Micki Pirozzoli Garlic Quotations

We don't want to lose the feel that it's Gilroy's Garlic Festival. That it is for the people of Gilroy to show the rest of the world who we are. We don't want to lose that by becoming too corporate.

Accessibility will be improved in terms of holding meetings and being more openly visible to the community. It will be a great addition to the downtown and a cornerstone for the Garlic Festival and the city.

It will take this person a lot of getting used to, asking a lot of questions, sitting in on meetings. I would think that for this first Garlic Festival it will really be about working alongside us. Afterward, we're hoping the strengths of this person can take us into the future.

They both had very strong qualities. We thought that they could take the Garlic Festival to a new level.