Subject
Governing Board to discuss and consider District business, including regulatory and non-regulatory matters and the Governing Board to consider a budget amendment to the District’s Fiscal Year 2013-2014 budget in the amount of $650,000 to:
• Increase the Upland Invasive Plant Control Special Revenue Fund ($400,000) from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for invasive plant for lygodium and melaleuca within the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge; and
• Increase the Invasive Plant Control Special Revenue Fund ($250,000) from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to perform waterway maintenance and aquatic plant control projects to treat large areas of torpedograss in Lake Okeechobee and harvest aggressive aquatic primrose from Lake Tohopekaliga
The proposed budget amendment is contingent upon approval by the Executive Office of the Governor and would increase the South Florida Water Management District’s budget to $623,215,173.