Just wanted to say it seems you have done this in a very transparent way, but I still don't quite understand the value of you going to these conferences with this group. It sounds to me like they are a narrowly focused group that isn't going to provide you with the kind of information you are going to need in the coming years to navigate the broad pile of issues facing local governments in crisis. Maybe I just haven't heard your side yet.

By the way, keep up the fight against the huge justice center project. I have yet to understand the logic in trying to cram everyone in the county into that hub around the Crossroads Center. There needs to be REAL traffic studies done, and REAL thought needs to go into this idea before the county blunders its way into another "Mine" disaster.