Last year, I proposed to use the additional resources to fund an economic stimulus project, which included the reconstruction of 56th Street south to Watkins Avenue.

The plan is to purchase the land and use the passive water as part of a recreation area.

We must keep reminding ourselves that this is about an eight-year project that didn't actually get under way until early 2004.

I hope to have this work completed so that recommendations can be considered by the 2007 budget process.

We're expanded on a project we started last year. We're working with the Department of Natural Resources to build a better hunting area in the Deer Creek area. We will be putting in 42 acres of food plots in that area.

We are going to be looking for additional resources. The superintendent (James A. Williams) does not want to have a Band-Aid approach.