Audit Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome Welcome to the 03/19/2026 meeting of the Hideaway Beach Tax District Board. And almost happy spring even though it didn't feel like it earlier this week. Kristen, could you call the roll, please?

Member Barto?

Member Zinken?

Here.

Vice chair DeLauter?

Here.

Member Ramirez? Here. Chair Ryan? Here. And I believe we have attorney David Tulsis via Zoom. Is that correct, David?

Yes. Good afternoon, and happy spring.

Thank you. And I thought John Barto was going to be remote, but I think we didn't hear from him. Please let us know if he joins in the future. So I guess I'll just have a motion to approve the remote participation of our attorney, David Tolsis.

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Remote participation.

Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. First time excuse me? Okay.

Thank you.

Okay. The next item is the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. The next item is approval of the minutes.

Oh, the agenda.

Oh, excuse me. Approval of the agenda. I'm sorry. I was jumping ahead. Does anyone have any changes they would like to make to today's agenda? Okay. Then I'll take a motion for approval of today's agenda.

So moved. Second.

Okay. All in favor? Aye. The next item is approval of the minutes from the 02/15/2026 Tax District Board meeting. Does anyone have any changes they would like to make to the minutes as presented to us?

I do not.

No? Okay. All right. Then I'll I

make a motion to approve the minutes.

Okay.

Second.

Okay. All in favor? Aye. Okay. That motion passes unanimously. And we're gonna move on to old business.

And Madam chair Yes. Just for the record

Yeah.

On the agenda, it says minutes of February 15. But I on the first page of the minutes draft, it says February 19. Nineteenth.

Ah, yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, David.

So I just wanna make sure the record correctly reflects the date of February 19.

Yep. It is February 19 even though the agenda had it wrong. Thank you. That's a a motion to approve the minutes of 02/19/2026 that we approved. Okay. We're supposed to move on now to old business, and the first item on that is our Tiger Tail Lagoon Sand Dollar Island maintenance update from Mohammed Abiz, who I see walking in right now. And so you're up, Mohammed.

Mohamed Abiz, for the record. Thanks. Good timing. The project update this month is basically about six weeks following the last maintenance. And this winter, concurrent with our maintenance and following our maintenance, we had a few cold fronts, which as we expect and with all beach and berm restoration efforts, it's expected to have escarpments.

We've discussed the escarpment grading that we are planning to do in two to three weeks from now, hopefully after this current cold front that we're hoping it's the last cold front. So that is roughly scheduled to occur on the week of April 6. And that would also will be completed prior to turtle nesting season or early turtle nesting season, which starts in about April 14 is where we need to be off the beach completely. The condition of the beach, as you can see on the slides that you have in the area of photos that were taken in the February, I don't know why it doesn't advance. Martin, okay.

So now it is advancing. Okay, now it's working. So these areas show the current conditions and the entrance to the lagoon, hideaway beach and the bird habitat area, which was also part of our compliance, the treatment of the vegetation and making the area consistent with our compliance requirements. And then the another area of the north part of the berm and then the south part of the berm also showing the channel that was added to our maintenance this year to maintain flow between the north part of the lagoon and the south end of the lagoon to maintain the flushing of the lagoon and the water quality requirements for the area in general. And this item was discussed previously in the last meeting where that work was added to our initial maintenance work due to the conditions and the shoring of that area.

And while we had a contractor in the area, we kind of use the same unit trade that we were using in the project to get this distribution channel done as well. Following our project, we had a site visit by a group from the Florida Department of sorry, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which including their compliance department, their engineering department, their geology. And also, had the regulatory representative from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

They toured the site with us. And thanks to the city code enforcement patrol, we were able to examine the entire part of the beach using the patrol vehicles. And everybody was very appreciative of the city facilitating this visit. And you see the group of the state and federal officials that came to look at the work site. And that's all of them including the court enforcement and everybody was very grateful to the making this event happen and for them to see everything firsthand given that for a project of that magnitude and specifically this project receives a higher level of attention and all of them receive emails, whether it's praises or complaints.

So for them to see it firsthand, it was something that they appreciated and they are planning to come back as when circumstances necessitate a return visit. And while the Army Corps of Engineers representative was there, I took the opportunity to invite him to come and look at the Collier Creek entrance site, which is the current project for Collier County to construct a terminal structure right at the end of the hideaway property, a little bit to the south of Collier Creek and then redredging and redoing the alignment of Collier Creek is permitted by the state. The Army Corps of Engineers is still in the final permitting stages. So it was a good opportunity for the project manager at the Army Corps to come and see it. And we again, we appreciate the Tom Ryan and the Hideaway staff that allowed us access and access to the roof to look at the project.

And that's the another picture from that site visit. And as I indicated before, the existing terminal structure will be removed and then the structure will be moved somewhere closer to the boundary of the pool of the 6000 building. And we believe that, that structure will add another layer of protection to the Northeast End of the Hideaway Beach. And the anticipation is this project will be implemented by Collier County either later this year or early next winter once that permit is received. Collier County has reached out to us to facilitate a coordination meeting.

And I think there is a meeting with Collier County that is scheduled for on March 27, where Michael, myself and Ms. Ryan will hear from the county what their plans are and how we can coordinate this work between Hideaway and the county.

I might just interject, Mohamed. Because the Collier Creek project is on the Hideaway Beach erosion control permit that expires at the December 2027, I believe the state is going to provide an extension to that. But we also have to do the work as we've already approved with with Michael Poff and Coastal Engineering to renew that permit. So we need to coordinate closely with the county relative to the timing of our new application for that permit, hopefully to be after they get the Collier Creek permit. So we're working closely together, and so we'll be meeting with the county to discuss their implementation plans for Collier Creek and the timing of our submission to the state and the Army Corps of our new Hideaway Beach erosion control permit that also includes the Collier Creek stuff.

Does that make any sense? Okay.

So I think to kind of look at it from a higher altitude, the coordination between the county and the agencies and Hideaway Tax District is an instrumental piece of the management of the system, and we continue to coordinate with all the agencies. With the Collier Creek being managed by the county and sits at our border, it is another piece of that coordination effort that Ms. Ryan was discussing the importance of it as well. And finally, in this update, the excavation or the dredging of authorized distribution channel near the south end of the system was kind of scrutinized in some of the media. And as a result, the FOX four came on-site and did an interview of interviewed myself and some of the bystanders that were on the site to understand what the issues are about.

