That is a part of a collection of questions and solutions with candidates working for District 3 Pittsburg County Commissioner within the June 28 main.
Candidates for District 3 Pittsburg County Commissioner reply: What’s your prime precedence if elected?
Ross Selman
With this job, public security is primary. That is for locals and residents of this county and passers-through.
There’s actually no prime precedence. There’s your street district, the asphalt plant, courthouse and the Expo Middle now. Additionally emergency administration, the jail, the animal shelter.That is all a part of our oversight. Air-con and heating.
It is laborious to say that is primary. We’re coping with a number of quantity ones on the identical time.
Trent Myers
We’ll undergo every thing, take a look at the funds, see how a lot they owe on tools.
After I was in there, we did not have that gross sales tax they’ve now, simply gross manufacturing tax is what we operated on.
They bought a bunch of kit. I will see what they received and what they owe; assess what we have to do to roads — that is a endless course of.
One other factor is the northwest a part of the county is having an oil and gasoline growth. The roads are going to take an actual beating. We have to work with the oilfields to get a bit of of that again. I really feel like I can handle cash higher than anyone.
We have the Southeast Expo. Like every thing else, we should run it like a enterprise. For that factor to generate profits, we want one thing in there each week.
Glen Padgett
My prime precedence is saving the taxpayers cash and getting the roads like they need to be. I labored for the county seven and a-half years. There’s loads of these county roads not being maintained proper. There isn’t any drainage on loads of them.
I labored building constructing highways. The very first thing you have to do is get drainage. If you do not have drainage on a street, water will get underneath it and you’ll get tender spots.
And conserving oilfield vehicles off roads the place they don’t seem to be speculated to be. They reduce via loads of these county roads and tear them up.That is one other precedence, conserving these oilfield vehicles vehicles off the roads the place they do not should be.
Logan Sanders
Evaluation our funds and see the place we will get monetary savings and the place we will apply these financial savings to get essentially the most out of our greenback. I wish to see extra transparency from the workplace to most people, to tell us of the place and the way our tax {dollars} are being spent.