Kit Williams City Quotations

This thing would pay for itself to the city over time. This will generate new sales tax. I don't think anything would have happened on that site. It would have sat there and decayed without the help the city has provided through this redevelopment district. If the project would have worked without the city investing $3 million, then that site would have been developed a long time ago.

A liquor-by-the-drink permit tells the state you are a restaurant. I think it's inconsistent to call yourself a restaurant at the state level and tell the city that you're a bar.

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

It was in the city's interest to get rid of this blight and bring a quality hotel, parking deck and convention facility to the square, and that's why it's worth the investment to do that. That's why the City Council voted in favor of this,

I am not saying that Fayetteville could not be sued if this conditional use is denied. However, I cannot concede that the city and its citizens have absolutely no right to protect single-family residential neighborhoods if a use is deemed incompatible.

The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.