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Furst, Selby at odds Property appraiser, gardens will face off over tax ruling. PAGE 3A

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Hospital gala raises $900K

The pandemic stopped Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation supporters from meeting in the foundation’s annual fundraiser, but it didn’t stop the fourth annual hospital gala event from raising more than $900,000 on Jan. 9.

Gala Chairwoman Ariane Dart (above), Sarasota Memorial Health Care System President and CEO David Verinder and foundation President Mason Ayres hosted the virtual event, which included speeches about the foundation’s mission, a virtual paddle-raise and a performance from The Royals.

Four hundred households tuned into the show, with more than 175 meals delivered to viewers at home from Michael’s On East and Morton’s Gourmet Market.

LIVING UP TO KING’S LEGACY Community takes time to remember the contributions of the civil rights leader.

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Takiyan Coleman, 7, climbed the Martin Luther King Jr. bust during Monday’s holiday event at Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

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Scholarships for Booker grads

The Community Foundation of Sarasota County recently established a $50,000 grant for 14 Booker High graduates to attend college.

The grant will be matched by the Stanley G. Tate Florida Prepaid College Foundation and will cover tuition and registration for public colleges in Florida.

“Booker High School students do not lack ability,” said Michael J. Shelton, the chair of the Booker Promise Board of Trustees. “They lack opportunity. They need mentors. The Community Foundation Grant will help fulfill these needs.”

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A new medical examiner facility will be built at 4480 Fruitville Road.

County agrees to deal leasing land on Fruitville Road.

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“Sometimes our closest family and friends just don’t really understand.”

New vaccine system rolls out

Sarah Miller, a family navigator for National Alliance for Mental Health in Sarasota and Manatee. READ MORE ON PAGE 17A

Sarasota County on Wednesday launched a new registration process for COVID-19 vaccination appointments, replacing the Eventbrite system that drew complaints.

The new system, which allows for residents to add their names to a waiting list via computer, telephone or app, began operating at noon. The county is hosting two drive-thru vaccination clinics Thursday and Friday at Twin Lakes Park, where officials will distribute 3,300 vaccines.

The county said links to the registration portal will be available on the health department or county websites. Individuals will also be able to register over the phone at 861-8297 or through the Everbridge smartphone app.

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Fruitville Road acres on which the county plans to build offices for the District 12 medical examiner.

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CALENDAR n Regular Sarasota County Commission meeting — 9 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 26, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. n Regular Sarasota City Commission meeting — 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Regular Sarasota County School Board meeting — 6 p.m.

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Jon Thaxton of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation; Rosemary District Association board members David Lough, Jim Lampl and Debbie Trice; Mayor Hagen Brody; and Assistant City Manager John Lege commemorate the neighborhood’s donation.

Sarasota County Schools’ longtime attorney Art Hardy will retire at the end of the school year after more than 20 years with the district.

During his tenure, Hardy helped the district navigate the creation of a property tax referendum, the introduction of social media laws and school security changes.

The school board began the process of replacing Hardy during a workshop last week when they interviewed five firms hoping to be the board’s new counsel. Two of the five firms, Persson, Cohen & Mooney, P.A. and Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP, have local offices.

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Tax showdown this week A special magistrate will hear a long-gestating challenge to the exempt status of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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even local nonprofits received notice from the Sarasota County Property Appraiser in May 2020 that they would not receive a renewal of a previously approved property tax exemption.

Although other nonprofits have since come to an agreement with the property appraiser’s office, one exception remains: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

Property Appraiser Bill Furst and Selby Gardens have both expressed frustration with the process of reviewing the taxexempt status of Selby’s bayfront campus. Each side has accused the other of sharing inaccurate information and failing to properly interpret state law.

On Friday, for the second time in the past year, a special magistrate will oversee a hearing about the appraiser’s challenge to Selby’s tax exemption. Ahead of that hearing, Selby Gardens obtained public records from the appraiser that shed insight into how Furst’s office has handled the case.

In emails to members of the public, Furst repeatedly cites Selby’s 2015 partnership agreement with Michael’s On East, a for-profit business, as the impetus for denying any tax exemption for a property now valued at $61.8 million. Michael’s On East is the exclusive food service provider at Selby Gardens, operating the Selby House Café and catering all events, including those held at the Michael’s on the Bay event center.

Selby Gardens has argued its partnership with Michael’s On East does not violate its entitlement to a tax exemption as a scientific research institution, stating it is a subordinate use to the property’s primary mission.

Despite that belief, Selby President and CEO Jennifer Rominiecki said the organization is willing to enter a similar arrangement as the one the property appraiser struck last year with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, which preserved a tax exemption for 96.5% of its property’s assessed value.

Rominiecki said the property appraiser has been unwilling to engage in an earnest conversation about reaching such a deal. She accused Furst’s office of handling the Selby case differently than others.

“It’s perplexing,” Rominiecki said. “We don’t understand it, and we feel Selby should be treated fairly and the same as any other nonprofit organization in our region.”

Furst has maintained his position that the challenge to Selby’s tax exemption is based on a straightforward interpretation of state statutes. Although Furst has declined to comment substantively on the subject to media, he has sent internal and external emails accusing Selby Gardens of failing to adequately comply with requests for information and Rominiecki of misleading the public about the facts of the case.

“Truth-checking Ms. Rominiecki’s emails and guest editorials would find them 95% incorrect,” Furst said in a Dec. 18 email.

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A food service partnership with Michael’s On East — including an exclusive catering agreement for events — is at the center of a dispute between Selby Gardens and the Sarasota County Property Appraiser.

SEEDS OF DISCORD

Furst’s office initially challenged Selby Gardens’ tax exemption in 2019. A special magistrate for the county’s Value Adjustment Board dismissed the case in 2020 because of a procedural error: The property appraiser failed to notify Selby of its decision via mail ahead of an established deadline.

By April, the property appraiser was working to finalize new plans to notify organizations that were not receiving an automatic renewal of a previous tax exemption. An April 29 email from an employee in the property appraiser’s office details a package of three documents to be sent to all of those organizations — plus an additional attachment with 25 questions crafted specifically for Selby Gardens. Selby flagged that email as an example of the property appraiser applying a different standard to its case.

In May, Furst sent an email to an employee in his office outlining the crux of his argument: Portions of Selby’s property that are not used for scientific research and that benefit a for-profit business should not receive an exemption.

“Building which only Michael’s On East can use and make money using, contribute nothing to the furtherance of science and under current law must be taxed,” Furst wrote.

A key portion of the relevant state statutes reads: “Only those portions of property used predominantly for charitable, religious, scientific or literary purposes shall be exempt. In no event shall an incidental use of property either qualify such property for an exemption or impair the exemption of an otherwise exempt property.”

Rominiecki has rejected Furst’s interpretation of the statutes, stating that Selby has ultimate control over how its property is operated, and revenues generated from events on the site are funneled into furthering the scientific mission of the gardens. Still, she said Selby’s attorneys have proposed alternative taxation models in an attempt to resolve the dispute, but the property appraiser hasn’t agreed to them.

Rominiecki said she still struggles to understand key aspects of Furst’s decision-making. Why were other organizations able to resolve their situations quickly?

“We’ve responded at every turn. I would question whether any other organization has provided the level of detail we’ve provided.”

— Jennifer Rominiecki

Why did Furst determine that less than 11% of Selby’s property should be taxable in 2019, but that 100% should be taxable in 2020?

“Nothing about our operation changed,” she said. “How come Mote Marine Aquarium has a 97% exemption, and here we are looking at a 0% exemption? It’s just perplexing. It doesn’t add up.”

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As the back-and-forth between Selby and the property appraiser continued into the fall, frustrations mounted for Furst.

In emails, property appraiser employees repeatedly complained about Selby Gardens failing to provide requested documentation in a timely fashion.

