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The Administrator advised that we have virtually no financial exposure outside of some staff time. Commissioner Eggert asked if we hadn't gotten a memo from Environmental Health Director Michael Galanis saying that somehow through the environmental funds $85,000 had been granted to the County through the SWIM Bill. Mr. Galanis noted that Administrator Balczun said the Public Health Unit made application, and actually, he is the Public Health Unit. In this particular case, he made the application in the name of the Environmental Control Board, and the Commission is the Environmental Control Board. He was appointed Environ- mental Control Officer by the Board, and as such, this was something that was an outgrowth of his activities on the Indian River Lagoon Committee. Chairman Scurlock noted that one of the concerns he has is that we have been working with the School Board looking at various school sites, and one of the sites being considered is the Davis Dairy. When this was being discussed, he remembered mentioning the SWIM Bill and the possibility that some funds may or may not be available. He would just like us to move ahead, and if there are funds available, do whatever we can do to clean up that dairy site, with or without the school, as that is an area we demonstrated creating problems for our river, and' we should pay some attention to it. Mr. Galanis confirmed there is a study by the DER that implicates that dairy once again pretty heavily, and he has seen a draft consent order between the DER and the dairy which requires some major structural and drainage modifications to that site. Chairman Scurlock continued that if the School Board ends up selecting that site, his thinking is that there may be some funds here to help them along and at the same time help the community in not having to pay more freight for a high school than we have to. 1,114Y 1 O '1988 40 POOK 72 PAGE 320