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Sarasota News Leader November 8, 2013 Wreford told the News Leader that Jan. 28 was the earliest date the board's meeting schedule allowed sufficient time for the discussion, but the delay should give him and other county staff sufficient time to answer the commissioners' questions. He already is working with city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff, he added. "We're going through some fact-finding right now." Page 12 conjunction with the project's design, Wreford continued, then city and Army Corps staff can determine whether they need to make adjustments to the project to deal with encroachment issues. At that point, he added, it would be up to the County Commission to settle on its response to the facts and proposals the city and Army Corps offer. "And that could take a lot of different forms," Wreford said of the county board's action. "It's too early yet to know which direction we're going to be aiming towards." Not only is the county property a new factor in that research, Wreford noted, but a determination also needs to be made about whether the project will affect state-submerged lands with an east-west orientation off Lido Beach. One possibility is that the county could end Once the answers are clear about exactly up being a party to the DEP permit applicawhere county and state property is in tion, Wreford noted. A graphic shows the areas of Big Pass that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes dredging for the Lido Renourishment Project. Image courtesy City of Sarasota