Chris King Quotes (25 Quotes)

I think there should be exceptions. If your clientele is 70 percent smokers, you should be able to cater to them. They're stepping on freedoms, stepping on toes, and there's not a voice for those toes.

We didn't mail notices just to businesses inside the city limits because there are others that may be affected by the tax if they currently lease in the city or possibly will in the future,

A sales tax is a tax on the consumer and a rental tax is a tax on the business itself. The tax is calculated based on the rental fee charged. For example, if a business leases a piece of equipment for 100 a day, the rental tax owed for that lease is 4 percent or 4,

At this point, unless the planning department wants to get that off the ground again, I don't see it moving ahead, ... With everything the planning department is working on now, I don't think they have time for it.

do perfect by everyone, but I think with me they (public) will get a candidate who believes in the community and who has worked the past four years to do the best I can to make the community better.

By using the Internet we reduce our transaction costs by as much as 90 percent compared with traditional paper-based billing, ... That creates savings that we can pass on to customers.

The dynamics today were perfect for severe storm development. Earlier today, they had a snow advisory in Waterloo and a tornado warning in Clark County, Mo. Anytime there is that differentiation in temperatures, you'll have explosive thunderstorm development.

In the wireless industry that's a long time to be projecting into the future.

These three transactions ... are a lot for any management team to digest. We believe the execution risks have increased dramatically.

We believe that this relationship will benefit the entire AMIS business, providing our business units the ability to design ICs with high gate counts, as well as offering turn-key customers the next-generation, specialized process technology required to produce robust solutions for demanding automotive, medical and industrial applications.

It makes it far more difficult for Sprint Nextel to argue for a valuation materially below current trading levels of Nextel Partners, ... Nextel Partners has a far superior growth profile than Alamosa.

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

I hope this won't snowball.

Absolutely we need them back, ... Do we have the money for them I would doubt it. The sidewalk program, I could use that. Before this budget year, I knew I had to replace the sidewalks at my house, but I didn't push to get that in there because the city d

I would get nervous whenever I heard a storm coming . I had to replace parts on the machine at least four times in the first four years I had it.

If they charge a rental fee of 100 now, that fee may be 104 in the future, but that is something each business will decide for themselves, ... We'll receive a monthly accounting of rentals and leases from each business and the 4 percent tax will be applied. In the beginning, each business will be required to pay the tax monthly, but later, that can be adjusted to quarterly or every other month, whichever the business prefers.

We sure notice a lack of detox facilities.

When they built the first one in 1981, they didn't have the technology to do much. They tried to play with color and form, but they were pretty much stuck with a box.

One of the major things the city does is to help through funding of Grow Greater Burlington. I would put Dennis Hinkle (vice president of economic development for the chamber) up against any economic developer in the state. ... He's done a great job, an outstanding job and that's the major way that the city takes on that role. He's fulltime. I don't think anybody sitting on council now or any time in the past could do as good a job as a fulltime economic development focus person.

Some of these guys are going to ride down and just park their bikes and forget about them. They won't have to worry about drinking and driving or anything else. We hope that will cut down some of the noise and traffic.

Just as is the case with the sales tax, once we get those returns in we'll cut the city a check. By December or January we should be able to get an idea of what sort of revenue the tax will generate,

Would I send Chris King to Des Moines or Washington, D. C., and feel secure in his ability to represent me (and his) ability to convey the information and the needs of this community and the ability to interact socially and professionally with our state and federal leaders.

Customers with this equipment can go to the Web site and set thresholds for their heat and air conditioning needs at different times of day -- to turn the (air conditioning) on a half hour before they arrive home, for example,

I wouldn't have been in favor of moving ahead with litigation if I had not thought it was necessary. Is it unfortunate Yes. It's very unfortunate, but when you have a room packed full of people asking what we're going to do about their jobs and the corporation worked for that lied to the heads of the state of Iowa ... then you have a situation in question that could keep those jobs here, you ask a judge to figure who's right and who's wrong.

Religion is a personal choice that our founding fathers recognized. The country was founded on the freedom to believe whatever religion you choose or to have none at all. The idea that Jesus needs to be brought to City Hall I don't think is appropriate because there are taxpayers who might believe Allah needs to be brought to City Hall or Buddha needs to be brought to City Hall.