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rAUG 5 1991 860K 47 NTE COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK COMMENTED ON NAMING FREEMAN, RICHARDSON, WATSON, KELLY AND LIVERMORE, AS BOND COUNSEL, AND ATTORNEY HOULIHAN STATED THAT HE INCLUDED THEM BECAUSE HE KNEW THE COUNTY HAD USED THEM IN THE -PAST AND THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE COUNTY. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BIRD, COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTED IN OPPOSITION, THE BOARD BY A 14 TO I VOTE, APPROVED THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WITH RAMPMASTER, INCORPORATED, INCLUDING THE CHANGES REVIEWED AT TODAY IS MEETING, AND AUTHORIZED THE SIGNATURE OF THE CHAIRMAN. SAID MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WILL BE MADE A PART OF THE MINUTES WHEN FULLY EXECUTED AND RETURNED. CULVERT SIZING IN INDIAN RIVER FARMS DRAINAGE DISTRICT CHAIRMAN LYONS SUGGESTED THAT THE BOARD MAKE NO DECISIONS OF ANY KIND ON THIS MATTER THIS AFTERNOON, AND IN THE INTERIM HE HOPED THAT THE JOINT DRAINAGE STUDY COMMITTEE, PLUS REYNOLDS, SMITH& HILLS, AND THE INDIAN RIVER FARMS DRAINAGE DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES WOULD GET TOGETHER AND BE IN A POSITION TO MAKE A PROPOSAL IN REGARD TO CULVERTS IN THE DISTRICT, IF THERE IS A PROBLEM. THE CHAIRMAN NOTED THAT HE IS ON THE JOINT DRAINAGE STUDY COMMITTEE, AND MR. SCURLOCK WAS ON THIS COMMITTEE REPRESENTING THE CITY OF VERO BEACH BUT -HAS BEEN REPLACED. CHAIRMAN LYONS WISHED TO HAVE COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK REPLACE HIM ON THIS COMMITTEE IF THE REST OF THE BOARD HAD NO OBJECTIONS. HE FELT WE MUST GET THIS PROBLEM CLARIFIED AND STRAIGHTENED OUT. HE EM- PHASIZED WE WANT TO KEEP THE DRAINAGE DISTRICT INFORMED AND SHARE OUR MUTUAL CONCERN. THE BOARD HAD NO OBJECTION TO COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK REPLACING THE CHAIRMAN ON THE JOINT DRAINAGE STUDY COMMITTEE. ADMINISTRATOR NELSON REPORTED THAT A MEETING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS THIS PROBLEM. COMMISSIONER WODTKE BELIEVED THE INDIAN RIVER FARMS DRAINAGE DISTRICT KNOWS THE CAPABILITIES OF THEIR FACILITIES AND HE WOULD HOPE THAT THE COMMITTEE DOES NOT ADOPT MORE STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS FOR CULVERT SIZING THAN ARE NECESSARY. COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK BELIEVED SOME OF THE PROBLEM WAS CAUSED BY VARIETY OF SIZING AND AGREED THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING OVERSIZED IF IT IS NOT NEEDED.