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Local rowing teams use Blackburn Point Park in Osprey for regular training. Efforts to address homelessness in the county — including a proposal to construct a shelter in Sarasota — could be another expense for the FY 2015 budget that cannot be projected accurately at this time. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office would operate the shelter. Harmer cautioned the commissioners that funding for any services or projects associ- ated with handling community homelessness will likely come from the general fund. "If the sheriff comes in and says he need funds for the homeless shelter, for instance, we may have to look at [cutting] other [county] ser- vices," Harmer pointed out. A chart shows projected expenses for a new four-story complex for the Sheriff's Office and a new two- story structure for the Sarasota County Medical Examiner and the Sheriff's Office Forensics Division on property adjacent to the Emergency Operations Center being built on Cattlemen Road. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sarasota News Leader February 28, 2014 Page 32