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Commissioner Adams felt that the beach committee would agree to that because it benefits tourism and recreation. Of course, the main goal of the project is to protect the shoreline. County Administrator Jim Chandler understood that the Town of Palm Beach reef project was done at a cost of $500 a foot. Due to the unknowns, we expect our project cost to be $600 a foot. Public Works Director Jim Davis advised that is just for construction costs and does not include permitting and monitoring costs. There were 3 permits obtained for the Palm Beach project. Mayor Smith felt that the Vero Beach engineering department probably could take on the monitoring. He hoped that the experience gained through the consideration of the sand pumping method could help us do this project in 12 or 14 months rather than 18 months. Chairman Bird understood that if w� stayed with the two cent tax, it would require a major reallocation of the Tourist Development Council's funding. Commissioner Eggert had two concerns, the first one being that we continue with a good program of advertising to attract tourists to happy Vero Beach and its beaches, and the second is not to slow down the beach protection project. She believed that everyone from the County f eels that the better solution is to go to the third cent. Apparently, Brevard County is going to a fourth cent which can be used to fund a sports complex. She felt it is important to go forward with this. Former Vero Beach city manager John Little understood that the State of Florida picked up a great deal of the monitoring costs f or the Palm Beach project, so it is probable that they would do the same for Indian River County. He advised that there are scads of drawings available that were done by the Army Corps of Engineers on the sand pumping project, and if that project had been done many years ago, it would have cost about $4 million. Mr. Little pointed out that the sand source for renourishment of the beaches was never acceptable. He strongly suggested that BSPAC take advantage of all the wealth of material that has gathered over the years. He felt we can have a good project by going from the fishing pier at the Vero Beach Inn to Humiston Park, but dropping out the section between the Spires and the south end of Conn Beach because it is not public property and we need some way to cut funds. If our information is correct that there is a great deal of down drift benefit from the PEP reef, that gap in the middle probably will fill itself. However, if you look at doing those areas, you are looking at $3.6 million, not $2 million. Mr. Little strongly suggest several courses of action: 51 L- JUN 2`4 1001 BOOK 89 P-nuF 947