 DON C. SCURLOCK, JR. SE No. 9808 DICK BIRD SE No. 9809 Boa 45 Par��4 NOV 1 � 190