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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 Page 25 Board, at our last meeting, determined that ALL outstanding matters needed to be cleared up by December 30th (today) prior to any further extensions. This is not acceptable to me." Just after 11 a.m. on Dec. 31, Patterson responded to Cunningham: "There are a number of very unhappy emails and I have been getting them for a couple of weeks. Hopefully you are able to inject some belief for the neighbors, as well as the commission that they turn to, that the county will be able to be helpful regarding the noise level or that the owner operator would like to help and be a good neighbor [her emphasis]. I do not get from staff that we are devoting the effort needed to see what the noise level is late at night when it is most disturbing and also the continued effort the commission has asked for that would catch noise levels that are loud but discontinuous — say very loud at 1 AM but not so much at 10 PM." The Bob's Boathouse sign on South Tamiami Trail in Sarasota advertised music in early December. File photo However, just three days later, a deputy responding to another complaint wrote, "[T] he music was soft … No noise violation." On Nov. 17, after checking on yet another complaint, a deputy reported, "Music can't be THE NOISE COMPLAINTS heard from street but there is a creek between According to a partial list provided to the establishment and residential neighborhood News Leader by the Sheriff's Office, the com- so noise may carry to residents." plaints about the new Bob's Boathouse began Bob's Boathouse employees told that deputy as soon as it opened. The first one, identified "they would have the band turn it down a bit," as a "Disturbance/Nuisance/Noise" call, was the report added. logged just before 5 p.m. on Nov. 3. Ten more came in through Nov. 17, with times ranging Preisser, the county spokesman, told the from 3:22 p.m. on a Sunday to 2:25 a.m. on a News Leader last week that no citations had been issued for noise by the Sheriff's Office Sunday. or county Code Enforcement staff. In the first complaint, the responding officer wrote that a warning was issued to the On the other hand, a resident across Phillippi manager on duty because a live band was Creek from Bob's Boathouse, Michele exceeding the allowable decibel level at Chapman, emailed the county commissioners at 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 6 to complain that not only that time.