Longboat Key town commissioners voted unanimously Monday to move forward with a pair of projects to satisfy a state consent order connected to the town s June 2020 sewage line break.
The town is proposing to bypass, clean, repair and line a wet well at Master Lift Station D on Gulf Bay Road, which would cost about $182,000. The plan also includes spending another $100,000 to replace a 2006 backup generator at the lift station.
For now, commissioners decided to forego enhancing the seawall at Bayfront Park. There was also consideration of conducting a living shoreline study with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program.
In the booklet â2011 A Year to Celebrateâ written by Kathy Bond, she describes the beginning of the Ulysses Philomathic Library (UPL) from its shaky start in 1811. Abner Treman decided to start a lending library and the first organizational meeting was held in Snellâs Tavern. A Board of Trustees was established and Herman Camp became the first librarian. His store on the corner of Union and Main housed the library which contained 232 books, a large quantity for that time. However, the library closed in 1839 and all of the books were sold.Â
In the early 1900s, two attempts were made to resurrect the library. First, the school library was opened to the public, but the building burned down and with it all of the books. Next, The Home Bureau decided to maintain a small library, but it too burned to the ground. In 1934, community members donated $1 each and formed the Library Association. The Masonic Building leased space for the new library and residents and Cornell Un