They chafed at interpretations of the law from Selby’s legal team.

By November, there was a sense dialogue with Selby was pointless and that the case was destined for court.

“I have no interest in wasting time with them unless they have provided something to discuss,” Furst wrote in a Nov. 4 email.

Earlier this month, Furst sent a letter to Marianne McComb, the vice chair of the Selby Gardens board of directors. Furst said he does not believe 100% of Selby’s exemption should be denied, but

a lack of relevant information about the organization’s operations made it impossible to accurately divide the site into exempt and nonexempt segments.

Furst said he approached Selby about the need to examine its business operations in 2019, and Rominiecki has been hostile to the property appraiser’s efforts. He said many other nonprofits in the county pay taxes on profit-making segments of their property.

“Then, as now, Ms. Rominiecki wants Selby Gardens to be treated differently than all other nonprofits in our community and is willing to spend potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars defending her position,” Furst wrote.

In a response, McComb challenged Furst’s claims. She said Selby Gardens has shared key documents with the property appraiser, including the organization’s general ledger — produced in November after several requests from Furst’s office — and the confidential rental agreement with Michael’s On East.

Rominiecki disagreed.

“We’ve responded at every turn,” Rominiecki said. “I would question whether any other organization has provided the level of detail we’ve provided.”

She also questioned Furst’s motives, noting that he had received input on Selby’s business activity from residents who opposed a proposal to renovate the property in 2019 and 2020.

Furst declined to respond to a series of questions about the case.

“As I stated previously, the press is not the proper venue for this matter,” Furst said in an email.

“Florida statutes lay out the process for when disagreements arise over assessments, and that process is to have an impartial review by the Value Adjustment Board.”

With Selby Gardens facing a tax bill of nearly $1 million, it appears a third party will need to settle the dispute. Depending on the outcome of Friday’s hearing, the special magistrate’s opinion might not bring resolution to the matter.

“Frankly, if this decision doesn’t come out in our favor, we would have to go to Circuit Court — because this is a precedent-setting case that would not only gravely affect Selby Gardens but the entire nonprofit sector,” Rominiecki said.

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“Most of our plans consisted of trying to bring people together to celebrate this wonderful event,” Cassell said. “Obviously, to keep people safe from COVID-19, almost everything we had planned to do was rendered unusable, and we had to rethink the whole thing.”

However, Cassell said the committee has worked to find ways to deliver similar experiences safely.

For example, walking and driving tours of some of the county’s important archaeological sites and monuments will be offered through a smartphone app.

Rather than hosting in-person lectures, the committee will offer a series that has been filmed.

Featured lectures will include: n The history of the county, given

by Cassell, who also wrote “Creating Sarasota County”; n The history of Eagle Point, given by Jim Middleton; and n A lecture on Rose Phillips Wilson, who established the Sarasota Times.

Other sessions will be available to interested groups over Zoom, so follow-up questions can be asked.

Of course, no birthday would be complete without a gift.

The committee will present the county with two historical markers that tell the story of how it came to be. One marker will be installed at the Sarasota County Courthouse and the other at the Robert L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice.

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Revised Bath and Racquet plan earns warmer response The Planning Board offered praise for a reconfigured proposal to add 207 residential units to the fitness center site.

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n updated proposal to rezone the Bath and Racquet Club site to facilitate a residential redevelopment earned a unanimous endorsement from the city’s Planning Board on Jan. 13.

The Planning Board meeting, the first in a series of public hearings required for the project to move forward, had a markedly different tone than a 2019 meeting reviewing a previous iteration of the project. Then more than a dozen residents appeared to criticize the project as out-of-scale with the surrounding neighborhoods, and the Planning Board voted 3-2 to recommend denying the proposal.

On Jan. 13, more members of the public spoke in support of the redevelopment proposal than in opposition. Members of the Planning Board who recommended against the previous plans offered positive feedback, stating the new proposal substantively responded the concerns neighbors raised.

“This is a good example of the power of thoughtful design,” Planning Board member David Morriss said. “It really solved a

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lot of problems without messing with the program that much.”

Some broad aspects of the Bath and Racquet redevelopment plan remain unchanged from the previous iteration. The developers still hope to build 180 market-rate and 27 affordable residential units around a tennis-centric fitness complex at 2170 Robinhood St. But key design details, including building heights and site configuration, have been adjusted for improved compatibility, architect Michael Halflants said.

Halflants said both the property owners and the community wold benefit if the city approved the requested rezone from office and industrial categories to designations that allow for resi-

dential and commercial uses.

He said the developers initially approached him with a plan to build under the current zoning, but Halflants persuaded them to take another crack at a project focused on adding housing to the Bath and Racquet Club.

“It just makes more sense to do something that’s residential than an office park, and it makes more sense for the residents around it,” Halflants said.

The redevelopment proposal concentrates the residential buildings on the north end of the 13.5-acre site, adjacent to multifamily housing and commercial properties. Rather than preserving the existing Bath and Racquet Club, the developer would

demolish the fitness center and construct a new one. The maximum height for the project is 45 feet, one story lower than the previous proposal and in line with some existing structures in the area.

In addition to private amenities, such as 17 tennis courts and a one-story indoor pickleball center, the property would also include a 48,000-square-foot park and a 1-kilometer looping trail open to the public.

“I don’t remember an application that ever had this many proffers in terms of public amenities, public benefits,” said Halflants, a former Planning Board member.

Some neighboring residents in attendance at the meeting

remained opposed to the plans for the site, continuing to raise concerns about traffic and infrastructure capacity.

“I just have a feeling we’re going to regret anything going into this neighborhood without addressing the existing concerns,” resident Barbara Bourgoin said.

Other vocal opponents of the previous proposal were not in attendance at the Planning Board meeting, and some neighboring property owners encouraged the city to approve the redevelopment plans. Milford Inganamort, the owner of the adjacent Chili’s Plaza, said the addition of residences would be a huge injection of activity for businesses in his commercial center.

“Something like this would just bring such a boom to them that I can’t even imagine the impact,” Inganamort said.

Planning Board member Damien Blumetti, who supported the previous proposal, praised the project team for going through the city’s review process again and improving its plans.

“This is probably one of the most beautiful designed presentations and buildings that we’ve seen come through the Planning Board,” Blumetti said.

If the City Commission approves the rezoning request, the developer must earn site plan approval before construction can begin. Halflants said he was not certain when the project team would submit a formal site plan to the city for review.

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At the dawn of the millennium, the city undertook an effort to produce new building regulations for its downtown, hiring outside experts to craft a modern zoning code for the heart of the city.

The final product, adopted in 2004, was titled the Downtown Master Plan 2020. On Tuesday, Mayor Hagen Brody noted that the city had bypassed the long-term window the downtown master plan was designed to cover. As a result, he suggested the time was ripe to consider substantive updates to downtown zoning regulations — as well as comprehensive changes in other commercial and mixed-use areas.

The City Commission voted 4-1 in favor of Brody’s request to direct staff to pursue a suite of zoning code changes outside of single-family neighborhoods.

The vote came two years after the city abandoned an effort to completely rewrite its zoning code, which city leaders initially undertook as a way to modernize and standardize building regulations.

Brody said he believed the form-based code failed in part because it proposed changes to zoning in predominantly residential areas that were too substantial. Still, he noted the city spent years gathering input and producing recommendations. He said that work could be the foun-

dation for considering changes along commercial corridors, such as U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road, and he expressed a desire to prioritize a broad zoning update as opposed to a site-by-site or neighborhood-by-neighborhood rewrite.

“Instead of continuing to do a piecemeal thing, a comprehensive approach to rezoning would be best,” Brody said.

