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Sarasota News Leader March 29, 2013 Page 53 VENICE CITY COUNCIL APPROVES DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP REGISTRY During its regular meeting on March 26, the "The packets are just about ready," Magnotti Venice City Council voted unanimously to ap- told the News Leader on March 27. prove, on final reading, an ordinance creating Magnotti was also working with the city's IT a domestic partnership registry for that city. Department on a hyperlink that would allow Interested persons probably will be able to interested persons to download the registraregister with the City Clerk's Office as ear- tion form from the city website, she added. ly as next week, Assistant City Clerk Lydia "I'm pretty confident that next week will be a Magnotti told The Sarasota News Leader on go," Magnotti said. March 27. City Clerk Lori Stelzer said she felt potential registrants would be able to pick up In the meantime, Florida Senate Bill 196, packets of information, including registration which would create a domestic partnership forms, at Venice City Hall by the end of this registry for the state, remains stalled. No acweek, former Sarasota City Commissioner tion has taken place since the sponsor, Sen. Eleanor Sobel, chose to postpone a vote on Ken Shelin reported to the News Leader. that bill on March 18, according to the Florida Shelin had advocated for establishment of the Legislature's website. Venice registry, just as he had for the City of Rachel Brown Hackney Sarasota registry.