Victoria Watlington
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3,394 appearances
31 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 17 Aug
Victoria Watlington’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When we are able to bring together those strong partnerships with city, with county, with private sector stakeholders, whom were also in those collaborations to hire our residents and make sure they had a pathway
to financial security, those are the things that I've continued to do throughout my career, and I think it's an important balance.
So I've always tried to be a consensus builder, a trust builder, someone that leads with servant leadership, quite frankly, and a heart for people, but also understands the dynamics and the different stakeholders that have to be around the table together.
Thank you for, I'm sorry.
Thank you for your willingness to serve for my question, I'm sorry.
While you're looking for your question, I'm gonna inject one more thing to council member JD's point.
And this is just a really point, a point of pride because when I think about the partners that we've worked with in East Charlotte and the Charlotte Bilingual Preschool and Our Bridge for Kids and a number of other partners,
and hired local parents to be educators and be neighborhood partners and to be leaders.
Those types of collaborations with public, private, and nonprofit partners, I've just really gained a tremendous amount of respect and pride to be able to work with folks across East Charlotte and bring programs and investment into an area that sometimes has not always received that investment.
Thank you for your willingness to serve.
What concerns, if any, do you think the public might have about your appointment as interim mayor and how would you address those concerns?
And there is a second part also.
Okay, thank you for that question, Council Member Johnson.
Concerns.
What I've heard, to community, and what I've also heard, to business.
And so I find that to be an interesting balance of concerns and a good mix, quite frankly, because you want to have trust across a number of different stakeholders.
And so for people to say she's to community, she's been organizing on the ground, she's been leading nonprofits, she's been doing this, and for other people to say she's to business, she's been at the chamber, she's been at the fair,
Hey, she's been at these places.
I think that's what we would aspire to have in a leader who has sat at the table, who has advanced issues, who knows what people across different perspectives are leaning into, who has relationships across those different groups.
I think that's the kind of person that is uniquely served in this moment.
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