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DISCUSSION Citizens for Sunshine and paralegal Michael Barfield are often cited as a burden on the operation of local government, but Barfield believes he’s filling an essential role.

+ Can you dig it?

Third- and fourth-grade students of Temple Beth Sholom had a chance to brush up on their paleontology skills last week while digging for faux dinosaur bones. Students helped design and build the excavation site that was filled with sand. Replica pieces of a wooden tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops and stegosaurus were hidden for the junior paleontologists to unearth.

The project is part of an educational unit in teacher Dan Michael’s science class.

The class will continue to study fossils, minerals and rocks for two months.

BY THE NUMBERS Since 2012, here’s how litigation and records requests from Citizens for Sunshine and Michael Barfield have impacted the city of Sarasota: David Conway

Michael Barfield considers himself a watchdog for open government in the area.

M Sarasota Chorus of the Keys Scholarship Committee Chairman Brian Clark, center, with scholarship winners Caleb Upton, left, and Matthew Vaadi, right.

+ Sound of scholars Local students Caleb Upton and Matthew Vaadi received some help for their upcoming studies to the tune of $1,000 each from the Sarasota Chorus of the Keys. The scholarships were made possible through the Sheridan E. Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund. Both students plan to use the funds toward a career in music.

Upton, a recent graduate of Venice High School, attends Taylor University in Indiana where he plans to pursue a degree in Christian ministries with a minor in church music. Vaadi returns to the University of Florida this fall and plans on becoming a professional musician.

ichael Barfield knows he’s not the most popular guy in many corners of the city.

Barfield, a paralegal who works with the nonprofit Citizens for Sunshine, has become the face of the organization best known in Sarasota for its litigious nature. Citizens and city officials alike have called him a political opportunist, a burden to taxpayers and an obstacle to functional government.

Despite the criticism, Barfield is unfazed.

“I’m an easy guy to hate for those in power,” Barfield said.

Since 2012, the city has spent approximately $715,000 in responses to open government complaints and record requests from Barfield and Citizens for Sunshine, according to information City Attorney Robert Fournier provided.

That total includes $656,000 in expenses for lawsuits stemming from the state’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Law or open records complaints.

Barfield, who describes

himself as an “armchair constitutional scholar,” is passionate about the need for transparent government. He thinks the solution for relieving the burden of things such as Sunshine lawsuits is simple: Comply with the state’s open government laws.

“I think elected and appointed (city) officials do a terrible job of complying,” Barfield said. “It’s compliance that’s the problem. It’s not about the law being changed or being manipulated.”

The vast majority of the money spent on litigation was contained to cases the city settled or in which the government was found at fault. Still, several individuals — including Fournier — disagree with Barfield on that last point.

In response to a 2013 lawsuit filed against the city and commissioners Susan Chapman and Suzanne Atwell, Fournier stated he believed Citizens for Sunshine was pushing for a broader interpretation of the

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Commission to hear appeal on historic demolition A group is appealing the demolition of a historic property downtown, but the current owners say the building is no longer financially sustainable.

Three individuals fighting for the preservation of a historic property on Palm Avenue — or against the proposed development of an 18-story condominium tower on the land in question — will get the chance to make their cases to the City Commission.

The historic property, located at 624 S. Palm Ave., most recently housed La Palme Royale bed and breakfast, and now serves as a single-family house that is occasionally rented to vacationers. The current owners, Tim and Kristen Beury, say they have struggled to turn the property into the site of a financially viable operation. The building is aging, damaged and not up to current code, and the business has failed to generate a level of activity necessary to undertake improvements.

Their attempts to sell the house have only garnered interest from developers attracted by the Downtown Bayfront zoning that would allow for the construction of a high-rise on the property. A team, consisting of development firm The Ronto Group and investment firm Wheelock Street Acquisitions, recently agreed to buy the property if it got approval to demolish the existing building.

In August, the city’s Historic Preservation Board granted a Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition. At that meeting, board members noted the property was not particularly unique within the city and said development represented the highest and best use of the site.

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PALM / FROM PAGE 1A Emma Joels, who lives about one block from La Palme Royale, argued against the proposed demolition in front of the Historic Preservation Board. She was upset with the advisory group — not just for its decision that day but for what she believes is a a pattern of behavior from what she called the “Historic Demolition Board.”

“All of these certificates are being applied for and rushed through without there being a lot of fanfare, and we’re basically just knocking everything down,” Joels said. “I think we are dismantling the fabric of the city of Sarasota without much real consideration of the larger context.”

Joels said that, as long as one other example of a given historic style still remained in the city, the board seemed content to let others go. She worried the board failed to properly value the cultural history of a building in considering whether demolition was appropriate.

La Palme Royale was given historic designation in part because it was the residence of Elizabeth Perry, a 1920s civic leader, and Vernona Burns, wife of early Sarasota land developer Owen Burns.

Joels acknowledged not every building could be saved, but said the board wasn’t giving enough consideration to the preservation of history in one form or another.

“I’m not saying, ‘Oh my god, you’ve got to preserve all these buildings,’” Joels said.

“The fabric of these buildings could very well be woven into these developments.

It’s been done very well in other cities.”

The board voted to further research Burns and Perry and to eventually place a marker on the site detailing the history of the property.

Neighborhood opposition

Gilbert Sharell lives at Essex House, a 72-resident condominium that borders 624 S. Palm Ave. He, like Joels, is appealing the decision to grant the certificate of appropriateness for the demolition. He said that, with many part-time residents out of town, people living at the condominium didn’t get enough time to respond to the

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Gilbert Sharell lives next to the Perry Residence and is fighting against its demolition. meeting notice. He hopes that when the City Commission takes up the issue they’ll be adequately prepared with questions.

Sharell and Joels both said they believed the Historic Preservation Board had approved the demolition prematurely. With no site plan submitted to the city, they wondered if the 5,345-square-foot property was capable of sustaining a high-rise condominium.

Sharell said the current building contributed to the character of the neighborhood, and that the city was running the risk of losing it for nothing if the proposed development fell through.

“It adds a nice mix to the neighborhood rather than just adding to a tall concrete canyon,” Sharell said. “I think the city is in error if they allow a historic building to be torn down for something someone is proposing that’s not actually submitted.”

Brenda Patten, a land-use attorney who represented Wheelock Street Acquisitions and The Ronto Group at the Historic Preservation Board meeting, argued neighbors in the area were opposed to the addition of a high-rise building, not the

loss of a historic property. The individuals fighting to preserve the property did question the eventual function of the condominium; Sharell said he was concerned about how the high-rise would mesh with its surroundings.

Al Hochstadt, the final appealing party, owns land across the street from La Palme Royale that he targeted for a hotel. At the Historic Preservation Board meeting, he raised a series of questions about ownership status and whether the financing was in place to construct the proposed highrise.