And it's primarily discussing the value of the circulation of the flow throughout the system and why this narrow distribution channel, while it provides a deeper water in a path of some waiting path that some park visitors used to use as a shortcut, the primary function of this lagoon and its continuity is to maintain the wildlife and preserve the quality of the system. And this distribution channel was part of our permit application and was part of our implementation to maintain the health and the viability of the system. And that was basically the report that was on FOX four, I think it was March 2 or March 3 this earlier this month.

If I might take a second, Mohammad. Martin, apparently, John Barto is in the waiting room to join us and has been unable to join. If you can help with that, I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. You can go ahead, Muhammed.

And I think that concludes my update presentation for the project this month. And as I indicated, we plan to do the the escarpment treatment early April in time for nesting season. And I have two following items or

Yes. Just make a couple of comments. As I said last time, once we have a final date for the escarpment work, please let me know so I can coordinate with the association to let residents know. And, also, we've discussed the timing of this escarpment renew removal with the association, and this will be the week after Easter. So it should be a better time.

We didn't wanna do anything during the busy Easter visitation period. So that and the other thing I just wanted to comment on because I was aware of some of the details, you mentioned the work that Terrell Hall did to prepare the bird nesting area at the tip of the spit. And I think we often go through that too quickly. They they reduce the amount of vegetation at spit at the spit according to our permit requirements. And the purpose of that is to so they have fewer places for predators to hide as the birds nest there.

And secondly, she removed, I think this year, 55 gallons of those little spurs that attach to people as well as birds that are a threat. So I just wanna thank Terrell Hall for the work they did there.

Mohammed, I have a couple questions. When you're up on the roof of the 6000 Building, did the gentleman from the Corps of Engineers indicate when he would get around to issuing the permit?

I think what he indicated it is on next on his priority list. So he would and that's why once I realized he's working on it and he I invited him to join the tour of the Tiger Tail Sandalarion project. I figured it's a good opportunity to show him the site and have it fresh in his mind when he's writing the permit so that everything will be more streamlined. And he was very appreciative of it and he indicated that he's planning to get it done sometime early this summer, hopefully.

Did you point out to him, I hope that showing him with the passage of time what the adverse impact has been on the beach closest to the pool?

He's aware of the history. He's already finished the reviewing. It's just a matter of like writing the permit and he's got all the consultations from other federal agencies that are needed to do the permit. And as I indicated, he made he made his the position clear to the county and that's why the county reached out to us so that we can do the coordination as early as later this month, so that when they plan to spec the project, it is consistent with not just what's in the permit, but what is actually current because that permit application went in, I believe, in 2021. And condition we had a couple of storms and we had changes in the sand disposal areas and all that.

And also as part of coordination with the federal agencies, one thing I forgot to mention is the Jacksonville district reached out to me to get information about the disposal on Sand Dollar Island for material that they may dredge from the federal channel between Marco and Naples. And I did provide them that information and it's an ongoing planning for the Army Corps. Currently, this current project, which was completed earlier this year, they dredged the portion of that channel towards Naples, and they're now working on permitting the final part of it to towards Capri Pass and the navigation channel at their big Marco River. And their plan is to use our beach area as part of the disposal for beach compatible material.

I'm curious, did you get any feeling as to the timing of when that may occur?

The timing that they're aiming for is 2027. So that would be maybe November 2027, but that's also a function of them finishing their plans and specs and getting the water quality certification, which is the EP permit. And I did discuss with them the timelines as well and we'll continue to coordinate with them.

And then one final question. When you were meeting with them out on Sand Dollar Island, did you get any positive or negative feelings from the various folks?

Everybody that was on the field trip, whether it's the Army Corps, DEP with all their departments, were very appreciative of the effort that the city took to restore and enhance the lagoon and the system. And the only comment was how often do you need to maintain it? What are your sand sources? And of course, the agencies don't get into the funding mechanisms of things, but they were mainly asking of when do you need to do this again. But overall, I can say with certainty, it was 100% positive.

I did not hear from the six federal and state official, I didn't hear anything that was negative or critical. It was all curious, inquisitive, and to the extent that the the senior engineer from or the senior geologist from the Engineering and Geology Department from the state was very appreciative that she brought some of the junior staff with her. And she said that project provide a very good example for their newer staff as training, as understanding the coastal system and how restoration efforts are essential to maintaining the coastal system.

Thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions at this juncture?

No.

Okay. I'd to go ahead to the other item, Mohammad.

The next item is Martin, can you put the proposal? So we have two proposals that for the first one is yes, this is the proposal that I discussed in the last meeting at the time of just receiving the as built surveys and quantification of the post project and the additional volume that was dredged to for that distribution channel was 2,550 cubic yards at the same rate that the EarthTec was doing for the maintenance that was preapproved. And that comes to a total of $38,250 And this item will need to be added or amended to the open PO for Air Tech. And I believe that we discussed that last time and Justin asked me to get this item in front of you this month and then it will get to city approval after that.

Okay. And with this additional amount, it's we're still under 200,000 in terms of the construction work by EarthTec?

Yes. Would bring the total of the PO to somewhere around 194, 193, 194, I'm not exact of the amount, but it will be less than the 200 and that amount is also less than 25% of the original PO.

So and it's still within our budgeted amount for annual maintenance?

Yes.

Okay. Thank you.

So do you need a motion from us to send it on to the city council?

I would say the motion would be to send it on to the city for approval. I don't know whether it's it's gonna go it would go with the county procurement system, but

I I think we just need to approve it. Yeah.

You approve it for the city, Towa. Correct.

So do we need to make a motion I'll make a motion to approve the additional expenditure to EarthTec for $38,250.

I'll second it.

Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mohamed.

The next item is for Michael Puff, and he's not here. So he requested that I present this item in front of you since it is basically the cost of one survey for the Sand Dollar Island project. Initially, I brought this item last meeting, if it was possible to use the contingency in the survey to do this survey for the permit compliance. But the discussion kind of went to a direction where this has to be brought in its own. So I'm going to submit the compliance with the surveys, the survey work and the LiDAR remote sensing data that we collected.

And then we'll if we can get this approved, it will be one day, one pre approved survey. So if in the summer, if we get hit with a storm or we need a survey following a tropical system, it will be already approved. So it would be another contingency. So we would like to get the Board to approve CEC's additional survey for Tiger Tail and Sand Dollar Island for the amount of $9,806 to as an additional item to the survey that CEC will do this summer.

