Stephen Browning
Stephen Browning
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We want our staff to be externally focused, to be out in the communities, educating, building relationships with the constituents we serve, not in an office answering phones. We can do it better in a centralized manner.
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Paid Movie I did not complete the financing of the movie. We took additional steps to secure the balance of the funding.
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Just because he lost, he's not going to stop doing things for the district he thinks are important.
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The Academy is an excellent institution, but we want to have what they have,
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The alternative is to shut down the school, ... And we don't think that's fair to the kids, because those days would have to be made up at Christmas break or in July.
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There is plenty of natural gas around the world.
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Yellow. We went out and borrowed against the tax credit to complete the balance of the film.
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You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning,
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We went out on the Harris chain. They got some wildlife ideas, photos of turtles and birds and we were lucky enough to catch a fish. Neither one of them caught one, but I have invited them to go fishing with me later on, hopefully, on a pleasure trip.
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On an annual basis, during our cycle of budget and resource allocation, we review all expenditures. The Imperial County is part of that.
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Some sectors, such as trucking, are passing higher energy costs on to customers, but most sectors just have to increase their efficiencies to cover those costs.
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A physical office does not correlate to programs and services. We have many regions in our community where we provide thousands of dollars of services without an office.
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They needed expertise on the water, and that was my role. They took a lot of what they saw on the water and wanted to incorporate that into the room.
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I never heard of Microsoft pressuring us or any other company to not buy other vendors' software -- and we buy software from all different vendors, Microsoft included,