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DEC 311980 AND OPERATORS. Boa. .45 Fa,t 527 HE REQUESTED THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION TABLE THE PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH AN ADVISORY BOARD INDEFINITELY. I COMMISSIONER BIRD ASKED WHETHER MR. CHAFIN WOULD SEE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE FORMING OF AN AD HOC COMMITTEE AS PREVIOUSLY SUGGESTED AND THE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF MR. CHAFIN WOULD OBJECT TO LENDING HIS EXPERTISE TO SUCH A COMMITTEE. MR. CHAFIN AGREED THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR THE COMMISSION TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOBILE HOME INDUSTRY AND ITS PROBLEMS, AND DID NOT FEEL THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION WOULD OBJECT TO AN AD HOC COMMITTEE SET UP AS SUGGESTED. HE STATED HE WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM IN SERVING ON SUCH A COMMITTEE. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COM- MISSIONER FLETCHER, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 80-138, FORMING AN AD HOC COMMITTEE USING THE GUIDELINES AS SET OUT IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR CREATION OF A MOBILE HOME BOARD; THIS COMMITTEE TO BE FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECOMMENDING APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION, IF THOUGHT NECESSARY, TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS OF THE MOBILE HOME OWNER; THE COMMITTEE TO SERVE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THAT TASK IS PERFORMED. MR. CROSBY STATED THAT WOULD BE SATISFACTORY TO HIM, BUT NOTED THAT PEOPLE FROM OTHER MOBILE PARKS THAN HIS WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BE HEARD. THE FOLLOWING MOBILE HOME OWNERS PRESENTED THEIR VIEWS AND PROBLEMS TO THE BOARD: JAMES HENNESSEY OF FAIRLANE HARBOR JOHN SULLIVAN OF LAKEWOOD VILLAGE THOMAS QUIMBY OF HOLIDAY VILLAGE RAY TURNER OF WHISPERING PALMS ERIC BIRD OF SHADY REST FRANCES TULLY OF VILLAGE GREEN HANK WATERS OF VILLAGE GREEN ED SMITH OF LAKEWOOD VILLAGE THEY CONCURRED THEY DID NOT WISH RENT CONTROL, BUT THEY DID DESIRE TO BE DEALT WITH EQUITABLY. THEIR EMPHASIS WAS ON THE UNJUSTI- FIABLY UNPROPORTIONATE INCREASE IN RENTS COMBINED WITH LACK OF SERVICES