Michael Donovan Quotations

This rate proposal is intended to enable the company to maintain the financial strength to continue constructing the projects required to meet customer needs. O&R has maintained its A-plus credit rating, though its cash flow measures are weak for that rating and are dependent on constructive regulatory policies.

I believe we have to go back in front of the City Council sometime soon to make a presentation, ... By that point we'll have renderings of building, plans for the field, a whole higher level of detail as well as some cost estimates for the construction.

Our vineyard and Carpenter Hill are the warmest in the valley.

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

I think the tail is definitely wagging the dog here.

The architects brought in renderings of the building, and these are very rough renderings, of a multi-story building, ... Basically, today we gave the architect the go-ahead to proceed further with the program, and develop things further down the schematic design process.

We want to keep it small and simple with attention to detail.

We've been doing a lot more aggressive work primarily due to the last storm.

We don't mark up the rates; the customers pay what we pay. We make our money on the delivery.

This will ensure that any future activities on the site, if any, can go forward unimpeded and unrestricted.

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

The tail is definitely wagging the dog here,

This is not unusual.When we did the police station, it was the same thing.

There's a lot of electronic evidence, that when you examine it shows that these people aren't getting breaks, but they're continuing to run the cash register or do inventory or whatever.

There's a balancing act between efficient vegetation management along the right-of-way and community standards for the character of the roadway.

It's a wrap-up meeting to let folks know that the project is complete. The time that we've been up there, we've had a remarkably good rapport with the community.

It was less than two minutes between the time we found out there was an accident and we pulled the plug on that circuit.