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the only viable option, and preferable to "armoring" the beaches. He also spoke of citizens' environmental and tax -related concerns. Vice Chairman Flescher acknowledged the importance of maintaining the infrastructure, but also felt that additional options to sand pumping should be explored. He mentioned that other states had received Federal grants to create mechanical barriers to erosion, and he did not know why the County was not exploring those areas. Commissioner Solari suggested amending the language to the second bulleted item in the primary recommendations (page 47 of the BPP), as follows: " to obtain Seek funding to implement the Plan as cited in Section 8.5." Commissioner Solari suggested adding the following language to the third bulleted item in the primary recommendations, as follows: "Implement the plan of improvements to existing public beach access sites or the acquisition of new sites as identified in Section 7.3", if warranted by a cost benefit analysis." Under the two secondary recommendations, Commissioner Solari felt that the first bulleted item "Encourage the City of Vero Beach and the Town of Indian River Shores to participate in funding to implement this Plan", should be a primary recommendation. On the second bulleted recommendation, "Direct County staff to re-examine this Plan at least once every 5 years ...", he inquired as to the reason for selecting the five years; asked Mr. Gorham if review would be done in-house; and questioned what the cost would be for the review. Commissioner Wheeler did not know if any method other than sand pumping was effective; agreed with Commissioner O'Bryan about the "armoring"; and felt that a cost -benefit analysis would have to be done at the appropriate time. 32 February 3, 2009