Famous Quotes & Sayings

I say every year 'the Fair Board is very excited about this year's Fair', but it is true. We really are excited about every Fair. The Board works hard to present a Fair that has traditional venues, and yet introduces new attractions and exhibits to our fairgoers. Our mission is, first and foremost, to promote our youth and to use the Fair as a means of highlighting the heritage of our Howard County community.

Tony Martin

Irrespective of market conditions, the board looks forward to another year of continued progress in 2006.

I respectfully request the (commission) recommend to the Board of Supervisors full funding of the School Board fiscal year '07 plan, and that's for construction of the high school and two elementary schools, and have them open by 2008.

People have just gotten on board every year.

Steve Case is the chairman of the board and will be so after the meeting. All other discussion is just rumor and speculation.

Some of these ideas are things we can do right away while others will have to be implemented over time. The board will meet next month and will have a report prepared as to how we feel the district should proceed with the suggestions.

That certainly is not much of a consensus as when you have a 7-1 or 6-1 vote. And I know the board vote weighs heavily in that (TEA's) decision.

That building is the property of the county, ... This county board are the only people who can make a decision on that building and its use and we are not going to haphazardly put it to use.

That board is kind of the front line review commission for developments that don't strictly meet all the requirements of the zoning ordinance and comprehensive plan.

Michael Smith

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Nancy serves at the pleasure of the board, and if it's not obvious to everybody, let me say clearly this board supports her. I am chagrined that this has gotten so many headlines.

My wife and I love Osage and, for me, running for school board is a way of giving back to the community,

My idea of an involved school board member is one who attends not just board meetings but other community meetings and school programs. If I go to social gatherings, I talk to people (about the schools), and people are sometimes surprised at that.

Local elected school boards should be making the decision.

Ken Thompson

Lloyd will certainly be missed by all of our board members. He has been a trusted and valued member of our board since the First Union-Wachovia merger and we wish him well during retirement.

Looking at some of the data, I can see oil moving sideways or maybe lower. To me, it was everybody jumping on board at the same time. They didn't think $75 could be taken out.

Marin used to participate in Proposition 90, but the Board of Supervisors rescinded it Dec. 17, 1996,

Martha in jail would be fairly disastrous for the company. She cannot remain on the board of directors as a convicted felon.

Like I said, we had 45,000 square miles of geography, 88 counties, board of elections, 50,000 folks that ran a great election on election day.

I will talk to the board president and then issue guidelines to Chappell.

I won't say we would have won, but we would have gotten on the board first, and maybe manufactured a run or two more.

Michael Gerber

I was uncomfortable with the timing, ... We were getting millions less from the federal government for Medicaid and having to search for funds to restore some of those cuts and I just did not think it was right to put a pay raise on the board that would cost tens of millions of dollars.

I was told I didn't need to because I was not a board member. If I'm provided with the form, I'm certainly happy to fill it out.

I was hoping that they would have addressed that. I want to hold chairman Whitehead and the LMDC to that statement he made at the board meeting in June.

I was getting good position, crashing the boards offensively and defensively. I sensed they were a little tired. We knew we had to execute offensively and defensively.

Andy Reid

It felt good yesterday. Toward the end it started to get a little tight on him in the second practice. It's the same as it was the day before. We got to go back to the drawing board here, see how he does today, and then within the next couple days we will see how he's feeling.

I still have issues, ethically, with how the rest of sitting board members came to power. I would probably do even more because I would expect more from them.

I still support the boards decision (to opt out),

I think our school board needs to be more involved with parents. When parents are closer to the school board, that's how we get the good publicity that we really want to get.

I think school boards will have the sense to create at least one very broad major, label it humanities and offer what would essentially mirror what students do right now.

I think our board will be much more united,

I think our boards are finally the worst in the league. They're getting there, at least. It's just amazing. At least six shots like that. They seriously have to take a look at them. It's getting ridiculous.

It'd be easier for me if the board voted tonight, ... since I wouldn't have to vote. But I think it's important to be fair. We've talked about this issue for a long time. I think I know which way I'm going to go on this and that way I can be responsible (for the decision).