"I'm not being a dictator or bully up here." Mayor Bill Yates, January 11, City Council meeting.
"God, we have come away, been doing this for a long time to get to this point. Now, my understanding is that even if we do not uphold the appeal, if . . . we're still not dead in the water as far as looking at other sites. And Noah says we're sort of locked in but that's not what I understand. We're not. So I think we have time to keep moving ahead . . . I made a kind of funny little remark, I say, moses comes down and says, hey, boys, move it over here, well, then we will stop and do it immediately. But right now there really hasn't been a really solid other place to move it. And I believe we should move on with this project and keep our eyes open and ears opens and maybe something else will pop up. But I don't think we should stop this project at all." George Leage, Morro Bay City Council members, January 11, Council meeting.
"I started off years ago with sewage plant 101 from Dylan Wade, who I consider a well-trained, well-education engineer." Nancy Johnson, Morro Bay City Council member, January 11.
"Perfect." Mayor Bill Yates, January 11, City Council meeting after listening to Dylan Wade explain the city's sewer rates.
"And I have to support staff." Mayor Bill Yates, January 11, City Council meeting.
"It is very irresponsible and inaccurate" to compare the Los Osos and Morro Bay-Cayucos wastewater treatment plant projects. Noah Smukler, Morro Bay City Council member, January 11.
"The people I heard tonight are the same people I heard at the JPA meeting, the same people who were at the draft EIR meeting, the same people who were at the hearing. You're not a new group. You haven't brought any new information to us that would say to me let's not do this plant." Nancy Johnson, Morro Bay City Council member, January 11.
"As one of our commissioners said, the site location was already dictated, so this was an EIR, an environmental report, based on that specific site. Why we weren't given alternative sites, we don't know for sure. But this report itself was limited to that site." Then Planning Commission chair Nancy Johnson, October 4, 2010, Planning Commission meeting.
"I don't think the Coastal Commission can require us to recycle water." Mayor Bill Yates, January 11, City Council meeting.
