A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

MINUTES OF special MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY commissioners

monday, july 28, 1958

The Board of County Commissioners met in special session in the County Commissioners Room in the Courthouse at Tavares on Monday, July 28, 1958, at ten o’clock a.m. for the purpose of hearing requests and complaints from the public on the tentative budgets as adopted and such other matters as may be brought before the Board, with the following present: Chairman Simpson; Commissioners Theus, Cowart, Hooten, and Cross; Attorney Duncan; and Clerk Owens.

The Board was called to order by Chairman Simpson.

Katherine L. Baker, Supervisor of Registration, appeared before the Board and asked for permission for the Jay Cees in Leesburg to use the Voting Machines at a rally on August 2, 1958 for instructing the public how to use the machines. WHEREUPON, on a motion by Commr. Cross, seconded by Commr. Cowart and carried, also approved by the Clerk and Chairman, that Katherine L. Baker, Supervisor of Registration, be authorized to place the Voting Machines where requested for educational purposes and that the Chairman and Clerk were instructed to check the Voting Machines in and out so to keep within the Budget. Mrs. Baker stated the Shoup Company will hold a school of instruction on September 3, 1958. The Commissioners were instructed to make lists of Election Boards so they may be instructed to attend the School of Instruction in the County Commissioners room in the Courthouse at Tavares on Wednesday, September 3, 1958 at 7:30 p.m.

Commr. Cross filed checks in the amount of $5,600 for reimbursement for oil for Treasure Island Road. (Other checks received in the mail to the Clerk made a total of $6,000.)

Mrs. Sudderth, County Welfare Worker, appeared before the Board and filed a list of applicants to the School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine. The Clerk authorized to send in the list of applicants.

The Petition of Daymon A. Amesbury and four others and the Proof of Publication having been filed at the meeting on July 14 and Commr. Hooten having requested that the adoption of the resolution closing part of Adams Street in Edgewater Beach be held in abeyance until personal inspection of the property could be made, and Commr. Hooten now reported the inspection of the property has been made. The Petition is now incorporated in the Minutes as follows:

PETITION FOR ABANDONMENT OF PLATTED STREET

TO: THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA:

COMES NOW your Petitioner, DAYMON A. AMESBURY and wife, ROSE E. AMESBURY; LUTHER PADGETT and wife, JESSIE PEARL PADGETT; and MAMIE SADLER, widow, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 336.09(c) of Florida Statutes 1957 and respectfully show the following:

1. That Petitioners are Owners in fee simple of Lots in Block “C” and Block “D” of Edgewater Beach, a subdivision in Section 25, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, in Lake County, Florida, filed for recording on April 5, 1926 and recorded in Plat Book 8, page 84, Public Records of Lake County, Florida, which abut on Adams Street, as delineated on said Plat.

2. That Petitioners, DAYMON A. AMESBURY and wife, ROSE E. AMESBURY, own title in fee simple to Lot 1 in Block “D;” that Petitioners LUTHER PADGETT and wife, JESSIE PEARL PADGETT, own title in fee simple to Lot 5 in Block “C;” that Petitioner, MAMIE SADLER, owns title in fee simple to Lots 6, 7, 8, and 9 in Block “C” and Lots 10, 11, 12, and 13 in Block “D.”

3. That it is the desire of the Petitioners that this Board, by adopting a proper resolution, renounce and disclaim any right of Lake County and the Public, in and to the following described land, to-wit:

That portion of ADAMS STREET lying between Block “C” and Block “D” and between the East right of way line of First Avenue and the West right of way line of lake Boulevard, as shown on the Plat of Edgewater Beach, a subdivision in Section 25, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, in Lake County, Florida, filed for recording on April 5, 1926 and recorded in Plat Book 8, page 84, in the Public Records of Lake County, Florida.

That the land comprising said delineated portion of Adams Street does not constitute and has never been acquired for a State or Federal Highway.

4. That said portion of land is not now being utilized as a public road or thoroughfare.

WHEREFORE, Petitioners respectfully pray that the Board of County Commissioners of Lake County, Florida, upon public hearing duly had after proper notice according to Law, adopt a resolution renouncing and disclaiming any right of Lake County and the public in and to the land above described.

Daymon A. Amesbury

Rose E. Amesbury

Luther Padgett

Jessie Pearl Padgett

Mamie Sadler, a widow

WHEREUPON, on a motion by Commr. Hooten, seconded by Commr. Cowart and carried, the following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS, Petitioners, DAYMON A. AMESBURY and wife, ROSE E. AMESBURY; LUTHER PADGETT and wife, JESSIE PEARL PADGETT; and MAMIE SADLER, widow, have filed their petition with this Board, praying for a Resolution by this Board, renouncing and disclaiming any right of Lake County and the public in and to land comprising a platted street, upon which Petitioners are abutting property owners; and

WHEREAS, the land comprising said platted street does not constitute and has never been acquired for a State or Federal Highway; and

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 336, Florida Statutes of 1957, the legal notice of a public hearing as to said petition was duly published in the Clermont Press, a newspaper of general circulation in Lake County, Florida; and

WHEREAS, upon public hearing being held July 14, 1958 and there appearing no interested parties to object to the granting of the prayer contained in said petition;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Lake County, Florida, as follows:

1. That said Board hereby renounces and disclaims any rights of Lake County, Florida, and the public in and to land comprising a platted street described as follows:

2. That in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 336, Florida Statutes of 1957, a legal notice of the adoption of this Resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Lake County, Florida, one time and within thirty (30) days from the date hereof.

3. That all costs of publication, recording and otherwise relative to this matter be paid for by the Petitioners.

Adopted this 28^th day of July, A. D. 1958

Clerk Owens filed the Certification from R. A. Gray, Secretary of State, as to candidates who will be placed on the ballot.

Clerk Owens read a Notice published in the Eustis Lake Region News regarding the Budget Hearing.

Motion by Commr. Hooten that the agencies who asked for increases in their budget requests be cut and the balance needed to reduce the millage .4 mill be cut from the Road and Bridge Fund. This motion died for lack of a second.

On a motion by Commr. Hooten, seconded by Commr. Theus and carried, the General Fund millage was to be reduced from 8 mills to 7.8 mills and increase the Road and Bridge Fund millage from 2.1 mills to 2.3 mills.

On a motion by Commr. Cowart, seconded by Commr. Hooten and carried, the budgets as amended are to be adopted tentatively.

On a motion by Commr. Hooten, seconded by Commr. Theus and carried, Clerk Owens was instructed to transmit two certified copies of each of the tentative budgets as adopted to the Comptroller, Ray E. Green, Tallahassee, Florida.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

/s/ Frank E. Owens /s/ O. M. Simpson

CLERK CHAIRMAN