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5, September 18, 2014 — By this time it was clear that the existing IRL-NEP had no meaningful financial information and no clue as to what its costs would be going forward. I invited the IRL-NEP Interim Director up to the County to try to develop some financial information. Budget Director Jason Brown and I met with Mr. Sterling, another SJRWM district employee, and, by phone, two members of the SJRWMD accounting department. (I would ask Jason to give us his opinion of that meeting and his opinion of the financial information available about the IRL-NEP.) I will note that Jason did put together a good set of pro-forma financials based on the information provided, which was ignored at the next subcommittee meeting. So, we have an organization responsible for roughly $1,000,000 in taxpayer dollars, reorganizing, for essentially one reason, to get a lot more in the way of taxpayer dollars. And neither the subcommittee nor the Advisory Board has had one meaningful discussion on a proposed budget, financial controls or how they will present financial information and account for taxpayer dollars in the future. 6. September 24, 2014 — Advisory Board Meeting. During this meeting the draft inter-local agreement was discussed, and importantly everyone at the meeting was told that they could suggest changes and make comments regarding the draft inter-local agreement. 7. November 19, 2014 — Second and last meeting of the subcommittee. The meeting began with me challenging the minutes of the August 18 subcommittee as inadequate because they totally failed to mention the first hour of the two-hour meeting. In just part, I said: "The minutes reflect that a discussion about the inter- local agreement took place, but nothing of substance is noted in the minutes that might be of help to any member of the IRL-NEP Advisory Board or the public, which would help them better understand the process and reasoning behind what was done by the design team," The first hour, of the August 18 meeting where I tried to generate a meaningful discussion about what I thought were essential issues was omitted from the minutes. At the November 19 meeting I read a long statement about problems with the process and the failure to address the duties that the Advisory Board had given to the subcommittee. This statement was essentially ignored and the meeting basically turned over to Carolyn Ansay, an attorney hired by the SFWMD to draft an inter-local agreement. Importantly, though at least eleven groups submitted comments, at the invitation of the Advisory Board, to the subcommittee, none of these comments were discussed. Instead, the discussion moved directly to Ms. Assay's version of an inter-local agreement. (Mr. Reingold attended that meeting, and I will now ask him to give us his recollection of how the meeting went.) 8. December 17, 2014 - IRL-NEP Advisory Board meeting. At this meeting there was basically a rush to pass an inter-local agreement for the new IRL-NEP. I tried to bring up a number of issues and problems and was basically told to shut