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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 Page 22 Speaking to Sheriff Tom Knight during a workshop at the downtown county Administration Center, Barbetta added, ���I have no problem with what your needs are, just not at [the Cattlemen] location��� as staff had proposed. parking garage; and a 25,000-square-foot building combining the Sarasota County Medical Examiner���s Office with the Sheriff���s Office���s Forensics Unit all could be located on the 1301 Cattlemen Road property at the intersection To staff, Barbetta said, ���Either put [the pro- of Porter Way. The new EOC is expected to be posed buildings] to the rear [of the site] or put completed on that site by the June 1 start of the 2014 hurricane season. them on another piece of property.��� Ed Gable, the new director of the county���s Facilities Services Office, had presented a graphic showing how a three-story, 150,000-squarefoot Sheriff���s Office administrative center; a joint training facility; a four-level, 570-space ���We have a lot of other properties,��� Barbetta said, adding that the sheriff���s facilities should be put up on property ���that could generate a lot of money for us and help us defray the cost of building these [new structures].��� A Sarasota County chart shows a breakdown of county-owned and leased facilities. Image courtesy Sarasota County