Anthony Solomon, executive vice president of The Ronto Group, said Hochstadt complained to him that the high-rise would block the views from his property and sought a joint venture or to sell his own land. Hochstadt confirmed he was in contact with the developers, but said those conversations were confidential.

Regardless of the motive, the appealing parties were granted the opportunity to make their case in front of the City Commission. On Monday, commissioners agreed to waive the appeal fee — nearly

The building at 624 S. Palm Ave. was built in 1924 and first belonged to Elizabeth Perry. Perry was the president of the Sarasota Hospital Guild and worked to found the Newtown Day Nursery, according to the building history presented to the Historic Preservation Board. Perry was also the wife of W.Y. Perry, the first county judge of Sarasota County.

Perry sold the property after possessing it for a decade. In 1943, Vernona Burns purchased the house and became its longest standing owner. Burns was the widow of Owen Burns, a prominent developer of Sarasota who led the dredging of Golden Gate Point, Lido Key and St. Armands Key. Burns lived in the property for approximately 20 years. In 1984, the home suffered damage after catching on fire. In 1986, it was rezoned to allow for retail or office use, and the building has changed hands three times since the ’90s.

The building was added to the historic registry in 1986. According to a staff report, the historic designation was granted because of the home’s “representation of the economic history of residential building” in 1920s Sarasota, for its “architectural style and method and construction” and for its “association with the lives of person significant to the past.” $1,600 per applicant — after Joels argued the language in the fee schedule failed to address an appeal of a certificate of appropriateness.

Soon, they’ll be able to make a final appeal to the value of the historic property.

For Joels, it’s a final chance to argue for the preservation of a quality she fears the city is rapidly losing.

“It’s representative of a social history of the city of Sarasota,” Joels said of the property. “It’s part of the social historical fabric.”

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County staff takes stand against swim zone shrinking In its report, staff does not support allowing SUP rentals at Siesta Key public beach.

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Markers for the Casa Museo housing development sit on the 8.4 acres of land that Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores residents had hoped would become a public park.

Potential park site slated for development With a planned residential development moving forward, the Indian Beach/ Sapphire Shores neighborhood is looking for new targets for parkland.

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For residents in Indian Beach/ Sapphire Shores, the five-year push for the creation of a park on Bay Shore Road has seemingly come to an end.

The saga concluded much as it began, with a developer moving forward with plans for a 23-home residential complex on the 8.4-acre property many residents sought for parkland. Level Homes, a Baton Rouge, La.,-based company, recently made its foray into the Sarasota market by purchasing the land for $4.1 million, and it has submitted its plans for the development to the city.

The land at 4200 Bay Shore Road was originally viable as a target for parkland because initial plans for the residential complex fell through following the recession. At that time, neighborhood leaders pushed for the county to purchase the land from its owner and convert it into a park, which residents said the large neighborhood was sorely lacking. In 2010, the County Commission approved an agreement to buy the land for $3.3 million, but the contract was never executed.

Earlier this year, the county considered acquiring the land through its Neighborhood Parkland Acquisition Program. The Bank of Commerce, which owned the property, valued the land at $4.1 million.

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county’s appraisal, and no action was taken.

David Morriss, president of the Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores Neighborhood Association, said there’s no formal attempt to fight the development as there had been with the initial project. He said the county and the neighborhood missed the optimal window to acquire the land, and it was now beyond their control.

“The market beat us out,” Morriss said.

Although the dreams of a park on the land are dashed, Level Homes does think the residential development will add to the neighborhood.

Bob Hilliard, the president of Level Homes’ coastal division, believes his firm’s project is filling a void in the area.

“There’s very little development

that’s happened west of the trail, and there’s very little that’s happened on the north side west of the trail,” he said. “The development that’s happened has been scattered.”

Now that the single-family housing development is moving forward, Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores residents are looking elsewhere for potential parkland. Morriss said that the neighborhood, which has more than 1,200 homes, is perhaps the most underserved area in the county with regard to parkland, and he still hopes the need will be filled.

“We are looking around,” Morriss said. “We haven’t given up, although there’s obviously not going to be a site that big in our neighborhood again.”

One potential recurring obstacle could be the improving real estate market, Morriss said. The Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores Neighborhood Association board will discuss a new potential target later this month, but the waterfront location may make the land cost prohibitive.

“The problem is, I think the market is going to get ahead of us,” Morriss said.

The neighborhood may be facing a challenge in its search for a new park, but it’s determined to keep looking.

“I know that there’s certainly a desire in the neighborhood,” Morriss said. “We’re going to try to find ways to do it.”

After a survey and two public meetings, Sarasota County staff have decided: they do not recommend shrinking the swim zone on Siesta Key public beach to allow stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) rentals.

Staff will officially submit their findings to the Sarasota County Commission at its Sept. 24 meeting.

Currently, SUP is allowed at any of the county’s public beach areas that are not lifeguarded. Paddleboarders contact renters directly and meet them at the beach to get the equipment.

In February, the county received a proposal from a vendor who wanted to rent his paddleboards at the public beach at Siesta Key. County staff presented two ideas of expanding stand-up paddleboard rental: shrink the swim zone at lifeguarded beach by 50 to 100 feet; or allow SUP vendors to rent paddleboards at the beach accesses, where SUP usage is already allowed.

County staff held two public meetings in August: one on Siesta Key and the other in Nokomis.

Bob McFarland has been in the SUP rental business for eight years and is the owner of Sarasota Paddleboard Co. Although he said he wouldn’t want to see SUP being restricted in any way, he respects that the swim zone needs to be designated for swimmers.

He’s never received any complaints from his customers about having to launch off the other beach accesses or at the end of the swim zone, he said.

“Customers understand the zone is for swimming,” he said. “They get it. Locals all get it, too.”

He’s supportive of commercial renting at the public beach, however, he said he thought it would make more sense to allow renting at the end of the swim zones instead.

McFarland said the use of paddleboards in the swim zone should be the lifeguards’ decision.

“On the Fourth of July weekend, should there be SUP mixed in there? Absolutely not,” McFarland said. “The word ‘swim zone’ and the word ‘vessel’ don’t mix together.”

Scott Montgomery, the Sarasota County lifeguard manager, said he would prefer not to see paddleboarding allowed so close to the swim zone.

Mixing paddleboarders with other watercraft users was one of Siesta Key Association President Michael Shay’s concerns. Shay attended the Siesta Key public meeting as a representative of the Siesta Key Association. His fear was that paddeboarders would go out past the swim zone and risk getting mixed in with people using Jet Skis, parasails and boats.

According to the staff report for the Sept. 24 meeting, the county received input from nine commercial watercraft operators. Eight opposed having SUP next to the swim zone for safety reasons. Staff said the county is still considering other locations for SUP opportunities.

