Resolution 017-1967RESOLUTION NO. 17 -1967
WHEREAS, there have been introduced in the 1967 session of the
Florida Legislature House Bills #287, #290, . #404 and #411, which would
remove the authority of sanitation and health inspections of food services
from the Health Department and place the authority of these services with
the Hotel and Restaurant Commission, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida feels that due to the trained staff of the State Board of Health and
local County Health Units, the said State Board of Health and its agencies
are better equipped to furnish such health inspections of food services, and
that under the present set-up it is in the best interest and welfare of the
citizens of Monroe County, Florida not to make any changes concerning
such inspections, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA that said Board hereby goes on record
as opposing the passage of said House Bills #287, #290, 0404 and #411, re-
moving the authority of sanitation and health inspections of food services
from the Health Department and placing the authority of these services with
the Hotel and Restaurant Commission.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY SAID BOARD that the Clerk of said
Board be, and he is hereby authorized to forward certified copies of this
Resolution to the Senators and Representatives representing Monroe County,
Florida in the Florida Legislature.
Dated April 25th, 1967.