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Board of County Commissioners Meeting Minutes - Final June 20, 2023 <br />Miles Conway, South Beach Property Owners Association (SBPOA) president, <br />was informed that $700,000 had been spent on Sector 7 for permitting and <br />monitoring. Mr. Conway then presented details of the SBPOA's communications <br />with its members who objected to the sand replacement for legal and <br />indemnification reasons. He advised the Board to approach the SBPOA, the <br />area's official civic watchdog group, if they wanted cooperation from that <br />community. <br />James Harpring, Indian River Shores Town Manager, requested the Board's <br />consideration for Sector 4 when allocating funds. <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Moss, seconded by Chairman Earman, <br />to approve staffs recommendation, with the additional direction to transfer <br />any available funds to either Sector 4 or to split the funds equally across the <br />other beach sectors. The motion carried by the following vote: <br />Aye: 5 - Chairman Earman, Vice Chairman Adams, Commissioner Flescher, <br />Commissioner Loar, and Commissioner Moss <br />12.G.3. 23-0529 Indian River County Lagoon Management Plan Project List <br />Recommended action: The LMP project list is being presented to the Board in order to highlight many of <br />the County's existing projects, as well as provide a list of the County's anticipated <br />future efforts aimed at improving the health of the IRL. The County's LMP <br />project list is also to be considered as a prioritized list of current and potential <br />projects for funding requests. In addition, staff is requesting the Board authorize <br />the Tetra Tech Public Outreach Workorder in the amount of $68,956.02 for <br />professional water resource engineering support services associated with <br />supporting County staff's development of the Indian River Lagoon Management <br />plan. Staff also recommends that the Board authorize the Chairman to execute <br />the Public Outreach Workorder. <br />Attachments: Staff Report <br />Indian River County LMP project list <br />Tetra Tech Public Outreach Workorder <br />Tetra Tech Workorder execution form <br />Conservation Lands Manager Eric Charest presented the Board with a Lagoon <br />Management Plan (LMP) list of prioritized projects for grant funding being made <br />available under the State's Indian River Lagoon Protection Program (Program) ; <br />the list was a follow-up to the Board's request at the April 4, 2023 BCC meeting. <br />Mr. Charest detailed his work with partner TetraTech to formulate a plan which <br />would satisfy remediation targets and maximize grant funds. He requested <br />approval of TetraTech's proposal to conduct a public outreach effort in order to <br />Indian River County Florida Page 23 <br />