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FED <br />2 ' �S90ROGK <br />79 <br />F1GE341 <br />question, <br />REPORT ON FACo MID -YEAR LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE <br />only in <br />the State of <br />Commissioner Scurlock, having just attended FACo's mid -year <br />conference in Jacksonville on February 14-16, felt we could <br />probably identify this particular state meeting, which was a <br />legislative review meeting, as gloom and doom. Nothing from the <br />meeting excited him from the standpoint of the State in any way <br />living up to the responsibilities of either not mandating <br />programs for fund them if they do mandate them. In fact, one <br />legislator's report was that no dollars are being spent anywhere <br />in the State of Florida on any projects for new construction that <br />aren't associated with federal dollars. The only money they have <br />is to match with federal monies, which means no new bridges and <br />none of the projects that we went through with the DOT on our 5, <br />10, and 15 year plans. There is money for maintenance, however. <br />Commissioner Scurlock reported that the specific question <br />came up about concurrency and how the counties have been mandated <br />through the new Comprehensive Land Use Plan criteria to do <br />certain things in terms of planning our infrastructure or <br />declaring a moratorium on new development. It was very heavily <br />suggested that the State is not going to be able to meet its <br />commitments to keep its infrastructure because it probably will <br />take $300 -million to get to the same infrastructure level as of <br />1983. He <br />felt <br />there <br />is no <br />question, <br />not <br />only in <br />the State of <br />Florida, <br />but in <br />the <br />entire <br />country, <br />that <br />we are <br />in an <br />infrastructure crisis. Indian River County will feel the crunch <br />by having no Twin Pairs, no new bridge, and no major expansion of <br />any of the state road networks. There is no money there -- there <br />is a shortfall -- and it just is not going to happen. This is an <br />election year and the Republicans and the Democrats seem to be <br />working at cross purposes. How they solve this problem is going <br />to be critical for Indian River County with regard to portions of <br />AIA, U.S. #1 and some of the other State roads, because it is <br />going to be moratorium time unless we find some way to fund these <br />76 <br />