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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1981 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE CITY HALL 000NCIL CHAMBERS, 1053 20TH PLACE, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, ON FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1981, AT 1:310 O'CLOCK P.M. PRESENT WERE PATRICK B. LYONS, CHAIRMAN; DICK BIRD; ALFRED GROVER FLETCHER; AND DON C. SCURLOCK, SJR. VICE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM C. WODTKE, JR. WAS OUT OF TOWN, ALSO PRESENT WERE NEIL A. NELSON, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR; GEORGE G. COLLINS, JR., ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; AND ,JANICE CALDWELL, DEPUTY CLERK. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AND STATED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO DISCUSS THE CULVERT SITUATION ON THE PROPOSED INDIAN RIVER BOULEVARD IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROBLEMS OF COUNTRY CLUB POINTE. ADMINISTRATOR NELSON COMMENTED THAT THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM REYNOLDS, SMITH & HILLS WERE HERE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER. RODNEY GHIOTO, OF REYNOLDS, SMITH & HILLS IN ORLANDO, CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AND ADVISED THAT THEY HAD DESIGNED AN ELLIPTICAL CULVERT AND, FROM AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT, FELT IT WOULD HANDLE THE DRAINAGE AND THAT THE DESIGN WAS ADEQUATE FOR THE CONDITIONS IN THE AREA. IN RECENT DISCUSSIONS HE HAS HAD, THERE SEEMED TO BE A CONCERN THAT IF THERE WERE SEVERE STORM CONDITIONS, SIMILAR TO CONDITIONS THAT WERE OBSERVED IN 1957, FLOODING MIGHT OCCUR AGAIN IN THAT AREA. MR. GHIOTO ADVISED THAT MRS. ANN ROBINSON, REPRESENTATIVE FROM COUNTRY CLUB POINTE, WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BOX CULVERT PLACED IN THE VICINITY AT THE END OF GOLFVIEW DRIVE, AS OPPOSED TO fHE ELLIPTICAL CULVERT. HE CONTINUED THAT THEY FELT AN ELLIPTICAL CULVERT WOULD HANDLE THE DRAINAGE SITUATION, BUT THEY COULD,,6O TO A BOX CULVERT TO SATISFY THE CONCERNS OF THE RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA - BOTH WOULD FUNCTION ADEQUATELY FROM AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT. MR. GHIOTO NOTED THAT SOME MODIFICATIONS IN THE DESIGN THEY NOW HAVE WOULD HAVE TO BE MADE IY 1.1981 Boos -46 ��cE 289