Item 3A!*'
AGENDA ITEM #3A
NOVEMBER 22, 2004
November 16, 2004
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor
and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jim Hanson
City Manager
SUBJECT: Follow-up R ort
Beach Renourishment Consultant; The City Commission has expressed on several occasions
its support for hiring a beach renourishment consultant to help guide the many complicated steps
necessary for a successful renourishment project on the Duval County beaches. Olsen
Associates Inc has been providing services in connection with beach renourishment projects for
the last couple of years. They have proposed an agreement for services to extend through
September 30, 2005 for an amount not to exceed $9,000 without additional authorization. This
proposal has been discussed with the City Managers of the other two beach cities with a
provision to share the costs on a population basis. That is to say that each beach city would pay
a pro rata share of the billings for these services that is equal to their proportion of the total
combined population of the three beach cities. Atlantic Beach's share would be 33%. Neptune
Beach's share would be 27% and Jacksonville Beach's share would be 50%. No specific
commission action is needed on this issue as the total cost is below the threshold needed for
commission approval.
Marsh Ownership; A request was made by a commissioner at the last meeting for information
about private ownership of the marshes in the intercoastal waterway adjacent to Atlantic Beach.
Distributed with your agenda packet is a copy of a map showing the owners of the various
parcels as shown in the Duval CotZnty tax records.
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