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Sarasota News Leader February 8, 2013 Page 91 Siesta Seen He had not heard an answer from them so far, THE STORMWATER PROJECT Smith said. In other comments during the SKVA meeting, When I called Tom Maroney, general manag- Patterson reported on her worries about furer of business operations in the Public Works ther delays with the beginning of the stormDepartment, this week he said, "We're still water project at Siesta Public Beach. Not only did county Procurement Department staff looking into it." have to extend the bid period because of lack However, Maroney told me he had found the of response, but the lowest of the three bids situation curious, too. it finally received was almost three times the "You can't have two sets of people not com- $1.5 million staff estimate for the work, as The municating, taking care of the same thing," Sarasota News Leader reported on Jan. 25. Patterson told the SKVA members, adding she "That's a pretty big swing" in cost estimates, also would check into the matter. Patterson told the SKVA members. "I just don't A Sarasota County diagram shows plans for the stormwater project pipeline to discharge effluent into the Gulf of Mexico. Graphic illustration courtesy Sarasota County