Briefs

+ Colony owner purchases loans
Colony Beach & Tennis Resort unit owner and former Colony board member Andy Adams, through a company called Breakpointe LLC, purchased overdue bank loans of longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber’s residential unit and the beachfront Vagabond resort unit Friday, June 3.

Adams, who also owns a 5% undivided interest in the resort’s tennis courts and recreational property, confirmed the purchase but declined to list the purchase price.

Adams is also one of nine potential Colony investors who remain in the running with renovation and development proposals under review by the Colony unit owners. Adams said his purchase of the loans have nothing to do with his renovation proposal.

Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon said the nine proposals, and a potential new proposal from Klauber, are all still under review and that further reductions in the number of proposals won’t be made until July at the earliest.

+ St. Denis schedules contract meetings
Town Manager Bruce St. Denis is ready to begin contract negotiations for a new three-year contract with the Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department.

A memo was sent out to the Longboat Key Town Commission June 1, inquiring about executive sessions St. Denis would like to have with commissioners.

Scheduled sessions are planned for June 8 and June 9. St. Denis is also inquiring about sessions for July 13, July 14, July 26, July 27 and July 28.

The sessions are private meetings held before the town and the firefighters begin holding public contract negotiation sessions.

+ Saivetz pleads for an answer from the town
Longboat Key resident and former Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board member Bradford Saivetz wants an explanation as to why the town had to go through a referendum to approve 250 additional tourism units two years ago but didn’t need to hold a referendum to add 196 additional tourism units and 158 additional residential units for the Longboat Key Club Islandside renovation-and-expansion project.
Saivetz said it’s been more than a year since he has asked the question and he has not received a satisfactory answer.

“For the past year or so I have been plaintively seeking answers to some particularly vexing questions dealing with this, our hometown,” Saivetz wrote in a letter to the town dated June 6. “Quite frankly, I have had about as much results as though I had put the questions in a bottle and cast it into the Gulf.”

Town attorney David Persson and town special counsel attorney Nancy Stroud maintain the additional Islandside units are legal and don’t surpass the maximum of 5.05 units per acre allowed in the Gulf-planned development.

Meetings & Agendas
• Code Enforcement Board Regular Meeting — 10 a.m. Monday, June 13.
• Planning and Zoning Board Special Comprehensive Plan Meeting — 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 14.
• Code Enforcement Board Regular Meeting — 1 p.m. Thursday, June 16.
• Town Commission Regular Workshop — 1 p.m. Thursday, June 16.
All meetings take place at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.