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+ Stickney Point motels sell for $1.5 million At the height of the building boom, two parcels near Siesta Key were slated to become a 10-story condominium. Now, the Tides Inn Motel and Sunset Lodge on Stickney Point Road will continue operating as transient housing with some renovations.

“We’re going to make it more like a resort inside,” said New Jersey rental owner Daniel Jones, who bought the motels for $1.5 million Sept. 5, from Siesta Vista Condominiums, a firm that had planned to redevelop the property, according to Sarasota County building permit records. Jones, who owns eight rental properties units on Siesta, plans to add gardens and a fence around the Stickney Point parcel.

“It’s going to be absolutely adorable,” Jones said.

Jones said he didn’t know about Benderson Development’s plans for a project nearby at the intersection of South Tamiami Trail and Stickney Point Road.

Siesta Promenade is slated to house 250,000 square feet of retail space and a 150-room hotel.

“I’m excited about that,” Jones said.

The two motel properties last sold for $2.2 million in 2005.

+ Sarasota School Board adopts final budget The Sarasota County School Board adopted the 2014-2015 budget and 2014 millage rates Tuesday.

Because of a decrease in the state-mandated portion of the millage rate, the total millage rate for the district will fall from 7.97 in 2013 to 7.777 in 2014. It is the first time the millage rate has decreased

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Sarasota County Planning Commission meeting — 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice

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Sarasota County Commission second budget public hearing — 5:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 22, in the Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

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Sarasota County Commission meetings — 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23 and and Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota.

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since 2011.

One mill equals $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation.

That means for every $100,000 of assessed value, homeowners will save $19.30 on their property-tax bill.

However, with home values in the area rising, the school district’s taxable values increased 7.8% from last year. The net result will mean more revenue from property taxes for schools than last year.

At the July 24 meeting, Deputy Chief Financial Officer Al Weidner said the school’s budget is in “very good condition this year,” with a total $707 million. A total of $124.5 million has been cut from the district’s general fund budget since 2007, due to the effects of the recession.

This year, $108,477 was cut — a smaller cut than previous years.

Because the superintendent and the board were conservative during the recession, all funds have adequate reserves.

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Master plan could give Bobby Jones course new life The City Commission signaled its interest in producing a comprehensive vision for the future of the course, built in 1927.

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Shawn Pierson, Friends of Bobby Jones Golf Club president, said he believed the master planning process endorsed by the City Commission would generate wide public input on the future of the course. you just have to have a facelift.”

Although the commission moved toward the creation of a citizen committee to help guide the master planning process, some commissioners encouraged a more cautious approach.

Commissioners Shannon Snyder and Susan Chapman both emphasized that cost would be an issue for the city, with Chapman expressing concern that pro-golf interests could take the master plan in a direction the city could not afford.

“I’m really reluctant to go to the ad-hoc committee point of view, because we do have such strong passionate interest groups for whom it seems cost is no object,” Chapman said. “For us, cost is an object, and we’re going to have a financing plan for whatever we do.”

Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown said the eventual master plan would offer a variety of options for commissioners to chose from depending on budgetary constraints and the will of the

board.

Shawn Pierson, president of Friends of Bobby Jones Golf Club, said he was encouraged by the commission’s action and that he hoped the eventual master planning process would allow for broad citizen input.

“What it does is it allows for the widest possible community input,” Pierson said about the potential ad-hoc committee.

“They’ll all be able to come and offer their experience and vision.”

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The City Commission, capital- four-part vision to improve the izing on the presence of a local facility and grow the game logolf icon, committed itself to de- cally. veloping a new plan to guide the One of those initiatives is future of Bobby Jones Golf Club named after Paul Azinger, a Saraat a meeting Monday. sota High School graduate who Still, the bold vision that sev- played at Bobby Jones before eral individuals in attendance going on to succeed as a profesendorsed was tempered with sional golfer. Azinger appeared pragmatic conat Monday’s cerns, most nomeeting, urging “Every golf course gets commissioners tably questions surrounding the old, not unlike cars or to capitalize on cost of revitalthe chance to houses. There comes improve the faizing the aging facility. a time when you just cility.

The comAzinger said have to have a facelift.” that, mission unanialthough mously directed the current state — Paul Azinger, former PGA staff to draft a of the golf club Championship winner and resolution that Sarasota High School graduate. is suboptimal, it would create an has the potenad-hoc committial to become a tee regarding a master plan for serious draw. He pointed to PineBobby Jones. The precise details hurst Resort in North Carolina, of the committee are still to be which, like Bobby Jones, features finalized, but commissioners in- a course Donald Ross designed, dicated the citizen board would and which hosted this year’s U.S. help determine the scope of such Open tournament following a a document, which an outside 2011 renovation. agency would write.

Were the city willing to address The board took up the topic some of the problems that plague following a Sept. 3 workshop the course — such as drainage about the Bobby Jones Golf Club. issues and aging infrastructure A 2014 study by the National Golf — several speakers said Bobby Foundation said the city is in Jones could become a major atneed of a comprehensive plan traction. for managing the future of the “Every golf course gets old, not course, and the Friends of Bobby unlike cars or houses,” Azinger Jones Golf Club has created a said. “There comes a time when

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by Alex Mahadevan | Digital Content Producer

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The shopping center next to Hollywood 20 was built to be an upscale mall in 1986.

Residents respond to lease marketing for Main Plaza Ian Black Real Estate has plans to lease roughly 80,000 square feet of the former shopping center on Main Street.

It was once home to a Benetton store, Friedman’s Jewelry and Big Olaf Creamery. But decades after its development in 1986, Sarasota Main Plaza fell into near abandonment.

Originally designed to be an upscale mall, the shopping center at 1991 Main St. now houses government offices, corporate services for Sarasota Memorial Hospital and restaurants. That could change, as Ian Black Real Estate begins marketing more than 80,000 square feet inside the building for sale or lease.

“We’re creating additional space by taking in common areas and giving this building its own identity,” said Ian Black.

The Observer Group’s digital news team gathered input from businesses, residents and city officials on the future of Main Plaza. See what they said in our online video at YourObserver.com.

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“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

Friedrich Hayek “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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Snowstorms or snowflakes For those of you who still may not have made up your minds about which candidates you ultimately will vote for in November, what follows is a perspective of thought that can help you weigh which candidates would be best.

We’ll call it the snowstorm versus snowflake decision.

Here’s the question to ask about the candidates running for office: Do they see humanity — you, the voters, taxpayers, citizens — as individual snowflakes or as a collective snowstorm?

Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, one of the oldest notfor-profit think tanks in America and a teacher MATT and promoter of liberty WALSH and free enterprise, wrote an essay earlier this year that makes you look through that “prism” in the context of public policy.

