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I f WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1976 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE COURTHOUSE, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1976, AT 8:30 O'CLOCK A.M. PRESENT WERE WILLARD W. SIEBERT, JR., CHAIRMAN; WILLIAM C. WODTKE, .JR., VICE-CHAIRMAN; ALMA LEE LOY AND EDWIN S. SCHMUCKER. ABSENT WAS EDWARD J. MASSEY. ALSO PRESENT WERE .JACK G. .JENNINGS, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR; GEORGE G. COLLINS, .JR., ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; AND VIRGINIA HARGREAVES, DEPUTY CLERK. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS TO DISCUSS FILLING THE POSITION OF COUNTY WELFARE DIRECTOR, AND ASKED COMMISSIONER LOY, WHO HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THIS MATTER, TO REPORT TO THE BOARD. COMMISSIONER LOY REMINDED THE BOARD THAT GLADYS VIGLIANO, COUNTY WELFARE DIRECTOR, NOTIFIED THE BOARD IN .JANUARY OF HER WISH TO RETIRE AND SUBMITTED HER RESIGNATION TO BECOME EFFECTIVE AS OF APRIL 1, 1976. COM- MISSIONER LOY NOTED THAT MRS. VIGLIANO HAS SERVED THE COUNTY IN THIS CAPACITY SINCE 1962, MOST OF THE TIME RUNNING THE DEPARTMENT AS A ONE- PERSON OFFICE. COMMISSIONER LOY STATED THAT SHE AND THE PERSONNEL DIRECTOR HAVE ATTEMPTED TO EVALUATE THE CURRENT NEEDS OF THIS DEPARTMENT A14D HAVE REVIEWED A NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION. COMMISSIONER LOY INFORMED THE BOARD THAT SHE AND PERSONNEL DIREC- TOR DONLON WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THE APPOINTMENT OF MISS JANICE LINDSEY AS INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS WHILE THEY CONTINUE TO EVALUATE THE REQUIREMENTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND GOALS OF THIS DEPARTMENT, THE APPOINTMENT TO BE EFFEC- TIVE AS OF APRIL 1, 1976. SHE NOTED THAT MISS LINDSEY HAS BEEN EMPLOYED IN THIS DEPARTMENT FOR THE LAST YEAR AND HAS BEEN WORKING CLOSELY DURING ;'THAT TIME WITH MRS. VIGLIANO, WHO RECOMMENDS HER HIGHLY.