It's going to be a busy four years.

Council needs to keep looking and keep encouraging as developers come forth. There's not an awful lot of land left, but that's going to be what we have to do in the future.

We've got somewhere around 2,500 housing starts in this community - which is phenomenal. This is growth that I have never seen here - and I've been living here all my life.

Most of the rescue operations have been completed and they're moving into recovery mode,

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.