J. M. Roberts Planning Quotations

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,

This just takes your breath away, ... I think our universities need to be more aggressive in planning for and getting resources for growth.

They're claiming the majority of employees are displaced. Waste Management is a large enough company that if they really valued the ability to do work in Jefferson Parish, they would have been able to maintain service here. They had the ability to bring trailers in, ... To me, Waste Management has absolutely zero planning for these types of disasters.

Everyone did an amazing job of planning this project,

The board and I have made succession planning a priority. Well, it paid off!

The basic freeway system was really important to this community in terms of its long-range planning and growth.