Prop­erty taxes just got eas­ier with Fred Sisk. He is run­ning for Knox County Trustee.

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

Fred Sisk My name is Fred Sisk and I am run­ning to be the Knox County Trustee. I am a native of Pow­ell and grad­u­ated from Ole Miss in 1978 with a Bach­e­lors of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion. After grad­u­a­tion I worked in my fam­ily busi­ness’ until I began work for the Trustee’s Office in 1989 under then Trustee Robert L Broome. Dur­ing my 18 years in the Trustee’s Office I have worked from a account­ing clerk posi­tion up to the Deputy Trustee’s posi­tion. Dur­ing that time I stud­ied and learned every­thing as much as I could about the Trustee’s Office. I’ve taken edu­ca­tional classes and train­ing sem­i­nars and became a mem­ber of the TGFOA Ten­nessee Gov­ern­ment Finance Offi­cers Asso­ci­a­tion which is an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to the train­ing and advance­ment of local and state gov­ern­ment finance offi­cials. I admin­is­ter the Bank Trea­sury Man­age­ment Ser­vices for Knox County. I am a mem­ber of the Knox County Invest­ment Com­mit­tee. I have worked with the Indus­trial Devel­op­ment Board of Knox County and have a thor­ough knowl­edge of the PILOT and TIF pro­grams and the effect on Knox County prop­erty tax. I have a thor­ough knowl­edge of the Law­son finan­cial sys­tem and the work with the Knox County Finance depart­ment on a daily basis. This year we have imple­mented Check 21 elec­tronic deposit of tax pay­ments thereby earn­ing addi­tional inter­est from Knox County. The Trustee’s Office will col­lect of $220 Mil­lion dol­lars in prop­erty tax this year and the Trustee needs to be knowl­edge­able and expe­ri­enced in an oper­a­tion of this size and com­plex­ity. I would like to offer my knowl­edge in tax billing and tax col­lec­tion and exper­tise in invest­ing your tax dol­lars as proof the I am the most qual­i­fied per­son to be your Trustee.

I am run­ning because my goal is to make pay­ing prop­erty taxes eas­ier. I want to make the Trustee’s office acces­si­ble to tax­pay­ers to ask ques­tions, get answers, and to make pay­ments. Because when you make pay­ing taxes eas­ier, you col­lect more money.

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 has been approached about financ­ing a “Ethanol Pro­duc­tion Facil­ity”. I believe this type of project would be bet­ter serve by being in pri­vate hands rather the pub­lic financing.

3. What 5 things could you not live without?

1. God
2. Fam­ily
3. Friends
4. Free­dom
5. Health