Steve Kennedy Quotations

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

I am uncomfortable voting to increase anybody's taxes.

Our biggest concern and the main reason why we are doing this is to save the township money. We can possibly save over $100,000.

Most of the cuts we made came out of the general fund. The other funds, for the road departments, (etc.) there is other revenue coming in for those.

We have a fifty-fifty shot of coming in at the end of the year with extra money.

Undoubtedly, we got his name out in front of the right people, and then after that he gets to sell himself.

We will try to do our best to truly live within the appropriations. If its not sufficient, money will be pulled from the reserve fund.

We want a unified voice of representation. We are too small to be heard from at this point.

The senior center was started with no financial backing at all and was promised that it would last three years.

This is the first step. You know where we are coming from, we know where you are coming from and we need to meet somewhere in the middle. This is a start.

This meeting is about opening the lines of communication. This hasn't been done before. We would appreciate you addressing any rumors so we get both sides and know what's going on.

It's really hard to put a finger on a firm number for revenue, but we are right there with expenditures. We really won't know until the end of the year. The budget is as close to being balanced as it has ever been in the last four years.