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r -JAN 5 1988 BOOK 70 PAGE 511 Mr. Fowler said that they needed to know whether to continue with that or take it out of the program. He explained that betterment means cleaning it or otherwise dealing with it. He believed that they received some negative feedback from the environmental people on piping the ditch. The question then becomes should we just go ahead and do a larger ditch or whatever to obtain more capacity. Commissioner Bowman asked if the dredging of the 14th Street Canal is under DOT authorization, and Director Davis advised that it is not and County staff is working on that. Mr. Fowler continued to review the arterial projects listed under Indian River County. Commissioner Bird understood from recent correspondence with the DOT that there was going to be some significant widening and surface improvements on SR -60 west of Vero Beach, and Mr. Barrett of the DOT stated that project was included in the current year and is still on-going. Commissioner Eggert noted that at the last meeting of the Economic Development Council there was some discussion about getting the State to make some sign improvements along 1-95 in St. Lucie and Indian River counties under their logo program, and Mr. Fowler said they would check it out. Director Davis noted that we have been going through the process of transferring 27th Avenue over from the State to the County, and believed that the intersection improvement at 27th Avenue and Oslo Road is not included in last year's improvement. Mr. Barrett advised that particular improvement is still included in this year's 5 -year plan, but Director Davis had not seen any activities on it, and felt that someone from the DOT needs to walk that road with us because there are some drainage problems on 27th Avenue after the widening that was done. In fact, he believed that it really needs to be resurfaced before it is transferred to the County. 42