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COMMISSIONER SIEBERT REQUESTED THAT AN EMERGENCY ITEM BE ADDED TO THE AGENDA IN REGARD TO AN APPLICATION TO' THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO PUT SOME RIPRAP ON JUNGLE TRAIL WHERE THE ROAD IS COLLAPSING INTO THE RIVER. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER,`COMMISSIONER SIEBERT AND VICE CHAIRMAN Loy VOTED IN FAVOR, THE I BOARD ADDED THE -ABOVE EMERGENCY ITEM TO TODAY'S AGENDA, COMMISSIONER SIEBERT INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HUGH CORRIGAN, III, HAS GOTTEN PERMISSION .FOR AN EMERGENCY APPLICATION TO THE CORPS OF EN - TO ALLOW HIM TO PUT IN APPROXIMATELY 220' OF ROCK RIPRAP ON THE RIVERSIDE OF .JUNGLE TRAIL WHERE TREES ARE ALREADY FALLING IN THE RIVER, WAKE FROM BOATS HAS CAUSED THE RIVERBANK TO WASH AWAY. MR. CORRIGAN WILL DO THIS AT HIS OWN EXPENSE, BUT THE CORPS HAS INFORMED HIM THAT THEY NEED THE CONCURRENCE OF THE BOARD THAT THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. COM- MISSIONER SIEBERT SUGGESTED THAT IT WOULD BE WISE TO DECLARE ALL JUNGLE TRAIL AN EMERGENCY AREA. ADMINISTRATOR .JENNINGS CONCURRED, NOTING THAT THE COUNTY HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET A PERMIT TO DO THIS WORK:'IT EITHER HAD TO BE DONE BY INDIVIDUAL PERMITS TO PROPERTY OWNERS OR BY A PLAN SENT DOWN FROM TALLAHASSEE WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT THAT WE COULD NOT AFFORD TO CARRY OUT, HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THE CORPS OF EN- GINEERS IS NOT THE PROBLEM HERE, BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND HE FELT IF SJR. CORRIGAN IS SUCCESSFUL WITH HIS ACTION, IT WOULD ,BE HELPFUL. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED IN REGARD TO DECLARING THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF JUNGLE TRIAL AN EMERGENCY AREA. CHAIRMAN WODTKE RETURNED TO THE MEETING AT 10:40 A.M. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY.COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED RESOLUTION No. 77-45, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF THE ATTORNEY, DESIGNATING THE ENTIRE WESTERLY LENGTH OF JUNGLE TRAIL LYING SOUTH OF STATE ROAD 510 AS BEING IN A.STATE OF EMERGENCY AND FURTHER AUTHORIZED THE CHAIRMAN TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS GIVING THE ^C'TJ.TY'S CONCURRENCE WITH THE ISSUANCE of A. PERMIT TO HUGH i3ORRIGAN, III, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 220' OF ROCK RIPRAP ON .JUNGLE TRAIL. 47 1 ou0� } a 4977