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Sarasota News Leader May 17, 2013 Page 85 Siesta Seen Jane Grogg, manager of Sarasota County's ourselves, we are hoping that enforcement in Neighborhood Services office, will facilitate the future by John Lally … will be effortless the discussion. and well understood." Among other county staff members who will be present will be Donna Thompson, the assistant zoning administrator; Sandra Jones, manager of the Code Enforcement department; and Code Enforcement Officers John Lally and Kevin Burns. Lally, the long-time Code Enforcement officer in the Village, was out on medical leave for the first three months of this year. Members of both the Siesta Key Association and the SKVA welcomed him back at their regular meetings early this month. It has been a long time since such a discussion has been held, Kouvatsos added. It will be designed to help new business owners in the Village learn what is and is not allowed, and it will refresh the memories of owners and managers who have been working in the Village for some time, Kouvatsos pointed out. "Siesta Key businesses are governed by a set of regulations that in some ways [differ] from the general Sarasota County Code," says a flyer about the meeting that was distributed to businesses. The flyer notes the Siesta Key Overlay District (SKOD) was established in 2001, "after years of workshops with public and county input. It was updated in 2008 and 2011." "These county workshops have worked well for us," outgoing SKVA President Russell Matthes told members on May 7. The focus, he emphasized, will be "little things," such as when garbage is picked up in the Village and the fact that vendors should make every effort not to park in front of businesses when they make deliveries. "It's not going to be an open complaint session," Kouvatsos added. The goal is to help business people understand "you can't be doing things that make [the Village] look like the Jersey Shore." THE NOISE Although the county's noise ordinance will not SKVA officers and board members have been be addressed at the May 21 meeting, Matthes working since February to organize the meetpointed out on May 7 that it has been on the ing. SKVA's monthly agenda "ever since I can reThe flyer adds, "We feel this is an ideal way to member … and I think it always will be." inform everyone concerned [about] the guideJohn Lally, who was present for the meeting, lines of our Zoning Code." said county staff members have begun holding A question-and-answer period will be conduct- neighborhood workshops on the noise ordied after the presentation of information about nance as planned after the County Commisthe code, the flyer continues. "By educating sion voted on Sept. 25, 2012 to extend the sun-