We're one of the fortunate towns that are growing, and that's providing (additional) operating funds ....

If you do nothing, you leave a cloud on the game. What needs to be done is a fair, honest, thorough investigation of the facts. Then you go from there.

I just don't have a lot of confidence in Senator Mitchell. I think he's burdened by having an interest in the game. This matter is so serious that it requires complete independence.

We just doubled the (sewer) plant size in 2000 and we need to double it again. (That is) going to provide some financial challenges here in the next 2-3 years. The magnitude of that project is more than what we anticipated.

I don't think it is a good choice. I have absolutely no confidence in this or in Sen. Mitchell.

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

We don't really know how much it will be. We're exploring our financial options in the next several months.

It's not a real exciting budget. It's fairly routine business this year. As much as possible, we tried to limit department requests to current budget levels. There was some give and take on that because of salary changes.