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• approved it once but then it was denied by the State. Chairman Stanbridge noted there were others who wished to speak but reminded everyone this was not a public hearing. She asked the speakers to be very brief and to confine their remarks to the land swap issue. Kathleen Coley, Roseland, believed this proposal was being made to circumvent a previously rejected decision. In her opinion, it would not be an equitable exchange of property since it had already been identified as being in an already dwindling wetland area. It is also a recharge area for the shallow aquifer that runs directly under that area of the county. To begin a fill process to achieve a road bed would further erode and swallow up this most precious resource. She was advised that three scrub jay families have been identified in the general location with one nest right on the area proposed for swap. These scrub jays already are located in their minimum area for breeding. She was opposed to even a conceptual approval. Cye Carlson, Bay Street in Roseland, Chairman of the Roseland Neighborhood Task Force, advised that the Task Force is opposed to this project because the land is surrounded by residential and conservation. She advised that Pelican Island Elementary students were in the audience because of their interest in preserving the habitat of the scrub jay. Commissioner Adams asked if this project had been discussed by the Task Force and whether it was reflected in the minutes, and Ms. Carlson explained the Task Force meetings have minutes, but their workshops have all been taped and the opposition was noted in their letter which was accompanied by a letter of Community Development Director Robert Keating dated March 28, 2000. Several Commissioners indicated they had the letter. McKenzi Gye and Kaitlin Thompson, co -presidents of the Senior Ecotroop, hoped to not lose any more property from conservation. They urged the Commission to think about • January 15, 2002 89 �j1 sor