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M�� BOOK 944 ON MOTION by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Commissioner Eggert, the Board unanimously (4-0) approved the contract with Jarrmal &.Associates, Inc. with the understanding that the previous award did not meet with the requirements of CCNA, but the delay has caused a valid public emergency. LETTER OF COMMENDATION FROM THE SEBASTIAN INLET TAX DISTRICT COM. Chairman Wheeler asked that the following letter commending Public Works Director Jim Davis be made a part of the record: The Sebastian Inlet Tax District Commission 1900 S. harbor City Blvd, Suite 115, Melbourne FL 32901, (407) 724-5175 V. David Rowell, Chairman - J. Michnel Schram, Commissioner Charles Sembler Jr., Vice Chairman Thomas O. Lawton, Jr., Commissioner Richard G. Giteles, Secretary -Treasurer r��'�6171 �OCi Raymond K. LeRoux, Administrator May 19, 1989 R� 41gy19 N R 89 The Hon. Gary Wheeler, Chairman cm v Indian River County Board of Commissioncep RD Indian River County Complex �9pM4;1;. N 1840 25th Street Vero Beach, FL 32960-3365 s C-24 Re: Indian River County Public Works Department Assistance on Grading/Retilling Escarpment on South Shoreline at Sebastian Inlet State Park Dear Chairman eeIe The Commissioners of the Sebastian Inlet Tax District would like to acknowledge the enthusiastic assistance and cooperation of Jim Davis and his staff of the Indian River County Public Works Department in grading and retlliing a storm caused escarpment on the south shoreline at the Sebastian Inlet State Park. The Tax District had moved 100,000 cubic yards of sand to the beach as part of our "beach renourishment" program (to reduce the negative impact of the Inlet on down* drift beaches In Indian River County). After we had alreadi tilled the material and graded it, a 72 hour storm (a) moved most of the material toward the Wabasso area, but (b) created, as anticipated, an escarpment that might have had a negative impact on sea turtles. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Florid DNR departmental biologists were extremely concerned. Weturned to Jim and he immediately solved the situation. We believe it to be the first time the tax district, the state park, and county government cooperated as swiftly and effectively. In our minds, this is a premiere example of how various units of government can work jointly. The project was carried out with full cooperation from park management and our own consulting engineering people. We have asked our own staff to develop closer working relationships with county government, and think this project is one Indication that we have ever improving cooperation and lines of communica- tion. Although the scope was modest, we hope It Is a foreshadow of even closer cooperation in the future, when the county, the tax district and perhaps the City of Vero Beach begin to sit down and jointly plan the problems of beach renourlshment. 62