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M Commissioner Lyons inquired what the term "beach _ _ trimming" means, and OMB Director Barton explained that it involves taking a bulldozer out about 3' into the ocean and pulling the sand back on the dune line. He noted that the State of Florida does not consider this acceptable practice and will not permit it. In discussion, the Board members noted that the County already has established a policy in regard to requiring dune cross -overs, dune vegetation, etc., and about the only thing we have not done is make the construction setback line more restrictive than the State's. Since no representative of the Taxpayers Association was present, the Chairman accepted their letter to be made part of the record and asked Commissioner Wodtke, Chairman of the Beach Restoration and Preservation Committee, to report on the committee's recommendation. Commissioner Wodtke reported that a special meeting of the Beach Restoration and Preservation Committee was called after receipt of the phone call from Congressman Nelson. The Congressman had felt there was a commitment the project would be done and.that all that remained to be decided was how to raise the funds. If there was to be a referendum for or against the project, he could not recommend including the project in this year's appropriations budgets. This could set us back severely or even entirely eliminate the project from consideration. Commissioner Wodtke continued that our staff has worked diligently with City representatives and officials studying various alternatives for funding the project, i.e., what the cost would be if it were to be paid for by all the taxpayers in the county on a uniform basis through ad valorem tax, if the City assumed a certain level of participation, if an MSTU could be set up etc., and whatever form was looked at, it seemed we were looking at a 60/40 or possibly a 70/30 80 JUN 6 1984 BOOK 5 A FA,E 375