Okay. Martin, could you put up the previous slide that is a summary of Coastal Engineering's proposal? There we go.

No, not that one.

No, that's the wrong one. No. There should be another page. Or maybe it's the next

There we go.

There's one that that one. That's the one I'm looking for. And then if you yeah. Okay. I think what's happening here is that there's a possibility that post construction from the recent maintenance work that we may need to do a survey.

We're thinking we don't. And there's also the possibility that in the summer, if we had another hurricane, we might need to do a survey. So I think Coastal Engineering and Humiston and Moore are recommending that we approve an additional survey on a contingency basis. So my suggestion in terms of emotion is that like we did on a piece of the survey we approved last month, that we approve a not to exceed amount for an additional sand dollar tiger tail survey and give the chair discretion to go ahead with that if conditions warrant it this summer. We had a contingency in the last survey proposal that we approved last month.

That contingency is a little less than this amount is one point. And the second point is we didn't make clear that we could use that contingency for a tiger tail sand dollar survey. That contingency was if we needed to survey the near shore borrow area. So this is a different contingency. So I'm not expecting to spend either of these funds.

And so we would we would we would commit it on our books, but we would get the money back at the end of the fiscal year. And I'm I'm comfortable with that, but it gives us the flexibility, particularly this summer, if there are events that happen that would then require an additional survey that we can go ahead and do it without calling all of you back in to meet to approve a less than $10,000 survey item. So

How would you like to make the motion?

So so I I'm suggesting, like we did last time, you do a not to exceed motion and provide the chair discretion to have Coastal Engineering execute this survey if conditions or situation warrants it.

Alright. So I'll make a motion that the carriers authorize to spend up to $9,806

Mhmm.

For a survey, a supplemental survey with CEC should conditions warranted.

For Sand Dollar Town?

For Sand Dollar Island. Okay.

Alright. I second. Alright. Is there any further discussion on that?

I don't have any.

Okay. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mohammed.

Mhmm.

We will allocate those funds as part of our

Open open purchase orders. Purchase orders. Right. That's correct. Okay. The next item on the agenda is item 6C, the annual biological management report from Terrell Hall. And we have Marielle Lejune de Lestang to present a summary of that. Welcome, Marielle.

Hi. Oh, this slideshow is not on here. Okay. All right. Is it is there a slide presentation? I sent one. Maybe it's at the end of this.

I think they had two items attached. One was your whole report, which is lengthy. And then I believe in the most updated agenda, we had attached the

Today.

The shortened version. Is that correct?

Okay. The executive summary. Okay. Okay. Sorry, I thought I had sent a slide presentation.

No, you did. You did. You should have that.

Oh, okay.

Is that not coming up?

Somebody's doing it. I don't know.

Mohammed, can you assist her? Thank you.

Well, it's moving around, so I think somebody else

not the presentation. It's the no. That's the that's the executive summary. No. The the presentation that I sent on Monday, is it

It should be where?

I didn't say it either. Is this a touch screen?

I thought it was on 03/16. It had an updated Yes. Agenda and a separate one Yes. Attachment to Muhammad.

Yes. No. I did send a presentation Mhmm. Yeah, on on Monday Mhmm. To Martin and you. Mhmm.

And she sent it all on to us.

Mhmm. But

that presentation

is

not That one says original. The one that says update should be the correct one.

Where is that?

Okay. We'll hold for just a minute while our technicians get the correct presentation up for Mariel.

Mohammed, do you want do you want mine? I can give you my computer. For To get it up on the screen. Okay. I suppress with the oyster beds.

Madam chair, they're they're asking for five minutes to be able to Okay.

Barton tried calling me at 01:41. Yeah. You want me to call him?

Uh-huh. He texted me. He was in the waiting room. So

k.

K. Yeah. K. We have your slide now, I think.

Yeah. Okay. Marielle Najandeletang with Terrell Hall and Associates for the record. So this past year, the we'll just start with this emerged aquatic vegetation survey. As you can see, the north end, it's expanding. So there's good news up there. Every time I go, there's a ton of little paddle grass growing. So there's it's expanding. There's more oyster beds coming in at the very north end where the red is. And in between the two beds at the north end in Zone 1, also Oyster, and it's expanding as well.

So that was kind of good fun news this year. It's expanding right out to the edge of the channel. And so there was, let's see, 14 acres in Zone 1 versus 10 almost 11 acres previously. So it's it's it's good news. There is a little bit of well, it's a macroalgae growing in there that's it's kind of everywhere in the system, and it's I'm not sure what the what's driving it.

I've been looking at some research, but there's not much on it. I I do know that this macroalgae has kind of taken over some of Matt Lachey Pass and some of Charlotte Harbor. Some people are looking at it above me for sure. And so I'm kind of trying to get ahold of them and see what they have what kind of information they've they've accumulated studying that since hurricane Ian. It started right after hurricane Ian.

So and, you know, and I think I've I think a lot of our, you know, reduced seagrasses are from Ian, both water quality wise and from, you know, sand. So Zone 2, which is over by the the picnic area, there's still seagrass over there. It's it's moderately dense down there, kinda near where the launch area is. It's always been very, very sparse and sporadic north of that anyway. This whole area, as you remember, in 2024 was covered by sand with that big breach.

So, the fact that we have seagrass at all is kind of amazing. It's in it was in good health, and I will expect that it will spread now that it's sort of stabilized in there, and there's different elevations. So I'm kind of hoping this year that that that will that little orange bed down there will expand. And then as we went further south, you know, all that area has been collapsed and re, it's done this. So with sand.

So from from Area 2, Zone 2, almost down to the bottom of Zone Threes, it's just, you know, struggled with storm damage. But Zone 3 itself, the bottom, is still doing okay. I considering how much sand is there now and how much the substrate has changed since hurricane Ian, it's probably come up a foot or two in elevation. As Mohammed noted, there's a lot of pedestrian traffic on the seagrasses now, unfortunately, because it is no longer it's no longer muck. And so people are walking across there, which is not a good thing for seagrasses.

But now with the new distribution channel that should, hopefully really reduce the number of people. Utilizing that area. We're we're hopeful anyways. The seagrasses are mostly as you can see in the orange up against the the mangrove shoreline. And they were doing fairly well. Some places, were a little more sporadic. In some places, they were nice and dense. So we'll we'll just have to see how that goes with the cold fronts and and all the people last year on them. So I'm hopeful.

