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I'd rather just put out an ITN [Invitation to Negotiate]" to hire a firm to build and install shelters, he added. "If we can do it for $20,000 a shelter, let's do it. … That's the only way we're going to get these done." "It's worth a try, maybe," Commissioner Nora Patterson agreed. "I think it is a possibility," SCAT Director Glama Carter told the board. "We just have to consider the pros and cons." She and other staff members would inves- tigate the possibility and report back to the County Commission, she added. Referring to a bar graph Carter provided during a nearly hour- long presentation, Chairman Charles Hines said, "That picture's worth a thousand words." It shows the county installed no shelters in the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years; two in FY 2011; 13 in FY 2012; and 51 in FY 2013. Carter said plans call for 25 to be erected during the An illustration shows other features necessary to install a bus shelter on Central Sarasota Parkway at U.S. 41. Image courtesy Sarasota County Some agencies wouldn't even give us numbers. Cindy Zambella Fiscal Analyst Sarasota County Area Transit Sarasota News Leader February 21, 2014 Page 63