CAC Minutes 05/11/2023May 11, 2023
MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
Naples, Florida, May 11, 2023
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Coastal Advisory
Committee, in and for the County of Collier, having conducted business
herein, met on this date at 1 P.M. in REGULAR SESSION at
Administrative Building "F," 3' Floor, Collier County Government
Complex, Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
ALSO PRESENT:
CHAIRMAN: David Trecker
VICE CHAIRMAN: Joseph Burke
Steve Koziar
Thomas McCann (excused)
Jim Burke
Robert Raymond
Robert Roth
Councilman Raymond Christman
Councilor Erik Brechnitz
Andy Miller, Coastal Zone Manager
Colleen Greene, Assistant County Attorney
Farron Turner, Management Analyst I, Coastal Zone
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Anyone in need of a verbatim record of the meeting may request a copy of the video recording
from the Communications, Government & Public Affairs Division or view it online.
I. Call to Order
Chairman Trecker called the meeting to order at 1 p.m.
II. Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
III. Roll Call
Roll call was taken and a quorum of seven was established.
IV. Changes and Approval of Agenda
(None)
Councilor Brechnitz moved to approve the agenda. Second by Mr. Burke. The motion
passed unanimously, 8-0.
V. Public Comments
(None)
VI. Approval of CAC Minutes
April 13, 2023
Chairman Trecker said the minutes are very thorough, but he has three minor revisions:
• At the very bottom of page 5, on the last bullet, "Third phase, which tends to get
overlooked ... What about planning?" It should say plantings, not planning, and strike the
sentence after that.
• At the bottom of page 6 on the third bullet, it should say Bay Colony, not Colony Bay.
• At the top of page 12 on the second bullet, where it starts, "Less than a week ago ..." It
should say electrochemical, instead of electric chemical.
Councilman Christman moved to approve the April 13, 2023, meeting minutes, as amended.
Second by Mr. Koziar. The motion passed unanimously, 8-0.
VII. Staff Reports
Extended Revenue Report
"FY23 TDT Collections Revenue Report" dated April 30, 2023.
Mr. Miller detailed a PowerPoint presentation and reported that.
• The numbers are very positive.
• The gray shows we're over budget by nearly 37%.
• If you compare graphically to last year, at $8 million, this year we're just over $7
million.
• Compared to 2021 and 2020, we are quite positive, as far as variances go.
Mr. Koziar said that's not too bad considering how many hotels were closed, such as the Beach
Club and the Ritz -Carlton.
Mr. Miller said you're right.
Councilor Brechnitz asked about the various categories where it's over budget. Does the
balance go into reserves?
Mr. Miller said that's correct.
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Chairman Trecker we're still at a 37% positive variance, and when you look at the five-year
cumulative total, we're really in great shape there, too, so in the long term we're clearly doing
very well.
Mr. Roth noted that the blue line representing the budget is up a bit from the prior budget
because we had such a good year, but as far as this empirical data we now have and we're seeing
how far above budget we are, will the budget be increased for next year?
Mr. Miller said that will probably be discussed by Coastal Zone and the County Manager.
Obviously, this is not from the Coastal Zone, this is the entire TDC right now.
Mr. Roth said he's asking because we're undershooting some programs and things that
otherwise we could put on the books if we anticipate more income, which comes as a surprise.
Mr. Miller said that's a good point. Obviously, that would be assuming that things are going to
stay the way they are post -pandemic, but it's kind of an unknown.
Mr. Roth said unless we have another hurricane — and this one didn't make too much of a dent —
he believes this is a sign of things to come in Collier County.
Mr. Miller said he hopes so.
VIII. New Business
1. Executive Summary — CAC Vacancies
Chairman Trecker detailed the CAC vacancies and terms ending this month:
• There are four vacancies.
• One is for the City of Naples.
• One is for the City of Marco Island.
• Two are for openings in unincorporated Collier County.
• The candidates for Naples and Marco are vetted and approved by their respective city
councils.
• For those in unincorporated Collier County, we are being asked to provide guidance to
county commissioners.
• There are four applicants for two openings, himself and Mr. Burke, and two
newcomers, Kevin Johnson, and Gayle Repetto.
• He asked if there was further discussion.
Mr. Raymond moved to re -appoint Chairman Trecker and Jim Burke to the unincorporated
Collier County seats for the Coastal Advisory Committee for another term.
Mr. Roth seconded the motion.