I just make a couple comments. I just, again, wanna thank Mariel because as I understand it, you swim all of these transcripts

Oh, yeah. Transects to

get all of this data. She does it in the summer. The conditions are often quite hot while she's doing it. So I want to thank her for the effort she does to identify every single little grid of seagrass that we have to report to the state. Yeah.

Secondly, as I look at this data, Marielle, I see that we had more seagrasses in 2022, which was prior to our Prior to project Ian. And prior to hurricane Ian. And then you see in 2023 a significant drop, which is the impact of hurricane Ian Mhmm. Which occurred before our project even began.

Even started.

And then you go on to '23 or '24, and the '24 data, correct me if I'm wrong, Marielle, is before we had tropical storm Debbie and hurricanes Helene and Milton. Correct.

It was before all those.

Okay. So the the impacts of tropical storm Debbie and Helene and Milton are what we are seeing in the 2025 data that you are reporting now. Is that correct? That's correct?

Yeah.

I just wanna be clear about that.

And I

mean, in in overall, if you count all of the zones, you you have an actual increase, which is pretty amazing considering that, like you said, this is post

Right.

All those storms. So so zone one and zone four, there was actually an increase.

Mhmm.

So that's, you know, that's kind of amazing to me, and it's Right. It makes me feel a little hopeful.

Right. But if we don't have any more hurricanes, we might Yeah. Might get

some more seagrasses. Kinda keep it calm for a couple of years would be great. So, yeah, so there's not you know, there's the seagrasses, not so bad.

Can you comment? I see there's oyster beds also in Zone 2.

Oh, yes. There is.

About Yeah. They what that means? And

It it's just it's it's know, oysters are filter feeders, so good for water quality. There's a lot of little organisms that hang around there. It's food for wading birds. There's all kinds of great benefits to oysters. And they are also like the ones up in Zone 1. They're spreading. So that used to just be a couple of spots here and there, and and it's definitely spreading. So it's good. And it it's not in a place that it would, you know, bother anybody either. So so that's all good news. Yeah. Okay. Berm data. Okay. So we treated after the survey of what we needed.

The vegetation, you know, ideally, you want it to be less than 10% cover for the the birds to nest and to feel safe from predators. So we treated chemically 5.39 acres of vegetation at the north bit kinda down to the Northern End of Zone 1. That's once you have a bunch of equipment messing around on the berm, any vegetation that you had to worry about is kinda gone. So we didn't have to do anything on the berm, luckily. So everything's sort of just on the north side of that and and in the north.

But so we chemically treated that. And as you had mentioned, we also hand rolled sand spurs the day before they treated. We got 55 gallons. They only had one roller, so one of our people hand rolled, and then I would hand pluck them out myself. So between the two of us, we filled a giant garbage bag full.

So suit so the permit also requires us to have every spring at the start of nesting season, four to six acres of suitable nesting habitat at the North Spit, which is why we were doing all the chemical treatment and the sand spur removal and stuff. So at the time at at the beginning of the 2025, we had 7.34 acres of suitable nesting habitat. So way more than we actually have to have, so that was great news. Other areas on the berm, that was almost 13 acres of additional suitable nesting habitat. So that isn't required by permit, but it is just good news for the birds.

And then so sea turtle nesting this year actually was pretty good. There there was 82 nests total. Of the eighty two eighty two, 47 were on our constructed berm, four were on the sand spit, and 31 were, like, immediately adjacent to the berm, but within the project influence and within the park too. So yeah. So there was quite a few this year.

And then 36 were of the 82 were considered successful, which is a forty four percent success rate. We're you know, they're always hopeful that we get a forty percent success rate, so we're above what DEP hopes we would get. So that's really good news for this the turtles too. There is some predation out there. Twenty seven percent, unfortunately, of the unsuccessful nests were due to predation.

Mhmm. Who? What? For coyotes, fish crows. There there's also some unleashed dogs near some of the nests that nobody identified as harming them, but, you know, it's not obviously good news for nesting birds to have dogs running around. So

Mariel, I read somewhere maybe in your report that some turtle nests had a cage around them to

protect them. Is that

something we're doing more of or should do more of?

So I I had a conversation with the turtle people that do the monitoring every day during season. They they told me after Ian that the coyotes learned that they could dig up the newly laid nests and eat the eggs, which that was not a behavior they had previously. So they've learned this, and I've heard from other biologists that they're doing the same thing in other places as well. So they will cage the nest periodically so that that doesn't happen. But

Can they do more of them?

Or

I do all of them if I could.

It may be a matter of funding because I you know, like I said, there was other from what I hear, that that's becoming more of an issue up and down the coast. So it just may be that they only have x number of cages.

And that's the Collier County turtle?

That's Collier County. Yeah. Mary Toro is the nest holder permit nest holder, but then, you know, she has a a team of volunteers that do this every single morning. So Okay.

Yeah. Idea what those cages cost?

I don't, actually. I can stop and ask them next time they're

Yeah. Maybe we ought to at least find out the cost.

Yeah. And under and understand from Mary what are what's holding us back Right. About protecting more of these nests. Because, you know, the coyotes Yeah. For both the birds and the turtles seem

to be

an increasing problem. And since thus far, USDA has been unable They to tried. They tried, but have been unable to successfully control the coyote predation that that we need to seek other means to protect the nests.

Will I will reach out to Mary.

We get Markle's enforcers on the dogs?

Yeah. When I was speaking with FWC on out there, I think it was when we were doing the escarpment removal, she told me that she will see them on the boats. They'll be, you know, beached, and and she'll tell them, do not let your dog off the boat. And she'll turn her back, and they left the dog off the boat. So so that's right in front of FDC.

Code in for if code enforcement were out

there, we can do something, that would be great. I don't know. It's ridiculous.

Do we know our beach, but they

don't really they're good. I appreciate them, but the dogs aren't the issue on our beach. They're on Sand Dollar Island.

Yeah. That well, that's where all the nesting is. It's not

Yeah. Exactly.

Right. So

Justin, does code enforcement patrol all the way down the spit?

They do as far as their pickup trucks can take them, but I don't think they're actively looking for, you know, these predators.

Okay. Did we ask them to?

