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E N D O R S E M E N T AT ITS REGULAR MEETING OF OCTOBER 24, 1979, THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SET FORTH ITS OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING: This Association affirms the urgent need to solve regional problems through workable approaches designed to ensure coordinated actions and to minimize the overlap of regional agencies. The Association recognizes that local governments are that level of government closest and most accountable to the people. It is further agreed that local governments should take the leadership in meeting these challenges and not pass these responsibilities on to the national or state government. We therefore support and call for the strengthening of Regional Planning Councils as those agencies which serve as the vehicle for joint action on those problems and challenges which cut across boundary lines and must be delt with in a larger geographic setting. We furthermore support Regional Planning Councils as having been agencies which have provided a forum where local governments can discuss and seek solutions to regional problems in an effective and efficient manner. We call for the continued utilization, through funding and designation, by the state and federal government of the Regional Planning Councils as the agencies to undertake areawide planning and development programs. It has been agreed that as agencies of local government, Regional Planning Councils should possess characteristics which will provide closer ties with the executive and legislative branches of state goverment and that the guidelines within which they operate should be more clearly defined in order that the citizens of the state may be better and more effectively served. We further feel that as agencies of local governments, it is important that the Developments of Regional Impact process remain with the Regional Planning Councils as first, Councils have accountability through the ballot box. The most responsive agency is that which holds its leaders directly accountable to the people it serves. Second, the Regional Councils are comprehensive in both their purpose and the work programs they carry out. Third, the Regional Councils currently have on staff the expertise necessary to undertake the responsibilities of the regional agency with regard to DRI reviews. And fourth, the Regional Councils have the greatest potential for efficiency because they now are undertaking an array of planning programs that are supportive of the DRI process. (e.g. land use and housing, energy planning, economic development, coastal zone planning, etc.). THIS ENDORSEMENT PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 24th DAY OF 1979."-- *U4 c � _ Chairman, Indian River o my Board of County Commission rs Attest: October