"Vicki Phillips" is an educator who has held government and non-profit positions in various parts of the United States.

Phillips was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education from 2003-2004. She left Pennsylvania to become the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools (Oregon)/Portland Public Schools in Portland, Oregon, where she served until 2007, when she was hired by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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We have the access to the water, which you need for a nuclear plant. We also are situated in an area where there appears to be ample land there for it. I'm hoping that some of those things work to Citrus County's advantage, ... We would be delighted to have another nuclear plant here.

It's not only what we have here today, but it's what we anticipate we're going to have.

I knew that as time goes on we were going to get to a point where it was going to be a heavy hit, and we're there.

I certainly empathize with people. I'm sure that they're going to pay more taxes than they had anticipated, ... This is not happening just here in Citrus County. This is happening all over America. When you have a building boom like this, that's the outcome.

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

I think we should go ahead and look at which would be more reasonable.

Our citizens' tolerance has reached its limit.

I had hoped they would come to the table today to help us work out these issues, ... It's difficult to do with the Historical Society not here.

In all likelihood, that is why all but a very few counties retain emergency management directly under the board of county commissioners.