The water board will become just another department of the city.

My dad said, 'Don't worry about it; we will figure something out.' .

If it's a long ride, it's fun just watching people.

Shows what can be accomplished when citizens and municipal and state governments all work together for a common goal. This grant won't accomplish everything we want to do on this project, but its an awfully good start.

There have been a lot of motor fights, but nothing more.

It's hitting in the middle of a rather down period in Japan. Business doesn't believe in the government statements that they've been coming out of the recession.

We've had a lot of flood mitigation issues, and this grant will go a long way toward solving some of them. But it's going to take several years, and probably several more grants like this one, to completely solve the problem. I think what this really demonstrates is the strength of a council willing to work together to identify important issues and then find ways to address them.

It's going to be a traffic nightmare.

It has the potential for getting a little nasty.