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Marathon Provides Key Doing Very Well at All — Much in Savings Could Be Apart and Not Work Togeth- Colony Beach’S Fire Protec- Working Together KEY WEST KEY WEST Contributed Photo Garden hosts Midsummer’s Team from Sebago Watersports competing in previous Battle of the Bars. Night Dream Saturday Battle of the Bars Artists showcase diverse talents In L’Attitudes heats up Sunday at benefit Cancer Foundation of the Aug. 7 bash Florida Keys. L’Attitudes Staff raises money Last year’s Battle of the Bars raised more than The main courtyard stage for charity $23,000 for local chari- at Key West Tropical Forest ties. and Botanic Garden will The 18th annual Battle The showdown is set to light up Saturday evening of the Bars is gearing up It’s a midsummer night’s dream at the Key West begin at noon Sunday, for the 5th Annual for a repeat show-down of Aug. 7. Midsummer’s Night Dream bar tenders skilled in feats During the race, teams and Spectacle. of derring-do (and who compete for such chal- The Might Meteor won’t spill a drop). lenges as: mixing a perfect Orchestra, led by Peter The fund-raiser this margarita and serving it Diamond, takes the stage year will designate fees without a spill, tapping a with a wide range of per- and tips to the Florida forming artists joining in the Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden. keg, sorting recyclables Keys Healthy Start fun, including a second stage Coalition, along with the G See Battle, 9B for singers, dancers, poets and more. There will even be a fire Michelle Meck (above) dancer along with one-act presents her firedance at plays performed by Saturday’s Midsummer’s TheatreXP. Story, All of this is by way of a Night Dream and Spectacle benefit gala for Art Behind at Key West Tropical Forest Bars and to help support and Botanical Garden. 6B programs at the Tropical The Midsummer’s Night Forest and Botanic Garden. Dream and Spectacle is a Admission is $10 and night of artistic expression children under 12 are admit- for children as well as ted free. Centennial Bank is the major sponsor of the adults. Gates open at 5 p.m. event and bank customers and admission is $10 for are admitted free when they adults, children under 12 show their Centennial bank admitted free. debit card at the gate. Photos by Carol Tedesco Michael Shields, creator of the event and Art Behind “Come watch the stars or Alysa Mealor and Beth ing. Bars Executive Director, show your own. It all begins Hodgin will be crafting On the main courtyard said there will be plenty of with a dream.” crowns and tiaras, and jug- stage, Shields and his fellow activities for children as well A Grand Dream Mural gling is the province of Dream creators have lined as for adults. project this year will be led Jimmy Wray and the Jazz up the Meteor orchestra to Midsummer, he said, is by artists Amanda Johnson Jugglers. Magician David Big drug bust the perfect time to be cre- and Judi Bradford. Artist Kaplan will also be perform- G See Garden, 7B d share dreams. Details were few Friday, but federal agents arrested at least two men in a massive drug bust in Key Largo. Story, 2A WWW.KEYSNET.COM THE COST OF GOVERNMENT Fleet costs driveSATURDAY,AUGUST 6,merger 2011 pitch VOLUME 58, NO. 63 ● 25 CENTS By RYAN McCARTHY [email protected] Gastesi floats idea to consolidate Monroe County Administrator Roman all agencies’ automotive expenses Gastesi proposes that Keys governments do something when it comes to public and 144 cars, trucks or they have a history of not partnerships, but is clear SUVs. doing very well at all — plans are in the infancy it. I’m always an optimist. Gastesi’s plan for cooper- working together. stages. He has no idea how But, she added: “In ation may be pie in the sky. On July 21, the County much in savings could be Florida, the laws are While local governments Commission charged realized, and has yet to con- designed to keep people do have interlocal agree- Gastesi with looking into the tact other government agen- apart and not work togeth- ments for a variety of things creation of a “public service cies about the idea of shar- er.” — Marathon provides Key alliance” in which Keys ing personnel, garages and The Colony Beach’s fire protec- Keynoter tion, for example — they governments and others the like. fleet information fromobtained 13 would combine forces to “We purchase our vehi- Keys governments and other also have a history of being reduce costs for fleet man- cles through a state policy,” agencies, including the stubborn in hanging onto agement and repair. said Susan Hammaker, a School District, Sheriff’s their turf. “My idea is to get all of member of the Key Largo Office, Mosquito Control For example, the county