David Calhoun Quotations

I testified why I thought it was important to keep this funding. A 25- to 27-percent decrease next year would just be devastating to our community development department and what we are trying to do. On top of the city general-fund problems we're having, there would be no way to absorb these cuts.

How we intend to proceed with this is to identify possible alternatives to the Taxi-Token, continue operating the Taxi-Token through the end of 2006 and implementation of a new program in the first part of 2007. That's the time frame we would be working with in this planning process. That would give us adequate time for implementation.

Alex helps us decide where to put our development dollars, and we help him evaluate where to invest. And if he finds a great biomass plant, we'd be delighted.

We're looking for alternatives to make the program better. We want to make it clear to everybody that this is where we're at and be open and up front about it.

The president's speech changed zero for us; it was simply a recognition of what we already knew.

The service needs to be sensitive to handicap needs because making transfers is a big issue with them.

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.