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Sarasota News Leader January 25, 2013 Page 34 Leader that the design/development phase of the rebuild is scheduled to be completed in June, with construction set to start in July; the renovations tentatively are scheduled to be finished in December 2015. Goodwin said she would make certain of that. After Goodwin pointed out that the interior design plans were not as far along as speakers had indicated, Barbetta asked her if she would see to it that better communication ensued about the project in the future among her board and staff, the County Commission and its staff and the preservationists. "The floating staircase is a beautiful element," Goodwin said, "but it's also got issues with safety and security when you look at how it goes out to the rooms and the width of the hallway. So we are looking at maximizing that space, looking at putting science labs in there." "We don't need a surprise," Barbetta told her. At that point, Commissioner Nora Patterson interjected, "Frankly, the last thing I want to see happen is for us to butt heads with the GUIDELINES AND PLANS School Board. There are so many things we County Commissioner Joe Barbetta pointed need to work together on." out that the county's comprehensive plan calls Nonetheless, Patterson said she, too, was for county government concerned about the "to protect, preserve, future of Building 4. "I rehabilitate and adapknow you are not goThe unique nature of the Rudolph tively reuse significant ing to be able to prestructure demands and deserves special historic resources" serve all interior deattention. and to avoid adverse tails that may or may impacts to them. not have significance," Janet Minker President she told the School Sarasota Architectural Foundation Building No. 4 is on Board members. "But the National Register this one really apparof Historic Places, he added. "The floating ently does have great significance … It may staircase is obviously a significant piece of the be, if you take another look, by turning classRudolph design." rooms around … it might be possible to preThe National Register's own guidelines have serve the floating staircase." a provision for schools, Barbetta added, ref- Goodwin replied, "There are some limitations erencing public comments made by John M. that we have with that building the way it's Dart of Adams and Reese law firm in Sarasota. designed. We are adding glass panels back up" Barbetta said that calls for "character-defining and redoing the roof. interior elements [to be] retained." Goodwin added that the underpinnings would "So I implore you to abide by those things and have to be pulled up, too, because "part of not go in and gut this [building]," he added. that building is sinking."