Bill Gillette Quotations

But the economy and family responsibilities have reduced our volunteer ranks to the point that we must expand our career staff.

I encourage you not to approve deficit spending.

We never had a waiting list for people who wanted to be on the board. We needed more people to come to the table and have everyone's ideas heard.

Ten or 20 years ago, employers would allow volunteers to leave the workplace to respond to an emergency or to receive training. Today, this is no longer the case.

Things don't usually change much from the primary to the (general) election.

Anytime the city purchases anything costing over $5,000 it is required to get three bids. Those bids are not shown in the information on the miscellaneous equipment and you do not know if that is the low bid or not.

He already has the change order before the council approved it.

The last time I submitted my proposed budget to the city clerk and didn't speak to the city manager or finance director, and I was a department head.