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Sarasota News Leader June 28, 2013 Page 55 Amy Meese, director of that department, told the commission her FTE count actually had decreased because of the O&M changes. However, she was requesting one new employee: a coastal project manager position "to assist with significant coastal project demands," according to the Natural Resources PowerPoint slide. settlement related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. PDRP is the Post Disaster Response Plan on which county staff has been working for the past couple of years. The renourishment project is planned for Turtle Beach, tentatively beginning in the 2015 fiscal year, according to a staff report written this spring. A chart provided to the commissioners said the position would "assist with increased workload needed to offset workload of staff on RESTORE, PDRP and Siesta Key renourishment." Referring to the BP settlement, Patterson told Meese, "It may be years before you have that money," prompting Patterson to question the need for the extra employee. Meese responded that her staff was working RESTORE refers to the use of funds expected at capacity and more attention had to be paid to come to the county as a result of the BP to the PDRP process. County department chiefs asked for a number of new expenses in the 2014 fiscal year budget. Image courtesy Sarasota County