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Sarasota News Leader November 15, 2013 Page 59 of the money? Who manages the money? Who Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown suggoverns the operation? Should the boundar- gested the committee vote on the outstanding issues at the next meeting. "Based on the votes ies be changed? we record, a draft or several drafts will come Gallagher suggested that during its next to you to review, revise, change. Then you'll meeting — on Wednesday, Nov. 20 — the com- have to vote on the final draft," he pointed mittee start going from twig to twig, making out. decisions. "Yes" here, "No" there, until all the "So the gist of the next meeting is us making questions are answered. a bunch of decisions," said Gallagher. Other committee members resisted the idea. Bill Russell said, "We may go down the tree, and then I can't support one decision, so I'm against the whole thing." While the committee has been disciplined to date, keeping its meetings at two hours or less, the "tree" the members expect to "trim" is large. The next meeting could be a doozy. Editor's note: One of the legal questions Committee member Michael Beaumier added, before the CRA committee was decided at the "OK, everybody agrees, yes, extend it. But if last City Commission meeting. The city can you asked me to support it just as it is now, I unilaterally reset the base year for a CRA, and it will do so for the Newtown CRA. % couldn't support that." Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown represents the city at the CRA meetings. Photo by Norman Schimmel