A discussion ensued and the following points were made:
• All City of Naples positions are limited to two terms.
• There are no limits to county positions on boards. The term is defined, but not the
limits.
• City of Naples appointees/recommendations are limited to two terms. Mr. McCann said
he was term -limited.
• They are limited to four years and then each is reappointed.
• Marco Island has term limits for City Council, a term is four years, and they can serve
two terms, but there may not be limits for advisory boards.
• The appointees selected by the two cities are usually pro forma and recommended by
the CAC.
• The cities select someone from their respective city councils.
• The CAC makes its recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners for
approval.
• The county commissioners make the final decision on the appointments.
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Councilman Christman said he's supportive and comfortable with voting for the two, but going
forward, if we're going to have the role of making recommendations to the County
Commissioners, we ought to have a process that allows candidates to come forward and be
interviewed by us. That's what they do in the City of Naples for advisory boards. They're
interviewed briefly, in addition to submitting their resumes. From a process standpoint, that's an
appropriate way to do things.
Chairman Trecker said that was a very good point.
Councilman Christman said it's very hard to judge somebody. We know Chairman Trecker and
Mr. Burke very well, but for the other two candidates, we have two sheets of paper, so he'd make
that recommendation for future consideration.
Chairman Trecker agreed they can make that a future consideration.
Mr. Raymond noted that when he applied for the CAC, he had to go before the BCC and they
interviewed him. They interviewed everybody. That was his first time.
Chairman Trecker said he had to do that the first time, not with the commissioners, but with the
CAC.
Attorney Greene said she didn't believe committee members need to appear at the BCC meeting
anymore, but that may have happened in the past. It's not happening regularly. If we have a vote
and a recommendation from this committee, this item will most likely be a consent agenda item
for the Board of County Commissioners.
Mr. Raymond asked if it's up to the BCC to make that decision.
Attorney Greene said it was.
Mr. Raymond moved to re -appoint Chairman Trecker and Jim Burke to another term for the
unincorporated Collier County seats on the Coastal Advisory Committee. Second by Mr. Roth.
The motion was approved unanimously, 8-0.
Mr. Burke thanked the committee for reappointing him.
Chairman Trecker also thanked the committee.
2. Executive Summary — Humiston & Moore Engineers
Collier County Beaches and Inlets Annual Monitoring for 2023
• The recommendation is to approve proposal from Humiston & Moore Engineers to
provide professional engineering services for state -required Annual Monitoring of
Collier County Beaches and Inlets for 2023 under contract 18-7432-CZ for time and
materials not to exceed $78,532 and make a finding that this item promotes tourism
(Fund 195, Project No. 90536).
Mr. Miller outlined the proposal, telling the CAC.
• He apologized because he brought this to the CAC last month and it was incomplete.
• This is the same item, but adds a task to do the actual reporting.
• The tasks involved in the previous proposal had everything except the report itself, which
is what we need to make a recommendation for our future project.
He asked the CAC for their recommendation.
Chairman Trecker noted that the APTIM data, which shows a significant effort dealing with
hurricane repair, will be incorporated into this, so it will be one big composite report.
Mr. Miller said that's correct. That means it will provide a savings to the county because APTIM
has done the survey effort for them, so Humiston & Moore will essentially crunch the numbers
and come up with a recommendation on what they see as a necessary beach -nourishment project
for this fall or winter.
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Chairman Trecker asked if he's indicating that the timing for this publication will be sometime
this summer.
Mr. Miller said it will be as soon as they can get Humiston & Moore started and they have
advance warning that we need this expedited, so he's hoping to get it by mid- to late -summer.
Chairman Trecker asked if everyone understood that this recommendation is a follow-up of an
almost identical one that we approved at the last meeting. On page 3 of the accompanying material
it's spelled out that the $26,528 is added to what was proposed last time, making it $78,532. Are
there any questions, comments or suggestions? He asked for a motion.
Mr. Roth made a motion to approve a proposal from Humiston & Moore Engineers to provide
professional engineering services for state -required Annual Monitoring on Collier County
Beaches and Inlets for 2023 under Contract No. 18- 7432-CZfor time and materials not to exceed
$78,532 and made a finding that this item promotes tourism. Second by Councilor Brechnitz. The
motion passed unanimously, 8-0.
