By Lee Melsek

Lee County Commissioner Ray Judah is about to make one last ditch effort to save the troubled beach renourishment project.
Judah and other county staffers will make a presentation to reluctant gulf front property owners at the Pink Shell Beach Resort and Spa at 7 p.m. on July 16. The meeting is open to the public and press.
Town officials sent RSVP invitations to property owners who have refused to sign renourishment construction easements for the project, asking them to attend the July 16th meeting. The objective:To try and persuade those property owners to see things the town and county's way on renourishment.
Mayor Larry Kiker, who asked Judah to come here and meet with the property owners, told Tidelines "I told him to stop listening to Steve Boutelle and go and hear these people for himself."
Boutelle, the county's lead man on the decade-old renourishment plan, has been the focus of criticism by some council members.
Although the county has told the town they need 90 percent of the easements necessary for the project the county and town have so far been able to obtain only 42 percent of the necessary easements.

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