Rob Williams Quotations

We want to make sure the road is temporarily protected in advance of a full-scale scheme.

If we get can get concerns addressed while they are on site I think things will start looking better down there.

Basically, it says you can work legally in the United States and you can travel in and out of the country. But it doesn't give you benefits or really anything else.

I live right around the block, so to have that in your neighborhood is pretty disturbing.

We want to be big-time players, we want to make big-time shots.

We all agree that CSI needs to grow and prosper but the funding needs to be more equal.

The problem in agriculture in Florida is, every year we have 15,000 to 20,000 new workers who enter and all those new workers are undocumented from Mexico and Central America.

Every time we do have a freeze or disaster it exposes the reality that agriculture is dependent on workers who basically don't have a social safety net to help them. That is one of the many reasons why I think immigration reform is so essential.

This is great news. This is great news for us and it is also great news for the region's electrical energy supply.

This is one minute, an eternity in television, in which we're walking an 8- to 12-year-old audience through how to use a cancer stick socially. It's called product placement, where products are written into story lines of TV shows.

In the '90s the government decided that any profits made on a property were tax-free up to $500,000.

The county has experienced strong property appreciation trends over the past several years, with total assessed value increasing by a very strong 49% since 2003 to $4.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Since 1998, the unreserved fund balance has ranged between a high of 6.7% of expenditures in fiscal 2003 to a low of 2.0% of expenditures at the end of fiscal 2004. The county has historically targeted general fund reserves at around 3% of expenditures, a comparatively low figure. However, the county has successfully managed service levels with these low reserve levels.

The current budget for the plant upgrade is sizable at approximately $75 million, including $56.6 million in a guaranteed construction contract. While historical system financial performance has been healthy, adequate coverage on the 2006 bonds will require a significant increase in net revenues. The city council and sanitary district boards have already approved rate increases of 32% in fiscal 2006 and an additional 59% over the next three years, to $65.68 in fiscal 2009. While high, these rates would not be the highest for comparable sanitary districts in northern California, and the rate increases have gone through the required public hearing process.