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'JUL BooK0 ,,E �. let the school system do their job and educate our children, and let's create a special board to look at all the other children's services to work with the schools and the families and coordinate all the existing services. He emphasized that there are many agencies providing duplication of services, and he felt we need to look at that because there is a lot of money being spent inefficiently and ineffectively. Mr. Yates believed we need to look at the problem at the local level and identify the problem at the local level because if we let the State do it, they are going to do it their way. Judy Bondsmith, vice chairman of the Children's Services Council in Martin County, remembered when she sat on the school board in Martin County and considered requests to put certain issues on the ballot. What she is hearing here today seems to be a rhetorical difference between an independent taxing district and a dependent taxing district. Rather than reinventing the wheel, she suggested that the Board tailor its Children's Services Council after the one that was established in Pinellas County to meet the needs of the children in this county. She emphasized that every single penny would remain in Indian River County. Chairman Eggert closed the public discussion. Commissioner Bird felt that after hearing this discussion today, we have 5 alternatives: 1) Do nothing. 2) Go with an independent taxing district. 3) Go with a dependent taxing district as suggested by Commissioner Scurlock. 4) See what happens to the bill awaiting the Governor's signature and see if perhaps we can do a dependent taxing district operating under that new law. 5) Or, if nothing else, definitely come out of this with the thought of appointing a Children's Services Council in Indian River County to advise the BCC on future budgetary expenditures relating to children's services. 26