Remarks by Vickie Adamson
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
- Play at 4:20:36
“Roger, one other thing and I can't believe I forgot this in my four pages of questions that y'all gave me lots of homework to do over the weekend. Is the CEO of Wake Med, my understanding is that currently the board hires and fires the CEO. How does that change with the new agreement? And that's the board where we sorta kinda get to appoint the members, the majority going forward.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 4:22:06
“But Atrium can just wake up one day and say, we want a new CEO and switch them out.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 5:23:05
“Well, I didn't get the memo we were supposed to write a speech, but I spent my weekend struggling with documents. But I'm sitting here and I'm just going to share my thoughts from the heart because I want to serve from the heart because I am one of you. When I listen to the song, I have friends in low places. That's who I want to have friends with, with working people, with real people, not corporate executives. But I feel like today will go down in history as a very sad day in Wake County when we turned our taxpayer-built community hospital over to a corporate conglomerate. And I just don't…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 5:46:05
“A lot of people have probably left the buildings. Should we put the vote off until the public can watch it?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 6:25:20
“Yeah, thank you for bringing this to us today. One of the things we started a couple years ago with the final budget is we put it at the reference desk in our libraries. I don't know if the public is interested in this enough that I don't know how many copies you have, if you could get a copy to the reference desk in our library, so if somebody wants to see it, a hard copy, they don't have to come downtown, they can go to their library. And with the reference items, they can't check it out, but they can view it in the library.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 6:32:04
“Thank you, I just wanted to say that Interact had their 50th anniversary celebration last week, and it's hard to believe they've been around for 50 years. From the Visitors and Convention Bureau Board, we had a meeting, and Denny Edwards, the longtime CEO, has announced he's retiring as of 12-31.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026