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.

Leon Inman: The Board of Education has an autonomous board. The Board of Commissioners appropriates the funding and the Board of Education does the line item spending. Obviously the two boards must work together to assure the best educational opportunities for the students of Stokes County.

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?

Leon Inman: The real key is to promote more economic development in the county in order to take some of the tax burden off the residential ad valorem tax payer. My record shows that I have worked to hold the line on taxes and we have increased the county's fund balance from 3.5% in the past six years to almost 15% and we have not had a tax increase during that time. The real key is being conservative and trying to control spending.