I have been very impressed with their staff. They are very professional.

They are simply denying other legitimate water users the resource and damaging the environment. There's no question that we will take action.

[The offer] hasn't touched any of our issues with benefits and working conditions. The only improvement in benefits has been a $50 bi-annual increase in eyeglasses. That is far short of what our members expect.

It will resurface at some point. [But] I have been hearing very good things about how the surf zones have been run this summer.

This [offer] does not address our needs – the wages, benefits and working conditions – that the members have told us are very important.

This is extremely important. Quite frankly, we cannot get this done in time without outside help.

This emergency scene could have been much worse and a lot more tragic, just due to the fact that if it had happened a half-hour earlier. The school would have been filled with children, or with children leaving.

I think it's a good idea. Anytime you get more than two people together to talk about any issue, you stimulate the minds and it brings forth ideas that otherwise would not have been thought of.

We do have skilled people and they deserve an appropriate wage that reflects their skill level.