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RESOLUTION No. 74-40
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF GULF STREAM, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED PALM BEACH COUNTY $50,000.000.00
BOND ISSUE FOR THE PURCHASE OF BEACH FRONT PROPERTY TO BE LOCATED
IN INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES ALONG THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN PALM BEACH
COUNTY AND URGING ALL MUNICIPALITIES, CITIZENS, TAXPAYERS, AND VOTERS
OF PALM BEACH COUNTY TO ACTIVELY AND ERNESTLY EXPEND THEIR EFFORTS
TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT OF THE BOND ISSUE IN THE NOVEMBER 5, 1974
GENERAL ELECTION.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County has
voted by a three to two vote to have placed upon the November 5, 1974 general
election ballot, the question of whether or not sufficient bonds pledging the ad
valorem tax revenues of Palm Beach County should be issued to raise $50,000,000.00
for the purchase of beach front property in Palm Beach County, most of which
property proposed to be purchased lies within incorporated municipalities; and
WHEREAS, the selling and issuance of the bonds referred to herein,
if approved by the voters, as proposed, will result in said bonds being paid
back over a period of approximately thirty years which will have the result of
burdening the taxpayers of Palm Beach County to pay back an aggregate amount in
excess of $100,000,000.00 due to the interest rate on the bonds and the duration
of the bonds; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County has
hastily drawn up its proposed beach acquisition program and has not, despite
pleas from respon&ble municipal officials that it do so, taken in to account the
zoning plans and land use plans of the various affected municipalities in which
the proposed beach acquisitions are to take place, but instead the Board of County
Commissioners of Palm Beach County has evidenced its intent to ignore and override
said plans and impose its will on the affected municipalities regardless of the
consequences to the people who make their homes in the affected municipalities; and
WHEREAS, the establishment of the county parks, as proposed, is going
to create traffic, police, and environmental consequences of great magnitude within
the affected municipalities, which consequences the Board of County Commissioners of
Palm Beach County has refused to take into account and has chosen to ignore; and
WHEREAS, despite the fact that recent litigation between the Board
of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County and the incorporated municipality
of the Town of Gulf Stream, Palm Beach County, Florida has resulted in court
decisions which hold that the county cannot acquire and utilize beach and recreational
properties in incorporated municipalities where such uses would be incompatible
with a municipality's zoning and land use plan, the Board of County Commissioners has
insisted on risking in excess of $100,000,000.00 of its citizens tax revenues by
proposing to acquire property that it will not even be able to use after acquisition;
and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County has
elected to ask the voters to approve a bond issue costing the taxpayers in excess of
$100,000,000.00 for beach acquisition while at the same time the Board of County
Commissioners has not gone forward with negotiations for the utilization of the
vas "Air Force Beach" tract of beach iron property which has been offered to the
Board of County Commissioners for lease at $10.00 per year; and
WHEREAS, at this precarious moment in our nation's economy, the
taxpayers of Palm Beach County, many of whom are retired and on fixed incomes, are
being asked by the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County to approve the
paying back of in excess of $100,000,000.00 for the acquisition of beach front
property, while at the same time far more pressing governmental needs exist,
including the providing of an adequate school system to meet the needs of our
growing population's young people and the solving of Palm Beach County's daily
increasing transportation woes by providing for and funding a realistic urban
transportation system; and
WHEREAS, one of the three county commissioners who voted to have
this proposed beach bond issue put on the November 5, 1974 general election ballot
has publicly indicated and stated that this bond issue should not be passed by
the voters of Palm Beach County and that he will personally vote against its
passage, which fact reveals that, in actuality, even the majority of the Palm
Beach County Board of County Commissioners realizes that this proposed bond
issue is not in the overall public interest.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
1. That for the reasons set forth above the Town of Gulf Stream
expresses its opposition to the passage of the proposed beach bond issue on
November 5, 1974.
2. That all municipalities whose land use plans, zoning plans,
and self -governmental integrity are being threatened by this proposed beach bond
program are urged and requested to vigorously and earnestly work for the defeat
of the proposed bond issue on November 5, 1974.
3. That all citizens, taxpayers, and voters of Palm Beach County
are urged to carefully review this proposed bond issue, which will ultimately cost
them in excess of $100,000,000.00 in light of their own economic conditions, the
condition of the national, state, and local economy, and in light of the other more
pressing needs for governmental services which are being ignored in Palm Beach
County, and to join in the conclusion that this proposed bond issue should
overwhelmingly be defeated on November 5, 1974.
DULY PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Town Commission of the Town
of Gulf Stream, Palm Beach County, Florida, this 11 day of
October ,1974
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