Remarks by Tommy Adkins
35 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 26:30
“No, no. I mean, I agree with a lot that they said, but... When this all first started coming up way even before y'all were even here, I never even knew that we had a problem. I mean, and so far right now, can anybody in here answer to me when a fire, I asked you earlier today, didn't get took care of and whatnot? I said from the get-go that the EMS and all was more of a bigger problem that we needed to tackle than the fire. But my idea is a little bit different since I've been here my entire life. And I remember fire departments as being part of the community. A lot of these places are…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I think we still need to discuss and refine. And I ain't saying this in one term to make anyone ill, mad, or whatever. But after my dealings through the years, not only on the federal side with the milk and all that, and ever since I've been on capital and all, I don't see where government does anything efficiently. And I've told y'all that before. Y'all know I've said that. I mean, anything that you go to do, it costs three times as much, everything else. And I'm not going to let up on the fire departments. I mean, a volunteer is a volunteer. If you want to get paid for it, then that's…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“It's not going to work as long as communities continue to get ripped apart. I mean, I used to be a volunteer, but that's years ago. But it's like a lot of things. You just got to have a heart and a willingness wanting to do it.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 36:42
“provide them and give them the help with whatever training and assistance that they need, help them with getting the new recruits and placement in. I still go back to the reason the tax districts come to be was to make up that shortcoming and that gap of their population in their area increasing you take like me we over on the western side we don't have the revenue and all. So if you ever tried to do this one model for everybody, you're going to take away from everybody over yonder to help us out over here on our secluded side. Do you get what I'm saying? I'll admit we're the growth and we're…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“That would be fine. How did it ever get to the point where we as council were supposed to be the ones that the tax districts answered to? Same difference. Bring before us what each one is and We have proved that they meet that standard.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'd be more willing to take some folks around, which I ain't got to tell none of these fellas nothing. Cherokee County Union, a lot of them in the room here themselves have had fundraisers and everything and established. And that's why their departments are so personal to them. They put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into. And they own it. They bought it with the community's help. That's what kept them close-knit together.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I know this, and I don't mean it to be a dadgum joke, but if I went by just saying because something's got some age on it that it ain't worth a hoot, you can ask several in this room here. I wouldn't have attracted one running.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And you also are covering the grounds that a lot of, well, the majority of these stations were built on donated land and whatnot and and these communities own these stations and all and i mean there's a lot a lot to that but like i said that i didn't know we had a problem and but i would i would like to ask y'all one thing though When I got on council, it wasn't shortly that this topic come up. But something was said a little bit ago. Council never initiated. It's first brought in and initiated by management. Why did they, even getting on the bandwagon of all this, why do you know why they…”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We may have had that audit, but we also had this thing at a level place and settled that.”
County Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Let's pray. Dear Lord, thank you for letting us gather here tonight. Lord, be with us. Give us wisdom and knowledge as we carry on the people's business. Lord, thank you for all your many blessings and keep us all safe in our travel. In Jesus' name, amen.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Clarify, which Jonathan may have to do this. You wasn't around. How did that get, if this land was industrial, how did it get put in the comprehensive plan that way?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But that wouldn't make it where we need to know what areas is zoned before we do it.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I mean, Andy's right. I'd rather have general commercial than industrial. But really, no matter what goes there, it's going to be a nightmare of a traffic problem, any way you look at it.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Josh, as far as the sewage capacity of this area.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. My motion is to approve second reading with the following amendments. Delete all the changes to 155.1246E. Amendment changes to 154.004 to read the following. split zone residence lots existing on or before September 17, 2026, may be platted and recorded the same as single district lots and may be recombined with adjacent partials containing to the same zoning district. But I stress, this only involves into residential, because we got emails and people were confused about that. And I think through this, Correct me, Laura, if I get this wrong, but the goal was to make sure that…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The motion part was to delete all the changes to 155.1246E. The amendment change to 154.004E is to read the following. Split zone residential lots existing on and before September 17th of 2026 may be platted and recorded the same as a single district lot. and may be recombined with adjacent parcels containing the same zoning district. Because that's what stands right now. That's the motion. That's the end of the motion.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, if you, I mean, don't get me wrong. This whole split zoning thing is just, And in my mind, whether you own the land or what, I mean, it really gets down to you just having two pieces of land in your name that happens to be. Because if you got ag and RUD right here, but your neighbor owns that, it ain't no issue. But if you own land right here that's ag and RUD and it's both in your name, right side by side, then it becomes an issue. You get what I'm saying? But if somebody buys land, then they ought to be able to plat what they've purchased, whether or not it's split zoned or not. And…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Since one of the biggest issues is somebody goes out here and buys land and finds out it's split zone, then they can't plat their deed. But if they're sitting there and say they got 16 acres of ag land there and just a little bit of it's RUD or whatever. It all goes down. Well, if you don't even do the bigger partial, they still have a right on that 16 acres of ag land to do whatever they can do, just like if they had enough RUD, they'd have a right there. We're just talking about whether it's the two lines adjacent owned by the same person versus whether it's a neighbor sitting here and they…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:38:09
“Yeah, but I mean, this is... Simple. In my mind.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:38:21
“We'll be the meal to death. It's a good thing that he's flying colon. I swear.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, but the same person, their pocketbook bought the land.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:41:06
“I will. I should have bailed hay and worked on the bunkers today. I wasted my whole day trying to figure this out.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:46:41
“When they first originally reached out to me and wanted to know if there was a way or anything, I said, I don't know. I'll check into it if you remember, David. And we're going to look in to see if they could get some help somehow. And then through that process, it changed over to this. I don't know. How long has it been since you talked to them?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, yeah, the last time whenever y'all talked about as far as taking ownership of the property.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:47:43
“Yeah, because I talked to several of them, and they said they didn't really know what was out now.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026