Questions for Board of Supervisor Candidates, Accomack County

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Respondent:  Wayne Wills, District: 6 Date: 8/10/07 1. In your opinion, what are the top three problems for the county? A. Schools B. EMS and Fire C. Gangs 2. Why are these problems? A. We are loosing school teachers and administrators to Maryland. Substitute teachers are not good enough. B. We need better information on what is really going on. Need to record data on operations and funding. C. MS-13 is in Bloxom and Temperanceville and starting to mark its territory. 3. What would you do about them if elected to the Board of Supervisors? A. Work to find out where the County is going to get more money for teachers to be competitive with the difference between Accomack and Maryland school systems. Health is up 17% but teachers got a 2% raise. B. Think out side the box. Talk to volunteers. Look beyond incentives. The 911 centers need to know about agreements among departments. Rationalize the district boundaries. C. Get rid of the signs. Encourage the police to take this seriously. The Board of Supervisors needs to establish goals. 4. What do you think about water in the county – Storm water, Ground water, seawater, bay water? There should be a buffer zone around drains. Buffer zones = Clean water. This is not always observed. I am concerned about fertilizer and pesticides emptying into the Bay and the County needs to take care of pollution issues. 5. What do you think of the recent (June, 2007) report on the Accomack County Public Safety System? There are some good recommendations. The Board of Supervisors needs to get together with firefighters and work together. Many volunteers think that the data in the study doesn’t properly reflect actual activity levels. For example, it is based on calls and not actual responses. So one department may get a call, but the several others that may respond don’t get credit for this in the statistics. Likewise firefighters may administer life-saving medical services but the ambulance that takes the person to the hospital gets credit for the EMS response in the statistics. Many more volunteers would come on board if the data more accurately reflects actual activity levels. If you have questions or comments or would like to respond please click here.