Yeah. But I don't think that's in their I mean, they could note an observation, but they're not gonna be

Well, I'm I'm on the dogs. That is

not not coyote, the dogs.

Dogs.

People's dogs off the boats.

So I I know they're a limited resource, then they're not out there always. But Yeah.

Settle on.

If we can alert them to the fact that we're having issues with occasionally, with dogs on the beach and ask them to to address that. Right. The other thing, Mariel, is I don't know if we can get FWC to put additional signage out there because most of their signage is on the northern part of the spit and in the middle part of the spit. I'm not sure there's any signage. Yeah.

I think, yeah, I think the the the middle part of the spit's been kind of a little bit unstable. Yeah. So it's not they haven't put anything. But, yeah, maybe we can Yeah.

If there's a suitable place

some signage.

I would certainly Okay. I would certainly recommend that FWC put additional signage because they are using that part Yeah.

The boats come all the way down as far as they can And

obviously, signage doesn't always stop them. But for anyone who doesn't know, the

signage Right. Is would education. And like you said, some people will actually pay attention, hopefully. Yeah.

Can I

ask a question about installation of those cages? How's that done, and what's the cost of that also? Is it volunteer? I would

It's all volunteer. It

is all volunteer?

Yeah. All of those people that you see out there every single morning during turtle nesting season are volunteers. Them. It's free labor. But they do a good job. And, I mean, they're very passionate about it as well.

So Well, I think the main thing is to find out from Mary what else could we do and, let her know that we're completely supportive of additional steps we can take to protect those nests from predation.

Okay. I will have a conversation with her. Okay. So we covered sea turtles. Oh, shorebirds. So there were some nests this year. They were Wilson plovers. There was nine nests identified, 20 eggs, and 16 chicks hatched. There was a little bit of predation. We don't know I'm not sure how many chicks actually survived to fledge, but at least at some point, there were 16 chicks.

Let's see. And then the other issue with the shorebirds is humans leaving trash, which draws in the crows. Mhmm. So the crows love to attack the little chicks. So And then

signage and education would help us

do that. Yeah. People would just you know, if they put trash on the ground, pack it out. Okay. So and Groves. Okay. The northern the northern portion zone one, all the mangroves in there, they're still healthy. They're short they're lower in elevation, but they're surviving, thriving, doing well. The areas where we had issues, you're all aware of. It's basically from the picnic area south to Plot 10.

This was the area that where the breach was, so a lot of sand piled up. There was some erosion. So Plot 7 isn't terrible. That's actually in the picnic area, but it's it it did get degraded a little bit. Plot 8 was actually totally buried and was sand from the breach, so I shifted the plot over to the actual mangrove shoreline a little bit more to capture those and how see how the health of those.

Plot 9 is part of the replanting that we did. You're all voted to to put some buttonwoods along there. We we removed as much sand as we could. It's still a little higher than it was prior to the hurricanes, but so we put buttonwood instead of mangrove, hoping that they would survive. Prior to the 50 mile an hour cold front that we had earlier this year, they were doing very well.

I think at that point, we had lost maybe 20% at the most. We had a lot of trouble hand augering those guys in. We put in let's see. I think where did I say here? It says that we installed 332 green buttonwood, 38 mangroves, and we did 779 plantings of mixed pallet over in the in the picnic area.

So so some of those were along the shoreline. Some of them were a little bit more landward, but there's quite a few plantings. Now they were doing like I said, after the storm, there was we probably lost another maybe 10% to leaning, but then we had all those cold, cold, cold days, and some of them turned brown. And Tim's gonna talk to you after me hear about that and how they how they did and his recommendations. But the remaining plots going south with the exception of 14 are still doing very well.

So 14, we actually had to remove about three feet of sand and covered it after the 2024 storm season. So we scraped it down. We removed the dead mangroves. And since that time, they're both Tim and I have looked at that, and the mangrove seedlings growing in, there's about 12 10 to 12 seedlings per meter. So they're finally coming in, a little slower than I thought they would, but they're they're getting there.

And they're, yeah, anywhere from six to eight inches tall right now, so they're little guys. But they're they're coming in, so I have a a, you know, I'm I I feel like the summer, you'll you'll they'll probably be about a foot tall, and you'll really be able to see them more if you're standing on the berm.

So And that was in which plot?

That's 14. 14? At the North End of Zone 4. That one's kind of a tough one because it faces the Gulf, and every time there's any kind of overwash there at the berm, it it just, you know, the sand just goes straight into that little pass. So Okay.

And if we didn't have the berm, it would be even worse

because Yeah. The whole island would be gone right there. Yeah. Okay. So so that's really about it in terms of the mangroves with the exception of the ones that took a direct hit. They're all doing very well. And this is a little picture of the the habitat restoration that we did there at the picnic area. And then same thing with the you could see Plot 9 in 2024 after the storms had undercut and buried it. It was kind of a a dual action hit there. But you can see here all the the nice buttonwoods that were installed.

And like I said, they were looking really good for a long time. And then there's the little seedlings that are growing there in Plot 14. And as you can see, it looks very bare. If you walk up to it, you're not looking like, you know, like that. It looks very bare, but there they are. They're there, and they're growing. And it's mostly black and white mangroves, but there's a few reds as well. So and with that, I will answer any questions. And then Tim is gonna do water quality and maintenance.

I have two questions. The first one is you talked about a new distribution channel for the park. Where That is

is that little southern channel that Mohammed the the very end of the of the project here recently.

Close to

Yeah. To it's actually kind of goes into the park from from your guys to the park. Okay. Yeah.

And the other one is, I don't recall on the oyster beds after Irma. I don't recall that we had any oyster beds.

There was

Actually, in Zone 1. That's is that fairly new?

Yeah. There was there might have been a couple of little, like, that big. Yeah. But You do. I've been just watching them every year. They're just expanding and expanding, which is kinda surprising because it's it's on the shoal, and the boats have a tendency to get stuck on the shoals. Yeah. So I'm really surprised that they're doing that well, but they're expanding for sure. And they're really dense at the very north end of Zone 1, at the north end of that bay. I think the boats don't get in there. So yeah.

But that's a good thing.

It's a good thing. It's good for water quality. It's good for everything.

Good. So Thank you very much.

Are there any other questions?

And thank you for all your hard work on this. We really I know it's a voluminous report that

you have to provide to

the state. And That's alright. It's We greatly appreciate your work on this. Thank you. And I thought the executive summary this year was was very clear and well written.

