Dave Byron Quotations

Obviously, we're going to try to nip this in the bud as quickly as possible.

Now that the rules have been changed, it does change the way these events can be put on. It's not as easy and it's not as clear-cut as to what is the acceptable thing to do, so I think people are trying to err on the side of extreme caution.

Certainly. I mean, unequivocally, there's no question about it. Backup support and having a partner or having additional partners there is absolutely a better and more safer situation.

We thought we were in pretty good shape.

If the county council approves the contract as written, he will sign it. He will sign it immediately upon approval.

It is a much-needed project. It was moving along.

We now believe this is a much bigger problem than we thought originally.

We don't have plans to use the building. Whatever we come up with is either going to be parking or a site for something else.

We opened our shelters in an abundance of caution. In reaction to Katrina, we wanted to be extremely proactive.

We were able to weather the hurricanes (in 2004) as a result of the fact that we had money set aside for emergencies. It's a very clean audit. In terms of any significant problems -- there were none.

We're just opening them in an extreme abundance of caution.

The organization is shocked and saddened. Cindy is a very popular county manager with the employees.

Bondi has never been this quiet. It's sad to see such an icon of Australia not being used because it's here for everyone.

Instead of deleting the inaccurate original transmission, they took the second transmission and added that money to the six weeks of earnings they already had.

In reaction to Katrina, we wanted to be extremely proactive.

By no means are we out of the woods with this.

Certainly there's some second-guessing going on and we will definitely take steps to see what we can do to prevent this from ever happening again.

Certainly, to have a one-person response is not something we want to have.

These are major working facilities for county government. Who's going to pay for it?

It's too early to say how we're going to take care of those employees. We don't think it's going to cost the public money. It's going to cost us a lot of effort.

It's also good for the environment and we want to do the right thing. We feel government needs to set the example for everyone else.

That puts us in a much better position for the weekend.

We had to figure out where we go from here with 160 bottles of champagne and bars of chocolate, which I hope are being refrigerated.