“We're in a fiscal crisis if you look at it with long-term eyes. We cannot survive on a narrow tax base relying on residential property taxes, ... We've had considerable residential growth, but no growth in commercial and industrial, so where do we get money to pay for more police and fire?”
“You've asked one person to do too much. As a result we don't have good planning, ... Because of the way it has functioned in this town, we haven't had long-term planning to determine how we preserve our island character and charm.”
“We're absolutely. We have waited way too long to diversity our tax base. We are way to reliant on residential property taxes. It is not sustainable over the long run.”
“The mayor needs to stand out in front of issues and not wait for community sentiment to form. … I think they would like to take on a more active role, and that should be encouraged. … They would actually like to be a policy-making arm, a legislative arm.”
“There is a leadership vacuum in this community. I want my candidacy to be about participating in the local government, to participate in the community.”
“We either guide (change) or it runs us over, and people already feel run over. People have been trying to effect change in this city and they feel frustrated … or give up.”
“We knew they were going to be a good team that was going to shoot the ball a lot. We had a good game plan, our defense played better than it did a week before (in a 16-3 loss to then No. 6 Cornell) and our offense moved the ball.”
“It's definitely something that puts our program on the map. Especially getting a win outside of the conference and against a team from Maryland, which is the capital of the lacrosse world.”
