It's mostly a back-end system to allow staff to do things faster and more easily and to prepare us for using the Internet.

It's kind of friendly competition. We get together monthly and talk about this particular activity and hear about what others are doing. It makes us want to keep up.

No one city can master it all. San Carlos is interested in virtual meetings. We don't have the time to do it, so they did it. And we do things they benefit from. The key factor is we're all going in the same direction, just in different pathways.

That should spice things up.

You've got to tip your hat to them. They're able to persevere, and they showed why they're the three-time champs.

I'm very proud of these guys and I told them we're going to ride (them) until the wheels fall off. And tonight, they did.