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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 Both Anna���s Deli and Total Tennis on Avenida Madera in Siesta Village are closing and moving on to other locations, The Sarasota News Leader has learned. ���We absolutely hate it,��� says Dave Havill, co-owner of the deli, who is preparing to open a new store off University Parkway. Phil Perrella, one of the partners in Total Tennis, says his business is scheduled to reopen June 1 in its new location at 2300 Bee Ridge Road, the former home of Persnickity Cat. Total Tennis has been in Siesta Village for 35 years, Perrella noted. Havill says parking has been the biggest problem for Anna���s since it relocated to Avenida Madera from Davidson Plaza almost four years ago. MAY 15 The Sarasota County School Board gives staff immediate approval to implement a revised fee schedule for the rental of school property. The charges will mean minimal profit for individual schools, district Facilities Director Jody Dumas tells the board members during their May work session. A nonprofit group will Page 29 pay $5 an hour to cover costs other than the expense of air conditioning, he says, such as the administrative expense for a school secretary to manage an event, as well as the cost of trash bags and the cleaning of restrooms. For-profit groups will pay $15 per hour for the same services, he notes. ��������� In 2011, serious crime in the city of Sarasota dropped 5.2 percent compared with the previous year. The number of so-called ���index offenses��� fell to 1,803 from 1,901. These are the serious crimes tracked by the FBI. Meanwhile, total arrests were up 10 percent. ���If you arrest the bad guys and keep them in jail, you prevent the crimes they were going to commit,��� says City Police Captain Paul Sutton, noting that lower level economic crime, such as bicycle thefts and shoplifting, increased from 2010 to 2011. ���It���s up about 1.1 percent over last year,��� he says. Sarasota statistics overall mirror a drop in serious crime across the state, says Sutton. The Total Tennis space sits vacant in Siesta Village in June, after the business moved to Bee Ridge Road. File photo