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by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

Contract ruling rejected The Sarasota Police Department union is upset that the city won’t give its officers the same option it afforded the local Teamsters union last month: the option to keep their pensions.

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+ Booker High holds ceremony The morning of Sept. 9, Booker High School held a flag-unfurling assembly in remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Some of the students present attended Emma E. Booker Elementary when President George W. Bush addressed the nation.

Four students in the ROTC program presented the Florida state flag and the American flag while the school released a giant flag from the roof of the theater. The school participated in a moment of silence for lives lost that day, and the band played the national anthem.

The Sarasota Police Department union has rejected a special magistrate’s recommendation on the ongoing contract dispute with the city. In a 12-page ruling issued Aug. 23, Punta Gorda-based Special Magistrate William McGinnis Jr. stated the Sarasota Police De-

partment’s current pension plan should be replaced with a new defined contribution plan, pending the city and the department working together to reinstate Social Security benefits for all officers.

“The (police) bargaining unit

members have been sensitive to the concerns of the city for years, but they cannot agree to the replacement of their existing pension and disability plans as proposed by the city,” McGinnis wrote in his recommendation.

“The members argue the city has

ample funds to meet its obligations to continue the existing pension and disability programs.”

McGinnis notes the city’s proposal to end the pension plan “fails to consider that the bar-

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WAVE OF SUPPORT

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Brittin Sullivan, 4, and Ridge Sullivan, 1, wait to see their uncle walk by with the rest of the Sarasota County firefighters Sunday, Sept. 11, during the remembrance march, organized by the Sarasota Firefighters Benevolent Fund. See the story and more photos on page 12A. Courtesy photo

+ Cockatoo’s mug seen everywhere He’s shared the stage with Shari Lewis, David Seville and the Chipmunks and Anita Bryant on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and even has his own mugshot from Folsom Prison, where he taught inmates patience, caring and responsibility.

Frosty, a greater sulfur-crested cockatoo who performs his bicycle, unicycle and scooter act twice daily at Sarasota Jungle Gardens, will celebrate his 75th birthday this year.

This month, guests may create a birthday card to be displayed in the Flamingo Café and feast on a special birthday cheesecake.

MORE MAINTENANCE

by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

Districts demand increased levels of service Both the Downtown Improvement District and St. Armands Circle Business Improvement District have plans to spend more for cleaning and landscaping services than the city can provide.

Fed up with what they perceive as subpar maintenance and cleaning by the city, both the Downtown Improvement District and St. Armands Circle Business Improvement District are planning to spend more district dollars to achieve the level of service

they want.

J MAR Cleaning Services began work this week on a $2,407 DIDfunded sidewalk cleaning project in the DID district “The DID decided to have the sidewalks cleaned because the city only pays to have Main Street

and Lemon Avenue sidewalks cleaned about twice a year,” said DID Operations Manager John Moran.

And as soon as next month, the DID could decide whether it wants to spend more to approve a new landscape maintenance ser-

vices contract.

In an effort to perform more efficient services, the DID will receive bids from contractors that are willing to provide downtown landscape maintenance services

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gaining unit members do not enjoy Social Security coverage, yet all competing area law enforcement agencies do enjoy that significant benefit.”

The city, meanwhile, “points to its lack of availability of funds, its shrinking tax base and restriction on some city funds as compelling reasons to impose its pension program,” wrote McGinnis, noting that the police pension plan has experienced actuarial losses in eight of the last 10 years.

“But the current disability benefits now in effect should be retained,” wrote McGinnis, who urges the parties to reform the current plan and reinstitute Social Security benefits for officers. “The benefit change is too drastic in the absence of Social Security coverage.”

Sarasota Police Benevolent Association President Mick McHale said Social Security, which officers declined in the 1950s when their current pension plans were approved, is the department’s biggest concern.

Without Social Security benefits, McHale said officers will have no disability safety net.

“If you mandate a defined contribution plan without any Social Security benefits, we would be the first city to do so, and officers here would leave in droves,” McHale said. “That would diminish benefits below standards offered to everyday city employees.”

McHale also expressed displeasure that the officers aren’t being afforded the same contract the city agreed upon last month with the local Teamsters union. That threeyear deal gives those employees the right to keep an amended pension plan or move into a defined contribution plan.

“We realize it’s the city’s intent to drive all future employees into a

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401(k) plan,” McHale said. “But the glaring difference from police officers and other employees is the officers are not being offered the same opportunity to keep an amended pension plan. That’s an extreme prejudice toward members of the police department.”

City Manager Bob Bartolotta told the Sarasota Observer that the police department has refused to negotiate with the city since Jan. 18.

“We have had ample opportunity since January to have further discussions regarding the pension issue,” said Bartolotta, noting that the union didn’t present a proposal until last Friday and that the city chose not to consider it. “The bottom line is the special magistrate agreed with our stance. This has been dragging on for three years, and we want a contract.”

In a letter dated Sept. 11, union attorney Diane Bailey Morton rejected the recommendations, noting that the city would need to hold a referendum to re-establish Social Security benefits.

Bartolotta, meanwhile, said he was unsure of the method to reestablish Social Security benefits, but agreed, “the union should absolutely go into Social Security again.”

Because the union has rejected the recommendation, the Sarasota City Commission must make a recommendation on the issues upon which neither side can agree.

The commission must now make a binding decision on the issues at hand that will establish a one-year contract that expires at the end of the month.

The decisions the commission make will become the basis for a new contract that both sides must discuss at the bargaining table once again this fall.

The goal, Bartolotta said, is to establish a multi-year contract and end years worth of delays.

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“The goal is to enhance the area’s maintenance beyond what the city historically does,” Moran said.

The BID is following a similar path.

Next week, city staff will put out a request for proposals for contractors interested in submitting bids for an enhanced trash service pickup on St. Armands Circle.

Currently, the city performs patrol and cleanup once a week in the Circle medians and parks.

St. Armands Circle Business Improvement District Chairman Marty Rappaport reported at a Sept. 13 BID meeting that Circle merchants want trash service to be picked up at least four times a week in season and two times a week the rest of the year.

“Our next budget will include enhanced maintenance for the Circle,” Rappaport said.

DID Enhanced Services The Downtown Improvement District is seeking bids for enhanced levels of services downtown. The scope of work includes a landscape contractor service that: • Controls and monitors all aspects of the DID area’s landscaping • Patrols all landscape beds for debris • Fertilizes plants, trees and shrubs • Sprays for insects • Trims and prunes all trees and bushes • Edges plant beds and walking areas • Mows no less than 38 times per year • Keeps all areas free of weeds • Replaces annual flowers four times a year • Monitors and maintains the irrigation system regularly • Maintains DID lighting and twinkle lights

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NUMBER WATCH

By Rachel Brown Hackney | Staff Writer

County more pessimistic than state on property values Sarasota County staff projects taxable property values will drop 4% in fiscal year 2013, while the state is projecting a 2.7% increase. Moody’s is even more pessimistic than the county.

Sarasota County’s budget officials are continuing their trend in being more conservative than state budget-watchers when it comes to property tax values.

During a budget workshop Sept. 6, Deputy County Administrator Dave Bullock presented a chart to the County Commission showing state projections compared to that of the county for fiscal years 2013 through 2017. As of Aug. 11, he said, state officials estimated the county would see taxable property values rise 2.7% for fiscal year 2013, while the county estimated the value would drop 4%.

“We are more pessimistic than the state,” Bullock said.

