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DECEMBER 14, 1973 FRIDAY.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF -INDIAN RIVER
COUNTY, FLORIDA MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE.CdURTHOUSE,
VERO BEACH, FLORIDA ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1973'AT 11:50
0 CLOCK A.M. PRESENT WERE ALMA LEE Loy, CHAIRMAN: EDWARD
J. MASSEY, VICE CHAIRMAN; WILLARD W. SIEBERT, SJR.; .JACK U.
DRITENBAS. COMMISSIONER RICHARD P. BOGOSIAN WAS ABSENT.
ALSO PRESENT WERE JACK G. .JENNINGS, COUNTY -ADMINISTRATOR;
L.S. THOMAS, COUNTY FINANCIAL COORDINATOR; ROY KIRKLAND AND
ELIZABETH FORLANI, DEPUTY CLERKS. PAUL D. BURCH, ATTORNEY
TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WAS ABSENT.
THE CHAIRMAN CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AND STATED
THAT THIS MEETING WAS CALLED TO INFORM THE BOARD OF A MEETING
WITH STATE. CABINET AIDES, COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN AND HERSELF
TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE LOCATION OF A FIRST
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OFFENDER PRISON FACILITY PLANNED FOR INDIAN RIVER COUNTY,
THE CHAIRMAN STATED THAT THE CABINET AIDES HAVE
OBTAINED TWO APPRAISALS CONFIRMING THE ASKING PRICE AS REASONABLE,
AT THE LAST"MEETING'WITH THE CABINET AIDES THE BOARD SUGGESTED THAT
THE PRICE FOR THE LAND WAS TOO HIGH.
COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN ENTERED THE MEETING AT 11:55
00CLOCK A.M.
COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN STATED THAT THE APPRAISALS
PRESENTED WERE FACTUAL AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION THEY HAD TO
WORK WITH, BUT THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE THAT THAT AREA IS GROWING
RAPIDLY AS A RESIDENTIAL AREA AND THAT A PRISON IS NOT THE BEST
USE OF THE LAND,
CHAIRMAN LOY ALSO STATED THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES HAS NOT ANSWERED OUR QUESTIONS
AS TO WHY THIS COUNTY WAS PICKED FOR THIS FACILITY AND THE FACT
THAT THERE IS NO MASTER PLAN FOR PLACING THESE FACILITIES
THROUGHOUT THE STATE. THERE HAS BEEN NO INVESTIGATION OR .STUDY
OF OTHER COUNTIES TO SEE IF ANY OTHER COUNTY WOULD BE INTERESTED
AND WANT TO HAVE THIS FACILITY .
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CHAIRMAN Loy STATED THAT, IN HER OPINION, SHE DID
NOT FEEL THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY
COULD BE SERVED BY LOCATING THIS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IN
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY AND URGED THE SUPPORT OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
CITIZENS ONE MORE TIME AND REQUESTED THEM TO WRITE LETTERS,
TELEPHONE OF SEND TELEGRAMS TO GOVERNOR ASKEW; SECRETARY OF STATE,
RICHARD STONE AND COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, DOYLE CONNOR.
COMMISSIONER DRITENBAS LEFT THE MEETING AT 12:25
O'CLOCK P.M -
AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION A MOTION WAS MADE BY
COMMISSIONER MASSEY, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN, THE
BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN TO SECURE
TWO APPRAISALS TO BE READY BY DECEMBER 18, 1973 TO BE PRESENTED
AT THE STATE CABINET MEETING IN TALLAHASSEE ON DECEMBER 19, 1973,
THE BOARD ALSO AUTHORIZED THE RETRO -ACTIVE OUT -OF -COUNTY TRAVEL
TO TALLAHASSEE, DECEMBER 13, 1973 FOR COMMISSIONER BOGOSIAN AND
CHAIRMAN LOY AND TO AUTHORIZE THE OUT -OF -COUNTY TRAVEL FOR ALL
COMMISSIONERS AND THE ATTORNEY TO ATTEND THE CABINET MEETING ON
DECEMBER 18, 1973.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS ON MOTION MADE,
SECONDED AND CARRIED, THE BOARD ADJOURNED AT 12:45 O'CLOCK P.M.
ATTEST:
CLERK
CHAIRMAN
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