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r MAY 2 2199Q 0 ,F'�,UE Director Dean advised that he has talked with the Public Works Director about this problem. He referred to a chart showing the area round the Administration Building, the Purchasing warehouse, and the site for the new Health Building, and pointed out an area for a proposed parking lot, noting that we own all that property (Block 6) except 24 lots. One of those lots is vacant; one lot has 2 houses on it; and the 1/4 lot has one house. Director Dean further advised that he has talked with Dr. Norris of the School Board about the possibility of their participating in the funding of a parking lot, and he agreed to take this idea to the School Board. Administrator Chandler informed the Board that we have about $600/700,000 in the General Fund Contingencies, and we have a potentia..) of a combination of funding, possibly with the School Board being involved and also.the possibility that we may be able to look at a portion of it through Sales Tax inasmuch as it is delineated for the Health Department. Commissioner Scurlock did believe that we need to move ahead because parking on that bank is extremely dangerous and also dirty. Commissioner Wheeler concurred. He stated that he has never been happy with the parking along 26th Street, and he inquired about the cost of putting a foot bridge across the canal for pedestrian traffic in order to separate it from the car traffic. Commissioner Bird suggested that we explore the possibility of culverting the canal and backfilling_it to create additional parking there. He noted that there is possibly 60' of wasted space before you get to the canal, and the canal itself is about 30' wide. He felt it is obvious that Indian River Farms is not maintaining this canal right now, and he believed if we could culvert and fill the canal, we then could create a herring bone type of parking in that area and have a one-way traffic flow. 30