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• <br />Following yesterday's Board of County Commissioners meeting discussing the <br />Lost Tree Village Islands, you requested I review County policy on negotiations <br />for LAAC purchases. The following excerpts are from the "Indian River County <br />Land Acquisition Guide" approved by the County Commission May 7, 1991 as <br />revised July 20, 1993 and October 15, 1994. <br />• The County Commission has the final authority to establish land acquisition <br />policies, procedures, pnorities, standards and criteria <br />- page 2 <br />• The Land Acquisition Guide may be amended by majority vote of the Board of <br />County Commissioners. <br />- page 3 <br />• Staff duties and responsibilities include coordinating negotiations with owners <br />for property under consideration for acquisition. Negotiations may entail <br />direct contact with landowners and/or coordination with State cost -share <br />agency staff and other land acquisition entities, as applicable. <br />pages 12-14 <br />• Conflicts of Interest. No member of the Board of County Commissioners may <br />be involved in the appraisal of or the negotiations for the purchase, sale, or <br />exchange of any real property on behalf of the County. <br />- page 14 <br />Some of the Board's discussion on how to proceed with respect to the Lost Tree <br />Village islands seemed inconsistent with established County policy as cited <br />above, but a majority of the Board can revise policy at any time. <br />To: Board of County Commissioners <br />From. Paul G. Bangel, County Attorney-' <br />�Laid zIZ if Il <br />Re: Land Acquisition Advisory Committee <br />Attached is a copy of a memorandum from Deputy County Attorney Will Collins <br />regarding the County's land acquisition policy. Anticipating being absent from the March <br />6, 2001, meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, Commissioner Macht. Chairman <br />of the Land Acquisition Advisory Committee, asked me to place this matter on the Board's <br />agenda. The Indian River County Land Acquisition Guide, approved <br />County Commissioners on May 7, 1991, and revised on July 201993 andthe Oc oberd18of <br />, <br />1994, states, in pertinent part, as follows: <br />No member of the Board of County Commissioners may be <br />involved in the appraisal of or the negotiations for the <br />purchase, sale, or exchange of any real property on behalf of <br />the County_ <br />March 6, 2001 <br />• <br />127 <br />1 <br />