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JUL 16 11W I BOOK the proposed project as being in a different category, which would justify participating at a higher percentage. #3 - Administrator Chandler explained that the 1� Sales Tax was approved based on specific projects for the first 5 years - the Health Building, the Jail Phase III, and the Courthouse - and then if there were sufficient funds, the other priorities were open space and R/W. #5 - Mr. Markovitz stressed that there should.be a more in depth study done because the roads proposed to be paved are the wrong ones. He stated that on 91st Avenue there is 1 resident per acre, and on 94th, there are 3 to the acre. #6 & #7 - Mr. Markovitz emphasized their feeling that drainage is a more immediate problem then paving and also that all the property owners should have been notified by mail of the proposed increase. Administrator Chandler pointed out that if the proposed increase were approved tonight, it would be included on the TRIM notice which goes out to all property owners in August and then there would be further public hearings in September. Stanley Fronzcek, 8365 95th Court, president of the Home Owners Association, informed the Board that as of tonight they have 139 residents who actually live in Vero Lakes Estates and travel over these roads and there are over 1,000 people in this area who travel over these roads. They would like to have these roads paved. Mike Anderson, 7835 94th Court, president of the Vero Lakes Volunteer Fire Department, spoke in favor of the paving. He advised that they have responded to hundreds of emergency calls in Vero Lakes Estates, and the way the roads are now could easily cause a delay of several critical minutes in response time. There was much clapping from the audience. Commissioner Scurlock asked for a show of hands from the audience to indicate those in favor of the paving (about 2/3) and those against the paving (about 1/3). Carol Coppola, 7950 93rd Avenue, wished to make the Board acquainted with the problems involved in living on dirt roads year round in Florida, which has two seasons - a rainy season and a dry season. She then displayed some graphic drawings demonstrating how right now the roads are flooded constantly so that you have to do creative driving to maneuver around the deep potholes to get to your home, and how in the dry season after a week or so, the roads turn into a washboardlike surface of continuous bumps which you can't drive around and they do nothing but destroy your car. Mrs. Coppola stressed that the people are not asking that every road be paved; they just want the main 12