District 5 Commission, Republican: Kevin White

August 25, 2008

NAME: Kevin White

PARTY: Republican

OCCUPATION: County Commissioner/Auto Repair Shop Owner

BRIEFLY EXPLAIN YOUR EXPERIENCE AS IT RELATES TO THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSION SEAT YOU ARE SEEKING:

I have had 4 years experience as a commissioner. I have completed commissioner certification, served as chair of the FLA/AL TPO, chaired on the Escambia BOCC, and I am current chair of the Value Adjustment Board. I have been able to bring an additional 18 million dollars to District 5 in my first term.

WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING ESCAMBIA COUNTY (THE ENTIRE COUNTY) IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS:

The three most important issues facing the entire county is economic development, transportation, and maintaining a quality level of service for the citizen. We need to get our state leaders to realize that tourism is not going to pay the bills. Our state leaders need to provide local government with the tools to recruit businesses. Companies want cash incentives to locate in your area. Mobile gave Northrup Gruman 70 million dollars up front in cash and incentives to locate there. We also need the state to start taking care of the state roadways instead of trying to put it on the backs of local government with no funding. With shrinking revenues, we are going to have to get very creative to maintain a quality level of service for the service that we provide.

WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST ISSUES FACING NORTH ESCAMBIA (MOLINO NORTH), AND HOW WILL YOU ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES?

The biggest issues facing North Escambia County is going to be provide the infrastructure needed for the growth that will eventually be coming our way. We need to have the infrastructure in place to handle it before it comes so we won’t have to deal with correcting the problem that we now have on the south end because there was a lack of planning. We as a board have already taken many steps to do this. We have the Sector Plan going on right now which takes an area that is undeveloped then put in the infrastructure, roads, schools, fire stations and then develop it out. Only five of these have been done on the state. If ours is successful then we will use it as a template and carry it further north. And the best thing about the sector plan is that the developers pay the majority of all costs associated with the new infrastructures.

WHAT ELSE SHOULD NORTH ESCAMBIA VOTERS KNOW ABOUT YOU AND YOUR PLANS FOR DISTRICT 5?

I would like the citizens of District 5 to know that I have worked very hard for them. When I took office four years ago, there was only 6 million dollars allocated to District 5 projects. That number today is 23 million. I am still committed to lowering the cost of government so in turn that puts more money back in the taxpayers’ pockets. In 2004 when I took office, the total county budget was 540 million dollars. If we approve the current budget it will be 402 million. That is almost a 140 million dollar reduction in four years.

Also, I am a husband, father, and small business owner. I deal with the same issues as every citizen does. Just because I am an elected official I still deal with the same issues that you do. Have I got it right every time since I have been in office? No I haven’t, but no one except the Lord will get it right every time. But I have worked hard and I did bring back honesty and integrity to the District 5 office. There have been no grand jury investigations or indictments during my term in office, and I feel that is great progress considering what happened in the four years previous to my term. I would appreciate a chance for a second term to continue to make progress in our district and the county as a whole.

YOUR WEB ADDRESS: www.VoteKevinWhite.com

PHONE NUMBER(S): (850) 587-4095 (home)

EMAIL: kevinwhitefor2008@yahoo.com

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under General