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HEATED ARGUMENT FOLLOWED, AND COMMISSIONER FLETCHER FELT THE MOTION WAS OUT OF ORDER. CHAIRMAN LYONS NOTED THAT FOR THE PAST 2-2, YEARS THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN WELL AWARE OF THE INDIAN RIVER BOULEVARD PROJECT, THROUGH PUBLICITY, AND THAT HE PERSONALLY HAD BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN TRYING TO GET PERMITS TO PUT IN INDIAN RIVER BOULEVARD, WHICH INCLUDED TRIPS TO TALLAHASSEE. HE ADDED THAT THEY FINALLY GOT APPROVAL ON THE BASIS THAT THE COUNTY PLACE THAT ROAD AS FAR WEST AS POSSIBLE, TO MINIMIZE THE EFFECT ON THE WETLANDS. CHAIRMAN LYONS WAS BOTHERED THAT THIS HAD BEEN KNOWN BY THE PUBLIC FOR THE LAST 232- YEARS AND HE HAD BEEN WORKING HARD TO GET THAT ROAD THROUGH - IT IRRITATED HIM THAT NOW THERE WAS THIS LAST MINUTE FLURRY TO HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME. CHAIRMAN LYONS COMMENTED THAT IF COMMIS- SIONER VIODTKE'S MOTION WAS IN ORDER, HE WOULD VOTE YES, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT HE WAS SYMPATHETIC TO COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK'S VIEW. HE STATED THAT IF HE WERE TO VOTE THAT THE BOARD CONTINUE WITH INDIAtl RIVER BOULEVARD AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THE FUNDING WOULD BE MUCH GREATER THAN PLANNED, HE WOULD HAVE TO VOTE NEGATIVELY. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT THE COST OF THE PROJECT WHICH IS $3.8 MILLION, AND COMMISSIONER WODTKE INTERJECTED THAT IF IT IS KICKED AROUND FOR ANOTHER 2-:12, YEARS, IT WILL BE ANOTHER $3.8 MILLION. CHAIRMAN LYONS FELT THAT COMMISSIONER WODTKE'S MOTION WAS OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE OF THE LIMITATIONS ON THE AGENDA, COMMISSIONER BIRD INQUIRED WHAT THE BOARD COULD ANTICIPATE REGARDING THIS MATTER. CHAIRMAN LYONS -COMMENTED THAT A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING COULD BE ARRANGED. ADMINISTRATOR NELSON ADDED THAT IT SHOULD BE A PRESENTATION BY REYNOLDS, SMITH & HILLS, GIVING A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT WHAT WAS GOING TO BE DONE, WHERE THE ROAD WAS GOING, THE TYPE OF STRUCTURES TO BE USED, WHERE THE ROAD WILL CONNECT, ETC., IN OTHER WORDS, GIVE THE ENTIRE PICTURE OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. AUG 5-1991 19 800K �I PAGE 33