Joel Schleicher
As the Sarasota/Charlotte County representative on the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board, I’m writing to correct misleading, inaccurate statements made in the April 13 article written by Timothy Fanning on the Bobby Jones water quality project.
These inaccuracies would have been rectified had Fanning reached out to me or a district representative. Frankly the reporter made no real effort to do what’s supposed to be done – get the story right.
The district has four Regional Cooperative Funding Initiative subcommittees (commonly referred to as CFIs ): Northern, Southern, Heartland and Tampa. This is done to push the knowledge for cooperative funding requests to a more local level; for example, I have a better grasp of what is occurring in Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties than I might in the Tampa and Northern districts.