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BOOK 109 PAGE <br />Vice ChahmanAdams commentedthatDirectorHubbs' staffwillbehavingto answer <br />most of the questions and Missimer will be responding to only two, including the modeling. <br />The model was used by SJRWMD to determine that in a particular year water withdrawals <br />may have an adverse affect on St. Lucie County. Missimer will use the same model to try <br />to come up with something different. If that does not work, then we will have to pay them <br />about $5,000 to justify the groundwater impact modeling. Her concern was that the original <br />response should have been correct. She would not support the motion because Missimer was <br />getting paid while staff had to do most of the answering. <br />Commissioner Grine also had some concerns about the same point. After having <br />spoken with Director Hubbs, she realized that much of this had occurred prior to Director <br />Hubbs taking over the Utilities Department and that the Brown and Caldwell projections <br />were way off in projecting the service area population at 170,000. She did not know what <br />those projections were based on, but the projections from BEBR (Bureau of Employment and <br />Business Research) at the University of Florida are used by the State for all matters. She <br />felt it wrong to chastise staff in this matter. <br />Vice Chairman Adams clarified that she was not chastising staff but felt that <br />Missimer was the problem and she did not want to compound it by continuing with their <br />services. She believed that they should have been using the BEBR figures from the start and <br />felt our staff is more capable than they are. She did not know what kind of experience <br />Missimer, as a west coast firm, may have had with SJRWMD in the past. She went on to <br />read some of the letter from Missimer to illustrate their scope of services under this new <br />work authorization. <br />The Chairman CALLED THE QUESTION and the motion <br />carried 3-1 (Vice Chairman Adams opposed). (Work <br />Authorization number 2 with Missimer International, Inc. in the <br />amount of $11,800 approved.) <br />JUNE 811999 <br />CONTRACT ON FILE <br />IN TAE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD <br />30 <br />