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Sarasota News Leader December 20, 2013 Page 48 DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT MEMBERS GET A LOOK AT PROSPECTIVE NEW LIGHTS FOR FIVE POINTS PARK By Stan Zimmerman City Editor With all the calumny about city boards meeting out of the sunshine, the Downtown Improvement District (DID) board members took the daring step of meeting in the dark of night on Thursday, Dec. 12. Bill Ellis of Candela ran the demonstration. Among the observers were residents of downtown condominiums that overlook the park. The use of new white lights would mirror the $14,800 project to install white lights on All five appeared in Sarasota's Five Points 22 trees along Main Street. The DID loaned Park for a legally advertised workshop to downtown merchants the money to get the look at lights proposed for the park's 28 trees. lights up in mid-November for the holiday season. Candela Controls Inc. of Winter Garden set up white lights and computer-controlled col- The colored-light system utilizes a red-greenored lights. The color system is estimated to blue palate to create any color desired. Ellis cost $136,005, while the white-only lights said the computer could be programmed for were bid at $91,672. an entire year, so it would change the lights on Blue lights would denote autism awareness in April.