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Sarasota News Leader October 11, 2013 Page 41 proposal, according to his consulting agree- people, with 357 of them women. No children ment with the City and County of Sarasota. were counted in the census, which was conJust days before Sutton's announcement, in a ducted by 29 local agencies. The report says bit of orchestrated political theater, Sarasota 273 shelter beds are available, meaning there Vice Mayor Willie Shaw drove home a point at is an "unmet need" of nearly 1,200 beds. the end of the Monday, Oct. 7, City Commission The survey was released by the Suncoast meeting: He is adamantly opposed to building Partnership to End Homelessness. a shelter for homeless and vagrant people in his north Sarasota district. Shaw is concerned about what he is reading and hearing about Marbut's research into Meanwhile, a census of "individuals in Sarasota County who were living on the finding a site for a new shelter. A nationally streets, in encampments and in temporary or recognized figure in helping cities with hometransitional shelter during the week of Sept. less and vagrancy problems, Marbut recently 15-21" was released on Oct. 9. For people revealed some of the criteria he is using to 18 and over, the local census reported 1,460 develop his recommendation. Homeless people gather on Central Avenue in downtown Sarasota earlier this year. Photo by Norman Schimmel