Remarks by Christi Cox
206 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
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County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“We do have executive session tonight Any other council member new knowledge in the comments before we go into executive session?”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right. I'll echo that and look for a report from staff to give us some feedback since we had a number of folks out here requesting help. Thank you. Yeah.”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. We will go into executive session. We are out of executive session. No action was taken while we were in executive session. Do we have any motions?”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, motion carries.”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I just want to echo and say thank you for your service to York County. We wish you well in your future endeavors. We appreciate the work that you will be doing to help with the transition and ensuring that we have a stabilized transition to the management of this county. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Motion carries. Do we have any other motions? Motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. We are adjourned.”
County Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Call to order the York County Workshop for September 14th, 2025. Our item for a business is discussion regarding the York County Fire Service long-term vision and strategic plan. I understand and I know that management sent over some information for Council 345. You guys want to present some information first before getting started? Is that right?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Good question. First of all, I think most of the folks that I see in here are from the fire service background. It's good to have folks in this room. I think that what... However you want to go about asking this question and going around from each council, I will tell you the sense of what I saw from council when it came to budget time is that we... We were in a position where we were being asked to make a budget decision about a particular area of a fire department that would have resulted in 39 individuals becoming employees of the county. And so I think at that point in the budget…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Obviously, ISO is ISO. I mean, that's an outside source that says you have to do this in order to make sure that folks' mortgage insurance fits.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So I'll say this. I met with Flint Hill when their issues were coming up right at the budget time. And I met with Bullocks Creek when I understood some of their concerns. And I think you see a complete, totally different needs. But I think more than anything, What we have to do, and we have to do it now, is we have to do an assessment of where we are because I heard the question asked, is our fire service performing and are they doing well? We have a lot of folks that like to argue about things, but are they making the fire calls and are we getting to the fire calls? My understanding is that…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I think it might be helpful if we're starting with this for us to, and I don't mean to short circuit the plan, but how long would it take to gather that data so that we have a baseline of information?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I've not heard anybody's not meeting it. Is anybody not meeting it?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We have two missions. ISO and fire service response. And I think that those standards are, I mean, it's not something, you're asking us, we don't know. I do now know that there's a different standard in a rural area versus what's in an urban area. There's a different standard when you have businesses that you have to respond to than individuals who live out there. I think these folks know. Has that question ever been posed to the group of the fire service group? Because I think the Rural Fire Board would be a good place to talk about saying, hey, I don't know that using NFPA is realistic…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I mean, practically, aren't we already through coordinate? I mean, we already do through coordinate. The question is, where are we with set expectations? Isn't that the line where we seem to have frustration, but I'm not really sure.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I don't mean to be combative, but I still feel like level of service is something that really isn't just, hey, what do I think? It's from the experts. It's from the folks that do this. That's a standard that... until we understand what do you think the level of service is or should be for each station? Do y'all have that? Do y'all have an idea of what that should be? Already? Now? Do our departments already know that?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“See, I think that's why we have to start right there because I think we've got to figure out what is that level of service because how do you know how much equipment and personnel is needed to meet that level of service if we don't have that?”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“But, David, once again, getting back to level of service, once we know an established level of service for every department, then figuring out that is gonna tell us what equipment is necessary to meet that level of service. And until you know that, and until there's an acknowledgement and agreement on that, And I think part of the level of service is going to have to be for the areas that do not have a special tax district. That level of service is driven by the funding that only comes from the rural fire board. And so in order to make it fair, maybe there needs to be a western special tax…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I think you've got to start there, though.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We have to start with the level of service. What about the state? I mean, there are lots of standards. The NFPA, I think, is the highest. I'm learning as I've gone. NFPA is like the highest unattainable almost, if not truly. And then there are other standards. There's your ISO standard, which is different. That's a different goal. But there's the fire service calls, truly fire service calls. What is the standard for an area in a rural? And my understanding is that could change. If the county jumps in too quick, that can drive up that and drive up the cost and drive up. I mean, I think that's…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, I also think doing the level of service like you're saying with equipment, there are some areas that don't need, I think my understanding is our equipment policy is just who's next on the list to get the next thing instead of what does this department need to meet their level of service is different than what this department needs. That's why the equipment policy can't even be updated until we know what's needed at each department to deliver the level of service.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I think a lot of those questions have been brought up piecemeal through legal, which two and a half years ago, I mean, a lot of those questions will require legal input. I think there are considerations that should be listed and should be shared with management, but I think we've got to kind of put some, we've got to, put the rubber to the road in terms of gathering the initial data before we can either, I mean, I think one of those questions needs to be, what are the current agreements that you have with the county? What do you have? Each district may have something different. I mean,…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026