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DEC 41985 felt we have to realize that our present fisheries in the river are not great and one of our deficiencies is information on our sea grass beds. We have an active committee working on this, but it appears that they have undertaken a tremendously big job. Commissioner Bowman suggested that possibly we could fund a research team to study these grass beds. Mr. Earman believed this could be done, but stated that it would have to be on a matching fund basis. The Chairman extended the Commission's thanks to Mr. Earman and Representative Patchett and assured them that we will be asking for these funds. DISCUSSION RE GROWTH MANAGEMENT LEGISLATION Planning Director Keating informed the Board that the Department of Community Affairs is going to have public workshop meetings this week and next week re some proposed rule making. He then gave the Board some background about the Bill that was passed, which is voluminous and deals with three major areas - comprehensive planning, coastal management, and D.R.I.s, Chapter, 380. Basically in this Bill the DCA was charged with developing rules for the Comprehensive Planning aspect by February 15th, 1986; so, they are on a rather tight timeframe and have sent out a draft of the proposed rules. The public workshop meetings will address these rules which will specify exactly what is to be in the Comprehensive Plan and what the County will have to do. Director Keating advised that the first draft was very heavy on inventory requirements which would have required a good deal of time and manpower in order to be able to comply, but he believed another draft, which we have not yet received, has reduced significantly the inventory and data requirements and is going more towards identifying minimum requirements in each of the Comprehensive Plan elements. What staff would like today is some direction on how the Board would like them to proceed and whether they wish staff to --take an active role in the workshop 60