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JUN 19 1985 BOOK 61 FACE 2,96 REPORT ON MEETING OF BEACH PRESERVATION COMMITTEE Commissioner Wodtke informed the Board that the Beach Committee met yesterday for seven hours and reviewed five applicants for consultants to do the Beach Management Plan. The Committee would like to pursue and negotiate with one of the applicants and have a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, kind of an application out of those five. He noted that the top applicant chosen was Cubit Engineering which has an office in West Palm Beach and a very large home base in South Carolina. They were basically the only company that.had done such a complete management plan, and, in fact, they did one for the entire coast of New Jersey. Commissioner Wodtke then discussed the presentations made by the various firms and commented on the great range of dollars the Committee was presented with - from the high 40,000's to 120,000. Cubit's estimate was between $80,000 to $120,000 to be done within 8 months. Some presented 5 months total framework. The Committee made a selection based both on a written test and verbal presentation as to the firm most qualified, but did not zero in on cost. All of the five,presentations were excellent. Commissioner Wodtke stressed that the scope of work needs to be fine tuned, and we need to think about funding. Commissioner Scurlock stated that he would like to authorize the Committee and staff to begin negotiations and would like to consider payment of the cost split over not only this budget year but also our next budget year. Chairman Lyons commented that he would like to have the con- sultant make a presentation for the Board and the public before we spend money as this is a major expenditure. Administrator Wright asked if the presentation should be before or after staff negotiates, and Commissioner Scurlock felt it should be after negotiations are completed. If negotiations with the first firm named are not successful, then negotiations would be commenced with the next, etc. 30