Sarasota News Events: Sarasota’s budget keeps growing. Can the county keep up? Published On: July 4, 2025 5:00 amLast Updated: July 8, 2025 9:52 am By: Derek Gilliam | Suncoast Searchlight More staff. New equipment. Better pay. Across four budget workshops — the final two held this week — Sarasota County leaders made their cases […]

Letter from Tom Knight, Sarasota County Commissioner From a budget standpoint, Sarasota County and its non-board-controlled constitutional offices – the supervisor of elections, tax collector, property appraiser, sheriff’s office, public defender, state attorney and clerk’s office – have been living quite well for the past several years. Their budgets have been super-fueled by a combination […]

  Florida Trident and Suncoast Searchlight Sarasota Assistant County Administrator Mark Cunningham resigned, becoming the highest-ranking official to step down in the wake of revelations about widespread failures in the county’s stormwater management system. County officials did not disclose the reason for Cunningham’s resignation but said in an emailed statement that County Administrator Jonathan Lewis had accepted […]

Protect Siesta Key Inc. Summary of Our Position regarding proposed changes to our Comprehensive Plan for Voluntary Condo Rebuilds Summary of our Position Protect Siesta Key, Inc. opposes the proposed changes to our protective policies in the Comprehensive Plan. We urge the County Commission to reject moving forward with the amendments due to legal, environmental, […]