Moody’s, the internationally known credit rating service, is even more pessimistic than county officials, Bullock told the commission. Its analysts predict county taxable property values will decline by 6% in fiscal year 2013, he said.

At least state budget officials had dropped their projections over the past year, Bullock added. In August 2010, the state was estimating taxable property values in the county would rise 5.8% by fiscal year 2013.

Referring to state officials, Bullock added, “In fiscal year 2011, they were pretty good”

with their projections; “in fiscal year 2012 … not so good.”

“All we can hope is maybe it’s minus 2% or minus 3% instead of minus 4%,” County Commissioner Joe Barbetta said of the fiscal year 2013 projection.

Bullock also said the Moody’s representative with whom he spoke “was really discouraging … and I’ve seen the model (Moody’s uses); it’s a comprehensive, very sophisticated model.”

Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson said the question never would be whether the county would be able to pay its bills, because county officials always would make certain they did not default on payments.

The commission has tapped its reserve funds to plug budget holes the past two fiscal years. For fiscal year 2012, county budget Interim Chief Financial Planning Officer Steve Botelho said $33.1 million would be coming from reserves.

Bullock also noted expected increases by fiscal year 2013.

“We are starting to show a 3% annual increase in expenses — that’s all expenses, fuel and electricity and the thousands of goods and services (for which the county contracts),” he said. “We know we’re going to have to deal

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“In fiscal year 2011, (the state officials) were pretty good … in fiscal year 2012 … not so good,” said Deputy County Administrator Dave Bullock.

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Fiscal Fiscal Fiscal Fiscal Fiscal

year year year year year

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

State estimate* County estimate 2.7% -4% 4.2% -1% 5.4% 0.0% 6% 1% 6.1% 2% *as of August 2011

with salaries (too).”

Continuing with projections, Bullock said the county is not looking at a shortfall in meeting its projected budget, without an operating fund millage rate increase, until fiscal year 2015. Then, he said, the shortfall has been projected at $24.9 million. He called

the number “our best conservative estimate.”

By fiscal year 2015, he said, the county will have no reserves remaining except its emergency hurricane fund.

“To state the obvious, 2015 is the place where we don’t have an answer right now,” Bullock said.

The city of Sarasota’s downtown parking meters will come back online Oct. 3, with some of the meters being relocated to other areas.

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by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

Wayfinding system issues begin to arise A Delray Beach-based mobile media company proposing a free downtown Wi-Fi system may have some competition from other companies.

Metered parking resumes next month

Free parking in much of the downtown core is coming to an end soon. The city of Sarasota will resume its metered parking program Oct. 3, albeit with less metered parking in the downtown core.

The city has relocated some of the parking meters and pay stations east of U.S. 301.

Meters are being removed from State Street, the 1300 and 1500 blocks of First Street, Cocoanut Avenue and Gulfstream Avenue. Meters are being installed on Main Street, Adams Lane, East Street and east of U.S. 41 on Ringling Boulevard.

The city is creating six free, 15-minute parking spaces on Main Street, between blocks 1300 and 1500.

Enforcement hours will be 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with rates of $.50 per hour from May to October, and $1 per hour from November to April. With this implementation, 20% of public parking space downtown will be metered. Pay stations will accept coins, as well as Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Visitors must punch in to the meter their three-digit parking space

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Parking meters have been relocated on Main Street east of U.S. 301 and will be operational beginning Oct. 3.

number, which is visible on the purple curb in front of their parking space.

Permits to park in one of the city’s five public lots and two parking garages are available and will be sold at a reduced rate for upfront purchases. Packages for permits include $20 per month for one year, $30 per month for three months and $40 for one month. Permits may be purchased at the Parking Division located in the Sarasota police headquarters, 2099 Adams Lane.

For more information contact Mark Lyons, parking manager, at 954-7058 or at mark.lyons@sarasotagov.com.

A new, free downtown Wi-Fi service being investigated by the Downtown Improvement District needs to be examined further by city officials before the the DID proceeds with it, DID’s operations manager said.

Delray Beach-based Blueweb Mobile Media has proposed setting up and building a Wi-Fi system at no cost to the city. It would be free to users.

All the city would be responsible for, according to Blueweb CEO Daniel Kinney, would be the 42-inch flat-screen televisions mounted to the front of merchants’ buildings. Those TVs, which would act as virtual wayfinding screens, cost $12,500 apiece; 6-foot high information kiosks are also available for $11,500 apiece. The kiosks could replace those on each quadrant of St. Armands Circle.

Upon further review, DID Operations Manager John Moran said the city must investigate whether Blueweb can supply the entire system without any help from outside vendors.

“If they can’t,” Moran said, “the city must also take bids for vendors that share revenue.”

Moran said the DID will also be investigating whether it can receive income from Blueweb, which has tentatively agreed to give the district a 20% interest in the profits of the system.

Kinney is proposing 25 interactive signs throughout downtown, but he said the system could include as few as a dozen signs and as many as 36.

However, the city must solicit competitive bids for any service that has shared revenue, just as it had to do for the valet parking service at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center and the towing truck companies it uses.

Another issue revolves around the placement of the signs on buildings.

“Although there would be a touchsensitive film adhered to the outside of a storefront, technology needs to be placed on the inside of the building or window where the wayfinding screen is placed,” Moran said. “We need to make sure that’s doable.”

The third issue that’s already been discussed is whether the wayfinding system would violate the city’s sign code.

The code wouldn’t allow the signs to flash constantly.

To avoid an amendment to the city’s sign code, Moran said the city could work with Kinney to create virtual signs that would move only when they are touched.

When the signs aren’t being used, the city’s logo could be displayed.

Moran said the DID also wants to monitor the effectiveness of a similar system Blueweb has installed in Delray Beach.

A test wayfinding screen will be up and running there this week after a delay; Moran wants to confer about it with Delray Beach officials before moving forward in Sarasota.

“We will let Delray Beach be the guinea pig and make our determinations upon successful operations before we proceed with any decisions,” Moran said.

A 25-sign system would cost the city approximately $312,500, while a 12sign system would cost approximately $150,000.

The Sarasota City Commission would have the final say on the proposed system.

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The city of Sarasota has launched a new visual art program that invites local artists to display their work for a period of three months beginning Oct. 3 inside the Federal Building, 111 S. Orange Ave. The displays will change four times a year, and city staff hopes the artwork will stimulate the community’s interest in local artists.

“As a cultural community with a tourist-based economy, locals and visitors to the city have an interest in exploring the work of local artisans,” said Virginia Hoffman, the exhibition project manager, in a news release.

“This program allows local visitors and tourists to experience gallery exhibits by various local artists in the Federal Building.”

The program may be expanded in the future to include other city-owned facilities.

A call to artists requests individual -artists, 2010groups - K or organizations to submit examples of their work for consideration for the program. The call will

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This depiction of how a Palm Avenue parking garage wall would look was presented to the Public Art Committee.

+ Parking garage art debate continues At the city of Sarasota Downtown Improvement District’s Sept. 6 regular board meeting, board member Mark Kaufmann continued to question a $25,000 public art mural proposal for the interior walls of the Palm Avenue parking garage.

“It’s my impression public art should be visible from the outside,” Kaufmann said.

But Kaufmann said he would support that over the alternative.

“At the end of the day, I’m for interior art over no public art at all,” Kaufmann said.

DID Chairman Ernie Ritz, meanwhile, voiced his support for the project and said the DID has no say over the project.

