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Sarasota News Leader December 6, 2013 Page 35 to put together cost projections for a shelter at each location, Wayne Applebee, Sarasota County's director of homeless services, told The Sarasota News Leader this week. City Commissioner Paul Caragiulo expects that the path to building a facility will not be an easy one, but he believes the project can be accomplished if the city and county commissioners work together. Caragiulo Applebee has been tasked with implementing has proposed setting up a series of meetings Marbut's recommendations. between the two boards. "I would hope within one to two months "I see what we're wandering at, if you will, as we would have [the environmental studies] a collaborative utopia, and I think we should wrapped up," Applebee said. take it for a spin and see what we can get — After a site is chosen, the city and county lead- and not lock ourselves in a closet and get ers will hold public meetings to begin vetting our tattoos and be partisan," Caragiulo said plans with the county's residents, Applebee during Monday's City Commission meeting. added. In a series of votes on Nov. 25, the County and All three of the sites would trigger some form City commissions not only approved Marbut's of rezoning or lengthy permitting process 12 strategic action recommendations, but under the city's development codes, Applebee they also agreed to the following: to extend Marbut's contract to keep him working as a pointed out. Homeless people were camping regularly on Florida Avenue in Sarasota until the police cleared the area in the spring. Photo by Norman Schimmel