Resolution 034-1965
RESOLUTION NO. 34 -1965
SECONDARY ROADS
WHEREAS, Hurricane Betsy struck Monroe County on September 8,
1965, filling streets, highways and public facilities with seaweed and other
debris, and washing away parts of streets and avenues, making traffic al-
most impassable, and
WHEREAS, a state of emergency existed, requiring prompt action on
the part of the Board of County Commissioners, to prevent a health hazard
and to make possible travel on the roads of the County, and
WHEREAS, said Board of County Commissioners, acting as the Mon-
roe County Civil Defense Council, did authorize Civil Defense officials to
engage the servic e of contractors to remove the seaweed and debris, and
to repair said roads, as an emergency measure, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners does not have suf-
ficient funds with which to pay said contractors performing the above ser-
vices, and
WHEREAS, said Board desires to request the Trustees of the Internal
Improvement Fund of the State of Florida to loan to Monroe County, Florida
a sum not to exceed $100,000, to pay for such necessary emergency work,
which said sum shall be repaid from any emergency funds received by said
County as a result of said County being declared a disaster area, andlor
out of Monroe County, Florida Secondary Road Funds, and
WHEREAS, said Board desires to authorize the State Road Department
to reimburse the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund out of Monroe
County, Florida Secondary R,oad Funds, for any funds expended on said emer-
gency work, not to exceed $100,000, in the event federal emergency funds
are not forthcoming within a year from the date of this Resolution, now,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that the Trustees of the Internal Im-
provement Fund of the State of Florida be, and they are hereby requested
to loan to Monroe County, Florida a sum not to exceed $100,000, to pay for
the necessary emergency work in removing seaweed and debris and repair-
ing roads in Monroe County, Florida as a result of Hurricane Betsy, and
the State Road Department be, and it is hereby authorized to reimburse said
Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund, out of Monroe County, Florida
Secondary Road Funds, for any amount not to exceed $100,000 that may be
borrowed from said Trustees, in the event Monroe County, Florida does
not receive the necessary federal emergency funds within a year from the
date of this Resolution, as a result of said County being declared a disaster
area.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE SAID BOARD that the Clerk of
said Board be, and he is hereby authorized to forward certified copies of
this Resolution to the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the
State of Florida and to the State Road Department, for appropriate action.
Dated September 15th, 1965.