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&u r -' <br />:! LY Fr7Gt . <br />the NCIC and so forth, but he would have done whatever he could, if <br />asked, and would have gotten the police department involved. <br />County Attorney Vitunac felt it was just a fluke that they <br />happened to find that Mr. Knigin was disbarred. He asked if that <br />meant someone is honest if he has not been disbarred. He thought <br />there was a lot more to background checks than that. He counselled <br />that if staff does background checks without the proper competency, <br />they risk lawsuits for invasion of privacy, et cetera. He <br />maintained that there are scores of people presently working for <br />the County without background checks. <br />County Attorney Vitunac felt the reprimand directed at two of <br />the team was a little severe, but he could live with it. He cannot <br />live with accusations of dishonesty from the man who has stated he <br />is a trial lawyer. Now that the contract is public, that man is <br />welcome to sit with them to get all his questions answered. <br />County Attorney Vitunac respectfully requested that each of <br />the Board, or all at once, go through the contract with the four on <br />the committee, to have every question answered, because he did not <br />want it said that they do not have confidence in their lawyer or <br />the rest of the staff. <br />County Attorney Vitunac regarding this county as probably the <br />best county in the state of Florida, and it got that way by the <br />very people being castigated. We have been here for 12, 15, and <br />longer years always working for the public good. He assured that <br />the Board can have confidence in himself and the rest -of the staff. <br />Commissioner Ginn was glad to hear his comments. She wanted <br />to know if the other two County attorneys were involved in this <br />process. <br />Deputy County Attorney Will Collins advised that he thought he <br />could speak for Assistant County Attorney Terry O'Brien and <br />himself. He stated that they reviewed the draft of the ground <br />lease and contract and provided comments to County Attorney <br />Vitunac, and he incorporated many of those comments into the <br />contract. They were not involved in the day-to-day negotiations or <br />fine tuning. <br />Assistant County Attorney Terry O'Brien advised that Deputy <br />County Attorney Will Collins had correctly stated all the facts <br />concerning the review. He wanted to say one thing about government <br />under the sunshine, adding that he had been associated 9 years with <br />the City of Vero Beach, and 7 years with the County, that there is <br />absolutely no requirement and it would be absurd to have a <br />26 <br />March 11, 1997 <br />