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OCT 2 8 1936 BOOK 65. FADE 277 Commissioners in various projects, this was just turned over to him last April after Mr. Wright had his differences with this Baard; he is just now getting the paperwork straightened out; and he does feel he is being put in a position of a no-win deal. If everything goes well, it is fine, but if not, he will be blamed. Mr. Thomas did feel, however, that he could guarantee that he could have foreseen that we would need bridges to get over a 50' canal. Commissioner Bird noted that we deleted the cart paths at the very beginning of the project when we saw we wouldn't have enough money and delayed making that decision until we could finish the project, see how much money was left, and determine how critical they were. Now it is decision-making time. He did agree the bridges were an oversight, but we thought we had taken care of them. We went in and, to the tune of about $20,000, deleted a lot of bulkheading that would have been very attractive and felt we could take that savings to build the bridges that were overlooked by the architect or engineer. That would have worked fine, but we got hit with some expenses we didn't anticipate, such as the traffic impact fee. When we get all the final numbers and can study this to determine what is critical to the opening of the golf course, we will have to come back to the Board and ask for additional funding. Commissioner Lyons commented that he is just asking who is "we" doing this planning. Is it staff or is it Mr. Bird and the architect or the engineer? Commissioner Bird stated that "we" is the team that has worked on this thing from the very be_ginning, which was himself and the Commission and the architect and the contractor and the staft. Director Thomas emphasized that he has not been with this since the beginning, and as a retired banker, he is uncomfortable with following any procedure that he does not perceive to follow guidelines as outlined. 77