Coffee on the papers because she felt so bad. 8 on your side is following this story closely. Her dad is our own Investigative Reporter steve the andrews. Today is super tuesday. Voters in several states and one territory are headed to the polls this morning. The outcome is crucial. Frontrunners donald trump and Hillary Rodham clinton hope to build on their leads. The other candidates hope to score some vicaries to prove they are still in the race. Some victories to prove they are still in the race. A new aaa survey out this morning shows three out of four people are afraid to ride in a selfdriving car. Drivers explain they believe the technology is too new. And we have breaking news right now. We are going to turn things over to leslee lacey to tell us about a traffic tieup. Yeah, unfortunately, we are waking up to a crash. A vehicle involving a motorcyclist when the we have a fatal accident and all of the southbound lanes on i75 in gibsonton just past gibsonton drive are completely b
Northbound is not affected but you are taken aoff. Take u. S. Taken off. 301 is at fantastic speeds and you wont waste time. And also 41 going to the west is an excellent alternate as well. So keep that in mind. And lets move over now and talk about some water main work. Weve got a little problem here, bay to bay at liz bella is completely at isabella is completely blocked. And the 54th offramp is blocked. Should be reopening within an hour. But in the meantime, before you get to it, exit at 22nd avenue south and head over to u. S. 1 and then you can pick up 5 4th instead. So overall, a decent drive but a few trouble spots out there. Whats weather like for us . Absolutely gorgeous. Can is good news, take it easy this morning, keep the windows down if you want, enjoy the day. Cool spot, inverness, 53. And 55 in sarasota. Were saying that march is coming in like a lamb as opposed to in like a lion. 77, sunny and pleasant. Lets talk about the rest of 76. And we typically see just over 3 i
Explore it, but when cost came into play and it made it cost prohibitive, that ultimately was the determinant of you not doing it, different than its just something as a policy we are not going to do. So, you did entertain it enough that it was an idea. Absolutely. Explore it and brought it back the commission engaged in a conversation and explored whether it was a policy decision. As i mentioned, its was not my call. I did Due Diligence and bring it to the commission for full discussion on whether they were willing to spend the funds to reconfigure to allow for that. And also weighed in on the City Attorneys judgment whether we were violating or abridging any public right of speech by not allowing to engage in Public Comment. And based on those factors of the commission took action not to allow that. And their recommendation was to allow for any of the presentations to be printed, copied, and made available at the back of the room for the public. So, again, we feel strongly that it do
Arent going to be supporting us. I understand what youre saying, commissioner. Its not a matter of supporting. Its not taking a stance on any given issue. Its simply providing the information that then the commission lib rates on. So, can i ask well, first of all, i want to bring this up as a former member of the Library Commission. First, i think were being misled a little bit, the language of invited presenters i think is misleading. My recollection is that av presentations are only used to inform the commission on the business at hand at the library. And because so much of what the library does has to do with construction or, you know, architectural renderings, the budgetary presentation which you make, you know, thats how the av equipment as i recall has been used. So, i think its misleading to say that youre invited people who use it. So, if youre inviting outside guests to make presentations thats one thing, but i dont ever recall you having outside presenters just doing a presen
I did just that. Thats why it came back. And i also felt that because of the expenditure involved, it would be their judgment, their call and policy determination to do that. So, i felt that was, again, doing Due Diligence in having a full public hearing on that matter and they did that. And, again, it was a 60 vote not to do it because they felt they were not in violation and they got some attorney, City Attorney advice and also i mean, the brown act and sunshine ordinance did not prescribe a specific method of allowing the use of av equipment during Public Comment. So, they felt that they were going even beyond that by allowing the printing of any audiovisual equipment. And i want to qualify that. When we invite and its really not an invitation. Its a described agendized item for any presentations. For example, during the Branch Library Improvement Program when we had peer reviews and we had a contractor sitting in the dais reviewing ski matt ictiontionerctiontion, those are allowed