Letter: Proctor responds on Sauls' column  William L. Proctor,
chancellor, Flagler College St. Augustine Published Thursday,
March 18, 2004  Editor: This is in regard to Mr. Walter Sauls'
recent letter. In his enthusiasm for the proposed legislation,
Mr. Sauls neglects to mention that the legislation does not
remedy a significant problem addressed in the audit - the fact
that the school was required to pay prices in excess of
appraised values for properties in the Genoply-Alfred Streets
block. These costs were approximately $819,127 above the
original estimate and approximately $384,288 above the appraised
values, which appear to have increased as the properties were
acquired. These expenditures represent the only documented waste
of state funds.  In his opposition to granting the school
eminent domain power, Mr. Sauls fails to explain why FSDB, an
institution that serves some of the state's students with the
most severe disabilities, is to be denied the same authority
granted school districts, community coll