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Maurice Sterling, Interim Director <br />September 8, 2014 <br />Page Two <br />On September 2 I sent another email outlining what I was looking for: <br />"1. Staff positions with salary and benefits similar to the TBEP sheet you <br />sent (see attached); <br />2. Basic financials with balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow statement <br />and cash flow reconciliation; <br />3. One sheet source of funds; <br />4. Given that the SJRMD is supplying a number of things of value, which <br />the IRL-NEP received the benefit of but did not pay for, that will <br />probably be needed by a newly reformed IRL-NEP, a listing of these <br />items with an estimate of their value." <br />It was not until your email of September 3 that you said this information was not <br />available. It would have been more helpful if you had simply said this in reply to <br />my July 7 email. If you had, by now we could have compiled the basic financial <br />information that is needed to move forward. <br />I will note that I never requested, as you write in your September 3 email, that I <br />may have wished "to see an exact comparison to the Tampa Bay financials," I <br />simply wanted the basic financial information that I expected would be readily <br />available given the size and scope of the IRL-NEP. <br />2. Goals and Objectives: In my July 14 email I wrote: <br />"I have Tampa Bay budget and finance information but do not recall receiving the <br />same for the IRL-NEP. <br />We have had no discussion as to why the present set up does not work the way <br />people want it to. What has not been accomplished that people hoped would be <br />accomplished? What could be accomplished with a new structure that could not <br />be accomplished with the present structure? What are the strengths and <br />weaknesses of the present structure that need to be addressed as we go forward <br />with a new structure? By contrast, what is it about the structure of the Tampa <br />Bay Estuary Program that suggests that it is the proper model for us on the East <br />Coast? <br />Evidently someone began this process believing change was necessary. It might <br />be useful for this person to collect his or her thoughts on 3 or 4 pages to help <br />give us a starting point. (Tomorrow I have the proposed IRL-NEP re -organization <br />on the agenda just to give my fellow commissioners a heads up. I am hoping no <br />one asks: "Why do you need to re -organize?" I could not properly answer the <br />question.) <br />157 <br />