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Commissioner Macht made a motion, which died for lack of a <br />second, that the Board not act on the request; that we arrange a <br />joint meeting with the EDC, the Council of 100, the Chamber of <br />Commerce, the Department of Commerce; that we discuss the <br />establishment of an industrial park; and that we consider <br />appropriating a block of funds to be drawn upon on a case by case <br />basis. <br />Commissioner Eggert disagreed with the suggestion of <br />appropriating a certain amount and addressing each individual use <br />of the funds. She preferred the method used with the tourist tax <br />money where a contract is created designating how the funds are to <br />be used. Commissioner Eggert asked about the Department of <br />Commerce grants for brochures and whether Mr. Campbell has received <br />any of that money. <br />Mr. Campbell stated that in the 18 months he has been on the <br />job he has communicated with the Department of Commerce no less <br />than once or twice every couple of weeks and has no knowledge of <br />any available funds. He is not interested in a flamboyant <br />brochure, just a professionally designed folder or exterior cover <br />in which he can insert the cards and literature that are requested. <br />Discussion ensued regarding funding availability from the <br />Department of Commerce. <br />J. B. Norton, representative of the Chamber of Commerce of <br />Vero Beach, related his experiences with the Department of <br />Commerce. John Robbins, the representative of the Department of <br />Commerce has been in our area to give us direction in dealing with <br />the Florida Department of Commerce on their grants and other <br />programs, but when you get right down to the wire, there is no <br />money available. Mr. Norton described a letter from the Department <br />of Commerce in which local governments were asked to contact their <br />legislators in Tallahassee to vote for funding of a quasi - <br />governmental and private economic development program to take the <br />place of the Florida Department of Commerce Division of Economic <br />Development. It has not been funded, and that has been the problem <br />all along. The programs are designed but are never funded and <br />probably will not be funded. If we are to have a program in Indian <br />River County, we need an industrial park and we must contact <br />existing businesses in our county, because 80 percent of all new <br />jobs created in any community comes from existing businesses, but <br />we must reach outside as well. There is a group working with <br />existing businesses and industry in this community, but it must be <br />35 <br />MAR 3 19 3 eooK 89 rnF131 <br />