Although Planning Director Steve Cover agreed with Brody’s assertion that the timing was good for a code update, City Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch expressed concern that Brody’s proposed timeline of adopting the changes by the end of 2021 was too short and voted against it.

“I’m very confused by what is meant by all of this,” she said.

Planning staff indicated it would return to the commission in February with a more detailed plan for identifying potential zoning code proposals.

Also at Tuesday’s City Commission meeting: n The board approved a contract for Marlon Brown to become city manager. Brown, previously the deputy city manager, had served as interim manager following Tom Barwin’s retirement. n The commission extended a moratorium on water service shutoffs for two weeks, directing the city attorney to research whether the city could maintain the moratorium without violating its bond covenants.

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Nursing home reform needed Certificate of Need laws are counterproductive to cost reduction and improved quality, evidence suggests.

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ursing home residents have been among the hardest hit by COVID-19.

According to data from the COVID Tracking Project, nursing home residents account for 38% of COVID-19 deaths nationwide, though they make up less than 1% of the population.

Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration Florida Health Finder website shows 29 nursing homes in Sarasota County, though more might be unlisted. ProPublica’s Nursing Home Inspect website, which “compares nursing homes based on the deficiencies cited by regulators and the penalties imposed in the past three years,” includes 22 facilities in Sarasota County, all of which had moderate to severe deficiencies.

The tragedy unfolding in America’s nursing homes highlights the need to address longstanding failures in the industry.

A new policy study (authored by Nastasi), “Protecting Florida’s Most Vulnerable: Market-Based Reform to Improve Nursing Home Care,” published this month by the James Madison Institute, offers recommendations for reform.

Between state and federal requirements, nursing home care is among the most highly regulated industries in the U.S., but quality issues remain rampant.

Considering the vulnerability of nursing home residents and the potential for neglect and abuse, some degree of regulation and oversight is necessary and appropriate. However, policymakers must acknowledge the limitations and trade-offs associated with regulation.

Importantly, regulation establishes minimum standards of care — it does not provide incentives to go beyond those minimum standards.

As in any other industry, the best mechanism to create incentives to improve quality is competition. Unfortunately, state-level policies often restrict competition in the nursing home industry.

For example, state-level Certificate of Need laws require health care providers to receive government approval to construct new facilities, expand existing ones or offer new medical services. These laws were implemented under the misguided theory that restricting supply would control health

care costs by preventing overinvestment. However, the bulk of evidence suggests that CON laws do not achieve this goal.

Several states, including Florida, have repealed or reformed CON programs in recent decades. In 2019, Florida passed CS/HB 21, which eliminated CON laws for general hospitals, comprehensive rehabilitation, specialty hospitals and tertiary health services. CON requirements were maintained for nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, hospice programs and intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled.

Despite overwhelming evidence that CON laws do not reduce health care costs, proponents argue that limiting the number of nursing home beds will control Medicaid costs.

However, that assertion is not supported by research on the subject. A 2016 study in the journal “Medical Care Research and Review” found that while nursing home Medicaid spending per enrollee declined in all states between 1992 and 2009, the rate of decline was actually higher in states without CON laws. As the authors noted, “by 2009, compared to states without CON, Medicaid spending per enrollee on nursing home care was 1.8 times higher in states with nursing home CON.” Proponents of nursing home CON also argue that CON requirements improve quality by ensuring high occupancy rates.

They suggest that eliminating Florida’s CON program would lead to a dramatic increase in the number of nursing home facilities and beds. As a result, facility occupancy rates would decline, revenues would fall, and care providers would be unable to cover the costs required to provide quality care. Again, the available research does not support these claims.

A September study in the journal Healthcare found that both CON requirements and higher occupancy rates are actually associated with lower quality of care. The authors used scores from the National Nursing Home Survey, which measures facility cleanliness, staffing adequacy and satisfaction ratings from a sample of residents in each facility. After controlling for other relevant factors, the authors found that survey scores are about 18%-24% lower in states with CON requirements.

Moreover, a one-point increase

in the occupancy rate was found to result in a 0.5% reduction in survey scores on average.

Although CON laws do not achieve their goals of reining in costs or improving quality, they do have significant distortionary impacts that benefit incumbent care providers to the detriment of consumers and potential competitors. For example, Florida’s CON program tends to lead to older, larger nursing facilities by protecting existing providers from competition and favoring expansions over the construction of new, state-of-the-art facilities. As a result, more than 30% of Florida’s nursing homes were built before 1981, and about 16% are more than 50 years old.

Florida also tends to have larger facilities on average than other states, especially compared to those without CON requirements. Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that Florida has approximately 120 beds per facility compared to the national average of 106 beds.

States with CON laws have an average of 101 beds per facility while states without CON have an average of 89 beds per facility (see graph). This is important because research by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that smaller facilities tend to be associated with higher quality than larger facilities.

In sum, the evidence indicates that CON laws might actually be counterproductive to the goals of reducing costs and improving quality. They also protect incumbent care providers from competition that would otherwise create incentives to improve quality beyond the minimum standards set by regulation. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that repealing CON laws would encourage greater competition without increasing costs or compromising on quality.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing problems in the nursing home industry. In response to the crisis, it is incumbent upon us to rely on evidence-based policy decisions and abandon the top-down approach of the past to ensure high-quality care for Florida’s growing elderly population.

Vittorio Nastasi is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation and lives in Tallahassee.

Adrian Moore, Ph.D., is the vice president of Reason and lives in Sarasota.

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Criticism was based on ideology The headline (“We’ll Probably Never Know,” Jan. 7) and the concluding paragraphs of Matt Walsh’s column fuel the lie that former President Donald Trump, the GOP and others have told since Nov. 3. This lie — and Trump’s inciting behavior — led directly to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Here are some facts for those who truly value the “objectivity” Walsh notes is a journalistic standard: Trump and his allies filed about 60 lawsuits claiming some variant of fraud or “steal” in the 2020 election. Objective, evidence-based investigators, election officials and judges have examined the allegations Walsh refers to. Through every level of the U.S. judicial system including the U.S. Supreme Court, a total of about 90 judges found no evidence of significant election fraud.

In short, legal votes were counted, verified and certified through the Electoral College, despite subversive efforts to deny the truth.

Here’s the truth: The election was not stolen. Trump lost fair and square.

An editor faithful to the norm of “objectivity” would affirm this now-definitive factual evidence, rather than lament how Trump supporters will “always have the feeling” that they’ve somehow been let down.

On Jan. 6, some Republican U.S. senators and representatives — including some from Florida — seized Trump’s lie about election fraud as a vehicle for a political stunt because they

did not like the election results in certain states. The senators who initiated this stunt clearly did so to advance their personal political ambitions, pretending for public consumption that they could overturn the election results, yet knowing it was not within their authority to do so.

Persisting in this stunt even after Trump incited a riot on the Capitol deserves the Observer’s and every American’s strong censure.

Historically, railing against the mass media of communication might be America’s favorite pastime, not even second to baseball. Presidents do it. Ordinary people do it. Even CEOs and newspaper publishers do it.

Walsh engages in this pastime periodically, this time naming The New York Times and The Washington Post as specific targets because, in his view, they are too “liberal.” Walsh never seems to realize how his own bias informs and distorts the evidence he uses to shape his views (e.g., citing extremist Mark Levin as if he were a credible constitutional authority).

Standards and practices of journalism are cultural constructs, not immutable laws. Like other cultural institutions, these change over time. Objectivity evolved as a standard beginning in the latter 19th century in part to remedy allegations and rumors that too often were reported without verification.

Even by the 1930s, however, critics of simplistic journalism recognized that objectivity, though reasonably good as a standard for determining the who, what, when and where of a story, was too blunt a tool to

adequately explain the why and how of many complicated events and issues. By the 1970s, leading newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, developed strong records of investigative reporting that wedded the best of objectivity with sophisticated research and analysis. Investigations that resulted in Watergate reporting, combined with congressional hearings, et al., succeeded in providing Americans with the information they needed to recognize Richard Nixon’s criminal culpability in the 1970s.

