If you could finish your sentence. Id be happy to. The alternative proposed by the expert is to allow water levels in the lagoon system to rise a little bit in the spring and summertime. Doing this will have no impacts whatsoever on how often or the extent of flooding at the golf course because the golf course does not flood during the spring and the summer. It only floods during the winter rains when they are occurring. Were not talking about changing any management of those water levels. But in the spring and the summertime, they need to increase the amount of water they leave in the system. And if they do that, this Aquatic Vegetation will die off. It can only survive in very Shallow Water level. Simply by allowing that water level to rise, the vegetation will be killed, there will be no need to do this invasive construction process. The city will save probably a significant portion of the Million Dollar budget that they put forward for this project. And the Environmental Concerns t
This mitigation measure requires reliance on resource agencies with no evidence that they have the Staff Resources or commitments to comply with that mitigation measure. As you know a lot of Government Agencies are underfunded these days. The fish and Wildlife Service is no exception. They have an extraordinary amount of federal obligations under the endangered species act and not enough sources to implement them and dr. Beah lerted the park and Rec Department about this potential concern in october of last year. In response, the rec and Park Department has been claiming that the fish and Wildlife Service is in fact a Partner Agency in the approval of this process and suggested through both commissions, the rec and Park Commission and the Planning Commission, and now before this board with some of the materials that have been submitted by their department, that the fish and Wildlife Service has already looked at and approved mitigation measure 2b. On march 19th, a series of several env
Does not flood during the spring and the summer. It only floods during the winter rains when they are occurring. Were not talking about changing any management of those water levels. But in the spring and the summertime, they need to increase the amount of water they leave in the system. And if they do that, this Aquatic Vegetation will die off. It can only survive in very Shallow Water level. Simply by allowing that water level to rise, the vegetation will be killed, there will be no need to do this invasive construction process. The city will save probably a significant portion of the Million Dollar budget that they put forward for this project. And the Environmental Concerns that we raised about acid sulfides and cumulative effects would go away. But never been willing to consider that alternative because they put together a mitigated negative declaration which was not required. The consideration of alternatives under law, instead of looking at this issue through a full blown Enviro