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by Rachel Brown Hackney | Staff Writer

Residents describe the county administrator they want A strong sense of ethics and the ability to work well with people are among the desired traits for the person who will take Jim Ley’s former job as Sarasota County administrator.

Integrity, a willingness to listen to and collaborate with others and a desire not to be “the sixth commissioner” were among the top traits listed last week for the person who will become Sarasota County’s new administrator.

Experience with governments and business in Florida also was a much-valued résumé bullet point.

The average attendance at five focus group sessions hosted last week by John T. Maxwell of the Mercer Group Inc., which is conducting the search for former County Administrator Jim Ley’s replacement, was 25 people.

Maxwell said the first session, held at Selby Public Library, drew the largest group, 35; the last, at the North Sarasota Library in Newtown, drew the least, 17.

Sessions also were conducted at Phillippi Estate Park and in Venice and North Port.

Maxwell said he hoped to have a report ready by early next week that will reflect the public comments. His firm will recruit candidates based on the comments, he said.

“We go after the people who meet the criteria that’s been established,” he said.

Maxwell anticipated submitting candidates to the commission within 90 to 120 days.

“They want this done tomor-

row,” he said.

Niki McBride came prepared with a written statement when she arrived Sept. 8 at the Edson Keith Mansion; many of those seated with her at the table offering an “amen” chorus when she concluded.

The county needs a new administrator “who is absolutely neutral politically … and should not be making policy,” McBride said. “(He or she should have) strong staff relations across the board … with a record of open and successful communications … which has been missing for more than a decade here.

“We do not need an administrator to rule by fear,” she said.

“This government has lost very good and capable people.”

Virginia Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the county over the past five years had experienced the creation “of the worst polarized workforce I’ve ever seen.”

“I’d like to see a county administrator with a demonstrated strength of character,” Bob Waechter, a Siesta Key Association board member, told Maxwell. Furthermore, Waechter said, the person should understand his role is to implement policy set by the commission.

Kerry Kirschner, executive di-

rector of The Argus Foundation and former Sarasota mayor, said the county needs “a strong administrator and not a sixth commissioner.”

“One of the biggest issues in this county right now is one of ethics and corruption,” David Schwab said. “The person coming into the job is going to be pressured by a lot of special interest groups (so a strong sense of ethics will be vital).”

Cathy Antunes, a member of a citizens group that brought suit against the county over the recruitment of the Baltimore Orioles to the community, said, “I think we’re here primarily because the ethics of our county administrator and the administration have been found (to be) a failure … People who were honest were actually booted out by the old county administrator, which is an unacceptable, horrendous situation.”

“I believe we already have very fine ethical guidelines that just aren’t being implemented,” said Catherine Luckner, president of the Siesta Key Association.

“It would be a shame to (recruit) someone who thinks his mandate is to come in and clean house,” Waechter said.

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County Administrator Jim Ley resigned in late May. administrator should be able to create a business-friendly environment in the county.

Dougherty-Slapp was among several people who suggested Interim Administrator Terry Lewis would be perfect for the job.

“I don’t think he would be easily swayed,” she said. “But I’m going to keep trying.”

Lewis later reiterated he has no interest in taking the job fulltime.

Susan Chapman, a member of the city’s planning board, was the only person to criticize The Mercer Group for not having done the best possible background check on City Manager Robert Bartolotta when he was applying for his current job.

“I was severely disappointed in (the firm’s) services,” she said.

“There were some unpleasant surprises.”

Those surprises included a hospital nurse’s allegation that Bartolotta had tried to smother his gravely ill wife.

The vetting of the county administrator candidates should be much more thorough and public, Chapman said.

Mollie Cardamone, a former city commissioner, drew laughter during the Phillippi Creek Estate session when she summed up the comments.

“We need the absolute perfect person,” she said. Then, looking at Maxwell, she added, “That’s your job.”

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City financially out of touch

Three out of five Sarasota City Commissioners and city staff still do not get it: The city must keep prioritizing and cutting costs, not raise taxes.

Naturally, city staff paints the picture of a city that has been cut to the bone and needs to increase taxes to avoid damaging cuts. Voting last week to increase property taxes, three city commissioners bought it.

“To cut ourselves any further, we’ll be bleeding all over the place,” said Commissioner Willie Shaw.

But what the city chose to fund with the tax rate hike puts the lie to that sentiment.

The majority of the $800,000 tax increase is going to fund the operations of the Lido Beach pool, some neighborhood parks and the newly opened Robert L. Taylor Complex in North Sarasota, a luxurious community center replete with indoor and outdoor basketball and volleyball courts; a walking trail with fitness stations; exercise rooms; dance studio; art room; computer lab; teen room with a 65-inch high-def TV and Xbox

360; pool, ping-pong and air hockey tables; childcare; a 350-seat multipurpose room with stage featuring a 360-degree projector; swimming pool, state-of-the-art kitchen; amphitheater and playground areas.

Not exactly core services that, if cut, constitute “bleeding all over the place.”

Two points are consistently missed here.

First and foremost, it is morally wrong to force a tax increase on many city residents who are themselves living on the edge of solvency. Vice Mayor Terry Turner seems to be one of the few who understands this moral aspect.

“It’s not fair to citizens to increase the millage to protect government when our citizens are not protected,” he said. “We increase that burden on the taxpayer.”

And, remember, it is not for cops, as the public ploy goes. It is to operate a luxury community center that never should have been built, plus a beachside pool and some parks. To people struggling mightily to make it month to month, cutting a com-

munity center and beachside pool hardly constitutes “bleeding all over the place.”

Second, it solves nothing. It delays either more cuts or yet higher tax increases next year. Guaranteed. City staff is building the following year’s budget on rosy assumptions that the economy and real estate will come back strong and still includes another tax increase. That is a train wreck.

This was yet another kick-the-can-downthe-road moment. Next year will be worse because the city is unwilling to right-size government with what residents can afford.

The city’s cost foundations remain too high, and the services that the tax increase will pay for prove it.

Commissioners need to start seeing their first constituency as all residents and taxpayers — the most taken-for-granted and overlooked of all city groups — not just city employees. Staff cannot do that. We’d hoped Commissioner Paul Caragiulo would be the swing vote in that direction. His pivotal vote to raise taxes is disappointing.

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Government turns efficient private-sector jobs into inefficient government ones. And then does it far more than necessary.

Does government create jobs?

It seems like a no-brainer. Pretty much everyone recognizes that government does not create jobs, certainly not net jobs. The best it can do is relocate them at a premium through taxes, taking from the private sector and putting in the public sector.

Even President Barack Obama recognizes this reality, writing that “governments do not create jobs” in the Times of London newspaper.

Everyone seems to understand that employing ROD people is not the same THOMSON as “creating” jobs.

Well, almost everyone.

Thomas Tryon, opinion-page editor at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, wrote recently a column headlined, “Contrary to the new mantra, government does create jobs.”

Tryon points out that, according to the Bureau of Labor, 19,000 people were employed by local government in Sarasota and Manatee counties. State and federal workers bring the number to 24,000.

“In our area, government directly provides 10% of all non-farm jobs,” he wrote.

His thesis boils down to this: Look at all the people working for government! How can you say government does not create jobs?

Here is how: The private sector creates

jobs. It creates wealth. It innovates and produces products and services for more than it costs, thereby producing a profit.

Most companies generally tend to reinvest some or all of their profits back into their firms, creating more jobs and opportunities — more net jobs.

