[CPEO-BIF] Sarasota, Florida dump site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County Gets Tough on Giving City Half-Million for Brownfield Site

Jim Ley made a handshake deal six years ago to give the city $500,000  
for the cleanup of a dump. The agreement is unraveling fast.

By Stan Zimmerman
Sarasota Patch (FL)
July 13, 2011

Sarasota County left the window slightly ajar on a city request for a  
half-million dollars to help clean up the old dump on the southeast  
corner of Washington Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.  
While county commissioners didn’t shut the window, the crack the City  
of Sarasota must climb through to get the money is small.

The origin goes back seven years to a verbal agreement between then- 
County Administrator Jim Ley and then-City Manager Mike McNees. In a  
handshake deal, Ley promised $500,000 and then quietly moved money  
from a solid waste fund to the general fund. When county  
commissioners found out Wednesday, it did not help their temperament.

...

For the entire article, see
http://sarasota.patch.com/articles/county-gets-tough-on-giving-city- 
half-million-for-brownfield

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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