Tom Reynolds Quotations

In the past, we've supported manufacturing and industrial growth because that's where the greatest return on investment and greatest tax dollars come.

It puts you behind the eight-ball against some schools now, but it helps us in May because we're not worn down.

It's not going to take one dime out of the taxpayers' pockets. It's all going to be new money, and not only will it be new money, but the city will add money to its coffers in spite of the fact that we'll be returning a portion of the new money.

It's a loophole that is allowing big donor money into the process.

We're not just looking to reduce the noise an aircraft makes but also to change the way it's flown to produce significant noise savings.

The same thing is true with demand on our water. We're being very careful to monitor our water system as best we can to make sure that we're not going to demand more than we can provide. And then we have to take into consideration as we're doing our wastewater-management program that we do it to allow for this growth rather than just do what is necessary to get by right now. We have to look down the road further to include a growth factor - so that we don't have to do this every 10 years.

If you're not willing to let your employees telecommute, you haven't done your job as a manager because you can't adequately judge your employees' performance: you've lost the focus of the performance.

The biggest challenge is just trying to get the kids in shape in four weeks, before the first dual meet.

The scope of this project is going to rival an industrial-type development as far as tax dollars are concerned.

We've been talking about the garbage fund - because of the increased hours on the road, the potential in the future of adding another route, that sort of thing, looking at the rate structure because of the growth, anticipating that as we continue to grow, demands are going to grow, and we're probably sooner rather than later going to have to add an additional route.