Ask the Stokes County GOP primary candidates...
First Question: Define the official relationship between the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education in terms of operation and funding.
Jimmy Walker: I'm not the strongest technocrat when it comes to exactly how all the pieces fit together with local government. However, it's my understanding that the Board of Education is for the most part not connected to the BoCC in terms of operation. Their job is limited to operating the school system. Our task, as commissioners, is pretty much everything else involving the county.
Regarding funding, I think that our county's portion is a fairly small percentage of the school system's overall budget but, since the county budget is a much smaller budget, it is a larger percentage of ours.
All of our budget information is available for you if you would like to obtain it.
Also, you can contact the NC School of Government if you would like an authoritative view on procedural issues involving local government. These folks can actually be fairly helpful at times.
Second Question: Considering that the housing market is beginning to go flat, what would you do to help keep property taxes low and what would you do to work toward a property tax cut?
Jimmy Walker: My view toward controlling taxes is and has been that controlling spending is a major step toward controlling taxes.
With the pending need for school construction, a tax rate reduction is probably not an option. Keeping taxes as low as it's reasonably possible for them to be will continue to be my goal.
Jimmy Walker: I'm not the strongest technocrat when it comes to exactly how all the pieces fit together with local government. However, it's my understanding that the Board of Education is for the most part not connected to the BoCC in terms of operation. Their job is limited to operating the school system. Our task, as commissioners, is pretty much everything else involving the county.
Regarding funding, I think that our county's portion is a fairly small percentage of the school system's overall budget but, since the county budget is a much smaller budget, it is a larger percentage of ours.
All of our budget information is available for you if you would like to obtain it.
Also, you can contact the NC School of Government if you would like an authoritative view on procedural issues involving local government. These folks can actually be fairly helpful at times.
Second Question: Considering that the housing market is beginning to go flat, what would you do to help keep property taxes low and what would you do to work toward a property tax cut?
Jimmy Walker: My view toward controlling taxes is and has been that controlling spending is a major step toward controlling taxes.
With the pending need for school construction, a tax rate reduction is probably not an option. Keeping taxes as low as it's reasonably possible for them to be will continue to be my goal.
posted by BP News Bureau | 1:06 PM
1 Comments:
So, to summarize, Jimmy is running for his second term as a County Commissioner, but after four years on the job, he doesn't really understand much about the official relationship of the board he sits on to the entity that spends the most tax money in the county. As well, while he thinks controlling spending is the best way to control taxes, he has no intention of acting on that belief.
Actually, there are no answers in this response. The first response is a dodge using feigned ignorance. I'm giving Jimmy the benefit of the doubt when I say feigned, because I'm sure he didn't really want people to think what I wrote in the paragraph above. The second response is textbook politician. Jimmy hides the fact that he has no intention of working toward lower taxes behind some neutral statement about controlling spending.
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