As Reed put it: “There are two basic prisms through which we can see, study and prescribe for human society: individualism versus collectivism.”

Snowflakes or snowstorm?

In the following excerpts, Reed shows through his metaphor how it translates into policy making — and by extension, into the choices you make in the voting booth.

Consider: qqq No two snowstorms are alike, but a far more amazing fact is that no two snowflakes are identical either—at least as far as painstaking research has indicated. Wilson Alwyn Bentley of Jericho, Vermont, one of the first known snowflake photographers, developed a process in 1885 for capturing them on black velvet before they melted.

He snapped pictures of about 5,000 of them and never found two that were the same—nor has anyone else ever since.

Scientists believe changes in humidity, temperature and other conditions prevalent as flakes form and fall make it highly unlikely that any one flake has ever been precisely duplicated. (Ironically, Bentley died of pneumonia in 1931 after walking six miles in a blizzard. Lesson: One flake may be harmless, but a lot of them can be deadly).

Contemplate this long enough and you may never see a snowstorm (or humanity) the same way again.

Anne Bradley is vice president of economic initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics. At a recent FEE seminar in Naples, she explained matters this way: When we look at a snowstorm from a distance, it looks like indistinguishable white dots peppering the sky. When we get an up-close glimpse, we see how intricate, beautiful and dissimilar each and every snowflake is.

This is helpful when thinking about

humans. From a distance, a large crowd of people might look the same, and it’s true that we possess many similar characteristics. But we know that a more focused inspection brings us nearer to the true nature of what we’re looking at. It reveals that each of us bears a unique set of skills, talents, ambitions, traits, and propensities unmatched anywhere on the planet.

This uniqueness is critical when we make policy decisions and offer prescriptions for society as a whole; for even though we each look the same in certain respects, we are actually so different, one to the next, that our sameness can only be a secondary consideration …

Proceeding one step further, we must recognize that only individuals plan. When collectives are said to “plan” (e.g. “The nation plans to go to war”), it always reduces to certain, specific, identifiable individuals making plans for other individuals.

The only good answer to the collectivist question, “What does America eat for breakfast?” is this: “Nothing. However, about 315 million individual Americans often eat breakfast. Many of them sometimes skip it, and on any given day, there are 315 million distinct answers to this question.”

Collectivist thinking is simply not very deep or thorough. Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did — as one big blur. But unlike Mr. Magoo, they’re not funny. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discreet features that make us who we are.

The collectivist “it-takes-a-village” mentality assigns thoughts and opinions to amorphous groups, when, in fact, only particular people hold thoughts and opinions.

Collectivists devise one-size-fits-all schemes and care little for how those schemes may affect the varied plans of real people. Any one flake means little or nothing to the collectivist because he rarely looks at them; and in any event, he implicitly dismisses the flakes because there are so many to play with.

Collectivists are usually reluctant to celebrate the achievements of individuals per se because they really believe that, to quote President Obama, “you didn’t build that.”

Take individuals out of the equation and you take the humanity out of whatever you’re promoting. What you’d never inflict on your neighbor, one on one, you might happily sanction if you think it’ll be carried out by some faceless, collective entity to some amorphous blob on behalf of some nebulous “collective good.”

So what does humanity look like to you: a snowstorm or snowflakes?

If your answer is the latter, then you understand what the philosopher and historian Isaiah Berlin meant when he wrote in 1958, “But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you — the social reformers — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.” qqq Snowstorm or snowflakes. It’s an effective litmus test for how you see yourself

THE CASTAWAY by Jorge Blanco

and how the candidates in the November election see you.

Let’s put it another way: Will the candidate you’re thinking of supporting vote for initiatives that will increase your freedom and your ability to be an individual snowflake, or will that candidate support initiatives that favor the collective group at the expense of your freedom?

+ Squandered opportunity

This was such a great opportunity. Alas, Sarasota’s three remaining city commissioners are on the verge of squandering it.

We’re referring to their replacing outgoing Commissioners Shannon Snyder and Paul Caragiulo, who decided to abandon their elected positions to seek county commission seats.

To be sure, it was certainly the politically correct thing to do to ask any and everyone who is interested in serving to apply to fill Snyder and Caragiulo’s seats.

But was that really in the best interest of the city’s taxpayers and the needs of the commission? Was that the best way to find the best people to fill those two seats?

This is not to denigrate those who applied. They are all earnest in their desires to serve.

But look at it this way: When a college or professional basketball coach is building his team, he looks for players to fill specific roles and satisfy the needs of the team. In the end, if all goes as planned, every starter fills a special role, which, presumably, will result in a great winning record.

Sarasota’s remaining three commissioners — Mayor Willie Shaw and Commissioners Suzanne Atwell and Susan Chapman — had the opportunity to do just that. They had to the opportunity to handpick two commissioners who could bring to the commission skills that could compliment theirs and make the commission far stronger than it is. For instance, consider who is there now: • Mayor Willie Shaw, a retired postal service employee from Newtown.

• Susan Chapman, a longtime Sarasota family-law attorney and neighborhood activist.

• Suzanne Atwell, a psychologist and longtime community activist.

What’s missing?

The obvious holes: financial and business expertise.

This is not to say the 14 candidates still under consideration lack these skills. But if you peruse the experience of the candidates being considered, it’s obvious there are more candidates on the District Two list with those needed skills than there are among the District Three candidates.

We hope we’re totally off base. We hope that after the sitting commissioners select in October two of the applicants to serve on the commission that these new commissioners rise to the occasion, and during the five months until the next city election, they demonstrate the leadership and wisdom that is needed.

We understand how commissioners wanted to make this an open process, but it was also an opportunity to find and recruit the best two people for the job.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

my view

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by Tom Harmer | Guest Columnist

County government invites public’s input on budget for more than $300 million of the total proposed budget.

Another question we’re often asked is how the county has millions to spend on a new stadium or a beach project, but not enough for operating services that might cost much less. This is caused by regulatory restrictions on a majority of our revenues.

The county cannot simply place all its revenues in an account and then spend at its discretion. By law, we are required to separate restricted revenues from our General Fund. So for example, if the county operates a utility system, we cannot take revenue from customers’ water bill payments to fund the salaries of lifeguards, because that expenditure is funded from general revenues. The utility system, along with services like stormwater and solid waste (garbage collection), operate like distinct businesses within

the county, and the revenues collected are restricted to their respective purposes. Other restricted revenues include the Tourist Development Tax (a 5% levy on short-term/hotel stays), which is restricted to tourism-related expenditures such as construction of tourist-related facilities; promotion/advertising; and beach/shoreline maintenance.

