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Sarasota News Leader April 12, 2013 Page 20 man Marty Rappaport. The assessment was voted upon by the commercial property owners, but the taxes have been paid by their tenants. These packets went out several weeks prior to the city staff's mailing ballots on the future of the district, Rapport added. After looking into the matter, he said, it appeared the mailing list was for tenants, not for the property owners. On Monday, April 8, when the members of the In other words, city staff used the wrong mailBID – which is set to expire on Sept. 30 — met ing list, he said. at City Hall with City Manager Tom Barwin and other staff, Rappaport dropped his bomb- "The City Clerk's Office made a critical error shell: "We had sent out an informational pack- and provided us with mailing labels addressed et to property owners. Fifty percent of them to the property, not to the owner of the property," said Rappaport. were returned as undeliverable mail." The assessment revenue for the St. Armands Business Improvement District has made a number of new and better features possible to draw shoppers and diners. Photo by Scott Proffitt