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1:- ,.! i » - j {-jfcii | \y) (<>-.*-, _ SAN IBEX F island 33957 - --. f r r \ j i j «,. - } 1 'iLH/L._i '1, ..!J \ , / i Week of May 3-9, 2001 SANIBEL &CAPTIVA, FLORIDA VOLUME 28, NUMBER 18, 28 PAGES 75 CENTS DELINQUENT !E> Properties in Paradise TAX - NOTICES By Pete Bishop ing district for less than the Staff writer required four-week minimum, This week, the Island Computer towers, disks, zip drives Reporter is publishing the Properties in Paradise, a Sanibel and other records were seized dur- delinquent tax notices rental agency, has left the island fol- ing the search. The rental agency provided by the Lee lowing the city's search and seizure filed a complaint in circuit court in County Tax Collector's of the company's records, a recent January, claiming that code Office. In addition to code enforcement hearing and the enforcement officer Ray Hendzel publication in the Island filing of a lawsuit against the city. A lacked the authority to conduct a Reporter, the Cape Coral note on the door of the business search and that an affidavit Daily Breeze and the announces that clients will be ser- attached to the warrant was not Lehigh Acres Citizen, the viced by another local rental agency presented to the owners at the time notices will be available effective Monday, April 23. of the search. at numerous locations Michael Pktella I File The city searched Properties in Since that time the business has throughout Lee County The islands' annual visitors, loggerhead sea turtles, will be Paradise in January looking for including all offices of making their return this month and through the summer. evidence the business was renting O See Properties the Lee County Tax See story on page 5 for more details. properties outside the resort hous- Collector, special newspa- page 3 per racks and all offices of the Breeze Corp. including Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Pine Budget committee mokes its recommendations Island and Gasparilla Island. A full list of loca- By Pete Bishop ation center as possible big-ticket Recommendations also include and additional police officers to tions is on page 18 of this Staff writer- expenses in the next live years. It increasing city personnel in sever- help patrol the causeway. newspaper. Paid city council members, a has also considered how user fees al areas, including an additional In addition to staff increases, new recreation center and a larger and obtaining more support from code enforcement officer, part- the committee recommends that city staff might be in Sanibel's Lee County might help the city time workers in the recreation the council consider increasing the future if the city council follows balance its books. department to help meet the needs pay for service personn " draft recommendations the Five- The committee discussed a of a growing after-school pro- utility department, yvkg&iflasmg rough draft of its recommendations gram, a full-time licensed electri- workers due to jstrtfipetition with ; year Budget Projection Review during a meeting on March 30 and cian to work in both the utilities other Soutbwgst Florida utilities. Mother's Day Committee is submitting this has finalized most suggestions. and public works departments, a Waggs-ior part-time workers such week. A report and list of 28 rec- The Island Reporter is spon- In the report, the committee sug- full-time building inspector who , .rftsrtraffic aides and recreation ommendations are being sent to gests placing on a mail ballot a can cover both commercial anST department leaders should be soring a Mother's Day con- council just in time for its special test in whicfr lucky contes- charter amendment that calls for residential inspections^ana two increased as well in order to tants can win a gift — 14 May 7 budget and goal workshop. paying city council members. A full-time workers f^ "the Donax attract workers who often must prizes will be awarded! Since its first meeting in $1,000 per month stipend, with an Water Reclamation Plant. travel from off-island for short January, the committee has con- additional 25 percent for the Personnel* the committee dis- hours. Cost of living adjustments —See page 14-15 sidered increases in personnel and mayor, might open the council to cuss^f"during meetings, but have large projects such as beach residents who would not consider at recommended, include addi- t> See Budget Sanibel Beacon renourishment and a new recre- funning otherwise, the report nc tional planning department staff page 4 The Island Reporter has been working with Sanibel School students all year, helping them create a news- COTI presents survey to council VOLUNTEERING