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This contract is dated April 18, 2014. Thus, before a "Design Team" was established, before in fact a "Design Team" was even discussed by the IRL-NEP Advisory Board, before the April 301h meeting where the Deputy Director of FIDEP said that he "wanted to float an idea", before in fact the Advisory Board voted to go forward with the reorganization of the IRL-NEP, some person or people, in some agency, decided what the outcome was to be, thought out how best to achieve that outcome and arranged for a consultant to be paid, initially $30,000, increased to up to $45,000, to reach that outcome. This explains why the "Design Team" was given only the Tampa Bay based inter-local agreement to discuss. It explains why attempts to have other issues discussed, like financial aspects of a new IRL-NEP, goals and objectives of the new IRL-NEP, mission statement, reasons why the prior model was unsuccessful, why numerous issues that one might rationally expect would be discussed if one was actually serious about creating a successful organization, were passed over with no discussion. What was the purpose of The "Design Team" charged, according to the September 9, 2014 issue of the SJRWIVID "Water News", with developing the "new organization's structure and path forward" and drafting the new inter-local agreement? At this time I can only guess that it was to provide political cover for some person or people who decided months ago that they wanted to change the direction of the IRL-NEP. 1, for one, would have appreciated being advised of this before offering to serve on the "Design Team". If I had been made aware that the dye had already been set, I would not have spent the 100 or so hours that I have on this trying to accomplish what the Advisory Board and others said that they wanted, an open and transparent board that would give local governments more control and was actually interested in returning the Lagoon to better health. Thank you for your patience and attention.