3. Executive Summary — Taylor Engineering, Inc. - Collier County Dune Restoration Planting,
Construction Plans, Technical Specifications and Bid Assistance Services
• Recommendation to approve a proposal from Taylor Engineering Inc. to provide
professional engineering services for the 2024 dune planting and exotic vegetation
removal project at Barefoot, Vanderbilt, Park Shore, Naples and South Marco Island
beaches for time and materials not to exceed $57,007 under Contract No. 18-7432-CZ
and make a finding that this item promotes tourism.
Mr. Miller outlined the recommendation and reported that.
• We're in the process of building the berms as we speak. The trucks are rolling and the
sand is being placed on the beach.
• We're in the process of bringing on Taylor Engineering to prepare plans for a future dune
planting project to reinforce what we're putting on the beach.
• We wanted to ensure Taylor Engineering got on board early enough to provide us with a
bid package to put out on the street and to determine the amount and location of the
number of plants, so we can get those growing for next year's planting, which should
occur right before the wet season starts.
• Taylor Engineering's proposal does not include post -design services, meaning engineering
during construction and the monitoring of the construction. That will be brought before the
board as a change order once we find out exactly how many plants are needed and what
the scope of the location is.
• That's not mentioned in this Executive Summary, but it is mentioned in the version of this
executive summary for the TDC and the BCC.
Chairman Trecker asked if the plantings would go everywhere the trapezoidal dunes have been
constructed.
Mr. Miller said right, that's the plan.
Mr. Roth said even if it says Taylor Engineering, isn't this really for landscape architectural
services? In the design of the plantings for the berms, we spoke about possibly allowing the
Naples Botanical Garden to have a role.
Mr. Miller said that's correct. To his knowledge, Taylor Engineering has a registered landscape
architect stamping the documents. You also will see in the proposal that they mentioned
coordinating with stakeholders as part of their scope of services, so that's all included.
Chairman Trecker said if you look at Task 1 under Exhibit A, one of the things they're going to
do is sweep in the recommendations of the task force, which includes representatives from Marco
Island and Naples. Recommendations are being made there, so those will all be taken into account.
It looks like it's going to be a pretty thorough job.
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Councilman Christman said he and Andy have spoken several times about the task force. He
knows the county is committed to bringing together a group of people that hopefully represent
HOAs and other resident groups, at least within the city, to work with Taylor Engineering. He
doesn't know about Marco Island. And it will include groups like the Naples Native Plant Society
and the Naples Botanical Garden and whoever else is interested in participating, so hopefully
people can be engaged and provide useful input.
Chairman Trecker said he understood that the timing is to have the design package in place by
late summer or early fall and then place the orders with the nurseries. It will take time for them to
grow all those plants. You indicated that the actual planting would begin to go in the ground next
April or May, about a year from now? That's the target?
Mr. Miller said that's correct. The intent is to get the plants in the ground and wait for the rains to
start falling, to keep them growing and healthy. That's the target.
Vice Chair Burke asked what the average top of berm elevation is for what they're putting in for
the emergency berms.
Mr. Miller said the one we're building is 6.0. NAVD. There are a couple of stretches on
Vanderbilt Beach where we needed to put more sand and we raised the elevation to 7.0 for about a
1,000-foot stretch, but all the others, from Doctors Pass to the Pier, are 6.0. That's the flat -top
elevation of the berm.
Vice Chair Burke asked if that's what it was before.
Mr. Miller said essentially, but obviously, it varied. On average, it was probably around 6.0.
Councilman Christman asked if he could explain how that elevation is measured.
Mr. Miller said the NAVD88 is a vertical datum that differs slightly from sea level. NAVD datum
is about one-half foot, maybe a little bit more, below mean sea level.
Councilman Christman said the reason he's asking is for the benefit of the public, so they know
when they're going on beach, they're not standing in front of a 6-foot berm.
Mr. Miller said the berm is essentially a couple of feet.
Mr. Roth said when you're standing in the water.
Mr. Miller said the berm is essentially a couple feet, maybe three feet higher than the existing
beach at the high end of the beach.
Councilman Christman made a motion to recommend approval of a proposal from Taylor
Engineering Inc. to provide professional engineering services for the 2024 dune planting and
exotic vegetation removal project at Barefoot, Vanderbilt, Park Shore, Naples and South Marco
Island beaches for time and materials not to exceed $57,007 under Contract No. 18-7432-CZ
and made a finding that this item promotes tourism. Second by Mr. Raymond. The motion
passed unanimously, 8-0.
