Asked today why the meetings were secret, Mr. Small replied, "I don't really have the history on that".
"Apologies to the big questions for small replies," she wrote, "Speech: Don't blame me for borrowing big words / and then struggling to make them light".
Small cities reply that they will lose community control, surrender control over budgets and come under the jurisdiction of the province's muscular public service unions.
"Yeah, and such small portions," replies her friend.
The small farmer replied: "I believe I developed that niche 20 years ago.
When asked whether he thought the project could be made smaller, he replied, "I don't think it can be". Later, however, he gave a slightly different answer, saying that though the developer would prefer to keep the project at 8.7 million square feet, the development corporation would contemplate reductions during the public comment period.
Whatever you do, don't make her feel stupid or small when you reply, because that would be as ungracious as her shopaholic request.
In the reminders of the first Delphi round we included a small incentive to reply (a dinner cheque was to be raffled), but with little result.
In a written response, the spokeswoman for the California Department of Public Health, Anita Gore, replied, "Small water systems often lack the technical expertise and funding to prepare funding applications, hire consultants to get their projects 'shovel-ready' and to make them happen".
"A very small percentage," Chris Pharo replied.