The 1% Infrastructure Surtax (a voter-approved countywide sales tax), is restricted to funding capital projects like building/ improving roads, parks, libraries, fire stations or a jail. Gas taxes are restricted to transportationrelated expenditures. What this means is the county could pay for the construction of a library with Infrastructure Surtax revenues, but the ongoing operating costs would need to be paid by general revenues.

By far, the single largest general revenue is property taxes (our tax base is still 32% below 2007 levels due to reduced property values). Although these revenues have decreased, the county has also reduced its costs while largely avoiding reductions to services. The county has been able to cut costs since 2007 by using technology, reducing staff, refinancing debt and combining/restructuring departments.

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More detailed information about the Sarasota County budget is available on our website: scgov.net/Finance. In addition, two public hearings are scheduled to gather public comment.

The first one was held Sept. 8, at the R.L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice. The second hearing will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in the Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota.

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We welcome the public’s input about the budget and these services at two upcoming hearings.

The proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 is $1.1 billion. A common question we’re asked is about the size of the budget, and how does a county government spend more than a $1 billion a year?

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SEPT. 13 OUT OF TUNE 9:33 p.m. — 300 block of North Orange Avenue. Petit Theft All Other. A man said he set down his guitar and backpack outside of a gas station so he could purchase beer. He was inside the store for about five minutes, and when he came back outside his belongings were gone. The man was unable to locate his possessions.

SEPT. 14 BEDTIME STORY 1:32 a.m. — 2100 block of Seventh Street. Dispute/Fight. An officer responded to a complainant who said his roommate would not let him sleep. When the officer arrived at the scene, both men were intoxicated. The roommate said he had not bothered the man, and other tenants said they did not hear anything involving the two men. The officer asked the men to separate or for one of them to leave for the night. Both men said they would go to sleep and that there would be no further problems.

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SEPT. 13 SURF’S UP 12:42 p.m. — 2600 block of Nancy Street. Burglary — Structure. A man received a phone call from his friend, who saw one of the man’s surfboards for sale at a pawn shop. At that time, the man was unaware his surfboards had been stolen. The man checked his unlocked shed and discovered his two surfboards, valued at $2,200, were missing. The man said he was in jail during the time the items were stolen.

He positively identified the surfboard in the pawn shop as his, but the store had already sold the other surfboard.

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BAIT AND SWITCH 8:50 a.m. — 1000 block of North Tamiami Trail. Petit Theft All Other. A man, who was fishing at a park, left his tackle box in a wooded area near the water.

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BARFIELD / FROM PAGE 1A Sunshine Law. Fournier said the basis for the suit against Chapman and Atwell was that, by attending a meeting that wasn’t publicized where people discussed a topic that could foreseeably come before the City Commission, the commissioners were violating the Sunshine Law — even if they were only listening to the discussion.

The city paid $17,679.05 to attorney Andrea Mogensen as part of a settlement of the lawsuit against the city itself, which Fournier said had some legal merit due to the participation of City Manager Tom Barwin in that discussion. The city has also paid $106,544.91 for its own legal fees for the case.

That number includes $84,836.21 for the defense of Chapman, who maintains she did not violate the Sunshine Law. The commission voted to end its payment of legal fees for Chapman after settling the case against the city, but the city could still be responsible for covering the cost of her defense if the court sides with her in the stillpending suit.

Since then, Chapman has been cautious regarding her attendance at meetings that aren’t noticed in advance and at which minutes aren’t being taken. She checks with Fournier to assure attendance at events such as Coalition of City Neighborhood Association meetings or the recent

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Manasota India Festival won’t lead to legal issues down the road.

Fournier said these inquiries usually aren’t too time consuming, although sometimes the situation is murkier. Recently, Fournier initially thought it would be OK for multiple commissioners to attend an Amaryllis Park Neighborhood Association meeting about community policing or a Sept. 23 Argus Foundation presentation about Mote Marine Aquarium and Laboratory.

He discovered that Barfield believed attendance at the neighborhood association would represent a violation of the Sunshine Law if it wasn’t noticed and minutes weren’t taken, because he thought the subject was something that could come before the commission in the future. When Mote CEO and President Michael Crosby announced he was seeking city approval for a bayfront aquarium, it became reasonably foreseeable that topic would come before the commission in the future, too.

Fournier reiterated that this is currently a legal gray area, with no definitive ruling from the courts. Still, he — and all of the lawyers who represented Chapman and Atwell in the 2013 suit — believes that Barfield’s interpretation of the law is incorrect.

To avoid potential further expenditures, however, he feels obligated to inform commissioners of the risk they are taking by at-

tending some meetings.

“I don’t think that is or should be a law,” Fournier said. “We have been put on notice that there are plaintiffs out there who do think it’s a law.”

Argus Foundation Executive Director Kerry Kirschner said he was disappointed by the approach the city was taking in response to the Sunshine Law concerns. A former city mayor, Kirschner said attending those types of meetings and gauging public opinion was essential to their job.

“How do you know what the public wants or what the public is interested in if you can’t attend outside events?” Kirschner said.

“Who are you representing, and how are you representing them?”

Kirschner, like many other residents, believes Barfield is litigious because it’s a financially fruitful operation. If the city doesn’t take a stand against Barfield, Kirschner said, it’ll never be able to function optimally.

“This has become a business for Mr. Barfield,” Kirschner said.

“He’s looking for any way that he can to threaten public bodies with lawsuits. Until those bodies stand up to this harassment, I think he continues.”

Barfield scoffed at the idea that his work was financially lucrative. He said he agreed that commissioners and other individuals subject to the Sunshine Law should be free to attend any meeting they want to — as long as it’s publically noticed in ad-

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“This is not an expansion of the law,” Barfield said. “This is and has been the law since the late ’60s. Operate in transparency, with notice.”

Some residents have worried that the requirement for taking minutes is too onerous. Barfield said that nothing too intricate or detailed is required — either they can record the meeting or

they can list who was in attendance and what subjects were discussed.

Despite the vitriol often lobbed his way, Barfield believes he — along with Mogensen and the board of Citizens for Sunshine — serves as a watchdog for open government in the area.

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Sarasota High junior Adam Bradtmueller crossed the finish line in 16 minutes, 22.10 seconds to win the Fort Myers Optimist Invite Sept. 13.

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Cardinal Mooney’s Maddie McNally made the all-tournament team after recording 37 kills, 12 blocks, 16 digs and four aces, at the Calvary Christian volleyball tournament Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.

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Annie Shaw had 24 assists and four aces to help lead the Cardinal Mooney volleyball team to 25-14, 25-7, 25-13 victory over Bradenton Christian Sept. 11.

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Bryce Tone, 11, trains twice a week at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.

Eleven-year-old Bryce Tone has aspirations of one day qualifying for the world championship sailing team, comprised of the top-five sailors in the nation.

Bryce Tone peered over the edge of his sailboat in amazement.