VIII. Old Business
1. Update — Emergency Berm Project
Mr. Miller reported that the Emergency Berm Project is going quite well. The overall total
tonnage for both projects was about 400,000 tons, and as of today, both the north reach and the
south reach have both constructed 100,000 tons plus, so they're essentially 50% into the project
and we've got probably the rest of May and possibly mid -June until we complete it.
A discussion ensued and the following points were made:
• It will probably be mid -June before it's all wrapped up.
• No one has heard any complaints, so far.
• The Pelican Bay beaches look terrific.
• Pelican Bay and Vanderbilt beaches are completed and we're moving up to Barefoot
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Beach and will start hauling there on Monday.
• Naples Beach, from Doctors Pass to the pier, is complete.
• We're working on Park Shore, from Seagate back toward Horizon Way, and we expect to
be working from Doctors Pass back to Horizon Way sometime next week.
2. Status — USACE Project
Chairman Trecker told the CAC:
• Even though Coastal Zone Management and the CAC no longer have direct responsibility
for this, we retain a lot of interest. We have folks participating with the sureties and there
will be continual consultation with several of you.
• This is something we probably will want to keep track of as we go forward.
• The period for public comment has been extended to June 7.
• If anyone needs information about the contacts, he can provide that.
• The deadline for the selected plan has been pushed off to February.
• The deadline for the draft report was pushed off until April.
• The Army Corps respects the fact that there's a lot of interest and input and they want to
come to a consensus with the community.
• He asked Joe and Bob to explain their experiences at the charettes.
Mr. Roth reported his experience:
• He and Joe were there and were invited to the charette.
• There were two events and one wrapped up about two weeks ago.
• One was public participation in the environmental -review process that the Corps of
Engineers has to go through where they were scoping areas to ensure they had all of the
public's concerns considered as they embark on the environmental review for this process.
• Separate from that will be the design and incorporating the elements that they flesh out in
the environmental review.
• To begin the design, they held a charette and invited people. He was invited because he's a
CAC member. There also were representatives from Naples and Marco Island and they
broke us up into tables.
• There were six zones established in the prior study, so, at least for now, they stuck with
those six zones.
• Everyone was divided into groups, and he sat on Zone 6, the Marco Island Zone, along
with Justin Martin, the city's Director of Public Works, and Kelli (DeFedericis), the city's
floodplain coordinator.
• (Vice Chair Burke said he was on the Naples table, from Seagate down to Fifth.)
• Although you have the two civil engineers there that are not opposed to the hard
structures, the Army Corps got the point about desiring that nature -based solutions be
incorporated.
• When we were broken up into tables, we were asked to come up with ideas, such as,
"What would you do if this was your backyard?" We came up with some quite unique
things for Marco Island that would be nature -based. Some would be just a matter of
constructing a rip -rap jetty that would collect sand and form a new island that would
possibly inhabit itself or be planted with mangroves.
• Everybody was pleased with the outcome. He thought the Army Corps was pleased
because they got a lot of feedback from the group.
• They collected all of our papers at the end, and they've gone back to start crunching the
numbers, so they're working on it now.
Chairman Trecker asked if they got any pushback from the conservation groups.
Mr. Roth said they were there. When he says "they," he means the Environmental Defense Group,
which was behind some of the news coverage about hard floodgates. They prepared their own
renderings. Those did not come from the prior Army Corps report.
Vice Chair Burke said he didn't know that.
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Mr. Roth told the CAC.
• The group did a rendering of what could be based on what was described and initially
unfairly tagged as Army Corps plans and ideas. They did take credit in the upper right
corner. You could see a little where they did take credit for that to disclose that is where
these ideas came from.
• The Conservancy was also there and there were two schools of thought and they've
compromised in the middle. They have a better understanding of how the Army Corps
would deploy some of these almost last resorts where there wasn't an opportunity to create
a nature -based solution, especially the mouths of rivers, etc., where they may need walls.
• The other thing that was clarified, similar to pointing out the berm height being elevation
6.0, is when they were talking about these walls being elevation 12 or elevation 14. That's
because they were inland a little bit and that was relative to sea level. That was not a 14-
or 12-foot-high wall. It could be a 4-foot-high wall, so that's bringing back old concepts.
• The Army Corps is going to take a totally fresh look at this and that's to be seen in what
comes out in the draft report. They did allude to the fact that this project was a big bite and
they were not likely going to make the original August 2025 date. They've officially
extended that to February 2026 because it's a lot of work they've got to do.
