Mark Wasserman Quotations

She's a dedicated employee. We're very lucky to have her. She fits in well. Her background brings a different perspective to the planning department. That kind of international experience is vital.

It brings tourism to the city. They eat in our restaurants, stay in our hotels and frequent our businesses.

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

We have larger global issues. The city is the only city in the valley that has homeless shelters. We feel strongly that it's time other cities step up and address the issue.

We're talking about annexing all this land. It has potential to impact the development.

It's been a tremendously long time since the city increased the developer impact fees.

It has tremendous impact on the city. Folks that come to the show, they live here for the (duration) of the show. Many of the people stay in the hotels, they shop at our stores.

I drive all over Indio looking for problems so that we stay out of your column. Our crew will take care of it, get rid of it, I didn't know it was there. It is a county facility but it's right next to City Hall, I'm very upset, we've been out of your column for a long time.

The development is here. The (city is) certainly feeling the impact. With the tremendous growth we've experienced, we need to build roads, public buildings.

The city is safer than it has been in several years. We've got a police department that is doing a great job.