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01/11/2013

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Sarasota News Leader January 11, 2013 Page 50 ment said his pickup crews are servicing ev- but the city is not. Every time we bring it up ery park in the city daily. "We can't give an here, you say you're going to take care of it, but nothing ever happens." exact time for them," he added. "Maybe you could put us on the beginning of GUM PATROL the run?" asked Rappaport. Chewing gum may be the new cigarette butt, "What we're looking for is a big-belly compac- as noted during another discussion at the tor like the one we put on Main Street at the meeting. Gum discarded on sidewalks is not ice cream shop. It's a glorified garbage can only a problem for sightseers' shoe soles, but that compacts [trash]," said Kucharski. "We're the blots on the sidewalk seemingly last forlooking to get that ordered." ever. "The problem with the trash cans, some of the lids are missing, and some are smashed down," said Diana Corrigan with the St. Armands Association. "So many of them are in poor repair and need to be replaced." "We can remove the gum," said Fletcher, "but no way we can finish the circle with a razor. The gum has been there so long, and the sidewalks have not been well kept. It will take too much labor." Of special interest are the trash cans in the "We figured if the city did it twice a year, and center of the circle. "Even when we don't have Jackie did it in between, that would be suffispecial events, the trash cans in the park are cient. But in the past couple of years, it's only always overflowing," said Corrigan. been done once [by city workers]," said Rappaport. Then Rappaport pulled out his trump card: "I am about ready to go before the [City] Com- "I thought they would do it before the holimission and complain about the services we days, but it didn't happen," said Mary Tucker, are getting," he said. "We are doing our part, the city's purchasing director, of city staff. % Photo courtesy MorgueFile.com

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