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BOOK 99 F., u 968 <br />TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING <br />Commissioner Tippin advised there was nothing on the agenda at <br />the last Regional Planning Council meeting. He was surprised the <br />night before the meeting to find an RPC staff memorandum in the <br />backup concerning a proposal to assess the feasibility of extending <br />the Southeast Florida Eastward Ho Movement corridor "north to <br />Sebastian". <br />Commissioner Tippin was uncomfortable with this proposal when <br />he saw it in the backup but was unable to reach Community <br />Development Director Bob Keating prior to the meeting to see what <br />he knew about it. <br />Commissioner Tippin advised that he expressed strong <br />opposition to the extension of the Eastward Ho project into Indian <br />River County at the RPC meeting. Later he learned that Director <br />Keating was not aware of this plan until he was contacted after <br />Commissioner Tippin's opposition at the meeting. <br />Commissioner Tippin could think of no reason why we should be <br />included at all. Because of his opposition at the meeting, the <br />wording was changed to move the Eastward Ho Corridor line "north of <br />Palm Beach County". <br />Commissioner Tippin requested support from the Board on the <br />position he took at the RPC meeting. <br />Commissioner Eggert pointed out that we are in a totally <br />different water management district from south Florida and this was <br />the kind of thing we have been up against for years in the Regional <br />Planning Council. <br />Chairman Adams maintained this was exactly the way RPC staff <br />has put things on the agenda at the last minute in the past hoping <br />it will be overlooked and agreed upon. She specified that all four <br />members representing our area should have been contacted and <br />advised it was on the agenda. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Macht, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Eggert, to request that Indian River <br />County be excluded from the Southeast Florida <br />Eastward Ho Movement. <br />Under discussion, Commissioner Macht requested that the <br />discussion to again consider abolishing the Regional Planning <br />Councils be put on a future agenda. <br />Commissioner Eggert felt that Peter Spike, one of our area's <br />TCRPC members, was well aware of it and advised that he has been an <br />48 <br />November 26, 1996 <br />