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j 319 services, and the 20% is 10%- local and 10% from the State. According to the DOT personnel who we have talked with, that $185,544 is not a given amount you have to spend. It is an amount that is available if your expenditures warrant that, and the expenditures can be for staff and consultant services for the various activities that the MPO needs to take. Director Keating requested that the Board give authorization to the staffs of both the Community Development Department and the Public Works Department to work with the DOT and with the municipalities within the urbanized areas to begin the initial work on the MPO. Commissioner Scurlock understood that we have no alternatives; we must do it, and it is just a matter of how it is structured. Chairman Eggert noted that there are some negative ramifications to this MPO. She understood that the Housing Authority was told that the line was at the North Relief Canal and that Gifford no longer would be able to get certain funds for building low cost housing because it was now in this new urban district. Commissioner Wheeler asked how they came up with $185,544, and Director Keating explained that they developed an allocation formula that incorporated a minimum amount for each MPO regardless of the size and then allocated the rest based on population. The funds are to be used only for transportation planning activities such as running transportation models, coming up with transportation improvement programs and budgets, etc. A lot of what the MPO is involved with is committees and input and making sure that planning isn't done in a vacuum. In addition to the MPO itself sitting as one committee, there is a technical advisory committee and a citizens advisory committee, and some of the staff work involves working with those committees. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Commissioner Bowman, that the Board authorize staff to coordinate with FDOT and the other local governments within the Vero Beach urbanized area to initiate MPO establishment activities. Under discussion, Commissioner Wheeler commented that he finds it frustrating that the State can take the money, attach strings to it, and send it back to us telling us what we have to do to keep the money, especially when we already are doing those type of things. There are additional costs involved with setting up an - 24 L