Ultimately, honorable Republican senators, people of moral conscience and political courage, simply told Nixon it was time for him to go. Even Nixon was principled enough — or at least constrained enough by accepted norms — to do so. Such principled leadership is largely absent today among elected Republicans.

The New York Times and The Washington Post are different today from the way they were in the 1970s for many reasons, some of which Walsh mentions.

This does not make them lesser forms of journalism. Investigative reporting is one of the most difficult reporting forms to do well. For media committed to doing it as well as humanly possible, we and our democracy as a whole benefit.

For readers willing to use their own critical thinking skills to assess the accuracy and validity of what they read, these two newspapers are still among the most reliable journalism we have. These papers are not perfect. But our democracy would be in greater peril without them.

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Walsh’s critique of these newspapers seems borne of his ideological differences with them, not a fair and balanced assessment of how they apply journalism’s professional standards today.

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Simulate the roundabout plan I have lived on Longboat Key since 2004, so I have seen a few things come and go.

Can smarter minds prevail in requesting that the civil engineers and highway planners who want to build a roundabout on Gulfstream do Monte Carlo simulations to predict potential traffic outcomes that reflect long-standing traffic patterns?

A Monte Carlo simulation is designed to take into account chance and uncertainty to make reliable outcome predictions.

I can’t think of a more important simulation, so we don’t find out in hindsight that this was a horrific idea.

Let the simulation speak for itself instead of biased opinions.

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have another opportunity like this for the interest of the taxpayer.”

Additionally, Moran said the additional space could be used as a way to generate revenue through rentals or as overflow or storage should the county administration headquarters be moved to Cattlemen Road.

“The minute we do a ribboncutting on this, I’m willing to bet a Starbucks coffee to anyone on the board that we will get a request from staff that we need to come up with 20,000 square feet of space,” he said.

Commissioner Christian Ziegler also was in favor of the second floor, but he questioned whether it could be built later.

LaCivita said it isn’t cost-prohibitive because codes change, and the first floor tenants would have to be vacated while construction is underway.

Moran said the county wouldn’t have to fund a fully furnished second floor right away and could instead just build a “cold, dark shell” until they decide a future use.

Commissioner Ron Cutsinger agreed, stating it makes sense to move forward with the project now, so the medical examiner doesn’t have to wait several more years for an office in the county.

“I think we take the opportunity, and we build the shell,” Cutsinger said. “One of the reasons we’re moving forward with this project right now is because we’re fast-tracking this as much as possible because it’s been underway for quite some time.”

Commissioners agreed to move forward with the one-story lease, and staff will now work with 4480 Fruitville LLC to move forward on the design of two stories.

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not present — to enter a lease with 4480 Fruitville LLC for the facility. State records show the LLC’s managing partner is Frank J. LaCivita, the executive vice president of Lakewood Ranch’s Willis Smith Construction, Inc. The county would pay between $4.4 million and $4.9 million on the 30-year lease annually. The lease would have an annual 3% escalator or the consumer price index value, whichever is higher.

After property taxes, insurance and operating costs, Director of Capital Projects Carolyn Eastwood estimates the county will pay between $5 million and $5.6 million annually as a tenant.

The county has the option to purchase the property and the building for $19.1 million after a minimum of three years. Per the agreement, the facility will be built and occupied by January 2023.

Originally, the 17,483-squarefoot facility was designed as a one-story building. However, commissioners wanted to explore the possibility of adding an unfinished second floor for future use.

Adding a second level would double the building’s square footage, but it would require 70 additional parking spaces, the removal of grand trees and the use of a stormwater vault system, all of which would drive the cost up by about $6 million. Additionally, the extra floor space would drive the annual cost of the lease up by about $500,000.

Commissioner Mike Moran said he’d like to explore the option of a second floor because he said the county would be hard-pressed to get 18,000 square feet so easily.

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Some projects are continuations from 2020 while others are big-picture ideas that commissioners hope to hone throughout 2021. Among the projects: ■ Mental health taxing district: Commissioner Mike Moran first presented the idea of special taxing to provide services and mental health facilities in 2019.

The district would have the power to levy taxes to pay for all the services. Commissioners pulled the referendum from the November 2020 ballot because they didn’t want to place more financial burden on residents dealing with effects of COVID-19. However, Commissioner Alan Maio again requested a timeline for the project to begin. County staff expects to present a plan in March.

■ Review 2020 census and effects of single-member districts: Commissioners in 2019 redrew County Commission lines ahead of the 2020 census data.

The 2020 elections marked the first time residents voted in single-member districts after a special referendum passed in 2018, which meant some residents were moved out of a district in which they could vote. Commissioner Nancy Detert wants staff to investigate the effectiveness of

the single-member districts.

■ Improve wastewater standards: Staff will continue updating the Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility into an advanced wastewater treatment facility.

The project will cost a total of $157 million.

■ Modernize mobility and transit system: As part of a system overhaul, in October 2020 county leaders made the decision to eliminate many Sarasota County Area Transit fixed routes, particularly in south county. The county will continue to evolve its transit system by adding a mobility-on-demand service that will link county bus lines with rideshare companies.

■ County administration location: Leaders hope to continue with plans to move from the county’s downtown headquarters at 1660 Ringling Blvd. Two properties on Cattlemen Road have been highlighted as potential sites.

■ 911 back-up facility interlocal agreement: Staff wants to complete an agreement with a neighboring county to provide no-notice back-up support for 911 operations in the event of an interruption in service. The agreement would be reciprocal.

■ 200-bed correctional reintegration center: Staff will begin funding the design phase of a 200-bed secured correctional facility for people with addiction or who have a mental illness.

The center would be placed near the intersection of East Avenue and Main Street and would help reduce repeat-offender rates.

Additionally, the county will complete implementation of three-year pilot program for a 40-bed secured treatment and reentry program.

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In recent months, Sarasota County Schools has been under state scrutiny for its COVID-19 plans, but the district will now be under Department of Education observation for its exceptional student education programs.

The changes come after a DOE investigation in December found that Sarasota officials incorrectly placed a student in a program for those with cognitive disabilities.

The investigation followed a lawsuit filed against the district after a boy was for six years placed in a program for students with disabilities even though he did not belong in the program. The district reached a settlement with boy’s family for $250,000.

As a result of the investigation, the DOE will monitor the district

and seek additional action to bring the school into compliance with the law.

During a school board workshop, Superintendent Brennan Asplen told board members the district will now collaborate with the DOE to focus on: ■ Creating a plan for evidencebased professional development related to support for students with cognitive disabilities; ■ Participation of all essential district staff to monthly technical assistance and desktop monitoring; ■ The quarterly submission of data that includes the district’s self-assessment of student records and data related to the reevaluation of students in the ESE program; ■ Reviewing data on resources related to staffing, curriculum and training for the support of students who are transitioning from alternative classrooms into regular classrooms; and ■ The development of parent training programs and support for families of students with cognitive disabilities on the risks and potential consequences related to instruction in alternative standards and assessment.

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Superintendent Brennan Asplen says district staff is motivated to make the necessary changes.

to the DOE for approval every year for the next three years.

“This is going to be a process — I will tell you that,” Asplen said.

Already, district administrators and DOE officials met with Exceptional Student Education teachers, pupil support services, research assessment and evaluation departments to work on professional development and learn about special policies.

A large portion of the changes is related to determining which students belong in the district’s program Access Points, which exposes students with cognitive disabilities to curriculum at a simpler level, said Tom McDowell, an ESE specialist hired to review the district’s policies.

