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Siesta Seen property owners" along a canal are willing to pay for the work, they can apply to the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) for assistance with such a project. Still, she continued, "It's hard to get that many notarized signatures of people who actually want to pay [for the dredging]." SKA Director Joe Volpe, who brought up the topic, responded that the people who live along the canals already pay high taxes. "There are plenty of people who don't live on canals who pay very high taxes," Patterson told him. THE STORMWATER PROJECT On May 30, I learned, county staff conducted a field review and testing of equipment for the Siesta stormwater project, adjacent to the public beach. In an email to the County Commission, Isaac Brownman, the county's director of public works, reported on June 10, "System func- tioned as designed. With input from various county departments, a punch list of items to be modified/completed is being com- piled. Contractor will have until the June 30 Final Acceptance date to complete the punch list items." % Work continues on the new concessionary facility on the east end of the Siesta Public Beach Park. It is scheduled to be completed in November. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader June 20, 2014 Page 76