visit us and we're certainly blessed with a great climate most of the year a great beautiful location but equally important is how the city looks how it functions how it operates and the people that make it on throughout the course of the year i get many many compliments on the effort city staff puts forward and the things we accomplished collaboratively together and i put our crew here up against anybody in the world and i were one of the americas great communities and  think increasingly an international destination but it's it's you it's us it's we working together that make this community what it is and we keep this place operating in functioning so so many people can come in and have a high quality of life here joy so on thank you very very much for all you do pieces and the reason for that is because of you the reason that we have millions and millions of visitors coming and speaking one lives about all the wonderful city the quality of life is because so again from the bottom of my heart i want to just you know express my  do wish you a happy holiday in americus must and i have moved to accept today but i'm sure i'll have one for you in the new year for twenty fifty again from your very funny deputy city manager i just want to thank all the neighborhood in development staff for their hard work this year as you know we're going to a record year both in terms of permits volume of work amount of money that's brought in and it's been created all by you we have spectacular projects we've stayed on task i don't know how i do without all of my great stamps these been working so hard this year so many projects underway under them when your sarasota crew you've just done a fabulous job pull in that community together i want to thank you for that all my planners again all this long term work will be able to go on without the great work that you guys have done to prepare the city for this so they all you've done and all the other departments they've reached out to help us also as a part of this it doesn't involve us in the everybody in these whole planning efforts but the city long term is going to look so much better because of it thanks again myriads of christmas wishing you and yours the very best that this holiday season has to offer a good day today a better day tomorrow and the most prosperous and productive here the happy holidays from the sarasota police department on behalf of cheap productive pino we want to thank all of the men and women of the sarasota police department for an outstanding two thousand and fourteen and a bright healthy future for two thousand and fifteen we'd also like to thank all the other departments within the city of sarasota for the way we work together each and every day happy holidays to all and looking forward to a great next  much has been accomplished and the reason for that is the dedication of all of you and your commitment to making this such a wonderful city to live and so again have a happy holiday and even better new year in this holiday season i want to express my gratitude to all of the employees of the city of sarasota for all of the work you do to maintain our quality of life we appreciate it for the coming year i wish to joy health abundance and long thank you and happy holidays like to thank each and every member of the financial ministration department for their hard work dedication and service to all the apartments throughout the city and to the city itself without them things would not be able to function financially hello this is commissioner eileen normile i haven't been here very long but i know that you have been working all year long to make this city the fabulous place that it is i know you don't always get the recognition and appreciation that you deserve and in that vein i'd like to say thank you on behalf of all the citizens of sarasota for all the work that you do and i'd like to wish you a very happy holiday and a healthy and happy twenty fifteen and i look forward to working with you from my family and myself i want to thank everybody for all the hard work this year and things that you all do all the departments of public works finance all the way down through n d s and even friends over at the van ways away and all our other departments that make this city a great place to work thank you  i want to thank you for your service to our city your imagination and your productivity your willingness to greet emergencies through the small and pick up those hot potatoes that we hand you and make something better hi everyone i'm mary benson executive director of the band ways of performing arts hall and i want to tell you i have the best staff in the world that works for us and we're so thrilled last year we had another record breaking season with the surplus and we're just thrilled to bring you all the great shows i will tell you though we don't do it alone over the band ways it's through the help of everyone from the s p d from human resources to finance to the city manager's office and we one thing you should know we're all friends over here and we all support each other so i'm looking forward to another hi everybody this is city commissioner suzanne at well bringing holiday greetings to all our great staff as we wrap up an extraordinary year for our city just take a look we're open for business and in no small way you have been a great part of that you are the lifeblood of our city government you make this city what it is you keep it moving you keep it state of the art you hold it all together and you make the leadership look good we cannot leave without you we cannot leave without your hard work your talents and your commitment to us and i thank you for that in return my commitment to you i stand in admiration of all you do and i will always have your back thank you so much that is really a member of our team we've done great things this year we have a great team and we're excited but we are support department so i must say everyone else in the city our teammates to say thank you to everybody in the finance to department and i team in all the other departments i don't need to list them individually but thank you all we're all part of one big team so go everyone good afternoon i want to express my appreciation to all of the employees of the you told police departments including those that can't be here today because you're either at work or at home getting some rest you can work later tonight again we're twenty four hours here every day of the year operation and we appreciate the efforts and the dedication that you put into your job and i also would like to thank all the other city departments even though you do a lot of work we couldn't do what we do without the support of the other departments