Sarasota News Leader
May 24, 2013
Page 87
Siesta Seen
that in years past, other communities required "Give them to us and we'll volunteer them for
similar youthful offenders to pick up garbage the cleanups [on Siesta]," SKA Vice President
Michael Shay responded.
on the beach in lieu of paying a fine.
"We don't have the resources" to monitor that
type of community service, Blakely replied.
Three people on a shift normally is the staffing
level for the Sheriff's Office on the island, he
indicated.
Shay organizes the quarterly Adopt-A-Road
trash collections, a joint effort with the Siesta Key Village Association. (The next cleanup
is on June 1, with a free breakfast offered at 8
a.m. to those volunteers who come to Village
Deputy Kevin Blakely speaks to Siesta Key Association members on May 2. Photo by Rachel Hackney
