City of Venice faces possible budget squeeze this year
Comptroller Bill Kern warned the Venice city council that a deficit laden year in the water department and the fishing pier may force tapping the $150000 reserve to keep the city solvent. He projected possible break even only if revenues rise and reserves and external gains from Florida Power & Light and the county materialize. Rieth and Walker had warned last year that the city would live off the shelf with a lean budget and small reserve. The council discussed using reserves by July or August and whether to make reserves more specific rather than general emergency funds.
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Venice
Bill Kern
Water Department
Kern
Council
Florida Power & Light
Dale Rieth
B. H. “Berry” Walker
Rieth
Bill Freeman
Freeman
South County
Eugene Caffrey
John Vickers
Ferry
Venice Council Approves Sheriff Jail Takeover Pilot
Venice approves a six month pilot letting the Sarasota County Sheriff take over jail operations from the Venice Police Department including bookings feeding medical care transport and bonding and breathalyzer tests. Sheriff Hardcastle will supply six officers to staff the city jail around the clock with a permanent option if successful.
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Sarasota County
Hardcastle
Dale Rieth
Letters reveal Crosby Tolstoy letters donated to Vassar
The Erie Crosby Tolstoy letters long sought by colleges were donated to Vassar by Helen Crosby Glendening who kept them after discovering them in her late father’s mansion and moving city to city. The letters traveled with her as she lived in Africa and later rented a Hudson River estate.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Vassar
Tolstoy
Crosby
Glenden
Helen Crosby Glendening
Ernest
Venice
Africa
Riverside
Virgo
Venice East to vote on trash disposal tax district
Sarasota County Commission moves a referendum to create a mandatory trash disposal district for Venice East, aiming to curb dumping and health hazards as only part of the 900-lot subdivision currently subscribes to disposal service. The plan would pair with a lighting tax referendum and uses county backing to reimburse Englewood Disposal.
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Venice East
Sarasota
Keyser
Englewood
Richard Nelson
Venice Hospital
Beach grant victory clouds Caspersen Beach plans
The U S Department of Interior approved a 1.75 million reimbursement grant to Sarasota County for Caspersen Beach purchase. State officials push for a park style development while county leaders say plans will be more limited and focus on essential access.
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Caspersen Beach
U.S. Department of Interior
Sarasota County
County Commission
Daily 8am Temperatures and Rainfall Record
Weather data notes record daily 8 am temperatures and rainfall for the prior 24 hours on listed dates. Observations include maximum and minimum temperatures and amounts of precipitation across stations.
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Briggs
Charles Wheeler
Helen Crosby
Glendening
Ernest Howard Crosby
Leo Tolstoy
Captain Jinks
Englewood Disposal
Rick Froemke
State Department of Natural Resources
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