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Sarasota News Leader July 26, 2013 Page 27 also calls for the Police Department to assign White told the board members she had had a supervisor to oversee the SROs in the city. the opportunity earlier that day to watch a video of Police Chief Bernadette DiPino's While the district has a partnership with the budget presentation to the City Commission Cities of North Port and Venice as well as last week, "and they certainly have some budthe Sheriff's Office for SROs, School Board get challenges, primarily due to their pension member Frank Kovach told his colleagues, costs." "I would not define our relationship with the During a July 8 budget workshop, Sarasota City of Sarasota as a partnership." City Manager Tom Barwin pointed out that 80 Referring to the city commissioners and the percent of the city's payroll obligations in the Sarasota Police Department, he noted during 2014 fiscal year would go to pensions. the July 23 meeting, "To basically throw up "I share Mr. Kovach's frustration and difficulty their hands and say, 'I'm not going to particiin expressing that politically correctly," Vice pate in the cost of SROs in the city of SarasoChairwoman Shirley Brown said. ta, I find disappointing." The School Board's original understanding, "As I do," responded Darryl Reyka, the dis- she added, was that the sheriff had worked trict's director of safety and security. Of the out matters with the municipalities to provide Police Department, he added, "We certainly those officers. "Then we found out, nope, [all want to work with their leadership. We want the] cities hadn't worked that out, and it's very to work with their new chief … with their dep- frustrating that the [Sheriff's Office] dropped uty chief. … I think they're open to working the service but yet the [City of Sarasota] didn't with us." pick [up any of the cost]." The rebuilding of Booker High has included measures to make the campus more secure, school and law enforcement officials say. Photo by Norman Schimmel