I am proposing a balanced budget and at this point, I am proposing no rate increases. I am proposing the effective tax rate.

The staff has been extremely professional and extremely helpful.

We just have to focus more on ballhandling in practice. There's a lot of things we need to focus on. But we'll get better each week. I learned a lot about this team, but I expected a lot of it.

I think we'll find ways to win. I think we'll be a typical high school football team. That may not be good enough by Skyline standards, but we'll find out.

Serra is a solid team. They get off the ball quickly and run the ball hard. They were what we expected.

We've got enough gravy to cover the biscuits, but barely, and it's real.

Services won't be seriously impacted. We've been moving in this direction for the last two budget years. This Council made it very clear when they hired me that they wanted to get the budget process back in order.

We've been bulking up our administrative and executive layers in Charlotte. We want to shift more of the load to Charlotte because it is much closer to our members, who are mostly east of the Mississippi.

The proposal I'm putting before the Council (today) is a result of all of the budget workshops they've had, all the information I've gleaned from that, plus the Council's goals and objectives.