RIO DISTRICT SAMUEL MILLER DISTRICT
What is your top
David Slutzky (D) Madison Cummings (D)
Incumbent
Well except for the water plan I would say education.
priority for action
I think my personal commitment is to…protecting the long Obviously being a member of the School Board, my wife is
term integrity of our ecological systems, but wearing my hat an educator and I think I did some educating over the years
as a Supervisor, which is not just my hat, but it’s the hat of with coaching and so forth. It should be the top priority of
by the Board of
my citizens if you will, I think that a priority in this community the community, educating our youth is the most important
is to address our transportation challenges. responsibility of community. It is 60% of the budget and
should be and it’s been 60% more or less…and that should
Supervisors if you
We all find education important and there are many other
be our top priority….
priorities, environmental protection being among them, but I
think from most of the constituents I have spoken to, their
are elected?
concern long term that they want the Board to be address-
John Lowry (I)
ing is transportation. And so my top priority for action, which
is the way your question is worded, would be to focus on ad-
My top priorities as I announced my candidacy were quality
dressing our transportation needs the way that I have been
of life, education and transportation. But my single top prior-
doing for the last few years.
ity, would be that we need the creation of an economic de-
velopment department. The Board of Supervisors and staff
I would continue to take a leadership role in pushing for a work together.Presently what the staff and administration
JACK JOUETT DISTRICT
Regional Transit Authority, for expanded bike and pedestrian doesn’t see from the Supervisors in a mirroring sort of way
Dennis Rooker (I)
paths, to get people off of our roads. And I most certainly is direction to create a way to capture economic activity in
Incumbent
would continue to promote good alternative road systems the County of Albemarle. I think the administration and staff
like the Berkmar Extended Project and the Meadowcreek would be very willing to create such a department and have
My top priority is a general one, I think, and that is to protect Parkway, so that we can ultimately address our transporta- more activity and therefore more tax revenues. But what they
the quality of life of our citizens and indeed try to enhance tion needs. are not seeing from the supervisors is the will or desire to
the quality of life of our citizens on a number of fronts. We have [an economic development office]. So that’s my single
have a vision for Albemarle County that the Board of top priority and I am a natural person to fill that void that
Supervisors has adopted. I participated in establishing that Rodney Thomas (R) needs filling. It means jobs for the County and more busi-
vision. We have a strategic plan to try to implement the vi-
Challenger
ness dollars which is really tax revenue which would take the
sion, and we have adopted a number of strategies that are pressure off of raising property taxes.
contained within our approach to try to enhance quality of
The top priority for me would be trying, at least trying,a
life for our citizens. I think we need to try to deploy what
zero-based budget to try to cut the expenses of the County.
right now are very limited resources in the best ways possi-
I’m not for increasing taxes at all. I’m for keeping our fire Duane Snow (R)
ble to do that.
and safety, police protection, and education, definitely edu-
cation, at the top of our list.
Zero based budgeting. I feel like that we have wasteful
I will say that I consider the highest priority to be education
spending, when you operate without a zero-based budget, as
and safety. At times of limited resources, when we need to
the fiscal year ends, a lot of times there was just catch-up
perhaps draw back in other areas, such as the ACE program,
spending that we can have our budget added to the next
which was cut into half this past year, we need to recognize
year. I think we need to look at our budgets realistically and
that education and safety are areas where we need to focus
make sure that the money is being applied to the priorities
our resources to make certain that the delivery of services in
and needs of the citizens.
those areas is not diminished.
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