Pineville

Well, you know, I think what's interesting is what I would like to challenge, um, through our superintendent search is really a look back of the hiring profile that we've done to date.

Um, and so what, what has worked well where we've had folks stay for five to seven years? What does it look like? Is it, is it, is it someone internal? Is it someone with the academic background? Or are we looking for a complex leader who can manage all the different stakeholders in an urban district that not only has Charlotte, but, like, Davidson, Cornelius, Pineville, Mint Hill, and, like, can really flex, and also have the agility to navigate through, uh, a b- board, 'cause our board, um, you know, four new board members joined, which is almost an entirely new board.

Yeah.

Right? And so you also can't hire for the dynamic that you have today, but anticipating of that landscape changing and/or really setting expectations with the community around, you know- This might not be a five to 10-year person.

Um, very fortunate.

15 years ago, I came into this little town of Pineville, North Carolina, and, um, it was all boarded up, and I was looking for a place for Incentive Travel Solutions to hang out, so I found this building.

I pulled off a couple boards, opened a door, looked at some dust inside there, and bought this little building on this little strip in, uh, Pineville and, um, took it over and moved my travel company in there.

Uh, the mayor ca- of that town came to me, saw what I did with this building, kinda saw some dust coming up, and we made the building look real pretty, put some chandeliers in there, and, uh, had my 25 employees working in this little small office, and it was really cool.

And the, the mayor came to me and said, "Kevin, I want to put feet on the street in this little town.

It turned out to be pretty cool, and now I own that building, and now I own the building next to it, the building next to it, and the building next to it.

And very fortunate, I came in and helped this town start to revitalize.

It caught some wind in the Charlotte newspaper, in the Charlotte News, "The town of Pineville is coming alive," and I was like, "That was just me doing a little bit of renovation on a couple of buildings," and all of a sudden, there were some newspapers down there and some newscasters down there, people looking to live in Pineville.

I think it's also a defensible position to ask for that.

So, um, Jim from Pineville says, "It's time for Vilma Leake to say, 'It's been real,' and ride that Democrat mule into the sunset." Uh, yeah, well, she'll be gone in about two months.

The Hellion says, uh, "Who does Rackey have leverage over or who owes him? Find it hard to believe someone just did him a favor." No, I mean, but that's how, that's how this stuff works.

Um, political allies, you f- you know, you give them the contracts, they support your campaign, they give you money f- you know, for fundraising.

And so I'm doing an event in Raleigh on November 28th with Front Page Media, and I think that's at Raleigh Ironworks.

And then one in Pineville, North Carolina, which is just like south of Charlotte, and that's December 5th.

Awesome.

Um, and then I have some bigger events coming up next year.

Yeah.

Mike in Pineville believes that the fives, that's the majority block of the five votes on the Board of Ed, the fives' arrogance will lead to sloppiness in emails and texts.

And if the SBI is so inclined, they will find all kinds of evidence of corruption.

A tale as old as time.

So the 64...

Charlotte, which is about 41% of the board's weighted votes cast by Ed Driggs, and then Davidson, Cornelius, Huntersville, Mint Hill, Monroe, Pineville, and NCDOT, all of those have votes, and voted yes.

Now, A lot of it, too, again, talked about this new community benefits pledge from the NCDOT of $300 million.

I'm not sure yet, do the other municipalities or other towns get some of that cash? I don't know that answer.

But we stopped.

It was at Pineville, North Carolina, and a little bit, there was a, was it a family? It

was a Family

Dollar, right? Is that what it's called? Yeah, it was a Family Dollar.