Children in Access Points also do not take state testing, which caused some residents to believe students were incorrectly placed, so the district could boost its overall grade, thereby increasing its funding. However, the DOE investigation found those claims unsubstantiated.

According to McDowell’s report, there are six language-impaired students and one specific learning disability student on Access Points. There are 24 students being monitored who were taken off Access Points since 2016.

The problem, McDowell said, is that when a student who doesn’t need to spends formative years in the program, their academic development can be slowed. To

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avoid future instances, he said the district needs a greater understanding of what a cognitive disability is.

“There also needs to be a better understanding that when students are taken from Access Points and put back in general curriculum, that they have the support systems and things they need,” McDowell said.

In his March investigation, McDowell found that there was no ill intent by staff members when they unnecessarily placed a student in Access Points, but mistakes were still made.

“The bottom line was this: There was no intent to do harm,” he said. “However, there was a lot of misunderstanding and a lot of positions that people interpreted kind of what they thought it should be.”

Board member Bridget Ziegler, however, questioned whether McDowell had evidence to substantiate his claim, stating that even if teachers didn’t do it intentionally, the judge that ruled in the boy’s favor said they operated with “deliberate indifference.”

McDowell said he did not review the boy’s case specifically and that his assessment was based on the district’s overall data.

Asplen has directed ESE staff to review the files of each student in the Access Points curriculum to ensure proper placement.

Asplen said he is confident staff is up to the task of evaluating the district’s protocols.

“I strongly believe that our teachers and our administrators in our county maintain a growth mindset and are committed to continuous improvement to provide a superior and progressive education for all our students,” Asplen said.

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On Jan. 13, the St. Armands Business Improvement District discussed the construction bids it received for a bathroom project it’s been pursuing in one form or another for the better part of a decade. After settling on a design and location and setting aside $300,000 to build it, some BID board members expressed concerns about moving forward after learning about the higher-thanexpected construction costs.

“I would have never supported this at $500,000,” board member Gavin Meshad said. “I would have never let it go this far if I thought in my wildest dreams it would have been this much money.”

The board voted to prepare a contract with Magnum Builders of Sarasota, which submitted a low construction price of $480,877 among the eight companies that responded to the city’s invitation to bid. But although the BID will consider approving the contract, it did not commit to moving forward with the project, instead opting to investigate alternate solutions.

Matt D’Angelo, the project engineer with architectural and engineering firm CPH, said the quoted costs exceeded the estimates in part because of the difficulties of building in the median at John Ringling Boulevard and South Washington Drive.

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Meshad suggested the BID could pause its pursuit of a permanent restroom facility in favor of a temporary option. The group of property owners received cost estimates pegging the price of renting a three-stall portable trailer restroom at $30,000 for six months. The BID also agreed to explore leasing commercial space on Fillmore Drive to procure restrooms that are open to the public.

Meshad said that sort of alternative could better inform the BID’s long-term decision-making on the matter of bathrooms.

“It could be that we use [a portable restroom], and we say, ‘You know, it’s not getting used as much as we thought; thank God we didn’t spend a half a million dollars on a permanent facility,’” Meshad said. “Or, ‘Guess what, it’s being used more than we thought, and it reconfirms the fact that we need to solve this problem permanently.’”

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Families may also reach NAMI providers by emailing info@NAMISarasotaCounty. org or by calling 444-3428.

Mental health organization keeps focus on homebound students experiencing isolation.

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As the school district moves into its second semester under COVID-19 protocols, concerns remain over the mental health of students who continue at home for virtual schoolwork. Throughout the pandemic, district administrators and school board members prioritized mental health checkins. Teachers have built in time for “mindful minutes” during their lessons, and students and families are encouraged to use the district’s Inner Explorer app, which directs users through various mindfulness techniques.

Even so, some students struggle. Sarah Miller, a family navigator for National Alliance for

Mental Health in Sarasota and Manatee counties, said that there are ways to overcome challenges during times of isolation.

“Social isolation is very common with a tendency to retreat into a virtual environment,” she said.

“It appears the limited social engagement opportunities seem to have put an additional strain on youth’s ability to want to connect, which tends to then create power struggles within many families. This lack of connection further exacerbates any preexisting mental health challenges as these conditions go untreated or addressed.”

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through something similar,” Miller said.

One of the programs that helped Miller was NAMI Basics, which is a support group for parents.

Although she found the program helpful, Miller said the navigator position allows her to empathize with families in a way that is sometimes difficult in other settings.

“Sometimes our closest family and friends just don’t really understand,” Miller said. “As much as they love you, unless you’ve been through it yourself, you don’t necessarily feel like you can talk about it with them.”

One of the best ways to work through anxiety or depression for students, Miller said, is by creating more engagement opportunities. Because children don’t always feel comfortable sharing with adults, NAMI is offering one-on-one youth peer support.

“These youth peers are able to understand much of what youth are going through and provide opportunities for youth to connect, find support and hope while practicing social skills in a safe, nonjudgmental environment,” Miller said.

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But for all its charm, Gustafson admits it was starting to fall apart.

“Our facility was really old, really rundown, and we’ve kind of outgrown it,” she said. “We weren’t able to supply or provide the level of care that we wanted to. … [It limited] how many pets at one time we could take in, and it limited how many cats we can have on our adoption floor.”

That building came down in April 2020 as part of an $8.5 million renovation and expansion, with the promise of a more spacious building in its place. Staff moved the adoption operation to the adjacent education center building while waiting for the new building to be ready.

Humane Society staff moved into the newly opened adoption center in early January, and although there are still renovations and developments to be done, it has opened to the public.

The new space promises a large space for adoptions, greater capacity for cat housing, kitten play rooms, training classes and more. The shelter will be able to care for around 2,700 animals each year, compared to the 1,800 in the old building.

When the education center is demolished and rebuilt by May, the entire facility will be 37,513 square feet opposed to the old facility’s 18,000 square feet.

Gustafson and other staff are relieved after operating out of the education center for much of 2020. Although the dog kennels weren’t affected by the renovation project, destroying the main building affected how many cats the nonprofit could house and put

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Staff now have a much larger surgical center where they can take care of animals needing treatment and are able to house more cases. Gonce said the plan is to have a veterinarian working full time at the shelter this year.

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After many, many years of going through that process, this year I just said no. Following the year we’ve all been through, it seemed ridiculous to resolve to do, well, what?

There are so many unknowns in our lives. Things continue to change from day to day. And let’s face it, things are pretty much out of our control.

That begged the question: What is in our control? My answer to that turned out to be pretty simple. We can control our thoughts and how

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What if I said you could be healthier, happier, stronger and more resilient? I think you would hop on board. The Rev. Bruce Wismer, co-pastor

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“I was ready for 2020 to be over, but that also meant another year of accomplishments, experiences and opportunity had passed. What were the most important lessons I learned? The best things that happened to me? The challenges? New skills? And how did I have fun?” Wismer suggests scoring yourself on a 1-10 scale. Then identify what you need to hit a 10 in the areas that are important to you. Using questions like that or others — Google life map — will help you to get a handle on doing a deep dive into what your values might be.

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GETTING INTO THE HABIT

It might be more popular to set New Year’s resolutions, but in these tough times, a little self-reflection can be more useful. we react to our behaviors and our beliefs. But to make that happen, to get a handle on what those beliefs are, we must adopt the practice of selfreflection.

I can hear some of you whining, “Who has time to sit around and reflect?” I get that, and I’ve been there plenty of times, but I’ve come to recognize that without reflection, I, and probably you, continue the same behaviors that might not work in our favor. Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Another way of looking at a life not reflected is a treadmill that never stops. Everyone needs to hop off, take a breather and think about all those miles you’ve put in. Where did it get you? And where might you rather be going?

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but hone in on how much time athletes spend watching the video tapes of their performance, reviewing and reflecting upon how to do it differently and better. That’s the gift reflection gives us: how to do our life better.

