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performance and user-ship and the ability to navigate the break wall and just to use the harbor safely, as you know, has been an issue. Here are some pictures on the bottom of wave \[unclear\] coming in – we’ve heard and we know that there’s significant algae growth making it very hard to traverse but also get boats up the ramp, and so we’ve been working on a design that wouldn’t be the end all be all, but it would definitely improve the current situation we believe a lot of the wave action that’s coming in right now, of course, like I said, like in its like brand new state it was an amazing but it’s definitely degraded and you can kind of get a sense of that, up here in the left corner – try to make these slides a little bigger for yah – with the breakdown of this waves are kinda coming in in-between the dolosse here and so this is another view of the federal project as it stands – so there’s an entrance channel but then the break wall obviously is what we’re talking about here and then the County, right, owns various areas like the boat ramp and we are in coordination and communication trying to keep each other abreast of timeline. I have heard that any sort of repairs on their side – they’re still hunting around for money, and it’s kinda the same story for us and I’ll tell you why. Though, most recently we were looking at – within our agency – we have these thresholds as far as like dollar values and so we need to stay below an 8-million-dollar project,and I mean to do a repair with relative ease as far as our agency approvals go so we want to stay within the existing footprints but we’d like to make it more tight, literally, but just more protected and reduce the amount of waves coming in. It’s not gonna, like I said, it’s not an amazing plan and this is basically what we’re working on 2020. Around that where we’re looking at improving this front part here and replacing it with some key tri-bars so if you look at this picture – currently as you know if you’ve visited the site – there’s a lot of structures that look more like this aspect on the right. We’d like to replace ‘em with something that looks like this – a lot more interlocking – like Legos and reducing the amount of the wave that can come through and the porosity, you know, of that, so we started, you know, going through designs and looking at what this could mean and as we’re moving through our design process – part of that, of course, is environmental compliance – and, so we’re not committing to any sort of plans at this point and there’s been, you know, zero public processes cause we’re still very internal at this point just trying to understand what we would even think about proposing, and we’ve worked with the team to conduct a biological survey off the break wall there and, of course, if you build it they will come even in charging wave environments and so what found is that with these hard the break wall serving as a nice structure in the water – well – there’s some coral growth that we definitely have to take in to consideration and, and how might we chose this so we were targeting a repair here that was just below the 8 million dollar threshold to just kinda stay within that limit, and then, you know, we found these corals and just as far as a coral relocation plan – trying to cost that out given the wave climate and given some of our habitats in the proximity – we quickly were in the 1 to 2 million dollar range just to focus on this coral presence and how do we minimize impact associated with that. So we went from what was actually it was like a 6, 7 million project jumped above that 8 million dollar threshold and so we had to go into audible mode where we need to work our internal agency processes to come up with, well, a plan that addresses the issue but also get approval to evaluate a repair that’s above that 8 million dollar threshold so I’m trying to not get too worried here as my first slide indicated, and so we’re now proposing to look at something a little bit more thorough, again, it’s not gonna vastly improve the user ship up to like that 70% but it will improve it and instead of just doing the this sort of tri-bar sort of thing, looking at here extending it slightly and in just getting a more thorough engineered plan out there. Again, this is so preliminary so I don’t have specifics, I’m just trying to work the processes internal with our team to get approval to even move this forward and so over the next two to three months we’ll 11