It's the citizens that make this city great. It's business, academia, arts and culture, the military that make this city one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work. |
Some management positions vacated by these resignations will be eliminated, consistent with my plans to flatten and streamline City Hall bureaucracy, |
The city shouldn't own things like that. |
The city's problems won't be solved in eight weeks. They won't be solved in eight months, but the pursuit of solutions will begin tomorrow, |
The cultural reform at City Hall will start immediately, the day I take office. |
The people of San Diego voted for a strong mayor, ... not a strong city attorney. |
The voters have expressed their desire for change and much-needed accountability by passing the strong mayor initiative, ... The voters' mandate cannot be carried out in an atmosphere where high-ranking officials are more concerned with defending their past mistakes than in adopting needed reforms. |
There is probably going to have to be some middle ground -- a way to make sure [retirees] weren't so adversely affected that they can't live on what they're left with, |
These actions will allow us to reduce costs without impairing our new product development activities in pursuit of long-term growth opportunities, |
These are not quick fixes. |
They are expecting to have the lock on City Hall they've had for some time, |
They have both had great careers and are known for being very honest. They made the right decision in not being legal advisers because they felt there was conflict of interest. |
Those efforts have failed as the performance deficiencies of computers based on Intel's Pentium 4 processors have become increasingly evident, ... Nevertheless, drastic price cuts and large, cash-backed marketing programs from Intel had the effect of driving down [average selling prices] on PC processors in the market segments where we compete directly. |
We are very proud to bring awareness to the issues on the Gulf Coast with the rebuilding. To have Major League Baseball contribute what they did and to allow us as a city to see what's going on -- to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity -- having corporate partners and most of all having the Padres invite us to be part of this -- we are very excited about it. |
We just need to clean house, ... It's obvious right now this is systematic. It just continues over and over and there might be more time bombs waiting. |