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Resolution No <br />A Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida <br />asserting its desire that all 67 Counties presently in the great State of Florida, remain in <br />the State of Florida and that if the southern counties take the benighted path to <br />secession that Indian River County, Florida remain with the northern Counties of the <br />State as part of Florida. <br />Whereas, presently, the state of Florida consists of 67 counties in an area of <br />approximately 56 thousand square miles with a population of approximately 19,800,000 <br />people: and <br />Whereas, one of the state of Florida's great strengths is its diversity in ethnicity, <br />background, geography from the Keys to the panhandle and cities large and small from <br />Tampa to Fellsmere: and <br />Whereas, few if any citizens from Indian River County have expressed any desire to <br />secede from the state of Florida: and <br />Whereas, the last time part of the south tried to secede it did not work out to well; and <br />Whereas, Indian River County is a low density county and if the south seceded would <br />more appropriately be part of the low density Florida rather than the high density south; <br />and <br />Whereas, many citizens of Indian River County moved from south Florida to what they <br />thought was a better way of life in Indian River County and may well be traumatized by <br />becoming part of a state of South Florida; and <br />Whereas, Indian River County is part of the St. John's River Water Management District <br />and therefore if the south seceded should remain part of Florida and not south Florida; <br />and <br />Whereas, the Board of Indian River County does not support the secession of any part of <br />Florida from the state of Florida. <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, <br />Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners support keeping the state of Florida in <br />its present form, do not support the secession of any part of the state from the state of <br />Florida and should part of south Florida secede from the State of Florida, it is Indian <br />River County's intent to remain as part of Florida. <br />Section 2. The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this resolution to the Mayor of Miami. <br />321 <br />