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FWKCC: ‘You have to have healthy conflict’
Saying she’s “been privileged to serve our Chamber for now almost 14 years” and upon becoming Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce’s president/CEO in 2017 discovered “it is the best job I never knew I wanted,” Julie Blaylock addressed Rotary Club of Farragut. Among FWKCC’s “five pillars” of integrity, excellence, stewardship and enterprising also is “inclusion.” “We welcome dissent,” said Blaylock, herself an RCF member for several years who addressed the club during its regular noon, Wednesday meeting in Fox Den Country Club June 11. “Now, who here likes to argue? … I don’t really like to argue; conflict is not my favorite thing, but you have to have healthy conflict, differences of opinions, voiced in a professional way to make forward progress, and we welcome that. That’s inclusion for us. “And then, of course, enterprising: sometimes we have to be creative,” she said. “Sometimes we have to be resourceful. Small businesses have to be resourceful and very creative a lot of the time.” History About seven years after Town of Farragut was founded (1980), “there were several local business owners and there were municipal officials” interested in forming a Chamber, “including Mayor Bob Leonard, who I did have the pleasure of meeting in 2012 before he passed away,” Blaylock said about Farragut’s first mayor. “And my favorite thing about meeting Mayor Bob was I was very new in the Chamber, and I was told to call him to invite him to the grand opening of Costco,” she added. “And it started at 7 in the morning. And my one interaction with Mayor Bob was, I said, ‘Mayor, I’m Julie and I work at your Chamber and I want to invite you to Costco’s grand opening.’
Read MoreDetailed reasons why Town of Farragut is state’s No. 5 ‘Best Place to Live’
We all know the saying “You are the company you keep.” That’s why the Town of Farragut is proud to be named No. 5 in ConsumerAffairs’ Best Places to Live in Tennessee list. Farragut follows Franklin, Collierville, Hendersonville and Brentwood in the ranking, and that’s some pretty good company. The only other East Tennessee municipality in the top ten is Maryville at No. 10. ConsumerAffairs is a customer review platform that provides information for purchasing decisions around major life changes. To determine the best places to live in Tennessee, the research team analyzed the state’s 35 largest cities based on affordability, safety, economic strength, health care and education and quality of life. According to ConsumerAffairs, here’s where Farragut stood out: • Great safety: Farragut has the lowest property crime rate on our list (4.57 crimes per 1,000 people) and the second-lowest violent crime rate (0.82 crimes per 1,000 people). These numbers put Farragut in the No. 1 spot in the state for safety. • Well-educated population: 65 percent of residents 25 and over have a bachelor’s degree or higher. • Healthy economy: The city has a low unemployment rate (2.5 percent) and a low share of residents living below the poverty level (2.9 percent). The data for the rankings came from a variety of sources. Crime data is from NeighborhoodScout.com, a comprehensive database of hyper-local real estate data.
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