Commissioners Quotes

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won`t,

The city is not receiving compensation for the other 5,472 protected trees (at Home Depot and Wal-Mart), the ordinance was supposed to be stronger but the commissioners made it weaker instead,

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it`s really important who`s mayor and who`s on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

This industry really falls into one of those gray areas, where a lot of state insurance commissioners can`t regulate them because they are considered securities instruments.

I`m hoping there will be some voting repercussions. The (county) commissioners really let us down. (Commissioners) Steve Stuart and Marc Boldt gave us verbal agreement that they would do anything they could to keep the clinic from opening.

If we don`t ask for something that would allow us to be fully funded, I don`t want the commissioners to not be able to fully fund us.

It`ll help the departments out. It is a nice statement to show how the commissioners have turned the health insurance program around,

We appreciate all that the commissioners do to help us and other agencies throughout the county. We know they have a difficult task in responding to all the funding requests.

I urge the PUD commissioners to carefully consider the long view when determining power rates for the large industrial companies, and make decisions that support current industry, enhance future economic development, and support our county, our communities and our citizens,

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today`s victory on the House floor.

We`re going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn`t want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

Even if they don`t think we legally have the right to regulate them, they are kowtowing to the Board of County Commissioners,

I`m very pleased, ... I think that (the commissioners court) recognized the disparity is not fair and stepped up today to fix it.

Allowing city commissioners to spend money in that way is improper.

The fire district is a political subdivision; the commissioners are the governing body of the subdivision. The list of those who voted is public.

It`s not for the planning commissioners to judge because we don`t set the policy (as the council does), we just interpret the policy.