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The procedure used by the District to adopt the emergency rule is fair under the circumstances. The District caused to be published in the May 15, 2017 edition of the Florida Administrative Weekly (Volume 43, Number 94, page 2249) a notice of the District’s regular June 13, 2017 governing board meeting. The May 15, 2017 notice included a notice that the Governing Board would be considering the adoption of the emergency rule at its June 13, 2017 meeting and identifies the emergency rule by number and title and gives a summary of the emergency rule and the web address where the full text of the emergency rule could be obtained as well as the technical documents used to set the emergency rule. Further, the District included the emergency rule in the Governing Board’s monthly meeting packet which is available to the public at a minimum of seven days prior to the day that the Governing Board approved the emergency rule for adoption. The public is given an opportunity to comment on all matters before the Governing Board during its meetings. The Governing Board’s meeting packet information is posted on the District’s website. Additionally, on or about May 15, 2017, the District posted on its website a notice that the District would hold two public workshops on the emergency rule at 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on May 24, 2017 at the District headquarters and that the Governing Board would consider the adoption of the emergency rule at its June 13, 2017 meeting. At the public workshops, District staff again stated that the Governing Board would consider the adoption of the emergency rule at its June 13, 2017 meeting. This emergency rule will also be posted on the District’s website.