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Sarasota News Leader November 8, 2013 Page 76 COUNTY OFFICES TO BE CLOSED FOR VETERANS DAY All Sarasota County government offices, including libraries, recreation centers and the Sarasota County History Center, will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day. For Veterans Bus information and operating hours, call 861-1018. Residential garbage will be collected as regularly scheduled Nov. 11. Both landfills — the facility at 4000 Knights The following Sarasota County Parks and Trail Road and the Citizens' Convenience Recreation facilities will be open that day, a Center at 4010 Knights Trail Road in Nokomis news release says: — will be open Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Landfill Administration Office will be • Arlington Park, from noon to 5 p.m. closed. • Payne Park, from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Chemical Collection centers located The Knight Trail Park Pistol and Rifle Range at 8750 Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota and on and the Englewood Sports Complex will be Jackson Road in Venice — along with the closed, the release notes. ReUzIt Shop on Bee Ridge Road — will be closed Monday, the release adds. Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT) bus service, including paratransit service, will For more information, contact the Sarasota operate on the regular schedule Nov. 11. County Call Center at 861-5000. PUBLIC COMMENTS WELCOMED ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANS The public is invited to comment on a pro- A total of five new projects would be added: posed amendment to the City of Sarasota • Drainage Improvements ($150,000) at two Community Development Block Grant locations: Goodrich Avenue between 32nd (CDBG) Action Plans, the City of Sarasota and 35th streets; and Maple Avenue between has announced. 27th and 31st streets. Both projects would The Action Plans designate how federal funds exceed Sarasota County's current level of will be appropriated, a news release says. The service. city is proposing to eliminate two projects: • Streetscape/Landscaping ($158,178): • Newtown Resource Center ($100,000): Selected bulb-outs along Dr. Martin Luther This project is no longer necessary since King Jr. Way would be removed to improve a city-owned facility was converted into a traffic flow; new landscaping would be business resource center at a lower cost, installed along Dr. MLK Jr. Way between the release explains. Cocoanut Avenue and Pershing Avenue; a roundabout at Dr. MLK Jr. Way and Osprey • Robert L. Taylor All-Purpose Field Avenue also would be designed (a dif($408,178): The project is proposed to move forward through the use of Tax Increment ferent funding source would be used for Funds instead of CDBG funds. construction).