ALLOW YOURSELF TO RESPOND, NOT REACT

These days, one of the more important benefits of reflection is the almost constant bombardment of the media and the speed with which our culture is responding to events. Let’s face it. Most of us have said or done something in the moment that you wish you could take back. So hit the pause button and reflect, taking a look at all sides of the issue. And that’s double down on emails or social media.

It’s one thing to agree that reflection is a good thing and another to make it happen in our lives. I turned to Dr. Gretchen White, a psychotherapist, for her take on reflection.

“In order to move ahead, we all need to take the time for self-reflection,” she said. “One really simple way to ease into the habit is to take time each day to jot down what you were grateful for. Not only is gratitude a positive and powerful thing to track, but it requires reflection.” White decided to start 2021 with a daily check-in with her two sisters on WhatsApp. “We share what we were grateful for the day before. It can be something really silly or profound, but it brings us closer, and it helps to reflect on larger issues, too.”

Other techniques that might be helpful are journaling, meditating or just taking 30 minutes to walk at the end of the day. If self-reflection isn’t a regular part of your life right now, it might be time for you to take a step back. I Googled Tracy Kennedy, a life coach, for her take.

“Whichever step you take next is perfect,” she writes.

“There’s no right or wrong way to do this. It’s only what works for you. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to self-reflection, just like there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to life.”

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Booker High boys basketball senior King Winkfield scored 20 points Jan. 18 in the Tornadoes’ 74-50 home win against Venice High.

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Riverview High boys soccer senior Eli Fizer scored two goals Jan. 18 in the Rams’ 5-1 win against Sarasota High.

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Booker High girls basketball sophomore Chariot Johnson scored 17 points Jan. 14 in the Tornadoes’ 54-30 home win against Tampa Catholic.

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be its members, and hosting an annual event would take away too much course time from them.

One-off events like this one, however, are perfect, Weimann said. They bring attention to the club and show off the beauty of the course to a national audience while minimizing the time that the course is blocked from member use.

That’s why the club connected with the PGA Tour when it heard the tournament would have to be moved out of Mexico City.

“Getting this event is the first step in getting a seat at the table,” Weimann said.

Weimann said the club will be touching up some of its greenside bunkers before the event but otherwise is ready to go.

“I’ve seen lots of courses, and this one is right up there,” Costello said. “Driving up 18 with the water and the clubhouse in the background, it’s cool.”

The tournament’s first two days will be broadcast on the Golf Channel, while its final two days will be broadcast on NBC. Elliott Falcione, the executive director of Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, said getting the area mentioned on

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“It’s all about branding,” Falcione said. “The viewership demographic of the tournament aligns with how we showcase the region. Getting it on national television, it’s another thing to add to the tool belt.”

Dom DiMaio, the president and CEO of the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance, said it’s another opportunity to elevate the region in the nation’s — and the world’s — eyes.

“People are going to ask, ‘What is Lakewood Ranch?’ and they are going to Google it,” he said.

Costello said the tournament field is to be determined; golfers have until the Friday before the event to withdraw or commit.

However, the field is usually filled with stars. Patrick Reed won the $1.82 million first-place money in last year’s WGC-Mexico event, holding off a field that included Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau among other top names.

The event comes on the heels of the Korn Ferry Tour, which kicks off its season the week prior across the street at Lakewood National Golf Club.

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eventy-two of the world’s top-ranked golfers will be featured Feb. 25-28 at the $10.5 million World Golf Championships at the Concession Golf Club in the Lakewood Ranch area, though no tickets will be available to the general public.

The PGA Tour made the announcement Jan. 15 that the Concession would host the tournament, which was scheduled as the World Golf ChampionshipsMexico in Mexico City. COVID-19 issues in Mexico City forced the one-year move.

A small number of guests and club members will be offered tickets. The event will include a Wednesday pro-am and honorary observers. Tournament Director Meghan Costello said a link to apply for one of about 400 volunteer spots will open soon.

“We are thrilled for the opportunity,” said Virginia Haley, the president of Visit Sarasota County, in an announcement on the PGA Tour website. “With such a wonderful setting and renowned course, we’re hopeful that the PGA Tour’s best players will enjoy battling for the title here in the Bradenton-Sarasota area.”

World Golf Tour events — two others of which are scheduled this season in Austin, Texas in March and Memphis, Tenn., in August — feature prize money on par with golf’s major championships.

A third WGC event in China was canceled for 2021. Two WGC events were held in 2020.

Concession General Manager Brian Weimann said the club, which was named Best New Private Course by Golf Digest when it opened in 2006, has never been interested in hosting an annual PGA Tour event. Weimann said the club’s first priority will always

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RYAN KOHN

The ‘three dot’ homage News and commentary on recent Sarasota sports happenings.

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here’s been so much happening in area sports lately, high school and otherwise, that I haven’t been able to fit everything I want to spotlight into my usual feature-column format for our print edition.

So I’m trying something new this week with my column.

Instead of writing about one topic, I’ve split my column into sections. Some of these sections will feature news items, some will be updates on actual sports contests, some will be neither.

Think of it as a classic “three dot” column, except I’m using bullet points, as I’ve always found the classic “three dot” style to be a bit hard to read.

(I’m a product of blog culture, remember.)

■ In addition to the big area golf news of the week, there’s a cool event called the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate coming to Sarasota’s Founders Golf Club from Feb. 7-9. The 54-hole stroke play event will feature 15 of the top NCAA Division I women’s golf programs in the country,

including Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, and will raise money for the Army Ranger Lead the Way Fund, a nonprofit that supports U.S. Army Rangers and their families, especially those who have died, have been wounded or are stationed in harm’s way. The event will be hosted by Purdue University.

■ Cardinal Mooney High girls soccer junior goalkeeper Allessia Ukmar is having an outstanding season. As of Wednesday, her goals-against average stood at 1.27 per game (with three shutouts). At a time when good teams routinely score three or four goals a game, that’s a stellar number. I was at the team’s game against Lakewood Ranch on Tuesday. The Cougars lost 2-0, but Ukmar kept her team in the game, especially in the first half, when she made a number of sprawling saves from the ground off rebounds.

■ Former Booker High wide receiver Osirus Mitchell announced Tuesday that he would forego his extra year of eligibility at Mississippi State and head to the 2021 NFL Draft.

Mitchell was second on his team with 47 catches for 505 yards in 2020 and led the team with four touchdowns catches.

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Sarasota High’s Terrell Pack verbally committed to Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday.

Jamar Johnson, the Riverview alumnus who declared for the draft last week, I never watched Mitchell play in high school. He graduated just before I arrived.

I watched him often in col-

lege, however. He snagged a touchdown against my Missouri Tigers this season. We’ll have to see where Mitchell, who is 6-foot-5, will be drafted. But I know he has the physical tools to

succeed. I hope someone takes a chance on him.

■ Speaking of local football players, Sarasota High senior Terrell Pack verbally committed to Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday. I’ve written about Pack often over the years. He’s a talented athlete who can play all over the field. I imagine MTSU knows this and will use him in as many spots as possible. It’s a good destination, and hey, it doesn’t hurt that former Riverview star Richie James made the leap from MTSU to the San Francisco 49ers, either. Good luck on Saturdays, Mr. Pack. I’ll be watching.

Ryan Kohn is the sports writer for the Sarasota Observer. Contact him at RKohn@ YourObserver.com.

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Willie Shaw, Mary Mack, April Glasco, Eureka Webb, Michael Kensey and Jetson Grimes stopped for a photo at the end of the celebration.

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Jan. 18 was a smaller but no less spirited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Newtown.

Sarasota community and government figures came together to speak to King’s legacy and the work still needed to be done in the fight for equality and equity.

