Greetings, I'm Back - I confess, I took a little bit of vacation from City Hall. August is typically a good month to do that, though there is plenty happening even in August any more. Here at the city right now we're still working the spring training issue, trying to bring a new SPD headquarters into focus soon, and any number of other things.

But for now, before that vacation spirit gets away from us completely, and recognizing that this is the time of year when many Floridians travel, I'm going to ask this question - In your travels this summer, what did you see or learn about somewhere else that you think would be useful for us, or that we could replicate here in Sarasota? I'll start with an example; I was in Jackson, Wyoming which is a very high-transient place with many thousands of tourists passing through or staying in a very small town every day. One thing they do better than we do is provide public restrooms downtown. Other than at the bus transfer station and down at Island Park, I don't believe there are others here. Actually they probably have about that many as well, but serving a much smaller downtown.

What have you seen this summer that you think we could learn from?