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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 Page 10 the police facility site ready to build," the doc- of the MOU as a binding contract. "We had ument says. no legal obligation to [do] any of it," Mayor Shannon Snyder said. But the contract was never finalized; a formal interlocal agreement was never signed, Yet, county commissioners say the city is not and the deed to the land never was trans- following through on its share of the accord ferred from the city to the county. That lack struck 11 years ago. of resolution is a sore that has festered over In an email he wrote after the City Commission time. The old police station site on Ringling discussion, County Commissioner Joe Boulevard sits empty. Barbetta said he wanted to talk about the The future of that former SPD headquarters issue at the Jan. 14 County Commission property is slated for discussion at the Jan. 14 meeting. County Commission meeting. "This matter has been pending for far too long City commissioners do not appear willing and should have been resolved quite some to give up the parcel. At their Jan. 6 regular time ago," Barbetta wrote to his fellow board meeting, they made it clear they do not think members and county administrative staff. The old Sarasota Police Department building was torn down in May 2012. Photo by Norman Schimmel