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This project is in the budget of the State Road Department for the year 1 1 and it is requested P J g P y 95 Q that this item be carried over into the 1952 budget. r 2. The widening, extension and improvement of Florida State Road No. 5 on its present right of way into a modern and adequate four lane highway from the,Overpass at the South County line to the South City Limits of the City of Vero Beach. 3. The widening, extension and improvement of Florida State Road No. 5 on its present right of way into a modern and adequate four lane highway from the North City Limits of the City of Vero Beach to the North County line. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be furnished to the Honorable Alfred A. McKethan, Chairman, State Road Department, and to the Honorable Merrill P. Barber, Member, State Road Department from this District. Upon beitg;:duly'seconded by Commissioner Waddell, the same was unanimously adopted. R E S O L U T I O N - -- Secondary Road Projects Commissioner Graves introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption, to -wit: STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY RESOLUTION ON USE OF $O� SEVENTH CENT GAS TAX AND OTHER SECONDARY ROAD. FUND YEAR 1952 COUNTY OF INDIAN RIVER WHEREAS, under Chapter 26,321 of the Extraordinary Session of 1949, known as the "Secondary Roads Assistance Act of 1949", the State Road Department will receive 80% of the pro- ceeds of this County's prorata share of the Seventh Cent Gasoline Tax, to be used exclusively by the said department within this County, as directed by Resolution of this Board of County Com- missioners, for one or more of the following purposes: Construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of State roads and bridges, the lease or purchase of bridges connecting State roads, the acquisition of right of way for State roads, and the reduction of road and bridge indebted- ness; and, WHEREAS, the State Road Department has requested this County Board to designate also the purpose for which, and the roads on which, this County's 80% surplus gas tax and Federal Aid Secondary allocations should be spent for construction and improvement; and, WHEREAS, the State Road Department is required by law to adopt an annual budget of maintenance and construction work designed to use all except ten percent of its anticipated income during the year, which budget must be set up in January and adopted in February of each year; and, WHEREAS, the State Road Department cannot prepare and adopt a budget until it has ascertained and determined the desire of the Board of County Commissioners, in the form of a Resolution, as to how this County's Secondary Road funds should be used; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the State Road Department of Florida is hereby requested and, directed to use such funds on the following projects in the order of their designation as follows, to -wit: 1. LATERAL "B" (KING'S HIGHWAY) ROAD From the Oslo Road North on Lateral "BTM (King's High- way) Road to the South Gifford Road a distance of approximately 5.5 miles.