Week in Review

"The majority of the owners led us to believe that that property was for sale. We acted under that assumption. We never said we were going to take that property by eminent domain."

— Steve Rosansky, mayor of Newport Beach, on the City Council's decision to stop pursuing a property for a new city hall that is home to the Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club

"I never met a more down-to-earth, likable person. You never looked at John Crean and looked at money, you looked at John Crean and saw a powerful human soul."

— Michael Nason, spokesman for Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller, on Newport Beach philanthropist John Crean, who died Thursday

"We knew that they were going to be downsized. We were concerned about their ability to maintain their contract with us."

— Allan Roeder, Costa Mesa city manager, on the decision to take impounded animals to the Irvine Animal Care Center rather than the Orange County Humane Society in Huntington Beach, which recently began renovations but remained open; Costa Mesa's contract with the Huntington shelter for animal control services expired Dec. 30.