Friday April 11th, 2008 - 11:54AM

To: Judge Lacey Collier
Chair, Board of Trustees
Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc.

From: Kenneth E. Lamb
Member, Board of Trustees
Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.

1) April setting records for hits on the CommunityMaritimePark.com website

According to Glenn C. Obert, owner of Webfoot Enterprises (WebfootEnterprises.com) and creator/administrator of the Friends' web site, it received more than 10,000 hits within 90 minutes of sending out the emailed news report Thursday (4/10/2008). The total hits for that day was 15,395.

2) CMP gaining international attention

Readers from 33 countries viewed the CommunityMaritmePark.com site in March.

3) March sets new Friends' site record!

March 2008 was a record month, with more than 87,200 hits.

4) Clean-up project takes first steps

Friends' Board of Trustees members Glenn C. Obert and Kenneth E. Lamb met with city officials on 4/10/2008, to discuss implementing a clean-up project for the CMP site.

A sequence line was developed to organize the various projects that will be included in the overall goals of the project. They are:

A) Secure a "special event" insurance policy in the amount of $1-million indemnifying the CMPA and the city. Friends' will contact potential insurers, and they will be instructed to contact Mr. Spears for concise instructions for the policy.

B) Develop a timeline for the projects. At present they are a) stake out the locations of well heads on the property; b) create a wetlands map for further use meeting environmental concerns; c) contact the UWF department of Geographical Information Systems to develop a GPS map of the above; d) general policing of the area; e) Bush hog the area; f) ID trees into 1 of 3 categories - Red Tag = Must be preserved or replanted, White Tag = trash growth that can be destroyed if necessary, Green Tag = Trees that can stay awaiting further use study; g) arrange for trash removal either through the site or through community donations to the tax-deductible Friends' organization.

5) Email program for the CMPA

The most important relationship between the community and the CMPA is the trust based upon the open records maintained by the Board for examination by anyone wanting to review the Board's actions through the state's Sunshine Law. Friends of the Community Maritime Park is offering through Webfoot Enterprises and CyberSmart Computers a free service to the CMPA Board to ensure the issue of access to the official emails of Board members never becomes a point of contention.

What follows has been vetted first through Ed Spears, the acting Executive Director for the Board. He told us he sees no problems with the Friends proposal, and has no objection to its implementation.

A) A web-based email system that will be accessible to Board members wherever they can connect to the Internet with a web browser. The name protocol will be firstname -dot- lastname -at- communitymaritimepark -dot- com, for example, lacey -dot- collier -at- communitymaritimepark -dot- com.

B) All emails, either received, sent, or user-deleted will be permanently stored in a searchable database that a person authorized by the Board to receive and fulfill public records requests can access through the internet on a 24/7 basis.

C) The database will have quadruple redundancy: the database will reside live on two servers locally, live on another one in Kentucky, and the database proper will be backed for a fourth redundancy on another local server.

D) Friends will provide all IT and training services. Friends will set-up the system for the Board member's use, track the passwords to ensure account integrity, train the member on how to set-up the system on other computers, train the member how to access the email when in an "away" environment using another person's computer, and offer any other implementation and maintenance services needed by Board members.

Friends wants to note that "setting up" this system is as easy opening your web browser, typing mail.communitymaritimepark.com into the address box, and hitting the Enter key. The Board member will then type on his or her email address, and then the password for their account. The browser will then permit access to the account. It's as simple as that.

A strong reason for accepting this offer that transcends the legal burdens of individual responsibility is that the web domain of CommunityMaritimePark.com is the natural way residents and visitors know the project. There is much to be said about using the prestige of the domain people around the world now use to keep up to date on the park and its progress. In March, the Friends web site reached 87,002 hits. Telling people that your official email address is your first name, dot, your last name at CommunityMaritimePark.com is a natural for them to remember.

Friends, through the donations by Webfoot Enterprises and CyberSmart Computers can have this system up and running by April 15, 2008. The infrastructure and databasing back office programming is already in place and ready to go.

This is the best possible way for the Board to keep its openness to the public, and it eliminates all the problems of each member accepting personal legal responsibility for the official records.

Friends looks forward to its acceptance and immediate implementation.

6) Contest to create a logo for the CMP

Friends proposes to create and implement a contest seeking the public's submissions for the CMP's official logo.

A) The contest will be limited to all middle and high school students (grades 6 - 12) in both Escambia County (FL) and Santa Rosa County. This includes all public, private, charter, and home-schooled students.

B) Voting for the logo submissions will occur one location in Escambia County (perhaps Cordova Mall) and in Santa Rosa County (perhaps Wal-Mart in Pace) by posting duplicates of each entry at the two locations. Voters will be required to give their name, address, email address on the ballot. This is being done to keep one contestant from having supporters "stuff the ballot box" in that students favor.

C) Each student submitting an entry will be required to have a parent or guardian sign a release turning the submission over to Friends' exclusive use with no promise of compensation, allow use of their name and photographs for public information. Friends reserves the right to use the winning entry as a creative starting point for the final logo design, meaning Friends can modify the submission for quality purposes.

D) The winning entry will receive a $2,000 US Savings Bond; Second Place will receive a $1,000 Savings Bond; Third Place will receive a $500 Savings Bond. The teacher of the student will receive a $1,000 award to use for the furthering of the teacher's student(s') education.