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The Board reviewed the following memo dated 9/28/88: <br />TO: Board of County CommissionerDATE: September 28, 1988 FILE: <br />SUBJECT: SEBASTIAN INLET PARK - <br />- ENTRANCE FEES <br />William. C. Collins II <br />FROM: Acting County Administrator REFERENCES: <br />Pursuant to your request I have advertised a Public Hearing for October 11th <br />to discuss the issue of entrance fees at the south side of Sebastian Inlet <br />State Park. <br />One of the main issues is the deed restriction placed on the property by the <br />County at the time the property was deeded to the state. <br />Representatives from the Department of Natural Resources have been invited <br />to attend. <br />Chairman Scurlock announced that today's hearing will be <br />limited to discussion of entrance fees at Sebastian Park and will <br />not include other issues relating to the Sebastian Inlet, such as <br />dredging, etc. <br />Randy Lewis, Director of Communications with the Department <br />of National Resources, explained that Executive Director Tom <br />Gardner couldn't be here this morning as he is attending a <br />regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting with the Governor. Mr. Lewis <br />gave a brief history of the Florida Park Service, and emphasized <br />that they are beginning to use more and more of their land <br />acquisition trust funds to maintain parks rather than purchasing <br />other park land. In fact, the trust funds will soon be tapped <br />out. He pointed out that the Sebastian Inlet Park is the only <br />park in the system that is open 24 hours a day and does not <br />charge an entrance fee. The Park Service went before the <br />Governor and Cabinet this past month and requested that they be <br />allowed to increase some fees in the parks, but their thinking <br />was that they wanted the entrance fees to remain the same as they <br />have been since 1980, which is $1.00 per car and driver and 504 <br />OCT 11 1988 <br />20 BOOS` 74 FE464 <br />