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AUG 51981 <br />BUOK 47 PAGE <br />INDUSTRIAL BONDS - RAMPMASTER INC. - RESOLUTION N0. 81-54 <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER REQUESTED THAT AGENDA ITEMS THAT ARE <br />GOING TO REQUIRE ACTION BE NOTED AS SUCH BECAUSE HE HAD NOT RECEIVED <br />ALL THE PERTINENT MATERIAL. IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT SOME OF THE MATERIAL <br />CAME IN LATE AND WAS DISTRIBUTED, BUT APPARENTLY COMMISSIONER FLETCHER <br />HAD NOT RECEIVED IT ALL, COMMISSIONER WODTKE FELT THAT ANY ITEM <br />LISTED UNDER THE ATTORNEYS MATTERS ON THE AGENDA IS THERE FOR ACTION. <br />ATTORNEY HOULIHAN INFORMED THE BOARD THAT A MEMBER OF THE <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS FIRM, RALPH-EVANS, IS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP WHO HAS <br />BEEN DISCUSSING SALE OF A SITE TO RAMPMASTER, IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID <br />ANY APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY, ATTORNEY HOULIHAN STATED THAT HE HAD <br />REQUESTED ATTORNEY .JUDSON FREEMAN, THE COUNTY BOND COUNSEL, TO BE <br />HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER AND SIT IN FOR HIM. ATTORNEY FREEMAN, <br />HOWEVER, HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO THE AIR CONTROLLERS STRIKE AND COULD <br />NOT GET TO THE MEETING. ATTORNEY HOULIHAN FELT THAT THE BOARD DID <br />NEED COUNSEL WITH REGARD TO THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED WITH THE INDUSTRIAL <br />BOND AGREEMENTS SINCE THERE ARE TECHNICALITIES INVOLVED, AND HE ASKED <br />THAT THE BOARD DECIDE WHETHER THEY DESIRED HIM TO PROCEED TO REPRESENT <br />THIM IN LIGHT OF THE SITUATION JUST EXPLAINED. <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS FELT THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF THIS SITUATION <br />RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BONDS ARE CONTROLLING, AND COMMISSIONER <br />BIRD NOTED THAT WHAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO DO IS TO DEVELOP A STANDARD- <br />IZED RESOLUTION AND AGREEMENT REGARDING INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND ISSUES; <br />NOT ONE TO BE AIMED SPECIFICALLY AT RAMPMASTER. IT WAS AGREED THAT <br />ATTORNEY HOULIHAN SHOULD CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE BOARD. <br />COMMISSIONER BIRD REPORTED THAT HE AND COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK <br />TRAVELED TO FORT LAUDERDALE TO LOOK OVER THE RAMPMASTER FACILITIES <br />AND OPERATION, AND HIS PERSONAL IMPRESSION WAS A VERY GOOD ONE; IT IS <br />A VERY CLEAN INDUSTRY WITH NO ODORS OR HARMFUL WASTE BY-PRODUCTS. ON <br />THEIR RETURN, THEY MET WITH COORDINATOR THOMAS AND FINANCE OFFICER <br />BARTON TO DETERMINE THEIR FINANCIAL RECOMMENDATION, AND AFTER OBTAIN- <br />ING THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION NEEDED FOR AN ANALYSIS OF RAMPMASTER, <br />THE ADMINISTRATOR, MR. BARTON AND MR, THOMAS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />