Tom Shepard Quotations

He has to bend over a little to the other side to get everybody to work together. His only power over Democrats is the veto and that's not going to help anybody.

My opposition is simply a matter of who reports to whom. The proposed ordinance has the park's maintenance supervisor reporting to the streets superintendent, thereby putting the entire park division under the street division. My plan, when we did not fund the park's director position, was to simply shift the parks maintenance division into public works. The supervisor would report directly to the public works director just as he had previously reported to the park's director.

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Roach is on a course to spend somewhere between $3 million and $5 million on this race. If (other candidates) want to remain competitive, they are going to have to spend significantly more than they planned to.

We've gotten into the point of sale and are present directly in shops. We've gotten more involvement from European banks and that already has been a measure of success.

We really don't know how much we do need, and we really don't know how much we're getting. We could get three-fourths through and still have a very small pond.

Everybody knows soccer is going to continue to grow. I assume eventually we're talking lights, bleachers, concession stands, aren't we? ... I can see in the future we might have to build a road from the theater ... just to handle things.

You asked what you can do for us. Expand the office here and hire about 15 more people,

The ones that happen at events like this are always good board meetings.

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Right now we have a beach that's a very good attraction for our community and people from outside our community. We're building an events center. And right between those is one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the state.

If you open them up for deer hunting, you're basically closing them for two months,

By Christmas we should have an exhibition hall outside so that they can continue to work with the electrical and everything else on the inside,

It kind of bothers me about the parks,

It kind of bothers me about the parks because it runs through January right? So the first snow, kids run out to horseshoe hill and they are going to be sledding while the guys are a little further to the west in the trees,

Eventually we're going to have a lot of people trying to cross that highway,

There's absolutely no question that soccer's going to continue to grow and we need to look at how we do this,