UF00083564_00051.pdf

UF00083564_00051.txt

UF00083564_00051_pdf.txt

MUADE

If higherq' could to peved with politicel praieee there would
not be enough roo- le. in Florida to 9m orwe true. but in fact
he an I score of your. and a billim uollen white! in highway con-
structim.

For yeore part or the realm to: cm: 1.9 is the {act that u have
been trying to pay of! the iruehtednees of the 1920's. when irrcepomibla
em ehort-einted politician mrtgaged Floride'e future by issuing have
Hillel: hem had to be paid III ere being paid off todqy out of noney that
M be going to the construction of neu highueye. I shell never be
willing to repeat that foolish'oeu.

Another can" in the lack of riite-of-vq {MI in the countiu
when roade ere wet deepentely needed. I will provide the lemmip
to establish. our the next eevml years. e tevolving right-obey
fund uhioh will pee-lit the ecquieition of righteof-m for Item high-
ugye in ounce of needs. on ten lore favorable to the State than
hen-torn". In! less dieturbing W W"! m

ll. the greatest weakness in our highly prowl is the athlete.-
tive etructire of the Ron: Deon-bent. In 1961 the iiigmm/ Deth
will meet apprale 175 nillioo dollm. but the allocetion of
thoee {undemnq decieione on to priority and locetlon of new construc-
tion. is too often e politicel tether then an eternal: oroceee. innit:
by ti: State Amitor are lode, tut they are too little at! you: too
late. There is no opportunity to review the niacin of docieione made
or of contract: let. The arbitrary mellotion of existing road con-
tracts by m ineo-im governor in not a: cure {or the ueokneee, but an
imictaent of the decieion-enkim proceee. Coutty mi city officiele.
who on vitally emcee-nod and intiutely comment with road needs.
have been given no mponeihle part in the overall hidnmy plan.

he econ ee 1 hen been minted gown-mt, I ehell i-ediately
cell togethet e culture (equated of form road board chairmen and
road board eabere non r-oved {m the enn- of octiva politice UM
cu h'lng to beer on this greet and inorunt promen- Uh! full weight

of their experieme em mledoe. They low the mane in our

Dam-2-

Itnictux-r. :- no one one in Fin-ids can ponihly mu tin. and

that rustic-.1 patience is aAvut rem. which In mt tap. in
will cook the servicu of the auditor of the State of Florian, the
advice of the hoist-tch Road Cantu, tho coopmtim at the ex-
isting load Board at! its Its, the help of rcpnuntatiw city
and county officials. Fro- thou sources we and! be able to put
together a pin to: thc mi.- utiuzation oi' the maxi: mu available
u wen as those available tm in inst-ling mount. 1 give you
thc sole-1 an! confldmt ulnrmoo that at 331111 in the wt {our yam
con-bin: tha Ion. "pubic 11nd. with the highest purpuc to xhim thc

but roads in thc Inn of greatest and.




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page -$structur.-, as no one else Iri Fleida em possibly --Iriow them, arxi their 3ractical experience is a vast resource which we must tap. ..e will seek tiv services of the mailtor of tre State of Florida. the evice of the tagislative Road Cominittee, the cooperatier of the exIsting Itand Snard and its staff, ami the help of representative city and cooty officials. From these pourcas we shall be able to put together a plan for tim maximin uttilne fori of the funds now available as well as those available tomorrow in irrreasing neount. Z give you the solvien ani confident assurance that -de shall in the text four years colikine the most capable anxis with the highest purpose to rhjeve the -cast rosis in the artes of greatest need.