Remarks by Andy Litten
43 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 18:25
“OK. Are we going to work our way down the line, I guess? What I would expect for an outcome would be the most efficient, both in response times and money-wise, and manpower. The use of all of those, the most efficient use of those to protect the citizens of your county. Yes, I realize different areas have different requirements, but that's what's taken care of in this. What role the county should play is, as you said, the umbrella view. This haphazard shotgun approach, while it would work when we had lower populations and more spread out, I just don't find it to be an efficient use of…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And 7 tax districts. So that's a whole lot of messed up, just spread out governance there. And I just don't find that to be useful.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Again, my concern is We've got 16 districts. So I went through and read a whole lot, many white papers and reports and things on the consolidated districts and everything else. I understand how they work, but I don't see how you can have one county then have a consolidation with 16 different districts with all sorts of different inputs there with the tax boards also being thrown in there on seven of them. There's just so many different pieces that you're trying to govern and none of them are governed alike. The rules at one are different from the rules at another. And I'm still not satisfied…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 45:37
“So are you thinking, kind of what I'm hearing is that we should wait to establish a more uniform umbrella once all the districts have their own tax boards? Is that kind of what I'm hearing?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 50:33
“But I go back to what you said earlier. Let's say we get these standards set. We haven't even decided who has the authority to run that standard. I mean, what if there's a district that doesn't meet the requirements and can't meet the requirements? Then what?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Huh? Get them help to meet it. But does that make them become a county district at that point?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“agree that we need standards we need to know what's what's meeting and what's not and then we can make a decision on how deep into it we need to go and and as far as the equipment I mean we set a baseline of what the county helps them provide like what we do now and”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, David. So I have some just general fire service concerns that have come up. At what point would agreements be made between the county and all the fire districts for like the trucks and the equipment and how much training and who does the training and what the training is? Is the training standardized across all the districts? Or does each department make up their own thing? It's kind of an odd thing, but how do we have non-employees driving county-owned vehicles? How does workers' comp or volunteers' work when they don't work for us? there's all these different agreements are there…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I think all of this has to be addressed. I mean, if we don't even have any agreements with anybody, who is responsible? Well, it all has to be.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Can we have those? We have one more. So, I mean, there is a whole lot of liability sitting out there that I feel like that is more or just as important to set an expectation for the response times.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Would you like to start? I mean, so the traffic study will be done during the design portion of this. Any improvements that are needed at that time will be designed. There's no sense in going through all of that until they know that they've got an opportunity to actually be able to build on the property. I particularly would rather this be industrial, stay industrial, and we get some big industrial projects there. I don't think that's in the best interest of the community. to have an industrial complex there. I think commercial is much better, is much better suited for the community. But, you…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would like to point out two things regarding that. Once Ridge Road is turned into a cul-de-sac, Is that still going to be a state road, do you know, or is that going to become a county road similar to what happened with over in Five Points with the road 49, the little section. And I asked this, and I guess it was not really an answer that I was looking for, but in the event that this section could be abandoned and donated or given to one of these property owners, which would then tie this industrial parcel to the adjacent industrial parcel, which creates an even bigger industrial parcel to…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:00:00
“Yeah, I have some discussion on this. So Highway 21 is currently under construction. Road improvements aren't ready. That area, just like we said on Highway 557, is a nightmare for traffic. GC has less intensity than LI. The staff and Planning Commission said it should stay for GC. It seems like it's a little pre, preemptive to be rezoning this currently until we get some road improvements out there and take care of infrastructure. As we've discussed before previously, this site plan doesn't necessarily mean this is what they're going to build. Once we approve the rezoning, it could be a…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:13:26
“To kind of piggyback on or ask, along with what Councilman Roddy was saying, is the 250 setback and some of those other, like the height of the building, is all of that in the restrictions also, or is that just on the plan and”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Next. After, my first concern is all the amendment changes, and I have no idea what all those changes are, and having to read it in printout, I wish I had gotten that ahead of time so I could prepare. But beyond that, after last time's discussion, even being on the P&Z committee, I'm deciding I think this thing has more problems down the line than it's solving right now. And I don't think I want to support it at this point. Anymore. This is it's not exactly what I was thinking and hearing all the additional discussion really kind of changed where I thought of it. And I think we're going to…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, okay, okay. Do you have the actual matrix for this that we could see?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right, I'd like to see the actual scores.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do you know what the historical idea or why the ED fund was implemented?”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 17:06
“You weren't left any documents or any direction on what that fund was created for?”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 29:21
“I'll follow up on that and. You know. We definitely need some to give you some more definitive guidance. I assume that's what the ED committee is for. They should be making those decisions. They should know what councils, you know. Ideas are and what Council kind of wants so. If our committee doesn't know what we want, then maybe we should reevaluate how we're handling that so that the ED committee, because I know they had been working on some of these deals. I know they work on these deals way ahead of the full council getting to see them. So we should empower them to be able to make these…”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 30:55
“And so I'm not supporting that. We can all take the same. If we need to give up 3%, everybody's going to give up 3%. The ED fund, I could give up, if there's 10%, when we get up above 500 million or a billion dollar projects, I could see letting some of that money go to other things, not necessarily have to be 10% to the ED fund every time. I don't see a point in funding the ED fund if we're not going to use it to do some ED projects. I'd like to see some responses or some projects come from staff and the ED department of what we could get a good ROI on and what could we use to really help…”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 50:23
“Actually, I would like 15 and 30. 15 and 30? Yeah, I'd like to have an hour's worth of talking.”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 50:30
“Yeah. But if it's longer than two minutes of talking, they really should just send us an email.”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 50:45
“Well, they just need to give us the high points and then send us an email if they've got longer than that and a whole presentation or something. Only three minutes. Three minutes.”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 50:58
“And at three minutes, there's a lot of people that get up and only talk for a minute or two. So we're cutting out five people that get the opportunity to speak. That's very few that are only going to talk for a minute. I'm just trying to help get as many people as possible to speak. and not limit the numbers. We can do a 30 at one minute if we want to get the quantity, but that's not going to help.”
County Council · Aug 27, 2026