By force of law, government takes a portion of those profits that could be reinvested by the company or invested in some other fashion in the private sector and spends the money on government jobs.

See, that doesn’t really create jobs in any sort of “net” way. It changes the employer and most economists — even Keynesians — acknowledge the private sector is more efficient than the public sector.

See, the government doesn’t buy and sell, generate a profit and then hire more people. It hires people by taking other people’s profits, or part of their earned income or a portion of a purchase, and paying government employees.

It’s a transfer. Saying government “creates” those jobs is kind of like arguing that a mosquito “creates” human blood because, gosh, look at all the human blood in the little pest.

This is not to say that every government job is a blood-sucker, or that government work is inherently inferior.

But recognize that every one of them exists by sucking tax dollars from the productive, more efficient private sector and diverting the money to the less efficient

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government sector, resulting in fewer net jobs. None “created.”

An accurate way to look at those 24,000 jobs that Tryon believes government created is to see those are costing the private sector more than 24,000 jobs by limiting what efficient companies have left to reinvest. Those 24,000 are a cost, not a benefit.

Some of those jobs — cops, judges, firefighters — are necessary. But the government did not create them. The private sector did. Government is just the passthrough employer, using the wealth the private sector generated.

Consider some of the avenues by which the money is diverted: federal income tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, corporate tax, sales tax, property tax, gasoline tax, communication services tax, intangible tax, doc-stamp tax, unemployment tax, tangible property tax for businesses, pollution tax (which includes any petroleum product, pesticide, chlorine, etc.) license fees, impact fees and on and on.

This reflects that simple economic reality that government cannot inject money into an economy without taking it out first. It cannot “create” jobs without first taking jobs.

This is not a debate about stimulus spending — a theory for economic growth that has now been discredited at least five times (Hoover, Roosevelt, Ford, Bush II, Obama). Or about the cronyism and political pork inherent in government spending.

Those things only contribute to the public-sector inefficiency that results in the following truism: Government just does not create jobs. In the net, it actually destroys jobs.

Rod Thomson can be reached at rthomson@yourobserver.com.

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The truth about Social Security With a national debt of $14.587 trillion, the U.S. is on track for bankruptcy. Don’t be fooled by politicians.

The largest part of the federal budget is entitlement spending.

Nobody wants to touch entitlements, but basic math demands we feel the shock before we all get burned.

The Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA), also known as Social Security and Medicare, was designed based on purchasing political power, not care for the afflicted. Kalahar In the largest scam ever perpetrated upon Americans, politicians have stolen the money and cooked the books.

In simple terms, FICA is a Ponzi scheme, in which people on the top collect as long as they can get others below them to pay in. As the baby boomers retire, the takers outstrip the payers, and like all Ponzi schemes, this is when the system will collapse.

Your FICA deductions are supposed to be placed in a “trust fund” providing retirement income and health-care benefits when you need them most. Social Security is not like a private pension, however, in which money is saved, invested and grows for the rainy day of retirement. FICA is a pay-as-you-go system, meaning that the taxes paid by today’s workers are immediately sent out to pay beneficiaries.

If Social Security revenues ex-

ceed expenditures, the surplus is credited to the trust funds in the form of U.S. government “nonmarketable” bonds that are not worth the paper on which they are printed. When the bonds mature, they are rolled over into new bonds.

In short, the government confiscates the public’s hard-earned money, writes IOUs from one branch of government to another and pays off mature bonds with newer IOUs so the trust fund appears solvent.

The real wealth earned from hard-working Americans goes into the general fund of the Treasury, where it is spent by politicians as fast as it is confiscated. As everyone knows, you cannot spend and save the same money.

In fact, the Social Security trust fund is actually a white metal file cabinet. When the federal government takes cash coming into Social Security, it writes the trust fund a bond on a laser printer located at the Bureau of the Public Debt in Martinsburg, W.V. It is then stored in a three-ring binder and locked in the bottom drawer of a fireproof filing cabinet.

The agency has about $2.5 trillion in bonds sitting in the binder. Some will say they are all backed by the “full faith and credit of the U.S. government.”

But when political faith is a fraud and our credit is flawed, good

luck getting your benefits.

The trust fund balances are real current-dollar claims on the Treasury. To repay those IOUs, the government will have to: raise taxes, borrow the needed funds from private markets, reduce or cut other federal programs, reduce Social Security benefits by increasing the retirement age, link benefits increases to longevity or lower automatic adjustments to benefits based on inflation.

In 2017, when Social Security begins paying out more than it takes in, the percentage of spending for entitlements in the federal budget will begin to rapidly expand, forcing massive cuts in other programs. The trust fund will become fully exhausted by 2041, overwhelming the budget and forcing the U.S. to borrow itself into insolvency — or forcing Congress to raise taxes catastrophically.

Not even the all-powerful Oz can spend other people’s money, write an IOU to himself and then on some future day expect to use those IOUs to fund the Emerald City. It’s time to pull back the curtains.

It’s in everyone’s self-interest to stop the train and de-energize the “third rail” before it runs us over.

Dean Kalahar teaches economics and psychology at Sarasota High School and has authored three books, including “Practical Economics.”

by Rachel Brown Hackney | Staff Writer

School board approves millage rates, budget With no members of the public present to offer comments, the Sarasota County School Board took about five minutes Tuesday evening to approve the fiscal year 2011 millage rates and final budget.

The new budget reflects an 11.8% decrease in the required local effort millage rate dictated by the state. The total millage rate, 7.635 mills, represents a 9.61% decrease from last year’s rate. One mill equals $1,000 of property tax value; the owner of a $200,000 home, therefore, would pay $53.20 less in school taxes as a result of the vote.

Mitsi Corcoran, the district’s chief financial officer, said she had received few calls this year about TRIM notices because the millage rate was decreasing.

“Even though this went really fast, it seems like it’s been going on forever,” Chairman Frank Kovach said after the votes.

Board member Caroline Zucker said that was because the board began working on the budget in October.

“It’s been a difficult journey,” Superintendent Lori White said.

Last month, Kovach proposed the board members take a more active role in suggesting future spending cuts, instead of White and her staff taking the lead on that effort.

“There are no easy places to

cut anymore,” he said at the time.

“That’s going to be a real, real tough year,” Kovach said.

Total appropriations for the 2012 fiscal year are $373.2 million, down 3.18% from the 2011 fiscal year, primarily a reflection of fewer teachers and a move to have employees pick up more of their health costs. More than three-fourths of the budget — 77.91% — pays for salaries and benefits.

This school year, the district has about 2,350 teachers, down from about 2,420 last year. However, the official five-day student count was 41,088, which was higher than expected. Last year, enrollment was 41,238.

The district will be paying an extra $921,168 in salaries this year because it had to put 20 more teachers in classrooms to comply with the state’s Class Size Amendment.

Enrollment over the past decade peaked in the 2006-07 school year, with 42,460 students.

One school board vote Tuesday approved a budget amendment reflecting revenue changes since the board voted July 26 on the tentative fiscal year 2012 budget.

The biggest change is a $537,880 increase in federal funding related to extra Medicaid-eligible families in the district.

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Value of gold should continue to increase are hopelessly in debt. We are not yet in the third phase, even though our governments (state, local, federal) and leading banks are hopelessly in debt.

