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FEB 21 1989 BOOK 76 f,j,EiS8 exactly placid people, and it could be difficult for the property owner to address the issue. Thirdly, he had a concern about the cost involved. He could envision adding 3, 4 or 5, Code Enforcement Officers, which could involve a very significant amount, and if we are going to come up with those kind of dollars, he believed those monies would be better spent on an education program aimed at prevention as stressed by Mr. Lundy earlier. He also did not think a Board such as proposed has been very successful so far. Commissioner Scurlock continued that he had listened to the comments made earlier about the bad situation with the drug dealing at the rundown buildings at the corner of 45th Street and 33rd Avenue. He agreed that you can always see someone pedaling drugs in that area and could not understand if this is such a significant and well known problem area, why we don't just post a police officer there 24 hours a day and run them off. He continued to emphasize that we should have a much higher presence of officers in that vicinity. We allot 12 million out of our budget to law enforcement; we have many deputies; and we have identified a specific area; so, he did not see why we can't keep the pressure on the drug dealers. Commissioner Bowman did not believe the original intent behind this was to establish a Drug Nuisance Abatement Board. She felt that what was wanted was a loitering ordinance similar to the one they have in Fort Myers. Attorney Collins explained that the one in Fort Myers is identical to the state loitering statute and that will give us nothing beyond the powers we already have under state law. Commissioner Bowman felt in that case we should go ahead and enforce the state law. She believed that most of this is not going on inside buildings, but along the R/Ws. Commissioner Bird felt the difficulty with a loitering ordinance is how do you use it effectively against those breaking 28