Vice Chair Burke told the CAC about his experiences:
• The environmental NGOs were well represented there.
• The group that wasn't really well represented was the residents who would benefit or
suffer, so it's very important that we get community involvement without the spin or
misinformation being spread in the media, especially leading up to public meetings.
• Ray was on it for the Zoom call. It was pretty much dominated by environmental -type
people making very strict points and during the charette, it was a similar thing where
environmental, with the flood -gate impact, fish migration, is it going to change the salinity,
etc., so all of these issues are being brought up.
• Stopping flooding seems to be a secondary consideration for residents, which concerns
him.
• A few important points brought up by the Army Corps were that there is no special need or
request to have the Corps' engineering and nature team be on this project. Their
engineering and nature team did a presentation about what they do, how they do it and they
modeled it.
• He worked at an Army Corps lab many years ago and they've got an engineering and
nature lab set up in Virginia, or possibly Vicksburg, Mississippi, so they have a lab to test
the impacts of mangroves. They said there was no special need to request that.
• Michelle was pretty good about being very clear-cut and defined about saying they will
consider the nature -based solutions, but if the nature -based solutions don't meet cost -
benefit or are not shown to be effective, they will not recommend them. She drew the line
— and rightly so.
• (Mr. Roth noted that they did indicate they were more open to the idea and will vet them.)
• The other thing that was brought up involving environmental aspects is that the Corps is
going to propose something. This is more like an interactive process and we need to
somehow get involved with them interactively in vetting options. There are things the
Corps will do either from cost -benefit, technical feasibility or environmental.
• One of the issues that came up on Seagate has been an environmental issue of reasons why
we can't do things. If the Corps isn't going to pay for it, interactively we need to see how
we can tie in areas like Pelican Bay and Seagate into an overall plan that would be
administered.
• There's no way to do that if we're not actively engaged in that process, so we have Option
A, Option B or Option C that we can choose from.
Chairman Trecker asked if they're both going to be actively involved going forward on this.
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Mr. Roth said he hopes to for his own curiosity and what he believes he can provide as input.
Chairman Trecker said great.
Mr. Roth said another important thing is that Chris Mason (the county director of Community
Planning & Resiliency), who was here at the last meeting, will be heading this new department, so
he spoke with him. As of two weeks ago, he didn't have a staff, but he's hoping for staff and will
be the county liaison to the Army Corps of Engineers. He'll be really clued in every step of the
way as they advance through the design process. There's got to be a lot of communication between
those two. To the extent we can communicate with Chris, that would be important and maybe we
can hear from him some of the ideas that are coming out of this and comment accordingly.
Chairman Trecker said it certainly is going to be beneficial to all of us to have people like Joe
and Bob plugged in actively to Chris Mason's operation.
Mr. Miller said absolutely, he agrees wholeheartedly.
Chairman Trecker said to the extent we can do that, it will be beneficial.
Vice Chair Burke told the CAC.
• Numerous people there from the environmental NGO side have brought up a request for
this study to be expanded to include freshwater -inland flooding.
• The Corps discussed a few things relative to that and it's not currently part of the study.
The county would have to request that it be added to the study.
• He made a comment that it's important for everybody to understand that it's not part of the
current study. The existing model does not include it, so the modeling would have to all be
updated to reflect it. The Corps modeling engineer sat at his table and she made the point
that with the development going on in the county, it could affect the accuracy of the
inland -flooding model.
• (Mr. Roth noted that it's a moving target.)
• How accurate is an inland -flooding model going to be? He sees that as something that's
just going to delay advancing the project. It's not really in what he considers the Corps
design basis, which is coastal flooding, and his experience with (tropical storm) Harvey
specifically is that inland flooding does not affect coastal flooding, so he'd encourage the
CAC as a committee to make a recommendation that we do not expand this study to
include the inland study because it's going to open the door to a lot of other issues,
including what future development will be going on in the county over 50 years to get any
type of accurate outcome.
Mr. Roth told the CAC.
• Part of the reason also is that it may be just a layperson's understanding. They think we're
having a hurricane and it's raining, and we have to make sure that the water doesn't get
blocked on the backside of these structures trying to get out.
• Inland flooding is a totally different program that the Corps administers and has totally
different criteria.