As Tone, 11, maneuvered through the crystal-clear blue waters off the coast of Belize with the wind whipping through his white-blond hair, he took it all in.

But with his competitors steadily making up ground, the Sarasota Sailing Squadron sailor quickly turned back to the race.

Tone pushed on through the swells in the 15-foot deep water and coasted to a first-place finish at the International Invitational Aug. 17.

“It was just amazing how clear the water was,” Tone says. “(At first) I was really scared I was going to run aground, but then they told me it was 15 feet.”

Tone was the lone sailor from the United States to participate in the International Invitational, which featured 24 sailors — the rest were from Belize and Mexico. The regatta took place over two days, with each sailor sailing a total of six races.

Tone won his first five races before backing off in the regatta’s final race to join a couple of the other sailors with whom he had become friends over the five-day trip. Before long, the sailors were circling a group of stingrays and doing backflips off their boats.

“I treated it like any other regatta, but the last race was a fun

in his first sailing Bryce Tone participated 5 years old. s wa tournament when he Courtesy photo

race,” Tone says. “It didn’t matter what place I got.”

SETTING SAIL

Tone’s mother, Karen, who has been coaching at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron for the past two-and-a-half years, was initially contacted by San Pedro Sailing Sailing Club founder and coach Amy Knox about having a team from the Squadron come to Belize for the International Invitational.

Although Karen Tone wasn’t able put a Sarasota team together in time, she decided, having been to Belize once before, to take her son to participate in the regatta.

“In sailing, you see the same people all of the time,” Karen Tone says. “Everyone has their ranking and everyone fills in and falls into place. But this time, we didn’t know anybody.

It was completely out of the blue.”

Tone, who has traveled across the world as a member of Team USA, initially didn’t know what to expect but was eager for the opportunity to sail with youth sailors from Belize and Mexico.

“I was really excited,” Tone says. “I really love traveling to different countries and visiting new places.”

After a couple of flights, the Tones finally boarded a tiny plane to the island.

After landing, the Tones headed directly to the beach where they met the San Pedro

Sailing Club and the Puerto Aventuras Sailing Club. It didn’t take long for Tone to see the vast differences between sailing in Sarasota and Belize.

Tone was used to padding his boat and transporting it on a dolly. But in Belize, the sailors simply hoisted their boats, carried them back to shore and placed them directly on the ground.

“It was surprising to see how good those kids were without all of the things that we have here in the U.S.,” Karen Tone says. “They were so interested in Bryce. To them, the U.S. is the ideal.”

In addition to sailing, Tone enjoyed spending time with the local sailors. Without the comforts of air conditioning, the streets became a gathering place for the locals, who would offer high-fives to Tone as he drove by on a golf cart.

“I learned how spoiled we are in the U.S.,” Tone says.

LIFE ON THE WATER

Tone was a toddler the first time he set foot on a sailboat while attending summer camps with his mom, who is a sailing coach. He competed in his first sailing tournament when he was 5 years old.

Tone initially got into the sport for the social aspect, but by the time he was 9 years old, Tone had moved up to the top

fleet. After joining the more advanced fleet, Tone qualified for Team FOR in Clearwater, which recruits the area’s top sailors.

Since then, Tone has become one of the youngest sailors to compete in optimist racing, the largest racing fleet in the world, having been named to the United States national team each of the past two years. The team comprises the top 30 sailors, ages 15 and under, from across the country.

“It’s a very complex sport,” Karen Tone says. “To be his age and on it is pretty cool. It’s totally a test of skill.”

Over the past two years, Tone has traveled across the world with Team USA, competing in Italy, Bermuda and the Virgin Islands, among other places.

About a year ago Tone joined the Sarasota Sailing Squadron, where he trains twice a week.

Tone will return to the water for his next regatta the third week of October in preparation for the Optimist Mid-winter Championship in November, in New Orleans, where he hopes to qualify for Team USA’s spring team. Eventually, Tone has aspirations of qualifying for the world championship team, comprised of the top five sailors in the nation, and competing in the South American Championships.

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Casey Key home sells for $6.2 million Sarasota Beach

The following residential real estate transactions took place between Sept. 1 and Sept. 5.

A home on Casey Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Richard and Katharine Lannamann, of Fairfield, Conn., sold their home at 2016 Casey Key Road to Tracie Langston, of Booneville, Miss., for $6.2 million. Built in 2010, it has six bedrooms, five baths, two half-baths, a pool and 7,783 square feet of living area.

Adam and Isabel Volpert sold their home at 5541 Avenida Del Mare to Beverly Bada, of Punta Gorda, for $610,000. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 1,785 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $171,100 in 2002.

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Chander and Kanta Malik sold their home at 7808 Estrella Court to Manay Malik and Anupma Veera Malik, of Sarasota, for $800,000. Built in 1994, it has four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 5,032 square feet of living area.

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Conforto Tangier LLC sold the home at 1310 Tangier Way to W. Scot Lloyd, of Sarasota, for $1.45 million. Built in 1959, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,393 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,675,000 in 2008.

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Timothy Runge and Christy WoodallRunge, of Sarasota, sold their home at 8835 Fishermens Bay Drive to James and Arleen Coates, of Sarasota, for $610,000.

Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,046 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $550,000 in 2012.

four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,439 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $240,000 in March.

rooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,650 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $875,000 in 2009.

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Bruce Franklin, of Sarasota, sold his home at 1646 Laurel St. to Pamela Diamond, of Sarasota, for $520,000. Built in 1920, it has four bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 2,322 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $175,000 in 1997.

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Kevin and Jeanne Kane, of Annandale, N.J., sold their home at 2381 Florinda St. to Dustin Stroth and Nicole Kaney, of Sarasota, for $465,000. Built in 1957, it has

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This home at 1310 Tangier Way has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,393 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.45 million.

Midnight Pass Road

Justyna Clipper, of Sarasota, sold her home at 8415 Midnight Pass Road to Reed and Anne Copsey, of Osprey, for $2 million. Built in 1996, it has five bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,714 square feet of living area.

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Georg and Anne Bohsack sold their Unit B condominium at 437 Beach Road to Voss Family Ltd. Partnership for $1,002,500. Built in 2003, it has three bed-

Edward and Carol Sherman, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1132 Horizon View Drive to Marjorie Titunik, trustee, of Fairfax Station, Va., for $755,000. Built in 1987, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,208 square feet of living area.

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Thomas Upton Jr., trustee, sold the Unit 603 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to Crist Holdings LLC for $725,000.

Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,285 square feet of living area.

Marvin Rosen, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 9442 Cedar Ridge Lane to S. Chandler Sweetser Jr. and Susan Jewett, of Sarasota, for $520,000. Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,387 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $422,200 in 1998.

