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IRL- NEP Inter-local Agreement Proposed Path Forward for Indian River County Bob Solari 1-13-15 1 believe that the proposed inter-local agreement for the new IRL-NEP can be saved. Not that it can easily be all that it could have been had it began as an open and transparent process with all involved doing the type of role up your sleeves work that it deserves, but that it can be saved. It can be saved with two substantial changes. First, a meaningful sunset clause, a sunset clause where in five years renewal comes back to each of the five county commissions. Where, as part of an open and transparent process the IRTL-NEP has to show what it has done in the past five years and what it will do in the next five years. This meaningful sunshine clause should be in the agreement because the citizens along the lagoon deserve it. They deserve to know as a part of an open and transparent process, how and why their money is being spent. Second, the voting parties need to be limited to the elected officers of the five counties. The regulatory bodies can stay on as parties, but the voting parties should be representatives elected by the people. Those who regulate us do not need a further vote in how we implement their regulations. In fact, the proposed inter-local dictates an absurd outcome: the agencies who regulate us will be allowed to decide on and vote on the projects which are to move forward, and the same agencies will then be required to permit those projects. We do not need to strengthen the Administrative State, those unelected agencies who control more and more of our American government and which do so outside of the public eye, to often with no public input and to often with no accountability. On the new IRL-NEP we need voting members who are elected representatives because that strengthens our representative democracy. Our responsibility to the people we represent is not to