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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 Page 28 MAY 8 MAY 14 With split votes over funding concerns as well as the process, the Sarasota County commissioners direct staff to proceed with design work, permitting and construction for a new Emergency Operations/911 Center on the 1301 Cattlemen Road site they have been considering since February 2011. Those votes followed criticism of county staff over how the commissioners had learned that Jack Cox, president of Halfacre Construction Co., had withdrawn his property at 7060 Professional Parkway, in Lakewood Ranch, from consideration for the EOC location. The board also clarifies in a motion that the EOC will be built along the Porter Way side of the Cattlemen property the county owns. Longboat Key Police Chief Al Hogle dies after a motorcycle accident in North Carolina. The news was released by Dave Bullock, Longboat Key town administrator. ���We ask that everyone keep Chief Hogle���s family in their prayers during this sad and difficult time,��� Bullock says in an email to town employees. Hogle was a veteran of the Sarasota Police Department, rising through the ranks to retire as a captain. He then was appointed to the Sarasota City Commission to fill the seat of Nora Patterson, who had been appointed to the County Commission. Hogle subsequently ran for and won the seat. He was elected mayor in the third year of his four-year term. However, he quit the City Commission to take the job of Bradenton Police Chief for two years. In 2002, he accepted the position of Longboat Key Police chief. A Sarasota County graphic illustration shows a suggested design for the new Emergency Operations Center. Image courtesy Sarasota County