Exh 3Ar
"" September 6, 2005
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor
~ and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jim Hanso
~ rty Manager `
SUBJECT: Follow-up eport
AGENDA ITEM #3A
SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
Planting Sea Oats on Reestablished Dunes; It was reported at the last commission meeting that
the beach renourishment had been completed successfully including the reestablishment of dunes
where they had been washed out during Hurricane Jeanne in the fall of 2004. It was also
.. recommended that sea oats be planted on those new dunes as soon as possible to minimize
erosion in the future. The estimated cost of the planting was $24,000 for the dunes in Atlantic
Beach and half of that was expected to be reimbursed by the state. The City Commission
,,,,~ approved that recommendation.
Bids have since been opened and contracts authorized on an emergency basis for the replanting
of the sea oats. The bids came in under budget estimates at $12,600. The successful company
doing the work was Aquatic Plants of Florida. A second, lower bid was received from Nautilus
Environmental in an amount of $11,600 although their bid package was incomplete and thereby
rejected.
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