The people of Fairfield have a right to know all the facts about the contract terms, amounts spent, cost overruns, who is responsible for additional costs and where the money will come from,

I don't think we want to comment, because it sounds like the facts are still unfolding.

Had I known these facts about Kidan, I would never have signed

The simple fact is that no budget could have sensibly been prepared unless all the facts and figures are available, where, by and large, they now are.

I believe in the basic goodness of people, ... If presented with the facts, people will make the right decisions.

I know there's a lot of people who publicly don't want to say this right now. But I think they're hoping that the momentum this occasion brings, and the way it brings the community together, will help extend this to the next step that they all want, which is a new stadium and baseball for a long time.