8 Quotes by John Burnett

We're losing so much revenue from General Cable, ... Water and franchise fees are going way down and next year it's going to be worse. The only thing you can do is hope that somebody else moves in here or that the tax base goes up enough. I don't have a solution. I just know it's a tough deal. There's nothing else to cut except employees.

Essentially it seems mankind has passed the point of 'environmental sustainability' upon which economic and social sustainability depends.

You never know how difficult it is under pressure.

There may not be a solution, but we've got like $200,000 worth of overtime in this budget and it looks to me like there would be some way we could knock some of that out. If we could, it might eliminate having to do away with people, or at least some of them. Maybe there's not a way, but that just looks like a ton of overtime.

they both agreed that was an acceptable compromise.

So far nothing's been cancelled, but it's definitely being discussed.

If you are looking at attending college, rigor equals success,

Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?