Thank you. Thank you.

Well, thank you. Do a great job for

us. Thank you. Appreciate it. I

I would reiterate that Mario does all of the hard work. I just get to walk around out there and enjoy the beach.

You drive the boat and

like, it's funny. Hey. Where are we going?

No. I just needed that same sorry. That same presentation. Yep. That's fine.

So I wanted to talk a little bit start off with the with the mangroves. Like Mario Mario had said, we had planted that stretch. Everything was looking really good. And then when we got that really high wind event and then the cold that followed it, a lot of these trees did take a did take a hit. I would I would guess that we're probably in the somewhere between 4060% we may lose, out of out of what we planted, you know, because of that.

There's still, some out there that are that are struggling. They're trying to come back. There's some that still look okay. But I I think in the in the long term, we might wanna consider, putting some additional, plantings out there to replace these that that we do lose completely. That's just, you know, bad bad luck on on our part with with respect to to that event. They were not in long enough to really be set to to handle that cold weather. And and When

is a good time to plant those?

I I generally, you know, like planting, when I know it's gonna be raining as well. You know? So in kind of the the May, June

area. Should we May June. Something along those lines now.

Yeah. I think I don't know how the rest of the board feels, but I certainly would like to entertain a proposal from you for additional plantings to replace these or any other additional plantings you feel are appropriate because we wanna maintain that shoreline. So

Okay. I I I think the the ones that we put in, kinda the dune plantings and all that we did further up, those are a lot lower to the ground. They weren't as affected by the by the wind and all as much, and and these are still looking pretty good. But the but the mangroves, you can see that we we put in taller plants. Mhmm. Trying to get kind of a visual, you know, going that that there were stuff growing out there and so forth. And and they just got hit pretty hard by by that storm. So Were those the buttonwood? Those are the buttonwoods. Yes, sir.

300 that we okay.

Right. And as I recall, I think the association funded the Buttonwoods. Is that correct? Or, I know we did the mangroves.

Did we do the Buttonwoods as well? Split. It I think I there was a there was a split. I think the association did a lot of the buttonwoods, but also some of the mangroves, and then you guys did some as well. It had to do with with where we planted

them. We were doing the shoreline, and they were doing the

inland stuff. The dune and inland stuff. Correct.

So we should I guess, between us and the association, you know, I think we'd like to see what you recommend at this point and get that on the association and and our agenda in April if we could.

Yeah. We can definitely do that. That'll give, you know, a a couple more weeks to see what, well, no, March, April agenda. I need to go out there and

do that. It's April 23. It's later in April.

So Okay. So, yeah, we can we can see now that we've got, you know, temperatures warming up a little bit and all. If if any of these do start pulling out, then and and, you know, re re revegetating, then we can

Okay.

We could do a much more in-depth.

And we have in the audience today a representative from the association board. So here, so so, she can communicate with you and report back to you.

Especially if the plantings are most effective in the rainy season. Right. That would be a good time if

It's it's just that it's it's safer. These plants because of where we're planting them, we should be able to do it at any time because there's always water, you know, in that sand. It's a water table thing. But when you get nursery stock, a lot of times, they're grown in more freshwater type conditions. So that's why I like to plant them in the rain because the rain helps to to dilute, you know, some of that that's something in success rate. Right.

Right. However, get there.

Okay. And then as she said, the the area that we recommended not planting because I thought it would revegetate, it is, you know, starting to come back. That's really good. Like she had said, you know, we're we're seeing numbers in that that 10 to 12 per square meter. That means a a three foot by three foot area.

There's like 10 or 12 plants in there. And when we plant them just ourselves, there would be one plant within that that square meter, you know, so it would be the number that's coming in is much higher than what we would plant and because they're naturally recruiting, we would expect them to do a lot better than if we planted them themselves. So having the patience to allow those to come up and and to establishes them themselves, I think, is the right call in in this area. Alright. Water quality.

I'm gonna start out with a with a a correction. The total phosphorus, the numbers that are in the table are correct, but the the AGM numbers that are listed at the bottom are are incorrect. Somehow, when we did the calculations, the top two lines instead of point zero six four and point zero five four, the zeros were left out. So the the the reason that that bottom number is higher is because of the the that that tenfold difference between those two numbers. On the on the visual on the visualizer, I just put the the correct numbers there.

Yeah. So you can see the station one should be point zero three zero and station 2.043 instead of point zero seven seven. So and we'll make that correction in the report and and get that revision to the state as well because that was that needs to be corrected in the information that they got. Nitrogen levels have been high across the board, in the in the river itself, you know, or at the mouth of the lagoon as well as going further back into it. And, also, it's generally the last couple of years has been the further back into the lagoon you get, the higher that nitrogen level is.

That could be a component of the the flushing, its, you know, inputs coming into the system, its difficulty in terms of moving through and getting out of the system. But that lagoon has three essentially three aquatic inputs, if you will. It has the water coming in out of the river. That's the vast majority of what's flowing in and out of that lagoon. There's the storm water outfall from Hideaway, which is generally not a consistent flow.

That water is pretty much only coming out of there when there's water in your system during the rainy season. So it's a limited time frame, you know, three, four months where water is coming out of that. And then the third input is the outfall or the creek that comes out of the rest of the it comes under the access road into Tiger Telagoon Park, and it connects to the Marco Waterways to the east and north of that park entrance. There's a creek that comes out, and there's flowing flow through there. So those are those are the three areas where where, you know, we're getting inputs.

And given that the the the river at the the mouth and the the river numbers are so high, If we're not getting good movement through the lagoon and all, then you would expect there to be, you know, even more accumulation back in there. 2025 between the storms, some of the, activities that were going on, some of the disturbances out there, I I just think that the system has been so unsettled the last couple of years. It's hard to really say with any high confidence what that reason is for those high water levels. So from there, I can just kind of caution, you know, patients and and we'll see what what happens if these numbers start dropping or if they continue to go up, then we're going to need to follow-up and try to figure out why. But given the levels being higher, that area in the past has been declared as impaired by the state for nitrogen and I don't see any change to that.

It still looks to be within you know, within that parameter. Moving to the phosphorus levels over the different years, this is not a great exhibit, but you can see the the last three years. We look at this data in in two different two different ways. One is at each station, you know, what's the what's the water quality at at each specific station within the lagoon to kinda see what's happening from the the mouth to the to the back end. The and then the other way you can look at it is as a whole, the water body as a whole, which is the way the state would do it.

