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Sarasota News Leader September 27, 2013 Page 37 liath being a minimum of three county commissioners. Doubling the irony, one might say, is the fact that Michelangelo's statue of David is the city's logo. Sarasota wealth transfer. In the past, county commissioners have rebuffed efforts by the City of Venice and the unincorporated area of Nokomis to create their own CRAs. THE SHOW SHOULD GO ON In a July email to Sarasota Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown and Assistant County Administrator Mark Cunningham, Merrill wrote, "My thoughts include asking mayors or commissioners from the other three cities to come and discuss the topic, especially the southern cities that don't interact with downtown Sarasota on a regular basis. (I like the idea of encouraging them to start their own CRAs so that we don't put them in a position of opposing Sarasota's.)" On Wednesday, Sept. 25, for the second time in two weeks, the committee — officially the Downtown Community Redevelopment Area Extension Study Committee — agreed by consensus that the CRA should be continued. The members have not voted on the question, but their intent is clear. What troubles the County Commission are Merrill's questions about the impact on the remainder of the county of the downtown Downtown Sarasota has benefited from the infusion of money through the Community Redevelopment Agency. Photo by Norman Schimmel