The following problems continue to cause deterioration in the purchasing power of our country’s currency and the commensurate increase in the price of gold: 1. The administration recently agreed with Congress to enact a $2.4 trillion spending cut over the next 10 years. There are two things wrong with this agreement: They have not yet agreed upon any spending cuts; and next year’s deficit spending is estimated to be $1.3 trillion. The debt ceiling isn’t shrinking — it’s rising. As with past years, they’ll be up against the debt ceiling within two years, if not before, and we’ll go through the same process again.

2. There are fewer buyers to purchase U.S. government bonds. Far Eastern economies do not want more dollar investments. European banks, we have just learned from our sneaky Federal Reserve, were borrowers of 70% of the Fed’s bailout money a few years ago. If European banks are out of the equation because they’re in trouble, as is the euro, who is buying the bonds?

Russell Napier discovered that the Fed was buying 200% of the securities that the Fed, itself, was selling. Because that cannot happen, Napier went on to learn that our domestic banks are currently big sellers of treasury bonds. The banks are selling bonds back to the Fed in return for cash. This is

obviously the reason banks have such huge cash positions, and the reason the Fed can “purchase” 200% of what the Fed sells.

The Fed prints $4.4 billion every day just to pay the government’s bills. The Fed uses the cash it just printed to purchase treasury securities, previously issued and sold by the Fed to the banks, just as it is doing now. When money the Fed makes every day filters down into the economy, there ends up being too much cash for the goods and services available.

Therefore, the price of goods and services goes up.

3. Politicians and the press went crazy over Standard and Poor’s downgrading of U.S. debt, calling it “ridiculous, unnecessary and overreacting.” Standard and Poor’s rates U.S. government bonds (debt) based upon the ability to repay the obligation, as well as the government’s ability to pay the interest charges. The questions should be: What took Standard and Poor’s so long to downgrade the debt of a country that has no plan to repay its debt, and which continues to borrow 35% to 40% of expenditures every year? It’s unsustainable. It’s like the family who makes $65,000 and spends $100,000, year in and year out, until the borrowing they do to accommodate their lifestyle collapses upon them.

4. In the last several years, South American, European, Japanese and the U.S. governments have borrowed all of the savings of their countries just to sustain their own governments. The

money our government spent, which has gotten us into trouble, is the spending for entitlement programs. Those programs have failed to do anything constructive.

Instead of being used in a way that could create permanent and growing employment, this use of capital is known in economics as “mal-investment,” which means bad investment. The country’s savings have not been used for industrial growth. They have been given away to people who are not productive, but who are “entitled” to various U.S. government payments. Now, that $14.5 trillion of expenditures is U.S. government debt that must be repaid. But, it can’t be repaid until we quit borrowing money just to pay interest on the existing debt. That is the worst of all financial downward spirals.

5. In March 2008, the U.S. national debt was $9.4 trillion and the cost for servicing that debt was $406 billion. Today, our debt is $14.5 trillion. Professor Warwick McKibbin told the Melbourne Institute Conference last month that the U.S. is forecast to have debt of more than 100% of GDP. At zero interest rates, that can be sustained. At 5% interest rates, however, the U.S. will have to put aside at least 5% of GDP every year just to pay interest on the debt. That is not sustainable.

6. Fifty percent of people who file tax returns pay no income taxes. The other 50% pays all the income taxes. Our tax situation is too demanding for half of our taxpayers to pay no taxes at all. Our

“leaders” are in a pickle: It’s tough to make people start paying taxes, and it’s tougher to raise taxes, especially in this environment.

The root causes of our economic problems are not being resolved. There are no answers to the continuation of policies that got us into trouble. It is, therefore, likely that the U.S. financial situation will get worse, while the value of gold and silver should, logically, continue to increase.

Conclusion

Until structural problems that perpetuate increases in government debt, and until government spending is under control, the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power will continue to decrease. Gold should increase in value. Interestingly, there are no economic reasons for gold to decrease in price.

There are a host of economic reasons that point to gold and silver continuing to increase in value.

One of our favorite financial writers, Richard Russell, writes, “The stupider and less patriotic the Congress, the greater should be your commitment to gold.” We feel that the conclusions in the Market Watch article of June 2003 are valid: “Statistics indicate the minimum price of gold should be $1,700 an ounce and that price levels of $3,000 to $5,000 are not unreasonable.”

Carpe Diem.

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There are three phases to a gold bull market. The first phase is when investors realize gold is undervalued and begin to accumulate it for their own investment purposes. Smart investors realize those policies will force the value of currencies down and the value of gold up. These are early investors, and that phase is over.

The second phase of a gold bull market occurs when everybody starts talking about the increasing price of gold. We are there. In the second phase, the media begins to talk about gold, and the public realizes the reasons gold has increased in value.

The third phase of the gold bull market occurs when there is panic and a stampede occurs to own gold. That results in a sharp run-up in price. The economics of the third phase always involves governments and bankers that

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Sept. 2 Search patrol 6:30 p.m. — 2000 block of Main Street. Drug Possession. Police located a woman accused of stealing items in a grocery store and took her to jail. A thorough search of her purse revealed she was also in possession of a yellow football-shaped pill in a cellophane wrapper, a silver kitchen spoon with a burn mark on the bottom of it and a yellow-and-white straw.

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No more late-night snacks 11:45 p.m. — 2500 block of North Orange Avenue. Suspicious Circumstance. Police found a man selling Jamaican food out of a white box truck after 10 p.m., which violates a city ordinance. He was sent packing.

Sept. 4 Final resting place?

10:35 a.m. — 700 block of Central Avenue. Suspicious Person. A woman told police that she observed a man walk up to the locked front door of a theater, where he left a small dead yellow parakeet in the dirt near the front door.

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2:40 a.m. — 1400 block of Main Street. Fight. Two men got into a fight outside a bar. Both men were drunk and argumentative, and police were unable to obtain enough information to pursue the incident further.

4 p.m. — 2700 block of Coconut Bay Lane. Theft. A woman told police that she believes her former best friend paid back a past due loan owed to her by stealing her jewelry from her bedroom and taking it to a pawn shop.

6:30 p.m. — 1700 block of Main Street. Theft. The owner of a restaurant told police a man fled without paying his $153.22 bill. Another customer at the restaurant told police he overheard the man say he was going to another restaurant down the street. Police found him there, and

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The city of Sarasota World Trade Center Memorial features a beam from the World Trade Center. The memorial has four identical plaques on each side.

A crowd gathered at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, for the dedication of the World Trade Center Memorial and Police Memorial at the Sarasota Police Department.

The city of Sarasota World Trade Center Memorial is dedicated in memory of the 2,997 victims, including the 343 New York firefighters, 37 Port Authority police officers and the 23 New York

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The city of Sarasota Police Memorial is dedicated in memory of Officer Warren David Jones, who served for two years; his end of watch was Saturday, April 5, 1975.

Both memorials received wreath presentations, and many people took photos in front of both memorials before and after the presentation.

Dr. Clifford Smith reads the words on the city of Sarasota World Trade Center Memorial plaque to his grandsons, Devon Saxman, 7, and Jaden Saxman, 11.

Wade Chapel rings the bell during the moment of silence at 8:47 a.m., the time when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.

The Rev. David Stone, police chaplain, leads the crowd in prayer.

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The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee honored the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a program called, “Triumph over Tragedy: Remembering 9/11 a Decade Later.� The event took place Wednesday, Sept. 7, inside Selby Auditorium.

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“If you practice discipline and good manners in music class, you’ll see it in everything else you do,” Julia Rohr says.

