Atnip wants to make a difference
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Atnip said he has one main priority if elected – to make a difference.
He said he supports the Barren Fork Greenway project and Main Street McMinnville, as well as tourism efforts and the potential jobs tourism may help to create.
“You create life again in downtown McMinnville, reopen the Park Theatre and show you are interested in this city,” he said, “and jobs will come.”
Additionally, Atnip said he wants to “look at the books” to ensure taxpayers’ dollars are spent wisely.
“By spending without waste we save money, which prevents increases in taxes or lowers the ones we have while still being progressive in a good way, providing the needs of the city and its people, now and in the future,” he said.
Atnip said he believes in the “six A’s” with regard to aldermen: they should be attentive by paying attention to constituents, active by taking action on what is right, adolescent by making provisions for youth, aged by making provisions for seniors, attuned by being aware of the city, its people and their needs, and appointed by realizing he speaks for the voters, not himself.
Atnip is employed at the Wal-Mart photo center, does freelance photography and serves as the photographer for Main Street McMinnville, Heritage Alliance and the Park Theatre Group. He is married to the former Wilma Ruth Caten, is a preacher at Spring Creek Chapel Church of Christ and teaches photography.