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• t t proposing such a change that in order to placate the northern areas of this district, there will be created a fifth appellate district in Florida and that suchl a fifth appellate district is entirely unnecessary, cannot be justified on a case load basis and will create unnecessary cxpense to the State of Florida at a time when everyone is crying for tax relief; and, WHEREAS, a mathematical computation computed on the basis of one round trip for each case from the county seat of each county of origin E to the headquarters Of the Court at Vero Beach shows that the necessary travel one time round trip to the court for each case was 43, 050 miles for those cases located north of Vero Beach within the district, and 74, 400 miles for those located south of Vero Beach in the district, And, by way of i comparison, if the headquarters of the court had been at West Palm Beach, those located north of West Palm Beach would have been required to travel 98, 858 miles and those located south of West Palm Beach would have been required to travel only 18, 016 miles, there again demonstrating the factual 4 propriety of the location of the headquarters in Vero Beach; and WHEREAS, substantially all of the employees of the court were residents of Vero Beach when the court was established In Vero Beach and to move the headquarters would require employment and training of new per- sonnel; Now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, that this Board does urgently request the Governor and; each member of the legislature to seriously consider the foregoing facts and to do any and all things within their power to retain the headquarters of the i district court of appeal, fourth district, at Vero Beach, l Smith, Heath, Smith & O'Haire, Attorneys At Law, Vero Reach, Florida s t