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Sarasota News Leader March 29, 2013 Page 47 One vendor had responded to a request for a quote on the installation, he continued; that estimate was $40,000. That quote "is consistent with staff's estimate of the project," Harriott noted in a March 24 email to county officials with an update on capital asset projects. However, he included in that later email a note that the estimate for the purchase and installation of the bollards is about $55,000. "The Board requested staff not proceed with installation until a report of the cost [was] provided and approved," he added in the second email. Last year, staff members estimated the cost of the project at $31,500. However, they had cautioned that dealing with electrical connections in the Village could create a higher total. Sarasota County staff last year sought vendor quotes for providing bollards at Siesta Village crosswalks. Image courtesy Sarasota County A second vendor was scheduled to visit Siesta Village on March 26 in preparation for providing an estimate, Harriott noted in the March Then Siesta Key Association Vice President 24 report. Peter van Roekens originally broached the In a telephone interview with The Sarasota need for the crosswalk lighting during the JanNews Leader on March 26, Commissioner uary 2012 meeting of the Siesta Key Village Nora Patterson — a Siesta Key resident who Association. has championed the crosswalk lighting proContacted on March 25, van Roekens said it posal on the board — said, "I think we should appeared the lighting would not go in until just do it if we can do it for that," referring to after season. Still, he said, "I think it's going the original $52,000 estimate. to happen. It's long overdue." During the County Commission's regular meeting on March 19, Patterson told her fel- In the interview this week with the News low commissioners she knew staff was work- Leader, Patterson added, "It's pretty startling ing on a resolution of the matter. "There's been that [the project] would cost over $100,000," some concern about the length of time that's referring to vendor responses when the county sought bids earlier this year. being taken on this," she said.