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Frank Zorc, 1695 20`h Avenue, thanked Assistant County Administrator Baird for <br />attempting to get an answer to his question pertaining to the use of I -cent optional sales tax <br />on beach sand pumping. He read a paragraph from State law defining infra:,tructure as a <br />capital project having a life expectancy of 5 or more years. He questioned whether life <br />expectancy of 5 or more years was ever discussed by the Board with regard to sand <br />pumping. He has not gotten an answer and still wants to know how the County is able to <br />prove compliance with State law. He read from beach study reports and opined that <br />technical evaluators have not proven it. He asked that someone respond to him to show him <br />where his objection (failure of compliance with the law) to sand pumping is in error. <br />Vice Chairman Ginn specified that can be found in ATM's (our consultant) report <br />that all projects are expected to last at least 5 years and some as long as 8 years. She has <br />been to 3 beach & shores seminars where she learned that there is an equilibrium and <br />eventually the sand that washes out will wash back in; but when beaches are sand -starved <br />this will not happen. Vice Chairman Ginn pointed out that Miami is having a boom because <br />of their beaches but specified that maintenance is involved. Other examples sh a. cited were <br />in North Carolina, Amelia Island, and Boca Raton, <br />Mr. Zorc stressed there is a reason, Miami has an entirely different Nvave action <br />which allows it to last as long as it has. <br />Commissioner Adams understood the issue here is not the beach nourishment but <br />whether or not the $2 million falls within the legal parameters of expending the .i. -cent sales <br />tax for capital infrastructure. She advised it has been determined statewide That it does <br />which is the assurance she considered appropriate. She does not ask the State for written <br />evidence; if they consider it legally possible, that is all they need to tell her. <br />Bibble Irvin, Vero Beach, mentioned that the Melbourne sand has completely <br />washed away. The ocean is already swiping the sand from our project and the Ft. Pierce <br />March 11, 2003 <br />