They take all of the values that you collect over the course of the year within that whole water body because you can get variations within a water body due to how water is flowing. If you have dead end areas or you know, confined areas, you may have different types of substrate in terms of the the marl or mucky mangrove, you know, soils versus the sandy soils. So it's difficult to make a a decision over the entire water body if you're just looking at one point within it. So in terms of the system as a whole, when we look at that, I did something this year where I took all 12. You can see we do four readings at each station.

So I took all four read all 12 readings, and I looked at what the geographic the geometric mean of those 12 were. And in 2022 and the 2022, 2023 readings, the 2024 readings, we were below the the the the mean, the the the limits for the water body. 2025, we jumped higher, and jumped up. And this is kind of an exaggerated scale, but we still we went over the, the limit. So we'd be over the limit for phosphorus for this year.

But in order to be declared impaired for phosphorus, that's got to be two consecutive years. So we haven't hit that yet. Next year is going to be important in determining and looking at how that how how the system is reacting. Given the work that was done this year, the flushing in that back lagoon and through the whole through the whole system should be much better. The the lot of the sand was removed.

The channel that opens up the interior portion of the bay with the river, was done this year. That was deep and Mohammad had talked about that, the the distribution channel. So water should be moving through that system, you know, a lot better and barring any any unforeseen, you know, storm events or anything, once that system starts stabilizing versus, you know, stabilizing from all of the the work that's been done and the storms, you know, together have all really kind of stirred that area up. So given it some time to to stabilize and see what happens with the levels, I think that they're gonna go down next year barring any unforeseen storm events. That is kind of the extent of my comments unless you have any questions.

I

have a question for him. Being a resident of Markle Island, got reports on what the city is doing and it appears that the city is trying to improve the water quality. Are you familiar with that at all?

I don't know the specifics of it. Mean, I know for years they've been talking about it. They had that whole nutrient study done by another firm and they looked at the sources of nitrogen and and phosphorus coming into it and all. And I know that they have been looking then at at trying to improve through different looking at different, you know, means whether it's dredging out the canals or changing the the reclaimed water system. You know, there's been a lot of options. I know that have been discussed, but I'm not aware of what's been actually implemented.

I'm just alright. I guess I'm just interested as far as a resident to know what's going on. So that's what we how how are we are we improving at all or not?

Are you improved? This year was not an improvement over I last

I know that this is something that may come up before the city council. So I would just defer to whatever city staff and city council ultimately decides to do on a citywide basis.

Okay. Thank you, David.

You're welcome.

Any other comments or questions for Tim?

Probably not.

Okay. Well, thank you very much for coming today, Tim. Your comments were very helpful both on the mangroves and on the water quality. Sure. Appreciate it.

Okay.

Let's see. I guess he kind we kind of jumped to the mangrove update as part of the annual biological report. So the next item would be Item 60, our financial report.

So as you indicated, you didn't

I got one. I got one. Okay. I figured

it out. So over the last thirty days, they collected about $60,000 more in tax revenues from the January to the February. The net gain on investments increased approximately $2,700 So if I could round up between the 60,000 and the $2,700 so about $63,000 more in income. And on the expense side, it was pretty constant in relation to last month. So when you look at our cash on hand, the $3,385,000 less open purchase orders of 400,000 I want to round up, dollars 409,000 that leaves available cash of 2,980,000 And I am kind of following up the trend from where we talked last month.

I would really like for Mohammed and Michael Mohamed next month, it would really be helpful if we could get a projection in terms of cost in the following fiscal year, which would really help us determine our millage rate.

That

would be most helpful. And I know Michael is not here, but if the two of you could present that to us next month, that would really, I think, give us a much better handle on where we're going with the military. To me, this is deceiving. It's deceiving because if I'm a regular Hideaway resident and I would just look at this, I'd say, God, you guys got a bunch

of cash. Yeah.

Okay. But the flip of it is we're going be spending a whole bunch of money. Right. And we need to look at both those components.

To that effect, I think currently we are operating with the monitoring and maintenance for the overall system. The monitoring and maintenance, we have an agreement with the county for cost share on the typical monitoring sorry, the topic yes, the management in the sense that the district is in charge of all the soft costs related to monitoring, compliances and maintenance, we have a budget approved with the county in the amount of $350,000 every two years. But in addition to that program, our design calls for nourishment or a main project once every four to five years. The initial project was done in 2022, 2023, which means we're due for a major project around '27. And based on the conditions that we have currently, our BERM sits at a near 50% of its design template.

And that is consistent with the cycle of the four to five years that we put in our design. So the point will be in 2027 or at the latest 2028, we need to consider or we will be recommending a nourishment that will require hydraulic dredging and dredging sand from the offshore borough area and place it on San Dollar Island. And that is also a function of our general management effort that we are coordinating with the county, given that the county is also doing the Collier Creek and others. So at this moment of time, it is the junction where we need to look at all the timelines of all the activities with the county, with the district, with Hideaway Beach, with Sand Dollar Island and then come up to you as you requested with a plan and that plan is Could

you give us two? Could you give us one based upon the scenario that you would get sand from Collier Creek? And if so, about how much, so we know how much, if any, we need to dredge?

I think that question can be kind of put within a certain level of certainty for our discussion. But then once the county put the plans for the project later this year, we'll have a more firm numbers. So I would say, following the surveys that CEC will do and Collier County doing the construction plans for the Collier Creek project later this year, we will be able to have a more definitive number. But we can make some assumptions and give you the two scenarios.

That's what

we're asking for. Do you need for an AB? And you

need that for the April meeting?

Yes. Yes.

Okay. Alright.

And I think it might be helpful, Mohammed, if you and Steve sit down together and work on this a bit and then bring it together back to us. You because you may wanna ask some questions in detail, Steve, with him.

But the scene, to me, is the biggest thing.

Yes. Is.

And that's what I feel like. Have again, you're grabbing

a straw.

Yes. But we also, for example, we also have nourishment on Hideaway Beach. And so, for example But we know what that number. Yeah. We know what that or have a ballpark of what that number is. But some of that sand from Collier Creek is going at least some or all will go on Hideaway Beach, perhaps. So that's what we have to also work out. But let's target that for the April meeting. We'll meeting would

be we don't get any. And therefore, how much do we need to dredge?

