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— those will be the issues, and I think my background's perfectly suited. When some- one gives us a contract to build a road, I can look at it and know what should be charged to build that road. I took my businesses through this economic tsunami. What you get out of that, in addition to a lot of extra work, is you learn how to face adversity; you learn how to tighten your belt; you learn how to move forward not fright- ened to death. SNL: Do you think the commission has han- dled the process of rewriting 2050 well? AM: When the community decided they were going to start talking about 2050, there were only three paths that they could go down: One was to throw the whole thing out — I was opposed to that; do nothing — I was opposed to that; or start making some changes that make it more workable. That's just my calm, reasoned technical background coming into play. Alan Maio is running for the District 4 seat on the County Commission. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sarasota News Leader April 18, 2014 Page 36