Editor’s Note: The Election of three new Commissioners in the 2024 Commissioner’s elections represents a MAJORITY on the Commissioner’s Board. The direction Cleveland County will take in the future will be determined by those elected in the 2024 Republican Primary Elections. Therefore, all voters should be interested in what every candidate believes is critical to the success of Cleveland County. The following is a first draft of what Robert A. believes are the critical issues for CC in the 2024 Elections and beyond. AS time goes on, Robert A. will discuss these issues on this website and other websites to come.
Transparency for Robert A begins NOW!!!
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Robert A’s Draft Outline of CC Commissioner’s 2024 Election Issues
2024 Elections- Commissioner issues:
County Governance:
- Modify County Governance arrangement for better performance and efficiency
- Departmental Performance
- Agency Performance, all
- Gun range
- Solid Waste
- Accountability
- Priorities
Financial Management:
- Total tax revenue in 2023
- Grants, etc.
- Reserves
- Total Money in Bank accounts etc. at end of 2023
Loans-identify who owed, terms, and Payments, interest
- Bonds-payments and interest
- Other debts-where and how much
Grants, Out
- All County issued/Money outs/payments–Fair, LeGrand Center, ALWS, Gun Range, Etc. List ALL w/particulars
- Debt Service-payments due to others
- All Grant money TO county
Income/Property Values:
- Money owed Cleveland County from all non-tax purposes
- All assets and appraised values
- Assets used as collateral on loans
- Real Assets with Clear titles.
Employee Payroll and Benefits-By department and agencies
- List of all county employees
- Job Descriptions-All details
Projects:
- (Projects planned-details and estimates of costs)
- Projects Planned
- Projects underway
- Projects on HOLD
Miscellaneous
- Property Taxes-options to collect, such as monthly payments?
- Grants to County
Other issues to consider:
- County Library, Dirty Books in children’s sections
- Transparency, Lack of
- Midpines/solid Waste-cost analysis-return to full capability
- Lack of long-range Planning
- Schools-CCS, etc. Accountability targets and measures
County Property, All agencies,
- Building replacement determinations and planned replacement schedules
- Major maintenance projections coming up soon
Lawsuits Against County, Agencies
- Lack of lessons learned causing repeat lawsuits
- Outstanding lawsuits
- Pending lawsuits
- All previous lawsuits-lessons learned analysis.
