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DEC 17 1980 <br />saok 45 '' 43 <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER RESPONDED THAT INDIAN RIVER BLVD. <br />WAS A TWO LANE ROAD GOING INTO A FOUR LANE ROAD, AND IT IS BEING <br />BUILT BECAUSE IT MAY SAVE SOMEONE FIVE MINUTES TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL. <br />HE CONTINUED THAT IT IS BEING BUILT TWO LANE BECAUSE THERE IS NOT <br />ENOUGH MONEY, AND IT IS BEING BUILT IN A SWAMP AT A COST OF $2,000,000 <br />FOR A ONE MILE ROAD. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER NOTED THAT THIS WAS <br />ANOTHER AREA WHERE SOMEONE ELSE IS MONEY WAS BEING SPENT, AND HE FELT <br />THE ROAD WAS NOT THAT CRITICAL OF A NEED FOR INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />HE THOUGHT THAT IF OUR OWN DOLLARS, THAT WERE GENERATED RIGHT HERE IN <br />THE COUNTY, WERE BEING SPENT, HE DID NOT THINK THE BOARD WOULD VOTE <br />IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER THOUGHT THE BOARD <br />WAS VOTING FOR IT BECAUSE IT IS FEDERAL MONEY. <br />MONEY. <br />COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK INTERJECTED THAT IT WAS THE COUNTY'S <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY <br />COMMISSIONER BIRD TO ADOPT RESOLUTION N0. 80-132 AUTHORIZING THE <br />ISSUANCE OF A GENERAL OBLIGATION NOTE, NOT TO EXCEED $300,000, TO <br />FINANCE ENGINEERING AND OTHER COSTS RELATED TO THE INDIAN RIVER <br />BLVD. EXTENSION. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND <br />CARRIED WITH A VOTE OF 4 TO 1, WITH COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTING IN <br />OPPOSITION. <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COM- <br />MISSIONER BIRD, THAT THE CHAIRMAN BE AUTHORIZED TO SIGN THE GENERAL <br />OBLIGATION NOTE, DUE ON OR BEFORE ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF ISSUE. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND <br />CARRIED WITH A VOTE OF 4 TO 1, WITH COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTING IN <br />OPPOSITION. <br />10 <br />