Resolution 107-1980
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RESOLUTION NO. 1011980
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING RE-OPENING OF
U. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL.
WHEREAS, the active duty military population in greater
Key West area is increasing by leaps and bounds in view of
the recent creation of a military joint task force and other
incoming units at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Boca Chica,
and
WHEREAS, there is in the neighborhood some 3000 military
retirees and their dependents In the greater Key West area
and Monroe County, Florida, and
WHEREAS, there is a definite and serIOUS need for a
military hospital in Monroe County, Florida to properly dis-
pense health and medical care to the active duty and military
retiree population and their dependents, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
1. That said Board of County Commissioners hereby
goes on record of strongly favoring the reopening of the
U. S. Naval Hospital, now only a Naval Regional Medical
Clinic, immediately.
2. That the Clerk of said Board is hereby directed to
forward certified copies of this resolution to the Honorable
Dante Fascell, the Honorable Lawton Chiles, the Honorable
Richard Stone, the Honorable William H. Lockward, Chairman,
Veterans Affairs Committee, Florida State Legislature, the
Florida Division of Veterans Affairs, and the Commanding
Officer, Naval Regional Medical Clinic, Key West.
Passed and adopted by the Board of County Commissioners
of Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting held on the
22nd day of April, 1980.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE y NTY, ~LO~IDA
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