Resolution 062-1974RESOLUTION NO. 62 -1974
WHEREAS, the State of Florida, Department of Transportation, has
placed certain weight limitations on the bridges on U. S. Highway No. 1 in
Monroe County, Florida because of the condition of the bridges on said
highway which are badly in need of repairs and replacement, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida,
has requested the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete the construction
of the Intercoastal Waterway Project from its present termination in Monroe
County, Florida to Key West, Florida, and
WHEREAS, said U. S. Army Corps of Engineers does not have sufficient
funds to conduct a preliminary study and construction of said waterway from
its present termination in Monroe County, Florida to Key West, Florida, and
WHEREAS, said Board feels that completion of said Intercoastal
Waterway Project would result in increased barge operations in handling
materials, supplies and foods, and alleviate the said problem on the bridges
on said U. S. Highway No. 1 in Monroe County, Florida, and therefore justify
said completion, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, that the Honorable Dante Fascell, Monroe County, Florida's Represen-
tative in the House of Representatives, Senator Edward Gurney and Senator
Lawton Chiles, Florida Senators in the U. S. Congress, be and they are hereby
requested to seek a Federal appropriation in order that the U. S. Army Corps
of Engineers may conduct a preliminary study and construct said waterway from
its present termination in Monroe County, Florida to Key West, Florida.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY SAID BOARD that certified copies of this
Resolution be forwarded to the above named Representative and Senators.
DATED June 4, 1974.