Sarasota News Leader
August 9 & 16, 2013
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tistics and a trend analysis to underpin any
request he might make for financial assistance
to expand the private security force.
The City Commission already takes $1 million
from the pot of Community Redevelopment
Agency funds to pay for increased city police
presence downtown and in north Sarasota.
The question for the DID board will be whether it should utilize revenue from its district to
pay for private security.
HOW TO GET A NEW BIKE RACK
The DID recently completed new landscaping along lower Main Street, and in one area,
the plants are already being trampled. That is
outside Smokin' Joe's café and tobacconist,
where patrons are chaining their bicycles to
the trees and crashing through the underbrush
to get to the bar.
Patrons of Smokin' Joe's in downtown Sarasota will soon have a new bike rack to use. Photo
by Norman Schimmel
Construction was under way on lower Main Street in late July. Photo by Norman Schimmel
