We still have a city manager form of government, ... While we can certainly suggest things to the manager, it is for the city manager to suggest things to commissioners.

That money would have come out of our general fund, ... That's a lot of books.

It's all about team. Right now, we're trying to work together and move the ball quick.

We have nothing to do with it. I've never heard one bad thing said about her from the shop steward in Lincoln County or any other member. It's really between the board of directors out there and her.

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

What we're trying to do is make sense of this rash of standards. We're constantly being audited from all sides. We do our best to set priorities. The message, though, is that ROI has nothing to do with perceived value of assets. It's about protecting assets and maintaining consumer confidence.

It's not one vs. the other.

We are delighted to see that document capture is becoming mainstream.

This distinction gives the entire Marist community great satisfaction. In particular, I salute our faculty for providing our students with learning experiences in and out of the classroom that give them an advantage in what is an increasingly- competitive global marketplace.