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Alternative No . 2 Do not approve Emergency Purchase Order for mitigation work and use standard bidding procedure , which includes obtaining bids through advertisement . RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUNDING Staff is recommends approval of Alternative No . 1 with funding to be from Account No . 001 - 210 - 572 - 033 . 49 . ATTACHMENTS 1 . Requisition No . 46839 2 . Proposal, copy of Certificate of Insurance and copy of Pesticides License from Southeastern Chemtreat, Inc . 3 . Print-out of E-mail message from Brian Poole . Senior Planner, Current Development. to Robert S . Skok, Civil Engineer regarding a conversation Mr . Poole had with Jennifer Copy, St. John ' s River Water Management District. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Macht, SECONDED BY Commissioner Tippin to approve staff' s recommendation . (Alternative No . 1 ) . * Administrator Chandler advised that staff had revised their recommendation . County Engineer Christopher J . Kafer, Jr . , P . E . , explained that when this agenda item was submitted, staff had only a verbal notice from St . Johns River Water Management District that they would not allow the County to cut the trees , leave them in place , and then chemically treat the stump to kill it off. Since that time , written notice was received from Jennifer Cope of SJRWMD advising she would not accept that procedure . She asked staff to investigate a ` ` chipping " procedure where the trees would be ground down to a stump on site . He called on Brian Poole to explain the " chipping ' ' procedure . Environmental Planner Brian Poole advised there is one local company with a machine small enough to maneuver around the native vegetation . It is actually a chipper on a boom that goes down and covers the top of the tree and chips it all the way down to the ground . He has been told that roughly an acre can be done in one or two days . The cost, October 2 , 2001 96 y 1 J4 