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in the community. But a pact formed between the city and county boards during a joint meeting on Nov. 25 has been melting down. On Tuesday, the county commissioners renewed their recounting of displeasure with City Hall, where two city commission- ers have reiterated their opposition to the shelter project and where the administration has appeared to retreat from the city's earlier commitment to the plan. I n v o i c i n g h i s f r u s t r a t i o n , C o u n t y Commissioner Joe Barbetta focused on comments aired during the City Commission meeting the previous day. Those included remarks by a Sarasota Police Department offi- cer about a shelter in Pinellas County that has been called a model for the one proposed in Sarasota; statements by City Commissioner Susan Chapman that the joint city-county decision in November to approve a homeless strategy was a "sandbag" vote; and another comment by Chapman that prospective shel- ter sites were "flunking" environmental tests — which is untrue, according to county staff. The city-owned site at 1330 N. Osprey Ave. remains one of the two parcels under review for a community homeless shelter. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sarasota News Leader March 21, 2014 Page 10