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m mi ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COMMIS- SIONER BIRD, COMMISSIONER WODTKE BEING ABSENT FROM THE MEETING, THE BOARD APPROVED BLANKET OUT -OF -COUNTY TRAVEL FOR THE CHAIRMAN TO ATTEND S.A.C.C. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MEETINGS. CONSIDERATION OF FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION IN FIREWORKS DISPLAY NOW FINANCED BY WGYL CHAIRMAN LYONS REPORTED THAT MAYOR GOFF OF THE CITY OF VERO BEACH WISHED TO KNOW IF THE COUNTY WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY FINANCED BY WGYL, AND HE HAD TOLD THE MAYOR THAT IF THE COM- MISSION WISHED, WE COULD CONSIDER IT AT BUDGETTIME. COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK FELT THIS IS A PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, AND IF WE JOINED IN, WE MIGHT HAVE TO JOIN IN WITH THE SEBASTIAN FIREWORKS, ETC. COMMISSIONER BIRD STATED THAT HE WOULD LIKE. -TO SEE MORE INPUT,AND HE WOULD NOT MIND DISCUSSING THIS AT BUDGETTIME. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF GETTING INVOLVED IN BUYING FIREWORKS. CHAIRMAN LYONS ALSO FELT THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD NOT BE IN- VOLVED, BUT WAS WILLING TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN DURING BUDGET SESSIONS. REPORT RE PROPOSED GIFFORD INCORPORATION CHAIRMAN LYONS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE ATTENDED THE MEETING OF OUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGRATION AND HEARD THE PRESENTATION MADE BY ATTORNEY BLAYNE JENNINGS IN REGARD TO INCORPORATION OF GIFFORD. THE CHAIRMAN REPORTED THAT HE EMPHASIZED THAT, WHILE HE WAS TAKING NO POSITION AS FAR AS THE INCORPORATION WAS CONCERNED, THE OFFICIAL ATTITUDE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION WAS ONE OF ASSISTANCE, PRIMARILY IN THE DIRECTION OF BEING SURE EVERYONE HAS POSSESSION OF ALL OF THE FACTS AND THEN AFTER THAT, HELPING THEM OBTAIN THE ADDI- TIONAL SERVICES WHICH THEY FEEL THEY SHOULD HAVE AND ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR. ATTORNEY COLLINS CONFIRMED THAT THE COUNTY DOES HAVE THE ABILITY THROUGH MUNICIPAL TAXING DISTRICTS TO DEFINE CERTAIN AREAS AND ESTABLISH THE TAXING DISTRICTS TO BUY THE SERVICES REQUESTED. 55 Box .. 45 Fra 72i Q