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VLEPO Meeting Agenda for August 4, 2008 |
7:00 Call to
Order. Ray Kendzierski will lead the Invocation and proceed
with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Welcome
members, guests and Candidates for County Commissioner,
Districts 3 & 5.
As this is a
Special Meeting there will be no business conducted.
The
Political Forum will be conducted as follows:
Candidates
will be given three minutes for a synopsis of their platform.
Following will be six questions and each candidate will have two
minutes to respond to each question. When the question has been
answered, other Candidates will have an opportunity for a 60
second rebuttal followed by the option of a 60 second response.
When this portion of the forum is complete, there will be a
3-minute wrap up time for each Candidate.
The six
questions are as follows:
1. If elected, would you be willing to put the issue of charter
government on the ballot for the public to vote on?
2. The Vero Lake Estates vicinity, which includes three county
schools with hundreds of children, numerous businesses, and over
twenty miles of emergency evacuation routes, is severely lacking
readily available Fire/EMT protection. It is normal for fire
units to take 10 to 15 minutes to arrive on the scene to fire
emergencies. We have requested that IRC Emergency Services
either repair the VLVFD fire station, and recruit and train new
volunteer firefighters, or have a new paid Fire/EMT station
built to cover this area. Would you vote to allocate a fraction
of the 28 million dollar EMS budget to provide more readily
available fire protection for this community?
3. Vero Lake
Estates has an infrastructure problem that was created 50 years
ago. The residents of Vero Lake Estates voluntarily agreed to
tax themselves to help fund the cost of roads and yet almost a
quarter of a century later we have only 5 paved roads. Why have
road impact fees collected from the explosion of growth in Vero
Lake Estates not been used to pave additional roads and would
you support using impact fees or some other source to pay for
additional paved roads?
4. Water mains are being installed in Vero Lake Estates to
provide better fire protection. Would you vote yes to ensure
that when all phases of the water main project are complete,
that all residents of Vero Lake Estates will be within 1,000
feet of a fire hydrant?
5. Would you support balanced economic growth and bringing clean
industry into Indian River County that provides jobs at all
income levels?
6. After 18 months of effort the children and families of Vero
Lake Estates are still waiting for improvements to the VLE
Environmental Park. Would you support the efforts of this
project to move forward in a timely manner and allocate impact
fee money set aside for parks and recreation or some other
source for the funding?
This
completes the formal portion of the forum and 7 questions will
be taken from the general membership directed to a specific
candidate with a two-minute response time. Questions will be
limited to issues that have not been previously addressed or a
rebuttal.
At this time
the meeting will be adjourned and you will have the opportunity
to speak with candidates one on one for as long as you choose to
stay.
Available
at the meeting: Sign up sheets for Committees. Membership
Applications and cards. Voter registration cards. Local
business literature.
Free Recycling Bins.
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