People need to use public transportation because our roadways are overloaded with cars. Roads appear to be like parking lots.

There is nothing specific in terms of development at the moment. I am personally involved with Blueprint Communities and we are thinking of this in terms of a jump start for this town in whatever form it takes. Apartment buildings are the kind of things that this town needs.

We need to get a group of citizens together to forge ahead. We need to present something such as a vision to PAT. Before we do anything, we must have a comprehensive plan and it must be up to date.

The community must initiate this. It cannot be done by PAT. Jeff Stephan, executive director of the Carnegie Community Development Corporation, had a group there that evening.

They changed the town and this is why this kind of thing would do well in Carnegie. PAT will give a power point presentation and residents will be able to present comments. Nothing has been decided and this will be a prelude to a planning session. We have not actually planned anything here.

We give our volunteer fire company $27,000 and $35,000 for a truck plus insurance. We give them a lot of money, but the emergency vehicles go outside of Carnegie. We shouldn't pay for gas. We have to rethink that and reduce the amount.