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M Friday, June 20, 1986 The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, met in Special Session at the County Commission Chambers, 1840 25th Street, Vero Beach, Florida, on Friday, June 20, 1986, at 4:00 o'clock P.M. Present were Don C. Scurlock, Jr., Chairman; Patrick B. Lyons, Vice Chairman; Richard N. Bird; Margaret C. Bowman; and William C. Wodtke, Jr. Also present were L. S. "Tommy" Thomas, Acting County Administrator; Charles P. Vitunac, Attorney to the Board of County Commis- sioners; Joseph Baird, OMB Director; and Virginia Hargreaves, Deputy Clerk. Present from the Sheriff's Department were Major Roy Raymond, Lieut. Bob Reese, and Lieut. Dean Longo. The Chairman called the meeting to order and explained that some time back it came to his attention that there was some difficulty with the public officials liability insurance in re assuming the function of the jail, and there was also a potential question as to whether or not we had general liability insurance. He, therefore, asked staff to research this, and on Thursday, OMB Director Baird identified to him that we do not have general liability insurance on the jail; there is an exclusion. The Chairman continued that he; Acting Administrator Thomas, and OMB Director Baird had a discussion regarding the various possibili- ties for handling this situation, and there are several options. First, we can do nothing and continue to operate as we have for the last six months. The second option is that there is an ability to receive this type of insurance from the Florida League of Cities, but the problem with that is they are not willing to accept this particular type of insurance unless you convert and put all your insurance with them. In order to do that, we would have to cancel our existing insurance policies with Arden Insurance which would involve some penalties. The third option involves the Sheriff. We knew the Sheriff was insured in the JUN 2 0 1986 BOOK ; f�G 763