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Alan and Barbara Dickinson, of Troy, Mich., sold their home at 8496 Woodbriar Drive to Robert Menson and Margo Waite, of Newport, R.I., for $495,000. Built in 1994, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,454 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $425,000 in 2013.

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Gerard Critch, of Naples, sold his home at 5761 Ivrea Drive to Susan Hosmer, of Sarasota, for $305,000. Built in 2002, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,693 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $245,000 in 2003.

Bruce Hess, Jennifer Stein-Hess and Jennifer Stein, of Ocean City, N.J., sold their home at 8865 Etera Drive to Par-

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HALL TABLE, $25. Upholstered chair, $20.

3/End tables, $30/set. Oak coffee table, $75.

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HORIZONTAL BARREL Composter; good condition, $50.00 OBO. 941-356-6355.

LAMPS (2): antique-like brushed brass, new shades, $30 o/b/o. Leather recliner, w/ottoman $100. 941-366-3753, 941-586-7492.

OFFICE CHAIR: Yellow leather in fair condition.

Originally 330.00, sell $75.00. 941-925-3203

Hawley Motors II 5741 Pinkney Ave. 941-312-5890

LIONEL TRAIN switch tracks $50. Please call, (941) 323−9417.

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Autos Wanted

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Help Wanted

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HAWLEY MOTORS OVER 32 YEARS IN BUSINESS SARASOTA’S OLDEST DEALERSHIP Financing Available CARS WANTED - WE BUY CARS!

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TRUE 4BR+DEN, 4BR+DEN, 3BA/2.5CG, 3BA/2.5CG, Built Built 2006.

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1258 Riegels Landing Drive – $999,000

449 Canal Road – $1,295,000

Casually elegant waterfront home, 50’ sailboat water dock, 5beds/4baths, near Siesta Beach, sweeping water views, chef’s kitchen.

Siesta Key waterfront townhome, 3 beds/3 baths/2-car garage.

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5303 Cape Leyte Drive – $830,380

Siesta Isles meticulously maintained waterfront canal home, 4 beds/3 baths, large lanai and pool, 1.5 blocks to Siesta Beach.

Top producer on SieSTa Key - premier SoTheby’S inTernaTional realTy a leader in SaraSoTa reSidenTial SaleS VoTed SaraSoTa magazine’S FiVe STar agenT “beST in clienT SaTiSFacTion” 8 yearS in a row Specializing in luxury marKeTing and negoTiaTion diScreeT conSulTaTionS

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Sizzling Summer Sales on Sarasota’s Barrier Islands 2016 Casey Key Sold Listed at $6,900,000 Deborah represented the Seller

779 N. Manasota Key Sold Listed at $2,995,000 Deborah represented the Buyer

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DESIGNING DEBUT Alexandra Lin designs personality — in clothing. Think Audrey Hepburn meets Vivian Westwood, combined with a little bit of Lilly Pulitzer, and you’ve got ‘the new face of the South.’

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DEBUT Alexandra Lin designs personality — in clothing. Think Audrey Hepburn meets Vivian Westwood, combined with a little bit of Lilly Pulitzer, and you’ve got ‘the new face of the South.’

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or more than a year, the floor-toceiling glass windows of Unit 4A in the Rosemary District Lofts have displayed nothing but a for-lease sign. Now, impeccably dressed mannequins line the window displays, but they only provide a small preview of what is going on inside.

Like a scene out of a Vogue behind-thescenes documentary, inside is emerging local designer Alexandra Lin’s design studio. It features minimalist furniture and dress forms in the foyer, followed by rows of industrial sewing machines, racks of concepts, design boards and cutting tables and some of Lin’s personal decorations sprinkled in between.

It’s a beautiful sight. But the question remains: What is going on? Leasing agent Steve Bradley of New Orchard Group and Lin, spunky sports-mom-turned-fashiondesigner, are eager to share her story. Although you can’t walk inside to purchase Lin’s designs yet, the studio is home to a budding designer whose collection will soon be available online. The cat-eyeglasses-wearing designer, whose own style resembles more of a casual, classic

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“Every one of these is somehow a person before they are even a fabric or design,” says Alexandra Lin. “A person, a place, a picture — it’s the personality.

When that happens, I’ll see a fabric that matches this category, this personality in my head — not necessarily a name, just the emotion that goes with it.”

look, designs for personalities, clothing that makes someone think not “Where is she going?” but “For what moment is she dressing?”

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Lin’s natural instinct for styling first emerged as a child, when she spent the cold Vermont winters dressing up her Barbies. Her love of sewing, however, was borne out of necessity: Her shorter height led to a frequent need of tailoring, which familiarized her with the idea that just as specific pieces aren’t confined to a size or fit, fashion can be created and altered as one pleases.

Lin always wanted to learn to sew, specifically on an industrial sewing machine, but she didn’t excel at it until her training in fashion design.

“My first sewing experience was a nightmare with the Girl Scouts,” says Lin. “It wasn’t the Girl Scouts, it was me. It wasn’t a pretty thing.”

Despite her failed attempt at sewing with the Brownies, Lin’s interest in fashion didn’t change but, rather, shifted gears to styling.

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ion and design were only an interest, or appreciation, for Lin. That is, until 2010, when she decided to go back to school at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa.

“Here I was a mom, a 40-something housewife and all of a sudden here I am back in school,” she says. “It was so accepting and amazing. It was a neat experience to go Alexandra Lin with former teacher Fran Knight and classback to be in the school mate Cynthia Pena, who both agreed to come on board environment again.” when Lin decided to launch Alexandra Lin Designs.

As a student, Lin showed four pieces at “Being the girl who was only 5 feet tall, I Tampa Bay Fashion Week 2013. When couldn’t wear all of the things that I wanted, those pieces walked down the runway, Lin but other people could,” she says. “I could had women of all ages, from a 17-year-old always find the right cut, the right fabric, to a 70-year-old, asking to buy them. the right look. I had the ability to find the “The pieces are somehow a person beright thing for just about anybody.” fore they are even a fabric or design — a So she dressed her friends. From bathing person, a place, a picture, it’s the personalsuits to prom dresses, she was go-to girl for ity, and when that happens, I’ll see a fabric knowing what you should wear. that matches this category, this personality in my head, and that’s when I realize that BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD this is going to work for a certain kind of For the past 20 years, Lin has been a wife woman,” says Lin. and mother of three, as well as their homeShe had pinpointed her direction and school teacher and biggest cheerleader. To learned her pieces reached her target cussay that Lin and her family enjoy sports is tomer — not a woman of a specific age an understatement — it’s a lifestyle, and or style, but someone who could connect it’s how they ended up in Sarasota. They with the clothing. Next, she accepted an inmoved from Virginia Beach, Va., when her ternship at Escada in New York City, where son was offered a scholarship to play ten- she learned what it takes to run a business. nis at IMG Academy. Because she dediInterestingly enough, Lin’s daughter was cated her life to homeschooling and her in school at Fashion Institute of Technolchildren’s sports (Lin, herself, was a com- ogy during the time of her internship, and petitive figure skater by the age of 13), fash- they roomed together while both pursued

their education in fashion.

