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RECITALS WHEREAS, by lnterlocal Agreement dated June 6, 1977, the City of Orlando and the former Orange County Board of Fire Commissioners agreed to jointly sponsor and participate in an "Orlando-Orange Fire Training Academy"; and WHEREAS, the City of Orlando provided for the creation and establishment of the "Orlando-Orange Fire Training Academy Board of Trustees~ by adoption of an amendment to Chapter 2 of the Code of the City of Orlando; and WHEREAS, by Interlocal Agreement dated June 3, 1982, (and subsequently updated and agreed upon on March 15th, 1994) the City of Orlando and Orange County agreed to continue the joint efforts begun as a result of the aforementioned Interlocal Agreement of June 6, 1977; and WHEREAS, by subsequent amendments to Chapter 2 of the Code of the City of Orlando, the Academy was re-named and re-designated as the "Central Florida Fire Academy at Orlando", then the "Central Florida Emergency Services Institute," and then re-named "Central Florida Fire Academy;" and WHEREAS, the current participants are desirous of continuing their joint efforts in providing fIrefIghter, emergency medical and emergency management training; and WHEREAS, Chapter 163, Florida Statutes provides that a joint exercise of power by public agencies may be made by Agreement in the form of an InterIocal Agreement; and WHEREAS, each of the parties to this InterIocal Agreement is.z"'þublic agency" within the meaning of § 163.01 Florida Statutes, and WHEREAS, the parties to this lnterIocal Agreement desire to continue with the operation of Central Florida Fire Academy and further desire to better set forth the working relationship between themselves with respect to the Fire Academy's operation.