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TURNERS flSSOCIRTIOD OF InOlflnON RIVER COMITY: Inc. A N -PROFIT CORPORATION 00idelbing is easier than spending the public% money] it does net appear to beicng to anybody. overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.^ a Calvin Coolidge Sunday, August 17, 1975 Miss Alma Lee Loy, Chairlady and County Commissioners of Indian River County Indian River County Courthouse Vero Beach, Florida 32960 The Taxpayers Association, Miss Loy, P O. eox 1761 VERO SRACM. FLORIDA 33060 The temptation is is concerned and disturbed by the County Commissioners' action of June 27th in regard to Beach Erosion Control& We have examined the Resolution yon signed on that date, giving the Army • Corps of Engineers such tremendous latitude in pumping sand to replenish our beaches. It appears to include an open-ended provision for yearly sand pumping to continue as long as needede local news media, which covered the hearings on beach erosion, have reported that the Corps stated its program will cost between 2 and. 10 million $s This is a shocking burden to place on the backs of our taxpayers. 'Disturbing, too, is to find that top administrators cf both the County and City reveal that neither of them has any record of official figures. To date we know of no cost figures, in writing, from the Corps. Efforts to obtain a copy of the cost figures quoted at the hearing by the Corps so far has not produced them, with recent phone requests to its office in Jacksonville, Florida notwithstanding. We are deeply concerned that the County and City may have plunged into what appears to be a bad arrangement with the Corps. Sand pumping is appallingly expensive... and has teen a failure in ever so many communities along the Atlantic Coast. Moreover, we understand the Corps won't be able to start the sand fill job here for 3 -years. But on Wednesday, August 20th, you will meet to receive information about an alternate method of beach erosion•controj, the so-called "jacks" method, where steel reinforced concrete jacks are placed in the water offshore to break up wave action and also help deposit sand. The propanent of the system states that the cost will be $400,000 and, will require only a few months to be installed and in operation. Consider seriously this alternative ... then request the Corps to examine it with the goal of relieving us taxpayers of the burden of the multi-million $ sand pumping method you endorsed in the June 27th Resolution. This letter was authori„ed by today's action of our Executive Committees Alan S. Anderson, President;John R. West, 1st VP;Robert C. Ramsdell, 2nd VP; William 0. Lucas, Treasurer; John G. Taylor, Jr., PP; Ted Br n, Sec AUG 201975 BM 23 Mt 245