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The music ma’am The 94-year-old matriarch of Julie Rohr Academy proves she’s still got what it takes to make kids sing.

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The 94-year-old music teacher admittedly has little patience for slackers.

Her pupils and her colleagues know this.

Even her daughter, Julie Rohr McHugh — a bubbly 65-year-old for whom Rohr purchased her private

school on Fruitville Road — refers to Rohr as a disciplinarian, followed by this label: “old school.”

“Kids used to say they felt sorry for me,” McHugh says. “They didn’t know my mother wasn’t stern at home.”

Stern is the last thing Rohr appears to be on this particular morning.

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Rohr teeters merrily across the lobby at Julie Rohr Academy on a gold cane bedecked in rhinestones.

McHugh, Rohr’s only child, trails closely behind. An ageless motherdaughter duo, the two are inseparable. Together they’ve touched thousands of lives in Sarasota and have served as tireless champions for youth music programs.

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ROHR from 15A Their greatest legacy is, of course, the academy that bears their name.

With its focus on visual and performing arts, JRA has staged about 150 musicals over the course of 37 years.

Rohr, with her pink lipstick, flashy cane and halo of white hair, is the grande dame of the school, which she purchased in 1973 when it was a rundown day care with only 17 kids on the roster.

She famously bought the building so McHugh, who followed in her mother’s footsteps, would leave her post teaching music at a Fort Lauderdale middle school and return to Sarasota for work.

“You know how mothers are,” Rohr says. “I was determined to have my daughter near.”

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McHugh took over the school the following year and embarked on the herculean task of overhauling a neglected building with grease splatters so thick on the kitchen walls it took weeks to scrape them clean.

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Humble as she is, Rohr has set her mind to many things since she and her late husband, former Sarasota Concert Band Director Arthur Rohr, moved in 1953 to Sarasota.

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“I don’t think anyone ever mouthed off to my mother,” says Julie Rohr McHugh of her mother, Julia Rohr, pictured here directing the Sarasota Boys Choir in the 1970s. founded the Sarasota boys and girls choirs, led an all-accordion band and for 48 years directed the Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church Choir and the Sarasota Choral Society, for which she still serves as director emerita.

“I’ve always felt that music was as important as math or science,” says Rohr, who during her nearly 30-year tenure as a music teacher in Sarasota County taught in every public elementary school in the district. “Music helps everything else in the brain develop.”

Perhaps this is why her brain has stayed so sharp.

Three years ago, she suggested creating “Sarasota’s Got Talent,” a performing-arts competition in the vein of her three favorite TV programs: “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”

The school opened the contest to children and adults; the auditions are held at the Plymouth Harbor Auditorium. The first year, 35 performers auditioned. Last year, that number doubled.

“Working with children all of these years has kept my mother young,” McHugh says. “Teaching and being with her grandchil-

dren and great-grandchildren has kept her in a youthful frame of mind. Although, if you ask her, she’ll say she’s old.”

The two women are sitting sideby-side in Rohr’s tiny wood-paneled office at JRA. Even though she retired from teaching in 1982, Rohr still gives piano lessons and keeps an office at the school.

Her desk is cluttered with photographs, stacks of sheet music, an assortment of awards and a glass jar of jellybeans. Among the framed accolades is a plaque from the city of Sarasota proclaiming Nov. 28, 2004, “Dr. Julia W. Rohr Day.”

“When she complains about being old, I tell her most women her age are in nursing homes,” McHugh says. “And here she is driving, shopping and working.”

McHugh emphasizes the word “working,” to which Rohr rolls her eyes and shrugs.

As much as she’s scaled back her involvement with other organizations, Rohr continues to throw her weight around at JRA. “The teachers here have learned that when she says, ‘Jump,’ they ask, ‘How high?’”

McHugh jokes. “When she needs a new cane bedazzled, the art teacher bedazzles it.”

Rohr chuckles quietly to herself. Some schools have a mascot. The Julie Rohr Academy has a matriarch –– and she rules with a sparkly cane.

“All the children call me ‘Dr. Rohr,’” Rohr says, referencing her 1991 honorary doctor of liberal arts degree from her alma mater, Shenandoah University. “I always get a charge out of that.”

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Bert Minot and Bev Crawford with one of the new displays.

Designing Women Boutique is apparently recession proof.

Not only did the consignment shop see a 25% increase in sales this year, but also it ushered in a new estate liquidation and downsizing department and added 800 square feet of new office space to its North Tamiami Trail location.

And the makeover continues.

In just one weekend last month, DWB Development Director Pam Day and a team of volunteers (Annie Sundeen,

Bev Crawford, Butch Amerson, Bert Minot and John Day) enlarged and remodeled the sales floor.

The group clocked more than 400 hours primping the store before its Aug. 15 grand reopening.

If you haven’t stopped by the boutique, you should. The entire north end of the store now houses pretty home furnishings and accessories, while the south end showcases DWB’s famous stock of designer duds.

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+ Baby, I’m back!

Wondering where I’ve been all summer?

Yeah, me too.

In case you missed the photo of my new favorite subject –– Baby Henry, who made an appearance in this column following his June 5 birth –– here’s another shot of the little guy. (You know us new moms.

We’re relentless when it comes to baby pictures.)

Anyway, I’m back from the abyss, and by abyss I mean maternity leave, and by maternity leave I mean the haze of sleepless nights, soggy burp cloths, dirty diapers

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and endless consoling of inconsolable cries.

Ah, who am I kidding? I’m still in the thick of it.

But, I’m happy to be back to work, because the only arts and entertainment in my life right now is a musical rattle that never shuts up and a stuffed dog that sings “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” in a cringe-worthy falsetto.

Thank you to Loren Mayo for doing a killer job with this section while I was away. If you see Loren around town, please give her a hand for a performance well done.

And, please, by all means, tell me my baby is cute.

dozens of s/ART/q volunteers who dry, fold and organize hundreds of pieces of apparel faster than it takes most people to do one load of laundry.

The Sept. 10 event served up a variety of designs, including an old lady in a superhero cape done by the always-enigmatic Brian Haverlock. The print was a sleeper hit among new parents

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Between Drag Queen Bingo and last weekend’s “Butchlesque Fashion Show,” the Apple is quickly becoming the poster theater for gender-bending entertainment.

The 40-year-old dinner theater

brandishing white baby onesies.

Also a hit among infants: Tim Jaeger’s ode to John Ringling — an illustration of the circus magnate dressed as a dorky tourist in knee socks and a Hawaiian shirt.

One can only assume that if Ringling were still around, he’d be in line at the print party, hoping to jazz up his tailored suit coat.

recently filed to become a nonprofit organization to pay off its debts. With events such as “Butchlesque,” billed as a fundJamie Arena raiser to help save dons a mean the Apple, it looks like the theater is moustache.

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on the upswing of its struggle.

The Sept. 10 show sold out well before it opened.

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Said Gail Forbes: “I heard the lights will blind me, so I won’t see how many people are out there.

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Score lore

SEBASTIAN’S CELEB ENCOUNTERS

Music Director Michael Sebastian returns to his Golden Apple stomping grounds with a feisty new musical about disgruntled Disney princesses.

nomadic lifestyle and the variety of theater credits it affords him, he says there’s nothing quite like musicdirecting a show at the Golden Apple.

A cello major from the University of Michigan, in 1978 Sebastian moved to Sarasota to play for the Florida West Coast Symphony, where he served as its principal cellist for six years.

