You can see it in their eyes, read it in their expressions, hear it in their frustration.
This council is coming to the realization that the beach renourishment they promised voters is slipping further way from them each day.
They've done everything they know how to do, including committing - at the eleventh hour - their town manager and staff to do a job the county was supposed to do but failed to do - gathering enough easements to get the project done.
Once again, they've been slapped in the face by the county's man in charge of the project, Steve Boutelle, who now is refusing to collect the easements our town manager and his staff worked their butts off the obtain. Some of the claims coming from Boutelle has caused even more confusion. Is August 1 the drop dead date on this project, they wonder? It sounded that way when he talked about needing to know by the end of this month if there would be enough easements for the job.
What once was perceived as the biggest, most ambitious shoreline project ever proposed for this island has turned into a nightmare of broken promises and poor salesmanship by county government.
It's over, some on the street are saying.
Good riddance, those who opposed it in the first place proclaim.

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