They can promise everything but that doesn't work for a commissioner in a park district. When election time comes around, voters in Urbana like the fact that we have an advisory committee, that advice is coming from other sources. We have no debt outside of three years, so we sell bonds three percent lower than what anyone else gets. Nowadays you have to have an environmental bent to things, so I have good credentials on environmental issues. If a commissioner is one who is known to want to cooperate with the school, with the county, with other people, that goes over very well.
People perceive that very quickly and that makes sense.
File early so that everyone knows you are the candidate. We take the responsibility to find some good candidates, to encourage people to run, if we know someone on the board is not going to run for re-election. People don't like negative statements, whether they are relative to parks or somebody else.