Tired of stringing Bach, Sebastian took a gig as a keyboardist with a top-40 cover band. At the time, it was 1985. Bob Seger and Huey Lewis dominated the radio.

“I loved it, but I still felt like I was exclusively doing one thing,” Sebastian says.

“I still wanted to mix it up.”

After a three-year stint working as the music director on a cruise ship, he returned to Sarasota, landed “South Pacific” at the Golden Apple and was soon hired as the theater’s resident music director.

The job taught him how to work fast. The 40-yearold dinner theater has notoriously short rehearsal

Smokey Robinson “He turned to the string section and said, ‘I should have hired a synth player instead.’ Ouch.”

Bernadette Peters “She’s got drive like no other.”

Paige O’Hara (the voice of Belle in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”) “She was so delightful, so talented and so humble.”

Johnny Mathis “He’s pathologically shy.”

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“The score is my bible,” Michael Sebastian says. “If I can’t translate what’s in the hard copy of the score, I don’t have the right to be a music director.” periods — one week to 10 days.

It taught him the delicate art of stroking an actor’s ego or, as Sebastian describes it, “getting inside an actor’s head and learning what makes ’em tick.”

It’s also where he met

his husband and current manager, Mark Marvell, the theater’s former box office manager.

“We have a really long and wonderful history,” Sebastian says. “Both personally and professionally.”

He even digs the Golden

The

Apple’s music pit, which, unlike most orchestra pits, is located above the stage instead of below it.

“It’s cool up here,” Sebastian says, tugging at the dusty black curtain that keeps his piano from being spotted by the audience.

“You can misbehave and no one knows.”

His first show back is “Disenchanted,” a new musical about bitter fairy-tale princesses whom Sebastian describes as “quick, smart and bitchy.”

No, he’s not being judgmental.

The musical’s full title –– “Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom” –– is curiously missing from the theater’s website.

“It has its raunchy mo-

ments,” says Sebastian, who is looking forward to meeting the 10 females who will round out the cast.

The musical, which opens Oct. 11, hasn’t been cast yet.

In the meantime, Sebastian has begun the process of “internalizing” the score, a process he repeats with every musical, no matter how many times he’s seen other productions of the show.

“I always find something in the score that I’ve never seen before,” Sebastian says. “With the last show I did, the composer wrote ‘Congrats! You did it,’ at the end of the score. With this show, the composer wrote, ‘A tempo di insane.’ That’s a first.”

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Michael Sebastian is happy to be home again.

He’s happy to be home in Sarasota after wrapping his last show in New Hampshire, and he’s happy to be home at The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, where he got his start as a music director 20 years ago on the 1991 set of “South Pacific.”

“It feels so good to be back,” Sebastian says.

More than 12 years have passed since he worked on a show at the Golden Apple, but you wouldn’t know it by the way he banters back and forth with the theater staff.

It’s as if he never left.

Strolling through the mostly empty theater on a Tuesday afternoon, Sebastian tosses one-liners back and forth with Kyle Turoff, the theater’s managing director.

The Golden Apple’s former resident music director, Sebastian now spends his time on the road traveling from theater to theater, orchestra pit to orchestra pit.

Although he loves his

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That’s what it is at Jpan Restaurant & Sushi Bar, tucked away on the north side of Paradise Plaza. The menu delivers raw fish treated with respect in all the conventional guises and some uniquely Jpan ways.

There are the expected Japanese classics, here called “kitchen entrées” — tempura, teriyaki, miso sea bass and more. The black-garbed servers are knowledgeable, efficient and pleasant, and the place manages to be simultaneously tranquil and lively. This is sushi — the experience — as well as sushi — the food.

What gives Jpan a twist is the heritage of chef/proprietor Daniel Dokko, who was born and raised in Brazil.

“Sushi has a clean taste, so it goes really well with fruit,” he said.

He means tropical fruits — for the most part: kiwi, mango, strawberry and Asian pear. He says the idea is popular with customers. An example from the list of Jpan’s specialty rolls: Aloha Roll, made of shrimp tempura and cream cheese topped with mango and coconut. Other specialties include low-carb options such as Cucumber Delight, which consists of tuna, salmon, kani and asparagus wrapped in transparently thin cucumber.

In an economy that has been hostile to restaurants, Jpan is thriving. Just three months ago, Dokko doubled the size of his place so it now seats 90. The art of the food finds its match in a wall decorated by a collaborative effort of Professor DongHuy Kim, from Ringling College of Art and Design, and Dokko’s 3-year-old son, Dario.

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• Chichimi powder is a blend of seven spices available in oriental markets.

Coat tuna with chichimi powder. Sear on all four sides in an extremely hot non-stick pan, about five seconds per side. Put tuna in an ice water bath to stop cooking and cool.

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By Rachel S. O’Hara | Staff Photographer

Helen and Hal Pelta show a tray of buttons that contain Helen Pelta’s favorite buttons in her collection.

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Helen Pelta takes out hundreds of buttons in plastic bags and on button trays and starts laying them out on a table in the Gulf Gate Library. Her bag is reminiscent of Mary Poppins’ — a bottomless pit of buttons and button paraphernalia.

As she begins to organize them on the table, a young woman stops and stares at the table’s contents.

“Wow. These are really cool,” she says.

Pelta and her husband, Hal, look up from their button organizing and smile. They engage her in a conversation about the Tamiami Trail Button Club, and they give her some information about their first meeting of the season, which was held Wednesday.

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Helen Pelta purchased this 1930s salesman’s sample card at a button auction.

charge of the club’s public relations. Prior to being in the Tamiami Trail Button Club, Pelta was a member of the Central Jersey Buttoneers while living

in Pennsylvania. The Tamiami Trail Button Club is one of six button clubs in Florida; it celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.

Pelta started collecting buttons 20 years ago when a friend asked her to be on the lookout at yard sales for buttons that she could use to make jewelry.

“I went to yard sales, and I came home with plain shirt buttons, and she gently said she wanted things that looked like little works of art,” Pelta said. “The next buttons I found were tiny metal buttons that captivated me. They had stamped designs on them, and after that, I tried to buy every button in the world.”

Pelta began selling some of her buttons at an antique market in New Jersey in order to be able to buy more buttons.

Hal Pelta would go with her to spend time with his wife.

“She (has been) the light of my

life for more than 50 years, and I don’t drive anymore, so rather than stay home and be housebound, I would hop in the car and go off to button things,” Hal Pelta says.

Although he is not a collector like his wife, he has learned a lot, along with Pelta, about the history, types and categories of buttons.

“I like the ones that have to do with transportation, like the trolley and railroad buttons,” he says.

Pelta doesn’t have a favorite type of button.

“I get hooked on a material and then some other thing will come to light and I will try to get a lot of that,” she says.

“Right now I am into the handpainted porcelain studs.”

The Peltas have an entire room in their house devoted to buttons. The couple has drawers, boxes and walls filled with buttons amassed over the last two decades.

“I have two tubs of buttons that are my favorite buttons that I could grab quickly if I needed to take them in case of a disaster,” Pelta says.

Over the years, Hal Pelta has learned what makes button collectors tick.

“You collect what you like,” he says. “Nobody collects because of the monetary value of the buttons. They collect because they like and want it. It’s not about the money.”

Although some button club

members, including Pelta, estimate to have spent thousands of dollars buying buttons, they say the sentimental value far outweighs the cost.

“There are competitions where people submit trays or cards of buttons based on a theme or material,” Pelta says.

