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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1961 The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, met at the Courthouse, Vero Beach, Florida in a regular meeting held at 9:00 o'clock A.M., Tuesday, September 19, 1961. Present were Robert W. Graves, Chairman and members Donald Macdonald, B. Q. Waddell and J. J. P. Hamilton. Absent was D. B. McCullers, Jr. Also present were John Gould, Attorney for the Board, Ed Schmucker, County Engineer and Katherine Morrison, Deputy Clerk. The County Engineer advised the Board that when procuring rights of ways for State Road 5 we had received right of way from Mr. S. D. Gaines for a Lateral Ditch and it was part of the agreement that the County would place a drain pip under the road. This was not put in the contract by the State Road Department and the State Road Department informs us that the Contractor will do the work if the County will pay for the pipe and the cost of placing same, and that the estimate cost would be around $600.00. The Board stated since it would cost over $800.00 that it would have to be advertised and authorized the County Engineer advertise for this to be done. Flip Lloyd representing Russell Burks presented a proposed water and sewer franchise containing a land area of 160 acres on North Gifford Road. Motion was made by Commissioner Hamilton, seconded by Commissioner Macdonald and carried that tentative approval of the franchise be granted subject to the approval of the Attorney for the Board. Dan Knoebel appeared before the Board and stated that he would like to charge a minimum charge for lighting of streets in Rockridge S/D on his water and sewer bill. The -Board informed Mr. Knoebel that our franchise contained nothing about lights or lighting of streets and they had no ob- jection to his placing the charge on the bills but that he could not'force the people to pay such a charge. An invitation was received from the Rockridge Property Owners assoc. to attend the dedication of their park in Rockridge S/D. Motion was' made by Commissioner Waddell, seconded by Commissioner Macdonald and carried, that the County Engineer be authorized to have up to three Notary Publics for his office.