U.S. Navy vet­eran Chuck Williams answers our Knox County Com­mis­sion ques­tions. Williams is run­ning for Knox County Com­mis­sioner 2B.

1. Intro­duce your­self to Knoxville, who are you, and why are you running?

Chuck Williams I am Chuck Williams Knox County Com­mis­sioner can­di­date for Dis­trict 2B. I am hap­pily mar­ried with a daugh­ter Shaunni and son Chris and two beau­ti­ful grand­kids. I am an Ele­men­tary Edu­ca­tion major at the Mag­no­lia Avenue Cam­pus of Pel­lis­sippi State Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­nity Col­lege. I am also a sub­sti­tute teacher for the Knox County Board of Edu­ca­tion (I am mainly at Ful­ton High School). I am a very proud eight year vet­eran of the U.S. Navy. I am seek­ing the office of Knox County Com­mis­sioner because I feel that Dis­trict 2 is the for­got­ten dis­trict. Our roads are in sham­bles, when it rains a lot of our roads are flooded due to the poor sewage sys­tems in our area.

I also feel that pri­vate home­own­ers are being unfairly taxed in that they are pay­ing not only their prop­erty taxes but the wheel tax also. I feel that if a home­owner has more than one car they should be exempt from the wheel tax on one of the vehi­cles. The pur­pose of the wheel tax was to ensure that all cit­i­zens were pay­ing their fair share of the wheel tax. I also feel that freez­ing the prop­erty tax of the senior cit­i­zens was not enough; I feel that seniors usu­ally do not have child age chil­dren in our schools so their taxes should be low­ered.

One of my chief con­cerns is the ongo­ing scan­dals that have been occur­ring in county gov­ern­ment. As Com­mis­sioner I vow I will be everyone’s worse night­mare as I seek to get to the bot­tom of all scan­dals in our gov­ern­ment. The Com­mis­sion does have the power of sub­poena and I am not afraid to seek subpoena’s and put those involved under oath with evi­dence that has already been uncov­ered and other evi­dence that is about to come to light.

2. We think it’s bet­ter know­ing what not to do rather than hav­ing an exten­sive plan. What areas or inter­ests would ben­e­fit Knox County not to ven­ture into?

Knox County should stop ven­tur­ing into the busi­ness of fat­ten­ing the cor­po­rate world and worry about devel­op­ing the areas that are lack­ing in devel­op­ment. Areas such as Far­ragut, Hardin Val­ley, etc. are already under devel­op­ment and TIF’s should not be given to busi­nesses to ven­ture into those areas, but in areas that are in grave need of rede­vel­op­ment and beautification.

3. What 5 things could you not live without?

1. The for­give­ness of God.
2. Sun­day Mass at Holy Ghost Catholic Church
3. My wife and fam­ily
4. Com­ple­tion of my edu­ca­tion
5. Maxwell House Cof­fee (Mas­ter Blend – PLEASE).