Sarasota News Leader
August 9 & 16, 2013
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Assistant County Administrator Mark Cunningham.
Barbetta also pointed to the estimated cost
of a regular bus stop shelter in that memo:
between $27,360 and $37,360. During a Jan.
29 workshop with the County Commission,
Carter had put the cost between $30,000 and
$40,000, prompting Commissioner Nora Patterson to remark, "That's just nuts."
"Now all of a sudden they've come down to
$27,000?" Barbetta told the News Leader on
Aug. 5.
Asked whether he felt the lower price was
just another indication — beyond those in the
memo — that staff did not want to pursue the
use of chickees, Barbetta replied, "I'm getting
that feeling."
A chickee stands on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation in Glades County. Photo by
Ebyabe via Wikimedia Commons
A man waits in a standard Sarasota County Area Transit bus shelter at Westfield Southgate Mall
during mid-March. File photo