And that's where we look at the offshore borough area for the balance.

Because I'm assuming, this is just me as one human being unofficially. I'm assuming that the county is not going to get anywhere with regards to the navigational channels in the next couple of years.

I don't think that this is on anyone's short term planning at this point.

That's what I thought.

And the one component in here that we're coordinating with the county is to make sure that when they dredge Collier Creek, they do not place the sand in the offshore border. So this is what we will be that's why we have the meeting with them on the March. And I got your direction and I'll get with Michael on doing like certain assumptions that we all agree on and then come up with estimated scenarios. And then you can look at your budget within those scenarios.

Yes. That'd be very helpful.

Will do.

You. I

agree. I have a comment on that line. We used to try to keep the surplus at about $2,000,000 and we are about $3,000,000 now. So something's out of whack. We're like we're have over too much surplus. I'm gonna need to look at that when I do this next year and and see where you really need to be. You're a little bit high where what we have been in the past. Right.

But we also got significant reimbursement from the county this year. Got what? Significant reimbursement from the county this year, which we won't have next year. Okay.

I would suggest from a budgetary standpoint is that we know that we coordinate with the county. We know that the county is a willing partnership has been beneficial to But all for the risks and vulnerabilities that we have with tropical storms, I would say you need to assign a certain like buffer in your budget to address or be prompt with addressing vulnerabilities. And then you can seek reimbursements because the cycle of requesting reimbursement, whether it's through county or state or federal, takes long time. Sometimes following a storm, you need to take action in a much expedited fashion or when opportunities, if, let's say, if there is a dredge in the area, and that dredge will provide us a high level of cost saving, even if we are doing a cost share. If you have the budget to advance and then based on agreements that should be set in place, you could having that buffer allow you to act when things are either emergency or opportunity for cost saving.

And those if your budget allows for those scenarios, even though you're going to have other partners or other cost share stakeholders, having the scenario of in case this happens, we will advance the whole amount, but you have to have the amount. You can't put a project out for bid by the city if there is no fund. So to just so if it is possible to have a reserve and your community understand that, that reserve allows us the ability to respond in a much more timely fashion than if we kind of take a number and take a seat versus act and then ask for imprisonment.

But so far, you've mentioned state and federal. In my mind, that's zilch. County is the only one.

Yes. Yes, we're not counting these are part of our long term vision or planning that eventually when we have, let's say, an island wide beach management agreement, the state will provide incentives to that. We currently have a FEMA application that is still in review. But since we don't know what the next storm will be, we don't want to close any doors because we don't know what level of damage we will get in the future. So keeping all these avenues active, and that's why we do the monitoring the way we do it because some of these applications after a storm, if you don't demonstrate that a project was designed, built, monitored and maintained, they will move the funds to project that do have that.

So that's why we are we're sitting where we hold the leads to future potential versus also as a backup, you need to be able to say, if all else fail, I should be able to control my destiny as a community. You.

Dick, I think that was a very good question. And I think part of that will be addressed in the work Steve asked for, taking a look at what are when and what is the size of our next major project.

Agree.

And then additionally, as we've talked in past years, having some reserve relative to to hurricanes so that we can respond to events. Because as we've seen, when we get a breach, if we just leave it there for a year, gonna become a much larger problem. So we have to be in a position to respond quickly. Otherwise, we might not be able to respond at all.

I agree.

So yeah. And I know you've been supportive of that in the past. So I think those are all good points that everyone's making. So I appreciate that. Anything else on the financial report, Steve? Okay. Any other questions on the financial report? Okay. Thank you very much. So I think we are up to our last item, which is a sad, happy item perhaps, which is, as you probably know, our Vice Chair, Dick DeLauter, is retiring from this board at the end of this month.

This being his last official meeting, I want to thank Dick for his thirteen years of service to the board. Dick will be formally recognized by the city of Marco Island at their April 20 city council meeting, which begins at 05:30. And I hope many of you will be able to attend. Dick has guided this board with his engineering, business management, and leadership skills through many different projects, beginning with the last installation of the tea groins on Hideaway Beach. And I know that because I went back through the news articles, and I found several references to Dick and the work that was done at that time, which was very important.

Dick is also very well connect connected in our community, and he's always made it a point to listen to our members and to bring forward to this board any questions and concerns that they have. So I know they appreciate it, and we appreciate it as well. As a former chair and current vice chair, I wanna especially thank Dick for his leadership, his commitment of time and energy. He was always the one when we had to have a meeting at an inconvenient time. Dick said, I'll be there.

I'll fly down. Whatever. I will be there. And also his support and mentorship to me as I became chair, which I greatly appreciated. So it's kind of bittersweet today.

We wanna recognize Dick, and he's blessed with the opportunity to now go spend more time with his his family and at his hobbies, his family that is growing every day, not just children and grandchildren, but great grandchildren. I know which he and Sharon are very proud. But, you know, I will miss his guiding hand, his steady hand, and support. And so it's with some sadness as well that I announce his his retirement. So please join me in recognizing Dick for his many years of service to this board. Thank you, Dick.

And

as you can see, when the meeting's over, we have some refreshments we can all enjoy. With that, I care. Will Oh, go ahead, David. Yeah.

I would just like to thank Dick as well. It was a pleasure working with him, and I will defer my share of the refreshments to him.

Thought send them remotely. I thought we were gonna Zoom them to to you. You can take one moment share. Thank you, David. With that, I'll go to item eight, staff communications. Do you have any update for us, Justin?

No. Not at this time.

Okay. Thank you. City council communication. I don't see anyone in the room. And anyone on the line? I don't think so. Okay. Public comment. Do we have any public comment in the room or online? Okay. Not hearing any. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 23 at 01:30. So it's a little bit later in the month next month. That will also be the meeting where we will elect our officers. So in terms of proposed agenda topics, if you can make sure that is on the meeting agenda.

And also, as we discussed today, the projections from future project projections from Humiston and Moore and Coastal Engineering so that we can have that as input to our budgetary process and millage rate meeting, which is set for June year. Anything else anyone wants to put on now on the April agenda? Where are we going to put the beach management agreement? The management plan? Yeah, that should be back on the April agenda.

And we may also have a communications update. I will talk with Denny about that. Okay. Any other committee communications? With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Alright. Second. Okay. All in favor, aye. Thank you very much.