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Sarasota News Leader January 3, 2014 effect 120 days from the date it is registered with the Office of the Florida Secretary of State, according to a memo provided to the County Commission. Shelin says he was told that registration probably would happen by the end of the week. Of the more than 2,000 Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT) stops, only 172 have shelters, and a contract amendment the Sarasota County Commission approves will increase that by 47 at the most in the 2014 fiscal year, the County Commission learns on Nov. 6. Nonetheless, Glama Carter, the SCAT director, tells the board she is working with other Page 111 county staff on a new procurement process that she hopes will speed up the installation of shelters and create more cost efficiencies. Carter adds that she plans to be back before the board in February with an analysis of information from six peer counties in regard to their procurement and erection of shelters, so the commission can have the best possible information as it moves forward on this issue. Commissioners ask Carter to speed up the pursuit of public records from those counties at the same time she works with staff to try to get more Sarasota County shelters in place on a faster schedule. Carter points out that staff installed 51 shelters in the 2013 fiscal year. A county chart explains why Sarasota County Area Transit shelters are more durable, and more expensive, than those in Manatee County. Image courtesy Sarasota County