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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 JUNE 19 During their annual ���State of the Utilities��� workshop for the City of Sarasota, the city commissioners tentatively agree to a 4 percent rate increase in water and sewer rates in 2013 and 2014 to prevent long-term debt from increasing. These hikes will come on top of 4 percent increases in 2011 and 2012. The decision is not final until the public is notified, two public hearings are held and the commissioners vote. Public hearings are scheduled on July 16 and Aug. 20 for the proposed rate increases. But the discussion is a strong indicator the rates are headed up. It came after almost two hours of review by staffers and consultants on the physical and fiscal health of the utility system. ��������� Sarasota County and state preservationists expect to find out any day now whether the Paul Rudolph addition to Sarasota High School will be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Sarasota News Leader has learned. Barbara Mattick, the deputy state historic preservation officer for survey and Page 37 registration, tells the News Leader she calculated the timing on the basis of when the materials were submitted. Mattick says the National Register publishes a weekly activities report with all the new buildings on its list; the update also is posted on the National Register���s website. Sarasota County officials told the News Leader the previous week that they anticipated notification by July 15. However, Mattick said her office sent the application by Federal Express on May 8. Once the National Register receives an application, she says, staff members have 45 days to log it in, ���and they usually take 45 days, because they have things pouring in from all over the country.��� Mattick says she was encouraged that the SHS addition, with the structures known as Building 4 and the West Gymnasium, would make it onto the list, because someone generally calls her office if National Register staff encounters a problem with an application. ���If we haven���t heard anything by now,��� she says, ���it���s looking pretty good.��� Caroline Zucker, chairwoman of the Sarasota County School Board, tells the News Leader she was unaware that Sarasota County History Center staff had pursued the National Register listing. Building 4 at Sarasota High School, designed by internationally renowned architect Paul Rudolph, was expected to earn a place this year on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo by Norman Schimmel