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REACH PRESERVATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE MEETING - REPORT COMMISSIONER WODTKE GAVE A BRIEF REPORT OF THE MEETING HELD REGARDING THE BEACH PRESERVATION & RESTORATION, AND ADVISED THAT THE FEASIBILITY REPORT THAT WAS DISCUSSED DID NOT INCLUDE THE SABECON REEF PROJECT, HE ADVISED THAT THE COST OF THE VERO BEACH PROJECT WAS $2,979,000 AS OF JANUARY, 1980 AND THE PORTION OF THAT COST IS NORMALLY 500 FEDERAL AND THE NON-FEDERAL CONSISTS OF 750 STATE AND 250 LOCAL. COMMISSIONER WODTKE NOTED THAT THE LOCAL COST WOULD BE $464,000, AND AS LONG AS THERE IS PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE OCEAN EVERY HALF MILE, VERO BEACH WOULD QUALIFY FOR STATE FUNDING. COMMISSIONER WODTKE REPORTED THAT THIS PROJECT IS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WATER RESOURCE ACT, WHICH IS ACTED UPON EVERY THREE YEARS - THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 144 PROJECTS WAITING TO GET APPROVED THROUGH THE OFFICE MANAGEMENT BUDGET FOR FUNDING. COMMISSIONER.WODTKE STRESSED THAT IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ASK OUR CONGRESSMEN TO BE SURE THAT THEY INCLUDE OUR INDIAN RIVER PROJECT AND HAVE IT LISTED IN THE ---- WATER RESOURCE ACT, OR IT COULD FALL BY THE WAYSIDE. HE ADVISED THAT HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO DRAFT THE LETTER TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COM- MISSIONER BIRD, TO AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN -TO SEND A LETTER TO THE APPROPRIATE REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON AND MAKE THEM AWARE OF OUR WATER PROJECT, AND THAT THEY INCLUDE IT IN THE WATER RESOURCE ACT, IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR FUNDING. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, AND THE BOARD AGREED THIS PROJECT MUST BE KEPT ALIVE. _ COMMISSIONER FLETCHER INQUIRED IF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS - USED TIRE CLUSTERS TO PREVENT THE BEACH EROSION. - COMMISSIONER WODTKE-STATED THAT -THIS -WAS NOT DISCUSSED, BUT THE CORPS DID MAKE A.RECOMMENDATION OF -PUMPING SAND. THE CHAIRMAN -CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED 4 TO 1, -WITH -COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTING I --N OPPOSITION.' - MAY 2 0'981 15 _'F 462`