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The Chairman announced that at the last meeting of the Board the Secretary had been asked to contact the several owners and developers in "the County who are putting in their own water and sewer systems and request that they be present at this meeting. He further noticed that they were present and stated they had been called upon to give us their ideas as'to whether or not the Board should adopt'a resolution giving the Florida Railroad' and Public Utilities Commission the right to regulAte rates,.etc. Mr. Carl Burbridge representing the General Development Corporation was recognized and stated he thought all those present were more or less in accord and that r they would go along with the Public Utilities Commission regulating the rates for the reason that they employ Engineers, etc. who are familiar with these things, but they were also of the opinion that since the Public Utilities Commission has no definite set of rules as of this date and since it is a new operation for them, that they would like to wait several months until the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission has adopted their rules" and regulations and is in operation for a time. After some further discussion the Board decided to table this matter until a later date. Mr. A. A. Scott appeared before the Board and stated that he was representing Florida Illustrated Magazine and that they propose pub- lishing a booklet entitled:,"The Vero Beach & Indian River County Story" and they would like for the County' .to join with others and participate as a sponsor. He further stated that the cost to the County would be $450.00. The Board informed Mr. Scott that our budget for the year had been set and we had included $1500.00 to the Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce and that he should contact them and see if they would use some of the County's money for this purpose. The Board further informed Mr. Scott that since the budget had been set and there was nothing additional in the budget for other advertising that we could not join this year in any additional. Sherman N. Smith, Jr., Attorney for the Board stated that the Appellate Court had upheld the Circuit Judge's ruling for the Whittiers in the suit of Surrency vs. Whittier. The County Engineer stated that he had been unable to obtain any surveys on the Wabasso Island and had written a firm who would be in this area taking aerial photographs, and requested that they take aerial photos of this area at that time . The County Attorney stated that he had called Mr. Fox of the