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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And I have those relationships, skills, and experiences.
And again, I'm going to go back to trust.
relationships, transparency, and consensus building, because those are the things that I think are important.
And the challenges that people would say, I think are the very things that would help us be successful together for charlatans.
If I can, I'm sorry.
I think she answered it.
What's the second part?
I'm sorry.
I think she answered it, so we might be able to move on.
But additionally, what strengths and experiences do you believe make you well-suited for this role?
That's a great question.
Thank you, Council Member Driggs.
Intergovernmental relations are incredibly important.
Going back to 20 years ago when I moved back to Charlotte after completing my studies, coming in to BGR meetings and sitting around and making sure I'm hearing the issues of the day and still continuing to do that today has allowed me to
build relationships with city leaders, with county leaders, with school board leaders, with state legislative delegations and federal delegations, again, with regional mayors and COGs and local planning and transportation and investment organizations.
And so doing that work over a number of years has really just provided an opportunity to be thoughtful with partners,
to be fearless as an advocate for Charlotte's issues and Charlotte's priorities.
So whether it was trying to determine how we continue to lean into emerging industries around logistics or transportation or energy or any number of things,
Working together with COGS, with regional mayors, with other regional transportation groups, state, federal groups, that's really important.
Intergovernmental is something that I believe we have to continue to
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