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50 FAR 830 <br />h7d1 n River Nemodal Hospital <br />1000 36th Street 9 305-567-4311 <br />Vero Beach, Florida 32960 <br />J <br />August 3, 19.82 <br />Mr. Don C. Scurlock, Jr., Chairman <br />Indian River County <br />Board of Count C <br />Executive Director <br />John T. Hoyt <br />X ommissioners g �C�,%JED c <br />1840 - 25th Street <br />jv <br />Vero Beach, PL. 32960 s�; lioAszo co -.JER .. <br />�.,CONVO1SSwiiERS <br />Dear Mr. Scurlock: <br />I apologize for subjecting you;to a seemingly never-ending <br />conflict between Mr. Zorc and the Board of Trustees of -the Indian <br />River Memorial Hospital. After reading the advertisement placed <br />by Mr. Zorc in the July 31, 1982, issue of the Vero Beach Press - <br />Journal, however, I felt that it was necessary to correspond with <br />you. The advertisement. has served to reinforce my strongly held <br />view that this is not the appropriate time to receive public <br />input.on the issue of the sale of the Hospital either through <br />public hearings or referendum. - <br />Over the past two months, Mr. Zorc has been besieging the <br />public with informaiton that is plainly and simply factually in <br />correct. Two examples serve to illustrate the point: <br />1. Mr. Zorc has represented.to the public on at least <br />three occasions that I did not begin to advocate public hearings <br />on the future of the Hospital until after the ACT meeting of June <br />28, 1982. The three occasions that I am aware of are a) letter <br />to you dated July 6 (copy attached); b) WTTB Talk Show July 13, <br />1982; and c) Indian River Memorial Hospital Board Meeting of July <br />27, 1982. The implication of this representation is that the <br />Board of Trustees would not have held public hearings on the <br />future of the Hospital unless forced to do so by ACT. Mr. Zorc <br />makes this charge in the face of his letter of June 18, 1982, to <br />ACT Board of Directors wherein he acknowledges: "Mr. Bob <br />Ballard, hosp. board chairman, has expressed he favors public "'aa <br />hearings yesterday. Obviously, Mr. Zorc's letter of June 18, <br />1982, preceded the ACT Board Meeting of June 28, 1982. I have <br />taken a position advocating public hearings publicly on many <br />occasions, to include the June 15 and June 16 WTTB'Talk Shows. <br />2. Mr. Zorc's advertisement charges that at the Indian <br />River Memorial Hospital Board Meeting of July 27, 1982, 1 offered <br />to allow him tolremain on the. -Building and Long-Range,Planning <br />Committee under certain conditions, to include requiring that I <br />review and approve in advance all comments which he might make to <br />the news media. One only need listen to the tape'of the Hospital <br />board meeting to realize that this allegation is totally false. <br />_ - 3-D <br />