the city of sarasota as communications division we've been telling the stories of the sarasota community for more than sixteen years now and as the year comes to a close we wanted to take a look back at the year two thousand and fifteen two thousand and eleven we created a new show to explore some of the city's unique and exciting local businesses the result is city business the idea was simple to inform the public about small businesses they may never have heard of and to courage them to let's take a look at one of our favorite episode dogs that come in are like our dogs and we treat them that way and i think a lot of the people that come here know that because we have a genuine love for him it's really mark corolla and the whole staff here because i feel like they love her as much as i love her i mean it just you can tell and they treat her as if they're one of their own family you know part of their family and so that's really important and it's really nice when you see a dog just it's coming in and it's like here this is my first time i can ever come here again and then it's like they're dragging the people into here the next day so it's it's really cool and i have one customer miss bianca she she won't go home i have to lift her up and take her seat love that i have to drag her out of the front door when i come to pick her up i mean she just never wants to leave and it's not because she doesn't love her mom it's just recipient of a two thousand gator award by the academy of interactive in visual arts with over six thousand entries received from across the united states and around the world to communicate or words is the largest and most competitive awards program authorized to create of excellence for communications professionals some of the other businesses we visited included a cheap shot and we focus what i like to think of as a proper popsicle company that's here in sarasota so we try and support as many of the local businesses as we can we use local pastries in local big shops and that's part of our mission that local coffee and fuel support a local difference of the alkaline or the acidity that you put in there so actually you know baking is a science and that's the truth and you kind of have to be part artist and part mad scientist to be a good baker i f and if you know of a small business within the city that might be interesting to showcase contect service sort of dot com and look for the business major city also want to communicate or award for another one of our regional programs city kids which features local kids doing extraordinary things the winning episode featured alexandria twitter an active teenager in the community helped you know that were out there since then we've done stories and other special kids including one very talented but i have to say like seeing her on stage even when i know how nervous she gets that gives me that sort of take your breath away like i always want to share you know what i feel is my talents my  gift to the world because you know you were born this way so you have to you know it's a it's a privilege it's a privilege to be sharing that kind of towns with other people by the way you can watch all of our programs on the city's web site visit sarasota gov dot com and look on the right side for video on demand and it was another great year for the band weezer hosted by mary been sold and chuck stevens each month they bring you the exciting shows coming to the hall with funny stories and interesting tidbits let's take a look he makes these all sorts of things my girlfriends were just in vegas seeing him very special he's been in looks or now for ten years he doesn't do that it's time to see him and let me tell you you know i think i said on the show before one of one of my early days  fleming the most important famous opera singer in the world and certainly the most important soprano let's put it that way and she has done everything in her life she is a fantastic person she to delve into further they take it to commissioners corner commissioners corners hosted by any commission are looking to expand on a topic they're interested in and it's simply an open discussion with a guest of their choice topics ranged from homelessness to trees to celebrating our communities history sarasota is a unique community full of history and ready for a bright future the first original program we created to celebrate our city was simply titled city li city life is a magazine style program dedicated to highlighting all the good things going on in sarasota from new transportation projects to environmental issues two stories from the sarasota police department we're going to take one pass through we're going to do a two car we all know basically you do  then when you get into that pursuit driving and then it becomes a felony stop after that so then you've got to get more more cars there more officers you got to know how to set up your car where you're at very important to have any issues of safety concerns and so on with the traffic citizens that are in the area when you're trying to do a felony stop and and let's not forget our live coverage of the city commission meetings and replays of other advisory board meetings all of the on line and on our government access t v channels here in the city it was also pleased to announce the installation of the hearing induction loop listening assistance system in the city commission chambers and s r q media studio at city hall the loop system affords individuals with hearing loss the opportunity to actively participate in our city government proceedings and meetings we hope you've enjoyed this look back at two thousand and fifteen and we hope you'll stay with us in two thousand and sixteen as we continue telling the stories of sarasota for the city of sarasota i'm john