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AMSCD Pays Tribute to Retiring Tom Sansbury

sansbury-300The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District passed a special resolution Tuesday thanking Barron Collier executive Tom Sansbury for years of work on behalf of the district and the town of Ave Maria. (Right, Mr. Sansbury acknowledges the board's thanks while district manager Todd Wodraska looks on.)

"Ave Maria probably wouldn't have happened without him," district attorney Ken van Assenderp said at the meeting, noting the "special role" Mr. Sansbury, who is retiring at the end of the year, played in getting approval for the district's formation from the Collier County Commission and the Florida state legislature. 

Among his many roles at the Barron Collier Cos., Mr. Sansbury has served since the town's inception as the "landowner's representative" to the stewardship community district. It hasn't all been glamorous work.

"He hasn't hesitated from doing any job necessary," said board member Liesa Priddy, recalling how when Ave Maria was getting ready to open she saw Mr. Sansbury "digging holes for the Ave Maria directional signs."

Mr. Sansbury has worked at Barron Collier since 1996, first as the manager for its Grey Oaks project in Naples.

In other actions at the AMSCD meeting Tuesday, a landowners meeting re-elected as board members Mrs. Priddy, Tom Peek and Doug Baird, whose terms expired this month.

Barron Collier engineer Dan Brundage also informed the board that repairs had been made to the railings along the Seton St. bridge between the town center and the Donahue Academy. New railings and posts are heavier duty, Mr. Brundage said, with the goal of deterring a repeat of vandalism to the bridge.

 

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