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Manasota Basin Board Meeting: Consideration of Basin business including Basin Board review of Cooperative Funding proposals and associated budgetary implications for fiscal year (FY) 2010, and the amendment of the Manasota Basin current FY 2009 budget to: • Remove $2 million in funding from the State’s Water Management Lands Trust Fund (WMLTF) that had been allocated for an education center to be located within the Basin; and • Reallocate revenue from the WMLTF to implement projects in the SWFWMD Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Program. The SWIM projects within this Basin include the Coastal Basin Beach Road Implementation of BMPs project for $121,875; Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan project for $75,000; Little Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan project for $75,000; Sarasota Bay Habitat Restoration project for $60,000; Charlotte Harbor Water Quality Monitoring project for $4,781; and Biennial Seagrass Mapping of Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay and Charlotte Harbor project for $17,500. The proposed amendment will result in a $1,645,844 decrease in the FY 2009 budget of the Manasota Basin from $23,973,594 to $22,327,750 to reflect the reallocation of revenue from the WMLTF, with no impact on Basin ad valorem taxes. Ad Order 13054.