“The grand prize in a category is usually about $5.”

Each Tamiami Trail Button Club meeting begins with time for the members to share, sell, trade and look at one another’s button collections, followed by a program led by one of the members. The programs can be about anything relating to buttons, such as the history of a certain type of button or the origin and reason behind a button term.

“These are really miniature works of art,” says Hal Pelta.

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Imagine School gets pumped for sports season Imagine School at Palmer Ranch held a pep rally Thursday, Sept. 8, to kick off its first football and volleyball games of the year.

The cheerleading squad cartwheeled and backflipped through the cafeteria and performed acrobatic moves to wow the students and teachers.

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Chambers of commerce meet in the middle The East Meets West networking social event took place Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium.

More than 75 vendors attended the event, hosted by the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance and the

Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Siesta Key and Gulf Coast Latin chambers of commerce.

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about everyone my age, but the great thing about Quidditch is that you don’t have to know the books to play,” Miller says. “We started out as kind of a ragtag club because we wanted to bring the sport to campus, and now we compete on a national level with other teams from around the world and have become the official sport on campus.”

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10, the Florida Quidditch Conference held daylong matches during which several Florida college Quidditch teams competed at the 17th Street Park. The Ringling team caught three golden snitches during their five matches.

Miller has played basketball and football for the majority of his life, but he says Quidditch is out-ofthis-world.

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Casey Key home sells for $4.5 million Castel Del Mare

Cynthia Heinz, of Saginaw, Mich., sold her Unit 102-1600 condominium at 1600 Stickney Point Road to Jed and Lura Weirup, of Cliv, Iowa, for $205,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,036 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $425,000 in 2005.

Kenilworth Street

BankUnited sold the home at 1623 Kenilworth St. to Cassandra Shea, Sarasota, for $204,000. Built in 1957, it has two bedrooms, one bath, one half-bath and 1,408 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $465,000 in 2004.

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Marian Pietsch and Linsley Pietsch, personal representatives, sold the home at 1505 Hillview Drive to Chad Williams, Sarasota, for $827,500. Built in 1956, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,735 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $74,900 in 1975.

Sarasota Bay Club

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 913 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trail to Joseph and Ruth Golov, Sarasota, for $795,000. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,772 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $580,100 in 2000.

Avondale

Tina Heinert sold the home at 1960 Lincoln Drive to John and Jean Ruff, Sarasota, for $385,000. Built in 1940, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,611 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $225,000 in 1997.

Phillippi Landings

John and Barbara Speicher, Osprey, sold their Unit 401 condominium at 5591 Cannes Circle to Thomas Minicucci, trustee, Sarasota, for $365,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,024 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $672,600 in 2006.

Hudson Landings

Bradley and Caroline Spotts, trustees, Bradenton, sold the Unit 858 condominium at 858 Hudson Ave. to Paul and Elizabeth Hennekes, of West Chester, Ohio, for

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Unit 913 at Sarasota Bay Club, 1301 Tamiami Trail, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,772 square feet of living area. It sold for $795,000.

$350,000. Built in 1989, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,453 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $140,000 in 1990.

Harbor House West

Roger and Eileen Requardt, Pembroke Pines, sold their Unit 44 condominium at 226 Golden Gate Point to Jeffrey and Kendra Dash, Punta Gorda, for $337,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,396 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $112,500 in 1991.

living area. It previously sold for $369,000 in 2005.

Villagewalk

Anthony and Jennifer Fricano, Sarasota, sold their home at 8664 Dolce Lane to Elinor White, Sarasota, for $360,000. Built in 2002, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 2,521 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $321,700 in 2002.

Russell and Joan Delaney, Sarasota, sold their home at 7852 Bergamo Ave. to David and Debra Gidaro, of Sterling, Va., for $225,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath, a pool and 1,672 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $213,900 in 2004.

Fairway Woods

Mira Lago at Palmer Ranch

Mark Lubienski, trustee, sold the Unit 403 condominium at 7555 Fairway Woods Drive to Mary-Alice Salisbury, Sarasota, for $380,000. Built in 1985, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,556 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $275,000 in 2009.

Walter Duggins, of Louisville, Ky., sold his home at 7145 Del Lago Drive to Genevieve Haller, trustee, Sarasota, for $260,000. Built in 1994, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,824 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $186,600 in 1994.

Turtle Rock

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Richard Chapkovic, trustee, of Indian Head Park, Ill., sold the home at 5107 Far Oak Circle to Eric Polinsky and Gabriela Lodeiro Polinsky, Sarasota, for $360,000.

Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath and 2,606 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $390,000 in 2003.

Federal National Mortgage Association sold the home at 4938 Sabal Lake Circle to Robyn and Jim McBridge, Sarasota, for $240,000. Built in 1999, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,559 square feet of

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Kenneth Thorset sold his home at 6392 Woodbirch Place to John and Linda Harrison, Sarasota, for $240,000. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath and 2,432 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $229,000 in 2010.

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The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2. Of this week’s 21 sales, nine took place in Sarasota, seven took place in Palmer Ranch, four were in Osprey, two were recorded in Nokomis and one was on Casey Key.

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It plans to hire at least nine fulltime rental agents in the coming months and up to six more people for inside office jobs.

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One of her first moves was to hire Jayci Grana, a rental properties Saunders executive from Orlando, to run the division. Grana is incoming president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers, an industry-lobbying group.

Grana says one key to the rental unit is that the brokers will be paid a salary, with a commission on top.

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High Low 98 (1970) 61 (1960) 96 (1991) 65 (1960) 95 (1948) 65 (1997) 97 (1948) 64 (1963) 98 (1925) 62 (1924) 95 (1948) 65 (1956) 95 (1963) 65 (1956)

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31 Satisfies, as thirst 33 Simple sweepers 34 Fez adornment 36 Many crosswords feature them 37 Paper purchases 38 Huckabee of politics 39 Greeted wordlessly 40 Saxophones, bassoons, etc.

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110 Dictionary subject 42 Boat’s wind catcher 111 Brown, bubbly 43 Fast, intellectually beverage 44 Chalet overhangs 112 Holiday in Vietnam 46 “A ___ Grows in 113 He once ran a Mickey Brooklyn” Mouse operation 47 Low-lying islands 114 Patrol car wailer 49 Apportion (with 115 TV statuette “out”) 51 Debilitating bug 52 Bread machine need dOwn 53 This and this 1 Global currency org.

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58 It brings down the 3 To do it is human house 4 Collective title for

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84 Checkout counter annoyance 85 Like dark clouds 86 Prefix with “graphy” 88 Chilled out 89 Corporate structure?

90 Guys with medallions 91 “Yeah, however ...”

92 Composure under duress 93 Fort Knox bar 94 Drive home a run 95 Door-hanging hardware 98 Boo-Boo or Pooh 100 Opposite of AAA, in footwear 101 Frazier foe, once 102 ___ in rabbit 104 Tire inflation abbr.

105 ___ Perignon (expensive French champagne) 106 Boston’s Liberty Tree, for one 107 “A ___ at the Races”

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2. My wife and I, both baseball fans, were checking out a very good game on TV. She suddenly commented, “Talking about high and outside, the grass needs mowing.”

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The following NAIFA – Sarasota Federation members actively promote Life Insurance Awareness Month All our members are held to the highest standards in the life insurance industry.

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Dorsey Hoskins’ father Bryan felt a tingling in his arm. The diagnosis—an inoperable brain tumor.

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