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<br />The Board then re -convened in regular session.
<br />Commissioner Hamilton, Commissioner Waddell and Road and Bridge Superintendent
<br />'E. E. Carter were appointed as a committee to follow through on the caution light for the
<br />f road intersection at Wabasso. It was decided that the County.would pay the cost of installa-
<br />tion and others to pay -for the cost of maintenance and operation. d
<br />The Coroner's verdict in the matter of the death of Joe Russell was received
<br />and filed by Douglas Baker, Clerk.
<br />On December 2, 1952, the Board allocated all unbudgeted Race Track Funds to
<br />;.the Road and Bridge Fund for the construction of concrete bridges on secondary roads in the
<br />:County. This action'was amended on Motion of Commissioner Waddell, seconded by Commissioner
<br />Hamilton and carried, and Douglas Baker, Clerk, was instructed to place $2600.00 surplus
<br />,,Race Tract Funds recently receive ii& the General Revenue Fund which would be needed in making Ej
<br />future expenditures relating to the items in the amended budget.
<br />Mr. Paul Robertson, representing the Farm Bureau, and firs. Claude Smith,•Chair- p
<br />.man of the Farm Bureau's Ladies Activities Committee together with -members, Mrs. Gilbert E.
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<br />Smith, Mrs. L. S. Gollnick, Mrs. Hettie Young, Mrs, Paul Robertson, Mrs. Carrie G. Woodland, i.
<br />Mrs. and•Mr. Dudley Clyatt and Ed Poe, Secretary of the Farm Bureau, were also present together"
<br />':with Mrs. Annie Mae Sykes, State Home Demonatration Agent from Tallahassee. i+
<br />A request for a home demonstration agent in Indian River County was formally {.
<br />made by Mr. Robertson -in which the Ladies .Activities Committee concurred and Mr.s. Sykes jl
<br />;recited some of the needs and aims of the program. Upon inquiry she informed the Board the 1!
<br />cost to:,the county would be $3600.00 for the Agent, plus secretarial service, plus office
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<br />o action was taken in the matter, however,' Chairman Graves 'ad'v'ised all inter- i'
<br />ested parties tiat the Board would consider their request i:n connection with ,the 1953-1954 bud-'
<br />get.
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<br />'j E. Carter reported as to the number of feet of rope required for Wabasso
<br />'i Beach and also a�is',to the piling and stated that both the rope and the ilia was being donated
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<br />for this project.. On motion of Commissioner Hamilton, seconded by Commissioner Watts and
<br />carried it was decided that the Board would pay for having the ropes and piling installed at
<br />Wabasso Beach,
<br />On page 276, County Commissioner's Minute Book 4, the Bowd agreed to provide
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<br />'oney25 a on d of land e aa x lease for the Child Rehabilitation Home. On Motion of Commissioner
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<br />Waddell, seconded by Commissioner Hamilton and carried, it was decided to lease two acres in
<br />lieu of the onel�and that $1,000.00 be placed in the 1953-1954 Budget for salary for the
<br />Superintendent of the Home,
<br />Chairman Graves said he would provide a building for the Home'and on Motion
<br />°of Commissioner.Warren, seconded by Commissioner Hamilton'iand carried, Mr.`E, E. Carter was
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<br />instructed and authorized to have marl hauled to,the.site to be selected and, to move the
<br />building from Mr. Graves grove to the selected site. f
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<br />Chairman Graves announced that Marcel A. Boudet had been appointed as Juvenile
<br />:Court Counselor effective July 1, 1953.
<br />Mrs. Anne Christensen, County.'Welfare Case.,Worker, appeared before the Board
<br />and made•a report bf.her activities for the Month of June. Said report was received and
<br />'`filed with the Clerk.
<br />Sheriff L. B. 0.'Steen advised the Board the power mower used on the jail lawn
<br />was about worn out and that they needed a new one. A Committee consisting of L. B. O'Steen, -
<br />`,Sheriff, -E. E. Carter, -Road and Bridge Superintendent and Commissioner Warren were appointed
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