Remarks by Vickie Adamson
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
- Play at 3:07:18
“Thank you for bringing this forward. real political hot topic right now. But before I get started, I just have three quick questions. The gentleman who came and asked the questions about the square footage, the land under a townhouse, he has sat here for two and a half hours to talk to us. And he apparently tried to get answers some other way and didn't. Is there any way you can respond to him and make sure he gets a complete answer on how we do that land evaluation? yes and we've been in communication you have been in communication great i just wanted to make sure thank you um last time i…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 3:08:57
“All right, thank you. That's good to have it. After you quit freaking out about the number and see what else is in that envelope. Thank you.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 3:22:06
“Daryl, I just want to thank you for doing such a comprehensive process. I don't think we've ever done anything with the fire service that was so well received and unanimous. Thank you.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yes, thanks for this time. I'm on the subcommittee at, I'm on the Board of Interact representing the county. I'm on the subcommittee of their capital campaign. We had a very interesting event. One of our members offered to host former board members in their home. to try to get them to contribute to the capital campaign and it was relatively successful. So we did that and if anybody would like spooky or not so spooky activities, there's lots of opportunities in our libraries for fall and Halloween type activities in our libraries.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 3:36:40
“I want to say that Commissioner Waters, Commissioner Evans, Commissioner Milo and myself was able to attend the principal and vice principal of the year banquet. And I don't know how they decide who gets it, but I definitely don't want that job. It's really exciting to see such great talent in our schools. And I wanted to mention that a week from this Thursday, early voting opens for the midterms. There's early voting sites all over the county that'll be open for a little over two weeks. And my experience is in the first week, there's no lines. And the closer you get to the end of early…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yes. First, welcome to White County. We're glad you're here. I did want to talk about the produce box delivery. That was a very hard program to give up because when we started it, it seemed so innovative and there was so much research about In other places, when the folks who got the produce boxes, their A1Cs dropped after a year, their blood pressures went down, just so many health benefits. The folks, but unfortunately, it's a very expensive program. And we were using ARPA dollars and we're transitioning back to more of our typical operating costs. baseline. Do you, the folks who are no…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah, and I know the match at the farmer's market, we were invited by the North Durham farmer's market that's only every other week to come and see their match program. And I had the opportunity to do that. And it was amazing. You know, I was in the tent for probably an hour chatting with the folks and hanging out. Then, of course, I had to go shopping. But I was noticing the people coming into the market. I would say well over half. were coming in to get the Matchbox before they went shopping. And it was very exciting to see people using it and people excited about going home with their…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 1:35:06
“Yeah, this was actually an LGBTQ market. Who knew? Right. It was a lot of fun.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah. Yeah. That it was, you know, I didn't even know such a thing existed till I got there. And that was really exciting to see. And of course, it's in a. a lower income area of Durham. So there was a lot of people who had walked up with their little shopping carts and, you know, that was just good to see. Yeah.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you for doing this presentation today. I didn't realize, you know, I had gotten a briefing on this program what feels like 100 years ago. But we, I didn't realize folks who were not recipients of some type of benefits could use it. This is a fabulous service. But I understand that Sometimes people who get child support orders on them are very unhappy, especially if they have went some period of time where they didn't have to pay their child support. So what safety measures do y'all have in place to make sure the folks are safe who have to enforce these orders? We used to... I used to…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 2:14:46
“But how do we ensure that these folks are safe with people who are very angry and possibly volatile?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 2:16:36
“Thank you very much. That's good to know.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 2:41:16
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:15:22
“Yeah, thank you for bringing this forward and I'm a little disorganized. I did four pages of questions this weekend and I didn't even, I wasn't even aware that we were going to have a PowerPoint till right now. So I have some questions on the PowerPoint and I had tried to do my questions by topic, but I'm going to have to jump around a little bit. Okay. So the first question is with the statutory requirements, I understand this is coming straight from statute. It says open to the general public, free of discrimination based upon race, creed, color, sex, or national origin. Do we have anywhere…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:16:38
“But we could have put it in another part of the agreement if we'd have wanted to. We could. We could. Okay, thank you. I guess I had sent you a request 10 days, two weeks ago, because I've heard a lot from the public about the fact that their public records requests are not getting... I asked for a number of public information requests that had not been granted related to the Atrium Wake Med merger and when those were expected to go out. Do you have that data today?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“So there's a possibility that if we vote on this today, there's people who've put in public records requests on this that will not have had them at this point?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right, thank you very much. One of the things, and I'm an accountant by trade, and was a stay-at-home mom for 18 years, so I'm not a lawyer. And when I read this stuff, I think I know what it means, and I don't always know what it means. So when I read these and try to digest these documents, I think of a continuum, right? So currently right now, with control, currently right now, if you look at control where one, where atrium is gonna control everything, and where we're at now, which is like a 10, which says, you know, we control it based on controlling the board, right?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:19:03
“The first agreement we got that their board approved felt like about a one and a half to me. It was just a little above atrium control and everything. With all these changes we've done, where do you think we're at now? What level control do we have versus what atrium has?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, the board of commissioners, what control do we have? Because now we have pretty much complete control because we appoint the majority of the board of directors of atrium. I mean, I'm sorry, of Wake Med. Right. And the first agreement we got basically turned everything over to Atrium, except a few little things. So we had a little control, but not much. So as these documents have progressed, we get more and more control. So where do you think we're at? What do you think our level of control is versus what we have now?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:22:45
“Thank you. That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure. I wanted to do a check-in on that one before I said it. The other question I had about the presentation, then I'll get to my questions I came up with this weekend. On the slide where it says that our appointees have to be Wake County residents, There it goes, the next one. I understand that's not true for atrium appointees. They could live anywhere, or do they have to be Wake County residents as well?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. So I thought we would talk about process, the cap, the two billion, and then the charity fund. First, this is not our normal process, how we do work. And this is not a question for you. We're used to, if we have complicated documents, we do some type of work session, we ask questions, we get answers. And in my eight years on this board, I don't think I've ever been handed this complicated illegal documents on Thursday night and said I got to vote on it on Monday. And that's just not how we normally do business. And so I'm struggling a little bit with this because it takes me…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:24:51
“They don't, okay. Yeah. Are the September 19th letter, the governor's press release, is that legally enforceable? So we've got to put that in another agreement. But it'll be to what you think is acceptable, correct?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“But the public or us won't get to see it before that's done?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:25:29
“That will be up to the Wake Med Board whether they show it to the public or not. Okay. Have you received proposed contractual language? So I guess you haven't done that with the price cap. You haven't seen what the exact language is going to be on that.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 3:25:59
“I saw one of the governor's attorneys here when I first got here. Did he send anybody today that can address these issues?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026