Chattanooga Mayoral candidate Kim White joins Chip for an extended conversation Part 1

Chattanooga Mayoral candidate Kim White joins Chip for an extended conversation Part 1

It's jack.

You may remember about a month ago.

Both tim kelly and killed like working here we were talking the respirations were those folks will be shattered was next year.

That day a month ago.

They both agreed to be here today for reasons unknown to us, the kell camp called him yesterday and said they would not be able to make it today white has agreed to appear for smoking.

Thank yo for being here.

We do appreciat you devoting if you missed us.

I know life in your particular circle right now.

Scott and i thank you for the opportunity.

Think anything that we can date at and get out the wire that today's lasting early voting taz talk more about our platform.

It's positive.

It's always a pleasure sitting and talking with the phone we get into the campaign issues and specific mortgage results reduc our consumption well you were talking what the aim what an amazing legacy.

I wish i had opportunity to meet him personally.

I was involved with the medal of honor and examine center on it with there may tha they did in some to river city space i downtown, so i'm so gla that that is they are in tells the story that everyone needs to know the story of some the heroes in our city and he's definitely one schools only a few weeks left but that would b a great thing for history teachers were teachers of any soviets builders students in mr. coolidge always a big supporter of fire, police, first responders elsewhere you stand on the fire police issues number one.

There's a lot of them, but only to be more handsomely .

Yes, i think you plan for that.

Yeah, i didn't.

Have been a big proponent that we need to give our first responders, more resources, not less, and was pleased to get th support of both policing and size spot spoke to a large group and then yesterday and i did eight increase pay, i mean ever time i've been to a neighborhoo meeting what they talk about is more and better trained police officers and police officers that look like the community an the only way to get there is on making sure that we compensate them correctly.

We are losing s many police officers and quiet play.

The morale has really bee down and i need in and mayor that stands beside them and has her back and i am committed to do that, so addressing pay addressing i things like make it.

I had the resources for training, making sure they had mental health professionals in addition to the specialist to work with them on their team an on and yes you said more first responders that look like the community.

S explained that esl and many more diversity.

I know that in past two weeks.

It friday was was was commended fo the last group of training and the group group of office and went.

The training day was the most diverse and never had a but it's hard to recruit will only don't pay them correctly and we need more resources to do that so i think it's really important that our place on this and the administration looks like our community.

What's the best way to address the diversity between some minorities and other law enforcement communities because there you hear about on national the everyday thankfully not so much here, but it is probably right.

So it really is about trust and building trust in the communities and way to do that is you have police officers hav enough police officers that can get all the cars that can be involved in so many different community aspects.

I will say our place force really has done a very good job with that.

I mean they coached basketball teams in baseball.

Tim, i dare you.

This past year's visit wit calvin.

With so many those activities, inc.

Retail women able to do that so it's really important now that we have that saying that things are getting more back to normal that we really the ground running with them of those efforts you been in business development for many years now was talk about residential development that will branch out in the business, yet are adjustable.

We were spo on.

We responsibly develop both her residential communities and their business is without reaching too far out of gas at the house.

Yeah, absolutely.

So i've heard that my opponent sai that we were overdeveloped and can assure you are underdeveloped because were out of around the house as we have more realtors than we do houses on the market right now and people are coming here.

So what we needed daily.

Just make sure that we plan emily deb dell developed responsibly and i have a big plan for affordable housing and that is a big need here that the day have a lot of parcels and neighborhoods that we need to leverage to make sur that we develop affordable housing, using those and some other tools that we had also site we had the women recite when you put those two together that's about 260 acres so we have an opportunity to think about how we want to grow our city and grow it response windmill development is not a bad one.

I will talk about business developing, to purchas mobile have to take a break