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JUN 19 1985 BOOK attached, which staff recommends that the Board adopt, which specifies that the Board is affirming and adopting this plan and requesting that the Economic Development Administration designate the county as a redevelopment area. Commissioner Scurlock believed the Committee and staff have done an excellent job, but he believed that some of his comments about vocational education were taken the wrong way by the Press and he would like to clarify this. The way his remarks were interpreted by the Press seemed to indicate that he criticized the vocational education program while actually he believed the existing program is good considering what resources they have to work with, but that it in no way meets the requirements of a really good vocational education program. Commissioner Scurlock stressed that he is very supportive of vocational education in this community and feels we need to be much more aggressive and broaden our programs, not lessen them. Commissioner Bowman wished to reiterate her comments at the workshop that when industry looks at an area, they look for infrastructure. She did not see much reference in this report to our lack of infrastructure and wished it would state not only that the county has allocated land for commercial/industrial development, but also note that there is no infrastructure. Commissioner Bowman felt it should be the thrust to develop infrastructure in one particular area which perhaps could be referred to as an industrial park, and she believed that would give the report much more clout. Commissioner Bird felt we now are in the process of providing water to our biggest industrial node at 1-95, and Commissioner Scurlock believed that this will be much clearer when our consultants come back with our Master Plan for sewer and water and for extending service to nodes, especially Fellsmere which he felt is a key area. 34