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Under discussion, Commissioner Bird asked if Commissioner Scurlock was planning to come back with a second Motion supporting his plan for a dependent taxing district, and Commissioner Scurlock stated that he would be making that Motion immediately following the vote on this Motion. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. The Motion was voted on and carried unanimously. Commissioner Scurlock felt he was ready to make a Motion that the Board allow him to go ahead and meet with the County Attorney's Office and come back with a more specific proposal in a short amount of time. Since we soon will be going into budget sessions, he didn't want to load it up to where he couldn't do that. He felt he has pretty much laid out the framework of going ahead and forming an advisory committee that could be appointed by this Commission that, in fact, could transition right into being the first board if this proposal was successful in a referendum. The concept again is to establish a special dependent district with the millage cap to be voted on by the voters and approved, and that it would come back on the ballot every four years to see if the voters wish to continue it, and we would accomplish that either through special legislation or modification of current legislation to allow us to have grants and do all of the other wonderful things we want to do and with the attempt to get the millage outside the County's cap. The millage cannot be under our cap or we are going to be right back to competing with bridges, roads, fire protection, etc. He felt that would be a reasonable, intelligent approach to present to the voters and he was sure good debate will ensue. Chairman Eggert added that it would be with the assumption that it could go to referendum as soon as possible, but Commissioner Scurlock didn't anticipate it going to referendum 29 BOOK 0 JUL 1990 ,6.- ---