THANKS paper. See their May edition By Pete Bishop dential property owners. About 50 on page 28, and stay tuned percent of those who received Barbara . for a 16-page school news- Staff writer questionnaires have responded to Anderson, paper to be distributed in the (far right) Island Reporter on May 24. Sanibel residential property date, according to Mike Gillespie, owners are an active group con- who presented the results along administrative cerned with land acquisition, traf- with fellow COTI board members assistant to fic-and overdevelopment accord- Tom Gilhooley and Bill the Sanibel ing to survey results the Schlackman. Gillespie, who over- City Council, Committee of the Islands (COTI) saw the design and use of surveys talks to city Dateline presented to the Sanibel City of magazine readers during his volunteers Bill Council Tuesday. career as a publisher and consul- Wollschlager, Everything that's happening COTI conducted its first survey tant, led the survey project along Marie on and off the islands. Gargano and using a random sample of Sanibel with Schlackman, who owned a Gloria residents during the past few research company that conducted —Seepage 13-16 Hannan dur- months, mailing questionnaires to ing the city's 2,000 people randomly selected > See COTI survey volunteer from a list of 6,336 Sanibel resi- page .4 appreciation luncheon last Thursday. •Environmental News . .page 5 Wollschlager Florida's faithful gather today and Hannan • Business & Technology page 8 ' By Dawn deBoer schools and families. are members •Opinion , -. .page9 Staff writer . From the Lee Island Coast to La of the city's Cathdral Del Pueblo in Miami, vegetation •LookingBack .......page 10 committee ?! 1 Islander's come together today Floridians will bow their heads at and Gargano 0 Sports ............ .page 11 for National Day of Prayer at the noon in the state's 50th prayer is a planning gazebo behind Sanibel City rally for city governments, state commissioner. * Dateline .' v;pjige 13 JSall, one of 20,000 prayer gath- erings, breakfasts and walks Photo I Michael " TV listings v.:.;.... ^page 19 • nationwide for the unity and > See Faithful Pistella 'VA.I • • Classifieds' ;..;;w. ,pag&24 revival of a nation, its leaders, page 21 2 • Week of May 3-9, 2001 Q ISLAND REPORTER oiice bloller undersized snook. Roman-Castro is a reg- By Anne Bellew their purses in the trunk, made sure all the with a (found-conveniently-lying-nearby) Staff writer doors were locked and took off for the rock. Before that there were the thieves ular at the pier and volunteered to the offi- beach around 11:30 a.m. They returned to who used a specific tool for smashing cers that he routinely kept undersized the car about 3 p.m. and went home. The windows out. And even before that, some snook that he caught there. He was The lock punch thieves next day, when they went to pay for mer- years ago, in fact, there was the ring that processed at SPD and taken to Lee chandise at the outlet shops, they both dis- broke in with a punch device near one of County Jail. are back on the island covered their wallets no longer contained the door (or trunk) locks. No coffee yet? They all got caught rather quickly. It Six locked cars were burglarized in the any money. They also found that the dri- Suzanne Juenger Coates of Lake past 10 days at Bowman's Beach with ver's door lock was punched out. would appear that those using the lock punch modus operandi are back for anoth- Forest, 111. was stopped in the 20 mph varying degrees of success. The biggest Katharine M. Cannel of Winchester, school zone for driving 35 mph on April haul came from a Pontiac driven by visi- er run at Sanibel. Mass, and Robert L. Hook of Salem, Ore. 26. According to Officer Tiffany Dugan's tors from New Hampshire. Three perpetrators were arrested for found they had brand new "air" when they police report, Coates was quite combative On April 29, Robert B. Martin and the window-tool break-ins but, according returned to their cars from the beach. The and it took three officers to issue her cita- Daryl L. Borgman parked at Bowman's to Cdr. Bill Tomlinson, one of them was two cars were parked next to each other. tion. Dugan's in-car video camera record- about 12:50 p.m., went to the beach and bailed out. "We're following up on these Cannel's right rear vent window was bro- ed the event. returned at 4 p.m. to find a punch-hole ken but nothing seemed to be missing. cases, but trying to assign blame at this near the driver's doorlock of their 2001 And Hook's left rear passenger window point would be pure speculation," Lost? Found? Pontiac. Missing were $74 in cash, a was shattered and clothing and a cooler Tomlinson said on Wednesday.