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Fr - MAY %1 BOOK I ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD The Chairman recessed the Board briefly at 11:25 A.M. in order to reconvene sitting as the Environmental Control Board and act on adopting the Rule dealing with Environmental Health described in the preceding item. Those Minutes are being prepared separately. The Board of County Commissioners reconvened at 11:30 A.M. with all members present. WINTER BEACH CEMETERY Administrator Chandler reviewed the following: TO: Board of County Commissioners DATE: April 17, 1991 FILE: THRU: James E. Chandler County AdministratoPe SUBJECT: WINTER BEACH CEMETERY FROM: RanAssay ooClounty AdministratoFIEFERENCES: BACKGROUND The Winter Beach Cemetery Association, a non-profit corporation, asked the Board during March 1976 for approximately 19+/- acres of adjacent county -owned Hobart Park for cemetery expansion. Since plots in this cemetery are given away to anybody on a non-discriminatory basis and occasionally used by the County in burying indigents, the Board entertained the Association's request and investigated the matter further. The Board, during its August 13, 1980 meeting, authorized that the 19+/- acres be immediately designated solely for cemetery purposes and during its August `•:`x`27, 1980 meeting formally dedicated the acreage for cemetery purposes and .-i.cemetery related services for the benefit of the citizens of Indian River County. Since a portion of Hobart Park was acquired by federal funds, the entire park was placed under a perpetual public recreational deed restriction and could not be converted to cemetery uses. Therefore, the 1980 dedication was voided and the Cemetery Association has been asking for the land ever since. However, according to the Florida Department of Natural Resources (FDNR) and the National Park Service, the County has the option to give the 19+/- acres to the Association for cemetery uses provided the County convert another piece of non -recreational property to recreational property that has equal value, location, and utility as the 19+/- acres. The Board, during its April 5, 1988 meeting, directed staff to pursue using the 43+/- acres at the old county -owned landfill site on Old Dixie Highway as the convertible property. County staff sent a letter dated June 8, 1988 to the FDNR inquiring about the feasibility of transferring the 19+/- acres from Hobart Park to the Cemetery Association and converting the 43+/- acres at the old landfill site to recreational uses. The FDNR sent back a reply dated June 27, 1988 indicating that the transfer may be satisfactory . provided that 34