The event — put on by the Sarasota MLK Community Celebration organization— traded its typical breakfast and community march for a presentation and food voucher distribution to people in need due to COVID-19.

The committee presented MLK Community Activist Awards to Michael Kensey, former Mayor and Commissioner Willie Shaw,

Bobro Maceo played music along to the celebration.

former Sarasota County Deputy Clerk Mary Mack, Harvest Tabernacle food bank CEO Eureka Webb and Second Chance Last Opportunity Founder April Glasco.

The audience at Martin Luther King Jr. Park also heard from committee member Jetson Grimes,

Mayor Hagen Brody, City Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch and others.

Melanie Lavender, a bornand-raised Sarasota resident, bookended the presentation with poetry.

She spoke of her experience

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She hopes people will find it in themselves to have more conversations with one another, to better understand one another and to hopefully bring an end to racism and sexism.

“I’m always nervous but always excited,” Lavender said. “You have people like Fredd Atkins, Commissioner Shaw, Glenda [Williams]. … These are community people. To me they’ve always been superstars.”

The Multicultural Health Institute was also on hand to pass out masks, provide information about healthy eating and take people’s blood pressure. Dr. Lisa Merritt said she has several people return to the group each year to check their blood pressure and let her know how they’ve been doing.

She presented the award winners with flowers and gifts as a token of appreciation from MHI for the years of work they’ve done. “[The gifts] were a pittance compared to what they’re worth,” Merritt said. “Each of them are friends and colleagues. We’ve been in the fight together for many years across all the domains of social deterministic health.”

Glasco also regaled the assembled crowd with a passionate rendition of “Thank You, Lord.”

“It’s a special day,” Jones said. “We’re all walking into the unknown. This pandemic has got a lot of people off balance. A lot of our children are suffering, so every day I’m thanking the Lord for keeping me [here] to be able to help so many people.”

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Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative President Michéle Des Verney Redwine has a full slate of panels, student exhibitions, community programs and more set for 2021.

Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative kicks off a busy year with a panel discussion.

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here’s nothing quite like the artistic process for Michéle Des Verney Redwine. It’s how she says she finds joy.

The former Ringling Museum board member has been deep in the arts world for years, first as a painter and more recently as a sculptor. She has also been on several local arts boards in the 15 years since she moved to Sarasota.

Nothing has made her happier.

But, she said, that joy isn’t

shared by a diverse enough group. For all the artistic avenues in Sarasota, she feels that such artistic voices are scarce.

“We find that if there’s an interesting exhibition that has been created by an African American or an Asian [artist], those communities come out to see that,” Redwine said. “Eventually, they’ll start to become an active participant within that organization.

But most people of color in this community do not feel connected to the arts.”

Redwine formed the Suncoast

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The “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Visual Arts” Zoom panel will discuss diversity and recognizing racial blind spots in the arts community. Participants include Ringling Executive Director Steven High and Sarasota Art Museum Director Anne-Marie Russell. Go to SuncoastBlackArtsCollaborative.org/january25th-panel.

Black Arts Collaborative in 2017 to help bridge that divide. The group partnered with Arts Center Sarasota for salons and guest artists to promote diverse work and viewpoints.

“No one really knew us,” Redwine said. “We were not entrenched in the community.

And that was the missing link.”

She decided 2020 would be different. The organization spent the year establishing itself as a legitimate nonprofit, expanding the board and forming partnerships with other nonprofits to emphasize diversity.

Now, in 2021, Redwine feels it’s starting to pay off.

The group plans on Jan. 25 a panel series about the intersection of art and racial justice.

Subsequent panels are planned in March, April and May. On the same day as the “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Visual Arts” panel, the group will launch the “2021 Black Muse” exhibition, which highlights artists of color and their works.

The virtual exhibition is a collaboration with Art Center Sarasota and the Association for the

Study of African American Life and History.

“I honestly believe everything that we do has to be through some form of collaboration or partnership,” Redwine said. “That’s the only way that we are going to help a community to look at the missing pieces.”

This year’s exhibit will have more emphasis on young artists.

Following last year’s exhibition featuring several of the artists visiting schools to discuss their creativity with students, the 2021 exhibition will have a segment including works from Sarasota High School, Booker High School, North Port High School, Riverview High School and Booker Middle School.

Redwine also plans to launch an Ambassadors for African American Art program to involve students in the arts scene in the local community. She hopes that program, in turn, will spur interest in inclusion and more varied exhibitions at art museums and organizations.

“We need to consider being involved more in this area,” Redwine said. “Influence is very important in terms of operation and those things drive involvement.”

Redwine said she works on the initiatives morning to night, every day of the week. Planning and managing a slate of programs throughout a pandemic year was exhausting and invigorating, and she hopes the new year will bring more progress.

“We’re so engaged with the work we’re doing,” she said. “I hope a year from now that we have a good solid face in this community, and people know about us, … and we have a good partnership.”

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MARINA TOWER Jenne Britell, trustee, sold the Unit 1403 condominium at 1233 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Janice Rutkowski, trustee, of Sarasota, for $1.7 million. Built in 2001, it has two bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 2,035 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.18 million in 2018.

VUE Susan Saltzbart Kilsby, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 1708 condominium at 1155 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Michael and Jenny Ceppi, of Rockport, Mass., for $1.4 million. Built in 2017, it has two bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 1,608 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.09 million in 2017.

KENILWORTH ESTATES Craig and Rachel Anne Campise, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1718 Kenilworth St. to William and Jo-Ellen Brayer, of Gaithersburg, Md., for $1.1 million. Built in 2013, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,645 square feet of living area. It sold for $685,000 in 2013.

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JAN. 4-8

Other top sales by area

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Michael and Marti Mumma, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3360 Gulfmead Drive to Christopher and Laura Jessen, of Sarasota, for $3.5 million.

Built in 1951, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,559 square feet of living area.

It sold for $825,000 in 1994.

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COURTYARD AT CITRUS Courtyard at Citrus Inc. sold the Unit 401 condominium at 525 N. Orange Ave. to Mark and Therese Pierce, of Sarasota, for $1.08 million. Built in 2019, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,068 square feet of living area.

The bayfront home at 3360 Gulfmead Drive was built in 1951. It has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,559 square feet of living area.

THE CONDOMINIUM ON THE BAY Margaret Coppenrath Tumbusch and Martina Coppenrath, trustees, sold the Unit 617 condominium at 988 Boulevard of the Arts to Wendy LaGuardia, trustee, Peter Larson and Mildred Larson, of Longboat Key, for $975,100. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,315 square feet of living area. It sold for $290,000 in 1991.

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Harbor Acres Christopher and Laura Jessen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1449 Hillview Drive to Scott Dalton and Stacey Dalton, trustees, of Sarasota, for $3.21 million. Built in 1952, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,982 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.38 million in 2020.

Legacy Estates on Palmer Ranch Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. sold the home at 5313 Trails Bend Court to Robert Sullivan and Michelle Miller-Sullivan, of Sarasota, for $661,500.

Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,268 square feet of living area.

Oaks I Craig Reynolds and Brian Simonson, of Seattle, sold their home at 67 Sugar Mill Drive to Steven and Lori Bradley, of Osprey, for $886,100.

Built in 1989, it has four bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 4,020 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.05 million in 2016.

Sorrento South William and Judith Smith, of Nokomis, sold their home at 478 Bellini Circle to William and Marcella McGuinn, of Chicago, for $799,000.

Built in 1971, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,202 square feet of living area. It sold for $639,000 in 2016.

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Robert and Sara Arthur, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1206 condominium at 888 Boulevard of the Arts to Marsha Zapson, of Sarasota, for $700,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,555 square feet of living area. It sold for $410,000 in 2012.