• The two events would never really occur simultaneously. Sure, it's raining during a
hurricane and we may get a 100-year effect of some sort but they're really two different
approaches, so there's no reason to marry the two.
• We're really looking at coastal resiliency and coastal flooding, so they're cognizant of the
backside of the wall, but not that they're going to do a whole floodplain analysis as if this
were the Mississippi River basin.
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Chairman Trecker told the CAC:
• To get broad support here, Pelican Bay and Marco Island have to be included.
• Marco Island was completely excluded from the Army Corps' first go round, as was
Pelican Bay and part of the southern part of the Naples area, Royal Harbor and Port Royal.
• To get broad support, those groups are going to have to be included in some way, even if it
is for a supplemental count — or it's just not going to have broad -based support.
Vice Chair Burke said that's right. That's why it needs to be an interactive process with the
Corps, where these options are vetted in advance and we have some type of an agreement because
the whole thing, like with Seagate, in particular, going up to Pelican Bay, there's a relatively easy
solution. But there is an environmental rating reason or something that the Corps said is the reason
why they can't touch Clam Pass.
Chairman Trecker said there are still hard and fast cost -benefit criteria?
Vice Chair Burke said right.
Chairman Trecker said that's an inherent limitation. Any other comments or discussion on this?
Councilman Christman told the CAC:
• Joe referenced a conference call that was open to everyone and he took part in it. There
also was a scoping session. He didn't attend the charette because the city had five or six
people from staff there.
• The feedback he got from the city team was very positive in terms of the charrettes and the
substantive level of the discussion. They found it positive, refreshing and really good.
• Overall, the Army Corps has shown a number of different signs of wanting to approach
this study differently than they did the first one in terms of already stretching out the
timetable, including more public engagement and lots of other positive signs, which
helped significantly in terms of credibility in the community.
• Lots of people, at least in the City of Naples, after the initial study were saying, "OK,
show me that things are different."
• We need to remember that this is all still being done by the Corps according to Corps
formulas and rules. We'll be playing by the Corps' rules. He who has the money makes
the rules. We all get that, but he was part of another conference call organized by the
Conservancy (of Southwest Florida) with some people from Norfolk, where there's been a
similar project that's further along and they gave us their views, lessons from Norfolk.
• They urged us to make sure that locally, we get involved as early as possible. The
interactive point Joe is making is extremely important. This is an interactive process. He
really gets down to specifics, down to every stretch of beachfront to determine what makes
the most sense from the north end of the county to the south end and getting very specific
ultimately about that.
• The cost issue also came up in the Norfolk call. They made some interesting points about
understanding cost, not just at the front end, but ongoing O&M (operations and
maintenance) costs and what is the real commitment. Ultimately, that would be made
locally. We focus on this two -third, one-third business, but they're saying that anything
from an O&M standpoint is totally the local responsibility in perpetuity, so that's
something to discuss down the road.
• He's cautiously optimistic that things are moving in a much better direction. These
eminent civil engineers who sit to his left have educated him over the last year about
several things and we need to look at a so-called balanced approach.
• There's a lot of work that needs to be done.
Chairman Trecker said it's interesting to note that the Norfolk project that's being touted here
comprises almost all hardening, almost entirely. Any other thoughts or comments here? That's
very hopeful that there's a lot of interest here. Please keep us advised.
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X. Announcements
Chairman Trecker told the CAC:
• He was hoping Tom McCann would be here today. He wanted to thank him on behalf of
the CAC for his eight years of service. We want to thank Tom for his active involvement
and wise counsel over the years.
• He announced he will be stepping down as chairman. He and Andy have talked about this
for some time and four years of chairmanship is enough. That's the right amount. This is a
very good group and he's enjoyed working with a very productive group.
• We've accomplished a fair bit in the last four years and it's been a privilege to have
worked with you all, as well as Andy, his staff and with Gary McAipin before him.
• These people do a terrific job. They're really underappreciated. The things they carry out
in our inlets and our beaches are taken for granted and that's really too bad. It's been a
pleasure working with you.
• This is his last meeting as chair.
• Joe, our vice chair, will be taking over in June.
Mr. Burke said he's been an excellent chairman. (Others agreed.)
Chairman Trecker thanked them.
XI. Committee Member Discussion
None
XII. Next Meeting
June S, 2023, 1 p.m.
XIII. Adjournment
There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was
adjourned by order of the Chairman at 1:53 p.m.
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