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Church indicated they would be willing to sell the church property contingent upon approval of the congregation as a whole. If the congregation approves it, we would want our consultants to take a conceptual look at that property under the master plan to see if it would be a viable option . It is our understanding that the congregation will be voting on the matter next week, and with that kind of a timeframe, the May 22nd date would give the consultants enough time to look at the church property, get the master plan back and distributed so that all interested parties have an opportunity to look at the final product well in advance of the actual presentation. Chairman Eggert felt the County Administrator should be having discussions with the City of Vero Beach since the church property is not by and large in the downtown redevelopment area. She didn't know what the attitude of the current City Council would be on that property. Administrator Chandler explained that there have been some preliminary discussions with the city staff on that piece of property, but we were reluctant to incur any consultant's costs until we found out whether the church is willing to sell the property. Commissioner Scurlock didn't want the master plan held up because of the church property, because quite frankly, he wasn't very optimistic about that possibility in that many of the members were baptized there and the Press Journal just having run an article on the church being there for 75 years and designating areas as historical. If the congregation is willing to sell that property, he felt we need to research all title or deed restrictions on that particular property since that property, as well as St. Helen's, was conveyed over to those churches years ago from a public entity. There may be a deed restriction somewhere along the line that says if it ceases to be used for church purposes, it reverts back. Commissioner Scurlock believed 2 3 BOOK f'AGE� APR 17, 1990