“It was the perfect fit,” she says of Escada.

“The designs are incredible; the business, the store, merchandising, fashion week, buyers, dealing with the showrooms — it was a great experience.”

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Describing her collection as “the idea of a new woman, her debut,” Lin has coined her launch campaign “The Digital Debutante.”

“It’s not the concept so much of a debutante coming out into society but more that the digital age gives you the ability to have your debut,” says Lin. “The feeling inside that you’re being who you are; it’s about when that happens.”

Lin bases her designs off of a classic silhouette: She wants to create a fit that never goes out of style, that can be worn in many ways and exudes personality.

“Maybe every piece isn’t for them, but there is something that can be part of everyone’s personal style,” says Lin. “The woman wearing it can create it to be her own.”

From fashion school, to showing pieces during Tampa Bay Fashion Week, to an internship with Escada in New York City followed by the design and creation of a line to be officially debuted at Toshi’s Penthouse during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week as “the new face of the South,” Lin is well on her way of continuing to live out her dream of designing fashion.

“Oprah once said that everyone should have the experience when they turn around and look at themselves in the mirror: ‘Wow. I feel good,’ at least once in their lifetime,’” says Lin. “With everything that I design, I hope that somebody feels that.”

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It was a freezing day in New York City, and Alexandra Lin had lost a glove. In need of another pair, she walked into American Apparel near her apartment. There was nobody in the store, so she decided to look around, and that’s when she saw a leather circle skirt, much like one she had designed herself. She decided to try it on to compare the fit.

There happened to be one other woman in the dressing room. When she stepped out, she saw Lin and asked her opinion on the same leather circle skirt Lin had just tried on.

“It was right around fashion week, and I could tell the sales associates were acting a certain way, so I figured she was a model — I knew I had seen the face before, she was so beautiful,” says Lin. The “model” continued talking to Lin and asked her opinion on things she was trying on.

“About fabrics, pants, flannel pajama pants for her husband — I’m giving her my opinion and everyone knew who she was but not me,” says Lin. “We were in line to check out, just chatting, and then when I got to the register the girl said: ‘Do you know who that was?’”

And that’s how Lin helped Blake Lively pick out pajama pants for Ryan Reynolds.

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Here’s how Larry Keigwin pictures the Oct. 15 opening night of the Ringling International Arts Festival: The courtyard at The Ringling is packed with guests. Hundreds of sharply dressed men and women are sipping wine and commenting on how beautiful the night is. There’s palpable buzz in the air as the first few measures of Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” begins.

A hush falls over the crowd as Ravel’s iconic score builds slowly and tantalizingly and the courtyard floods with 75 local dancers, the majority who had no formal dance training prior to volunteering for Keigwin’s sweeping RIAF performance.

These “pedestrians,” as Keigwin likes to call them, steal the 15-minute show. As they illustrate through choreographed movement everyday life in Sarasota, a series of theatrical vignettes unfold with the repetitive orchestral melody.

Anchored by six professional dancers from Keigwin’s New York City-based Keigwin + Company, the large-scale dance event will focus on highlighting the host city’s two most defining characteristics: activity and aging.

To make sure he hit the mark on these two themes, Keigwin, artistic director and co-founder of Keigwin + Company, recently sent two of his assistants to Sarasota to meet with local leaders and feel out the city and its inhabitants. To get a better feel for Keigwin, The Observer asked him to explain the inspiration behind his “Bolero” concept and why this performance Erin Baiano

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Why set the work to Ravel’s “Bolero?”

I’ve always loved that piece of music. I’ve always found it to be epic and grand. I think it builds really beautifully. I always wondered, “How can I conquer that music on stage?” Then I started thinking about recruiting real-life people, amateur dancers and non-dancers to perform this community dance.

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How big is a typical cast?

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So what you’re saying is even an average Joe with two left feet can perform?

I tend to think I’m good at excavating personalities. I’m looking for personalities, not necessarily the most talented person in the room. I want the person who wants to be on stage.

Anyone can audition. We call it an audition, but in all honesty we take everyone who shows up … and then we ask them to invite two more people to join the show. We really lean on the community.

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Is this anything like a flash mob?

There are definite similarities. It’s a mob certainly, but it’s not a flash. Everyone knows it’s going to happen. It’s more of a theatrical event. To me, what’s so cool about it is that it’s a work about a community, built by a community that, during the creative process, becomes another community.

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THE EAR CUFF

Starting as a jewelry trend for only the brave, the ear cuff trend has been picked up by the talented designers of the couture jewelry world. They’ve turned it into a look that can be worn by a young stylish woman or an elegant mature woman looking for a new spin on her classic pearl earrings.

FALL JEWELRY TRENDS

One of my favorite ear cuffs is with a graduated Tahitian pearl style. It blends so many styles into one perfect earring showing off the trend.

Its pearls are classic, the luster is beautiful, the design is fashion forward, and the overall feel is very modern.

— Liebe Gamble

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or some, accessorizing is the most important part of pulling a look together, and now that summer is over and the trends are changing, BT talked to June Simmons Jewelry’s Liebe Gamble to see what’s trending in the area of couture jewelry.

So what are the trendiest of pieces found in most every designer’s fall and upcoming spring collections? Ear cuffs, emeralds and collars. Gamble explains more about why the fashion world has embraced these pieces, and she gives advice on how to incorporate them into your own collection.

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All of these can translate from fine jewelry to fashion jewelry (actually, not the emeralds) and, depending on the style, they can accommodate the fashion forward, the conservative woman, a woman that prefers simple clean lines and even the bohemian.

Liebe Gamble EMERALDS

Precious emeralds re-emerged in fine jewelry this season, partly due to many designers collaborating with Gemfields, the world’s leading supplier of responsibly sourced colored gemstones. Over the past year, Gemfields’ work has gained prominence through creative partnerships with the likes of Stephen Webster, Wendy Yue, Anndra Neen, Kimberly McDonald, and Jemma Wynne, to name a few.

THE COLLAR

One thing was quickly realized when looking at emerald jewelry for fall … green looks good on everyone.

— Liebe Gamble

The beauty of this look is how easy it is to wear. Fashion jewelry designers also picked up on the trend, so it can be found in every price point. This is a must have in every jewelry box this fall.

— Liebe Gamble

Worn with slouchy boyfriend jeans, t-shirt and heels = CHIC AND HIP Worn with a black fitted cocktail dress = SIMPLE, CLASSIC Worn with a gown for a gala = UNEXPECTED AND ELEGANT

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