Roofing company behind incentives package is revealed

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North American Roofing is unlikely to relocate its headquarters office to Sarasota unless the County Commission reverses its decision this week to deny a $1.6 million economic development incentive package, the company's chairman wrote to commissioners Thursday afternoon.
The national commercial and industrial roofing company is the previously undisclosed firm behind the proposed incentives package code named “Project Mulligan,” which included $1.08 million in state and county tax refunds and another $504,000 in county development grants for the company to bring 180 high-paying jobs to a new headquarters office here.
Commissioners voted 4-1 to deny those incentives on Tuesday, siding with local roofers who said they feared subsidies would lead to the new company poaching qualified office personnel from area contractors.
In an email to commissioners, chairman Michael Verble disclosed the employee-owned company publicly for the first time and blamed “misinformation” for those fears. Without incentives, there is little chance the company will move here, he said.
“It's too bad that we will now end up relocating our headquarters to a more welcoming, friendlier location that actually values all of the things that our employees do and represent,” Verble wrote. “Thus Sarasota County will lose a great national company with great people. What a shame.”
But the message, obtained by the Herald-Tribune through a public records request, ends with an offer to discuss the project further with commissioners.
“We welcome conversations, regardless of the recent vote, because we know that the information previously given to you by others was incorrect,” Verble wrote. “I honestly would like to relocate the corporate headquarters of this great company to my hometown and hope that you may reconsider your vote.”
From The Herald Tribune 
Trenton H. Cotney
Florida Bar Certified Construction Lawyer
Trent Cotney, P.A. 
407 N. Howard Avenue
Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33606
www.trentcotney.com

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