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40V 98.9 BOOK . 8 PAGE31" daily basis are issued cards, but he personally questioned the effectiveness of that system. Attorney Nall just felt that Judge Kanarek made a good point when he said that if people know there is a metal detector there, they very probably will not bring in a weapon. He continued to discuss at length measures that are being taken in other counties. Chairman Wheeler agreed that there is a problem and what we are looking at is a band aid approach. We have a particular level of service for security, and we are looking for an interim solution and compromise which he has presented to the Board. It is less that what was originally presented, and it is not a maximum security system. There are still glitches that we can't solve without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on personnel, and because of the lack of incidents, he did not know that we need to spend that much to prevent something from happening that may or may not occur. The Chairman noted that he has studied many statistics, but there is nothing to indicate to him that this is as serious as it is indicated to be. He pointed out that several hundred people a year are killed'in airline crashes and that gets enormous publicity, and the same thing is true of any rare incident that occurs in a courthouse, but 50,000 are killed in car accidents yearly and because it happens so frequently, you don't see that making headlines in the news. Discussion continued, and Commissioner Bird asked if it is possible that we can add the hardware without the additional people. Major Bob Reese emphasized that we need the people to man the hardware. Attorney Nall on behalf of the local Bar Association urged that the Commission go ahead and approve this complete equipment which is transferable to the new courthouse. He stressed that the lawyers would like to be up to par with the courthouses in St. Lucie and Martin Counties. 38