Carol Patterson Quotations

I feel so strongly that it's critical that we keep these kids in school and get a high school diploma for them.

We represent all arts. Not just visual. Not just performing.

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

You know how frustrating it is to work on a computer that functions slow.

We need to figure out if we want vending in Athens, are we trying to encourage it, or do we want to get rid of it?

We were just out of resources, ... There are only so many hours in the day.

There are not a whole lot of high-cost things we are asking them to do that would put the whole project out of the ball park.

We said to the community, 'Look, we're drowning. We need your help. You need to be more judicious in who you are sending to us because we can't accommodate them all,'

The parking garage is just a big bugaboo of mine.

To me, it all comes down to finances.

We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.

Everything that's out in view is period appropriate.

The specific chore that we're undertaking at the moment is taking the routes of the existing systems and doing an overlay map to see where we're redundant and what's not served and see if we can address that. We want to get routes that are user-friendly and frequency that is practical, and that means from the user standpoint and from the cost standpoint.

It's less than $50,000 (that) the city is spending.

In the wee small hours, the neighborhood got pretty bad last year.

I am worried that we are being asked to accept a building that doesn't meet all the conditions yet.

The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.

The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more and more possible,

The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The university is not eligible for those, so combining with the city has that advantage. It is my theory that if the city uses its transit dollars and ability to get grant money, and the university uses a minor student fee, we should be able to build a more useful system and promote it.