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Maurice Sterling, Interim Director September 8, 2014 Page Three One place to start would be with the Mission Statement and goals and objectives of the present IRL-NEP. Is this the proper Mission Statement going forward? If not, what ought to be changed? How does this Mission Statement compare with the Mission Statement of the Tampa Bay E. P.? What is good and effective about the present Mission Statement? Have we even tried to measure our goals and assess our success and failures? What, in concrete terms is our mission for the future? What are our goals? It strikes me as putting the cart before the horse to discuss an inter -local agreement before we have discussed our goals and objectives and have at least an outline of a proposed budget. I would imagine that other members of our committee have similar questions. I think that a first step might to have our sub -committee meet in a way that fully meets Sunshine requirements to discuss these and other questions and concerns and then develop a path forward. I see no benefit to change simply to change without carefully considering our purpose and goals and objectives for the change." We have still not addressed these questions. I still do not see how we can expect that we will get a more positive result going forward if we do not address these questions and get a clear view of what will need to be done differently in order to get a different result. The two things I remember you saying are that the SJRWMD does not really want to oversee the IRL-NEP any longer and that the new organization may be more successful raising more money for the Lagoon. These may be the reasons but they are insufficient in my view. I believe that we need to have a much clearer, much better defined purpose for the new organization if we are to have any reason to believe that the new organization will be more successful that the old. 3. CCMP: It is clear from the draft Inter -local agreement that the CCMP is not only an important document but very possibly the foundation for any possible expectation of success with the new organization. Yet, we have never discussed it. In fact, you wrote in an August 20 email that the CCMP was "a bit long in the tooth". The inter -local agreement states: "The Parties agree the goals and priorities...for the Indian River Lagoon described in the CCMP and amplified in Exhibit A are approved and adopted". Why would we make the goals and priorities of the CCMP, which is "a bit long in the tooth" and has not led to success in the past, the basis of the new organization? This is irrational and setting the new organization up for failure. 158