George Backhus (left) and Willie West show off the fleet the public entities together. Wastewater Treatment District and utilities. is in the midst of planning an section of the Florida Keys ElectricKeynoter Cooperative’sphoto by KEVIN WADLOW new It’s something we need to District board. “We’d have Together, they total 1,967 emergency operations center Tavernier complex when it opened two years ago.The truck do. It’s an opportunity to to see what they’re trying to “units” and the combined to be built at Florida Keys find some savings,” Gastesi do. I’m sure he’s trying to Marathon Airport — within is on a 75,000-pound lift. proposed 2011-12 fiscal year said. look at whatever ways he budget for fleet management shouting distance of He called fleet manage- can.... In times of economic throughout Monroe County Marathon’s EOC. County ment and health insurance troubles, it’s easily shown is just over $10 million. The officials had tried for a joint MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS the “low-hanging fruits” people can work together county itself has by far the EOC at the airport but the very well. You just have to largest fleet, with 706 units. city rebuffed them. have the commitment to do That includes 260 Sheriff’s Same thing for a Middle Office vehicles, which the Keys fire station, but in Union complaint dismissed county already maintains, reverse. Attorney: Claim YOUTH ADVENTURES ● over furloughs Gorman had sent to the state See Fleet, 3A Public Employees Relations lacks clarity Commission a claim that the state-recommended fund bal- district violated fair-labor ance of at least 2 percent, By SEAN KINNEY practices by mandating which could trigger state [email protected] weeklong furloughs for the control of district finances. school year that starts Aug. “We would like to get The attorney for a state 22. Furloughs are not in the back to the table and collec- labor panel on Friday dis- union’s three-year contract, tively make decisions based missed an unfair-labor claim ratified in December. on what is best for the lodged against the Monroe PERC General Counsel employees,” Hommell- County School District that Steve Meck, in his written Gorman said Friday, “which alleged a violation of the con- dismissal, indicated the prob- in turn is what is best for the tract between the district and lem was primarily an issue of students.” the schools employees’ styling. She’s pressing for what’s union. UTM’s claim, he wrote, called impact bargaining; United Teachers of “is deficient because it fails interim Superintendent Jesus Monroe President Holly to contain a clear and concise Jara said he’s waiting for the Hommell-Gorman, after statement of the facts consti- same thing. “We’re waiting learning of the dismissal tuting the alleged unfair labor for the union to give us the from the practice.” dates to discuss the impacts,” Keynoter just got word that we, said, would “I If the furlough and related he said. amend and refile” the com- administration-mandated In addition to the fur- plaint. spending cuts opposed by the loughs, Jara has ordered the Monday, Hommell- union aren’t resolved by elimination of a 1.5 percent Sept. 6, the district faces the wage increase planned to ANIMAL CONTROL possibility of falling below a start with the school year; a Gottwald rejects settlement● See Union, 2A Cameron Malcom, a 16-year-old Key West High School student, saddles up on a She wouldn’t reindeer during his month-long trip to Mongolia; he went with a group of students from across the county as part of the Experiment in International Living. county audit of Stand Up’s have gotten any finances. County Clerk money in deal Danny Kolhage was able to erinarian Doug Mader]. If it access the accounts to pay was approved, [Kolhage] Keys student returns By RYAN McCARTHY Stand Up’s bills. would pay the vendors,” [email protected] The group ran the Assistant County Attorney Marathon and Big Pine Key Christine Limbert-Barrows Former Middle Keys ani- animal shelters under a coun- said. from life as a nomad mal-control provider Stand ty contract. The county and Limbert-Barrows said the Up for Animals on Stand Up have since severed county made the offer in an Malcom spent Wednesday rejected a settle- ties. attempt to resolve the case ers, along with about 1,000 ment from Monroe County According to county docu- before oral arguments sched- the past month students nationwide, took that would have returned ments, Gottwald rejected the uled for Aug. 29 at the Third part in the Vermont-based ing about the culture and none of the roughly $250,000 in Mongolia county’s offer to recoup legal District Court of Appeal in cultural immersion program social expectations.
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