Carpets offer a continuity between now and the past.

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones, ... He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

I'll take each case as it comes.

This allegation was involving Mr. Briatta and involved one of our employees. There was a little bit more [to it] than saying somebody got better service. It was somebody got better service because of their relationship to the Department of Water Management. That's why we had to go the extra step here and actually dig up the parkway.

Obviously the council needs to figure out what criteria they're looking for. They indicated they're going to do a national search. Part of the process is to determine what traits and skill sets they're looking for in a city manager. I don't know what direction council wants to go. That obviously will be a huge factor for candidates both internal and external.

We weren't racking up the margins we needed in the Bull Run-Linton Hall area. In the areas where Kilgore should have been making up ground, he tied.

We had 500 critical-care patients. We had only three deaths.

We needed to explain to him why, which we have done. As far as an apology, I believe it was necessary to prove we did the right thing.