AVONDALE Angela Johnston sold her home at 1846 Lincoln Drive to Robert SEE REAL ESTATE, PAGE 8B

These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of January 4-8, in order of dollar amounts.

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2215 Datura St.

Pool/Spa/Deck

Edward Stolarski

$80,697

612 Indian Beach Lane

Dock/Boat Lift

Richard Clark

$63,335

1255 N. Gulfstream Ave. #403 Doors

William Carnes

$46,000

1881 Wisteria St.

Screen Room

Suzanne Kepler

$45,375

1724 Cherry Lane

Renovations

Robert Miller

$44,966

4840 Eastchester Drive

Pool/Deck

Tanya Steel

$30,000

2376 Hyde Park St.

Generator

Ezra Marcus

$27,971

2123 Sunnyside Lane

Windows

Jennifer Bright

$18,236

Julius Combs, trustee

$18,001

988 Blvd. of the Arts #1609 Doors

SA R A S O TA CO U N T Y Address

Permit Applicant Amount

433 E. Mac Ewen Drive

Windows/Doors

Andrew Roberts

$94,640

169 Patterson Ave.

Addition

Craig Bachar

$90,000

5205 Winding Way

Pool Patio

Tracey Pecchia

$48,000

5885 Midnight Pass Road

Windows/Doors

William Norris

$39,997

4312 Balmoral Way

Re-roof

Richard Mason

$37,485

8532 Park Shore Lane

Re-roof

Mark Dalesandro

$35,853

8191 Deerbrook Circle

Re-roof

Jason Abeles

$35,226

144 N. Casey Key Road

Generator

Ronald Burks

$35,000

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Source: Sarasota County, city of Sarasota

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and Allison Jordan, of Sarasota, for $875,000. Built in 1941, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,639 square feet of living area. It sold for $450,000 in 2015.

LAWRENCE POINTE Clements Ripley and Ruth Gray Stone, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 302 condominium at 101 Sunset Drive to Eileen Bradley, of Edwards, Colo., for $869,000.

Built in 1978, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,474 square feet of living area. It sold for $860,000 in 2017.

RIDGEWOOD Keith and Lindsay Deyoung, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2317 Pine Terrace to Heather Alexander, of Sarasota, for $815,000.

Built in 2018, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,857 square feet of living area. It sold for $693,000 in 2018.

SOUTH HIGHLAND Mykhailo and Svitlana Sorocheva, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1807 Worrington St. to Jordan and Kristina Marsano, of Ellenton, for $760,000. Built in 2013, it has five bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,206 square feet of living area. It sold for $665,000 in 2015.

SOUTH GATE Raymond Gerard Vanabel, of Sarasota, sold his home at 3319 Jaffa Drive to Kyle and Johanna Sims, of Sarasota, for $678,900.

Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,463 square feet of living area.

It sold for $499,000 in 2013.

Dorothy Barth sold the home at 2921 Bentley St. to D. Scott and Stacey Holman, of Sarasota, for $450,000. Built in 1958, it has four bedrooms, two-andtwo-half baths and 1,592 square feet of living area. It sold for $215,000 in 2017.

PHILLIPPI GARDENS Beth Jung, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 2111 Lusitania Drive to Shawn Patrick O’Brien, of Sarasota, for $670,000. Built in 1958, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 1,993 square feet of living area. It sold for $195,000 in 1999.

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CORAL COVE Matthew Taylor, of Leslie, Ark., sold his home at 1901 Upper Cove Terrace to Julia Havlovic, of Sarasota, for $635,000. Built in 1968, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,105 square feet of living area. It sold for $425,000 in 2009.

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HARBOR HOUSE John Graham Eady and Lorraine Eady, of Sheffield, England, sold their Unit 41 condominium at 174 Golden Gate Point to Peter Murphy and Jennifer Aguiar Murphy, of Sarasota, for $554,000. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,367 square feet of living area. It sold for $365,000 in 2009.

PINE SHORES ESTATES The Sea Sand sold the home at 6230 Brentwood Ave. to Jodi Moody Evans, of Lexington, Ky., for $489,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,019 square feet of living area. It sold for $315,000 in 2013.

SUNSET TOWERS Benjamin Hanan, of Sarasota, and Jodi Bearman, of Birmingham, Ala., sold their Unit 203 condominium at 11 Sunset Drive to William and Kim Meissner, of Sarasota, for $470,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,433 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2017.

REGENCY HOUSE Jutta Burt, trustee, sold the Unit 602 condominium at 435 S. Gulfstream Ave. to Joseph Trautman and Karen Bush, of Sarasota, for $440,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two

baths and 1,424 square feet of living area. It sold for $452,000 in 2005.

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GULF GATE EAST Daniel Linden and Samantha Haas-Linda, of Jacksonville, sold their home at 4230 Kingston Court to Teresa Noel Witalec and Jamie Marie Grabin, of Sarasota, for $438,000. Built in 1985, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,129 square feet of living area. It sold for $400,000 in 2018.

PHILLIPPI LAKE David Scott and Lori Lee Jaress, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2520 Wilkinson Circle to Joseph Amann, of Sarasota, for $437,000. Built in 1989, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,553 square feet of living area.

SOUTH GATE MANOR Kathy Kalichman, of Forest Hills, N.Y., sold her home at 3350 Bougainvillea St. to Brian Mick, of Sarasota, for $434,000. Built in 1969, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,462 square feet of living area. It sold for $300,000 in 2019.

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HUNTINGTON POINTE William Rudolph Yurk Jr. and Becky Yurk, of Higgins Lake, Mich., sold their home at 8939 Huntington Pointe Drive to Susan Annette Caldwell, of Sarasota, for $430,000. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,773 square feet of living area. It sold for $300,000 in 2016.

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RAINFOREST MASKS OF COSTA RICA From 2-6 p.m. through Jan. 31 at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 1534 Mound St. The masks were created by the Borucan Indian Tribe of Costa Rica. Meant originally to defend against attackers, the masks are now revered as artistic. Money raised from mask sales will provide financial support to the Borucan Village. Tickets $25 for Selby members, $30 for nonmembers. Call 366-5731.

‘EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES’ Through April 1 at Bayfront Park, 5 Bayfront Drive, 50 billboardsized pieces are on display.

Awards are given for Best in Show Adult, Best in Show Student and People’s Choice categories. Call 404-5710.

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SARASOTA BEER & BURGER FESTIVAL From noon to 6 p.m. through Jan. 24 at the Mall at University Town Center, 140 University Town Center Drive. Local grill experts will compete for the title of People’s Choice Best Burger. Jan. 23 will feature free samples from craft breweries. Jan. 24 will have music and games. Tickets $10. Call 674-1464.

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Our team at World Class Dentistry treats patients with a multitude of concerns which streamlines treatment and maintains quality control. The doctors along with their master dental technicians and on-site laboratory offer complete cosmetic and implant solutions.

We have been serving the Sarasota area since 1987. Call today for a consultation to begin your life-changing transformation.

Jill Morris, DMD • Accredited Member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (only 550 accredited dentists worldwide) • Fellow of the American Academy of Dental Facial Esthetics • Post Doctoral Instructor of Full Mouth Reconstruction • Member International Academy of Oral Biological Dentistry and Toxicology • Practicing dentistry for 33 years

Burr Bakke, DDS

Cameron Johnson, DMD

• Fellow of the American Dental Implant Association

• Member of American Dental Association

• Fellow of International Congress of Oral Implantologists

• Member of Florida Dental Association

• Fellow of the American Academy of Dental Facial Esthetics

• Member of West Coast Dental Association

• Member of American Academy of Implant Dentistry

• Member of American Academy of Implant Dentistry

• Post Doctoral Instructor of Full Mouth Reconstruction

• Member of International Congress of Oral Implantologists

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(941) 999-3205 | 3951 Swift Rd., Sarasota, FL 34231

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