we're happy to present randy barley another candidate for the office of washington county commissioner in the election on may ninth mr farley will start off with a question about your qualifications and skills what skills and qualifications would you bring to the office of county commissioner if you were elected well one of the things that i've noticed about my life is that i've turned into a troubleshooter  you know when you go on to a job someplace and especially a job like this there's a lot of people don't like to do their job and that work ethic and that makes a big difference as far as my qualifications i was a councilman i'm a committee member i ran for office since two thousand and two learned a lot just running for these offices about political structure and what's wrong with it and i'm pretty sure that the bottom line is it's just it's like any other job when you get a job you find out what it is you're supposed to do and then you do that job and you would do that yes i already know what the responsibilities are for this job i even before i decided to run for this office the first time i looked into what the responsibilities were so i could find out you know exactly what you're supposed to do you know like like i showed up here for this interview i'm not doing your job you would you would think a little that be a little strange if i tried to interview you wouldn't yes and what this is well with i think that's one of the reasons that that our system is the way it is why people are so dissatisfied why you can pick any town and go to a walk on main streets and you're going to see that something's wrong well let's turn to some of the issues what do you think are the biggest issues that are going to be facing the county commissioners in the next four years the next four years i'm not sure aside from just being responsible to those  the people that were well not only that but no to the job itself because a lot of people i find a lot of people usually they just want what they once and if you can get it form whether it's part of the job or what they're going to be happy i think the number one issue that we're faced with is the one of you pointed out to me i knew that i mean your organization pointed out to me the substance abuse and drug overdose problem now  i don't think washington county sets a good standard just because of what has happened within the due district system here in washington county recently because our elected officials need to be held to a higher standard otherwise the guy on the streets going to say well what's the use do you have any ideas about how to reduce the amount of drug and alcohol problems or well  program to all you would have to do is look at the responsibilities that each of the county commissioners have to feel and that's the you'll see exactly what needs to be done now is force tactic i'm not going to relay my tactics until it's time to implement them ok because i but i will tell you that it's within the commissioner's responsibility and a hority the job description if you will there's no reason we should have this kind of problem ok let's look at the issue of reassessment i know that members of the public are sometimes concerned about that do you have any thoughts about the role of the commissioners in explaining why it was done and what the effect will be well i understand why it was done but two thousand and sixteen this is the second top priority now this isn't going to the discrepancy if you have a discrepancy or an inequality or anything of that nature but you want to bring it forth and say hey wait a minute why did this happen to me this isn't right this isn't you know that's coming up here in late fall i mean late spring of two thousand and sixteen after they finish the data collection well as i understand it that's finished now they have to calculate it's i was talking to somebody in california i noticed a few people they told me they were just about done with it then it goes to the whoever else is in tyler industries for the calculations except for the road so for the rest of the process and generally when this happens there is an appeals appeal process that citizens can go to talk to someone in the county if they feel they are assessed too high would you expect there to be that all that always that always happens and yes i was like i was telling you about the responsibilities of the commissioner that's the second responsibility of the commissioners the first is the at least as i read them ten years ago now there were sixteen responsibilities the first being the voter registration and elections office the second one being reassessment so it's it's a top of the list so and when i looked into it it's because we're talking all public records back then and i do believe this was two thousand and two two thousand and three that i went to the tax office and start looking around and seeing about the tax structure and i was shocked i was shocked at what i found and  with the commissioners that being their second responsibility i know what i'm getting into  you do you think the local proceeds from the casinos are being dispersed appropriately i don't know the calculations that they used but i know just from listening to people out there from one end of the county to the edge it's like a story will go up here just like picking a hometown going up there and picking a town to go see ask them what they think and i didn't do that i didn't ask them what they thought  told me what they thought you know and they're not happy now there's a lot of people thought happy yeah and i think that's it's an economic issue you know as as the and i saw this started way back in the sevent well speaking of economics the the yes trilling has brought a lot of jobs into the county that's a good thing i believe what about do you see any negative signs are you concerned at all about any issues with the gas drilling or the safety and environmental issues or the distribution of funds through those that come to us through those nationally safety would be number one for me i've been to i've talked with some people about this and i've talked to some organizations that you know when they they come to your town and they want to tell you what they're going to do i'm not going to mention your names but and i learned a little bit about their process and what they can do and what they can't do or what they may do i got a real bad impression one time with this and she had a question about this apparently something happened with her water or something like that and i'm not an expert in that and i don't claim to be but if i had to responsibility of helping that woman out or whoever i would find out immediately and the panel of people the panel of people that were there really chastised that woman says a point that i'm thinking to myself apparently these fellows in these positions ok are grateful for their job i want to stop you now because our final minute is here and i want to give you the opportunity to speak to the voters directly and tell them why they should vote for you well like we just discussed the top two priorities drug and alcohol abuse substance abuse and i know the washington county prison system over here as i understand it and i've been told if it wasn't for domestic violence there probably wouldn't be anybody in that prison over there now to what level that is a much sure but it was pretty much a domestic abuse is  pretty much money money maker and that usually comes from drug and alcohol and drug and alcohol usually feeds that and the second most important thing coming up like i said is the reassessments i was shocked what i found out any early two thousand decade of the inequalities that exist and i magine it that way everywhere but i don't live every where i live right here in washington county you know and i would like to get in there and just do the job thank you very much you're welcome that's randy barley running for washington county commissioner