Res 11-67 RESOLUTION NO. 11-67.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REQUESTING GOVERNOR
CLAUDE KIRK AND MEMBERS OF THE 1967 LEGISLA-
TURE TO SUPPORT THE FINANCIAL NEEDS NECESSARY
TO COMBAT THE BEACH EROSION PROBLEMS THROUGH-
OUT COASTAL AREAS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, the State of Florida loses each year 500 acres more or
less of valuable premium priced shoreline; and
WHEREAS, we lose prime recreational areas at a time when we are
pressed from other directions to provide more recreational area for
the increasing permanent population and tourists; and
WHEREAS, we may lose the protection of many million dollars of
improvement located along the shoreline in the event of the striking
of severe hurricane storms; and
WHEREAS, we are in danger of losing the one natural resource
that has contributed the most either directly or indirectly to the
economy and image of the State of Florida; and
WHEREAS, the City of Delray Beach has only recently completed
the installation of over twenty-eight hundred feet of interlocking
Concrete Block Revetment Wall for protection of a portion of its
Beaches; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to provide for
further such type Revetment Wall installation for the City's remain-
ing unprotected municipal beach property; and
WHEREAS, the 1965 legislature appropriated $½ million to the
Erosion Control Account which funds were administered by the Board
of Conservation by contributing toward active beach erosion projects
on a state-wide basis; and
WHEREAS, the University of Florida Department of Coastal and
Oceanographic Engineering stands ready as the State's technical
erosion research force to investigate the causes and solutions of
beach erosion; and
WHEREAS, this City Council realizes that great strides in the
field of beach erosion control have been made, but these strides
though worthy will be meaningless unless further action is taken
from this day forward.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA THAT GOVERNOR CLAUDE KIRK AND THE 1967
LEGISLATURE:
Section 1~ Realize and understand that this is the time and
place to give beach erosion problems of the State of Florida their
proper priority among the other well established financial needs of
the state.
Section 2: Appropriate the maximum amount of funds which can be
administered efficiently and effectively under the Erosion Control
Account.
Section 3: Establish and carry on further comprehensive re-
search programs to investigate causes and solutions to beach erosion.
Sec~TM 4: The Board of Conservation be charged with the respon-
sibility and be provided with funds to resolve the problems at our
coastal inlets.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session this the 22nd day of May,