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Sarasota News Leader November 16, 2012 groups, with their comments reported to the commission at a later meeting. She told Coyman to make certain the vendors knew none of the earlier decisions were "cast in stone. We really want their opinions back." The motion passed unanimously. Robinson suggested Coyman and his staff at least send an email to all the participants to let them know when the date and time were set for the next discussion. THE PROCESS At the outset of his Nov. 13 presentation, Coy- man reminded the commissioners he had ap- peared before them on Sept. 26 to talk about proposals to improve the Procurement Code. At that time, he said, the board had directed staff to research local vendor preference by asking representatives of the county's busi- ness community for their comments and by talking with officials in other counties to learn what practices they followed. Page 38 A slide shown to the County Commission on Nov. 13 ranks methods of determining how to confer local preference for vendors, with the "High" category showing the answers most common in a sur- vey of vendors and discussions with officials in other counties. Image courtesy Sarasota County