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requested additional money to lease the Sloan property, but staff <br />is not recommending that. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED <br />by Commissioner Bowman, to fund only the matching <br />portion of the Grant/Substance Abuse for Pregnant <br />Women in the corrected amount of $12,207 as re- <br />quested by Alpha Health Services; to adopt Budget <br />Amendment #049 appropriating said funds; and not to <br />fund the lease of the Sloan property. <br />Commissioner Bird asked why we are so opposed to the Sloan <br />property, and Chairman Eggert explained that after many, many <br />meetings with the other counties involved, it was decided not to <br />do it. Then the people from Alpha went to St. Lucie County and <br />asked them to do it, and St. Lucie County agreed to go ahead and <br />do it, but now they are saying they want to share this cost with <br />the other counties. Okeechobee County cannot afford to do this, <br />and Martin County is not in favor of it; so, we are right back <br />where we were before. Chairman Eggert stressed that when Alpha <br />came to us, they said they had a place to do this, and now we are <br />back around to the Sloan property again. They have gone on a 6 <br />month trial lease situation, and if St. Lucie county wants to do <br />that, that is fine, but we can't get the proper agreements and we <br />have been given a great deal of misinformation about this whole <br />thing. - <br />Commissioner Bird agreed our preference would be to have <br />facilities here; however, he felt sharing facilities in St. Lucie <br />i <br />County would be better than no facilities at all. <br />Chairman Eggert wished him to understand that the in-patient <br />is at the Mental Health facility; that is already taken care of. <br />Alpha was to do out-patient with child care, and suddenly they <br />are wanting to get this building when they had said they had <br />facilities; so, to her, this is just an add-on. <br />MAR 131990 41 <br />