i'm pleased to bring larry maggi to you in this conversations with the candidates program he is running on the democratic ticket for washington county commissioner and he is an incumbent let's turn right away larry please to the substance of a conversation and tell us please what skills and qualifications you have to continue in the kerry commission well thank you thanks for the opportunity to be here other than the years i served in the united states marine corps i never left washington county and i was fortunate i was a state trooper for twenty four years and i was fortunate to be able to come here and work most of my career so  been very one of the lucky people to literally not leave washington county had the opportunity my children are here i've got six grandchildren they live nearby so it's exciting to see that but i think that the fact that i've been involved with numerous organizations veterans groups are mental groups business groups and i think i have a pulse of what's going on in washington county which county is a huge area eight hundred forty eight square miles two hundred over two hundred eight thousand people in washington county and we have a diverse culture and population and i think that's important as a county commissioner to understand  understand what's going on and i think i bring those skills just the experience of living here the experience of as a state trooper up to all the highways and byways of the county the hamlets and and and i feel i got a pulse of what's going on i've owned a business i in the community of clay's will years ago been actively involved in veterans affairs so it is capacities you hear what's going to horn in you're able to get a feel of what's what's happened i think county commissioner now for over three terms that i've won for the fourth term and i think we've experienced great growth here i think we've been able to manage that i think we have a county commissioners work well together we work together we come up with solutions we don't have any partisans issues and i think at some of the things that i bring to the table as a county commissioner what do you think are the big issues that will face the commissioners in the next four years we go we are going to have a lot of issues coming up i think one of the are going to be reassessment i think the other issues we have is we have a gas and oil industry and it's really booming here in washington county and it's been good for washing county but we have to make sure that we manage that well why should the county is at the center of the gas in the oil industry we've got to make sure that we manage that well not for just now but for the future and you know we got a unique perspective here in washington county we we have a country charm we're rural and i don't want to see in and being what's going on in allegheny county i don't want the county run over with concrete and i think that's going to be a challenge for us to protect our environment i think for us to protect our air and water i think those are priorities and i think those are going to be challenges that we have to deal with and i think the county commissioners now we've done that we've started a legacy fund from the gas and oil revenues that we've got we're putting money and to deal with any environmental issues or areas shoes or water issues that may come up i mean you don't know i believe  the county but you don't know what they're going to say four five six years from now and we have this legacy fund that we received money for gas and oil and act thirteen and we're using that to put away  leases in the parks and we get act thirteen money which is around four five million dollars a year and we have gas and oil leases also that bring in revenue in and what we do we use that to put back into the parks we use that to put the legacy fun and we use that to do a lot of things that we've not been able to do in washington county but i do i really feel the biggest issue is we need to make sure that we manage this gro going on people want to come here but we need need to be smart to keep it a good place exactly what we still want the bike trails we want the parks we want the manatees quality of life issues we want to protect that and  sure that we watch that we want to make sure that there's not a windfall over the windfall profits in taxes when this happens we want to protect homeowner those people we have people who live in a sense for years and years we don't want to regulate your concern for senior citizens senior citizens have to watch us and they have to make sure the information is accurate because bad information is bad assessment and we need to make sure the other thing is we're setting up for process es so we don't end up doing some the problem they didn't allegheny county where people have informal appeals they can call on the phone say if information is wrong and then they can have formal here but there's four steps that they're going to be able to doing it the best way with the best available resources to protect the taxpayers and homeowners talk a little bit about how the casino money is used in the county i say we call it local share count we've had we've put over forty million dollars from the casino that we were able to spread out on projects economic development projects and things like that and we've been able to use that money to literally we have over three billion dollars worth of new money invested in wash the guy investments here and we've been able to entice people with that local share money to complete projects and when they go to put parks in communities been able to put water infrastructure in small communities we've been able to put playgrounds in small communities we've been able to really renovate old buildings historical buildings small communities that's the final minute you're going to get to make a plug for your reelection let me just ask is there a role for the commissioners in encouraging communities to work together and share services in the state of tight budget yes absolutely that's one of the things that we do with the local share money we kind of dangle care there if communities will share services of communities will do things together they'll be able to have access to more money so we  encourage consolidation and services and working together ok now i'm going to give you your minute to make a plug for your reelection be speaking directly to the voters well first of all like to thank you for the faith you've had in maine for the last fifteen years i was actually i was a trooper here in washington county for twenty four years i served in the united states marine corps and i also i was your washington county sheriff for six years been a county commissioner for twelve years now and i'm asking for your support and your vote to support me and my run this time i think washington county is really made great strides forward one of the things we brought a lot of business here is a lot of things going on here in washington county and we want to make sure that that is all managed in washington county continues to grow as i had stayed a little bit earlier it's so important that we keep our country charge here in washington county and we want to make sure that we manage that and a responsible way washington county commissioners the three commissioners who are there now we work together we were specked each other and we work to get things done and i think that's important so i certainly request your vote and you support in the upcoming election thank you thank you very much that was running for county commissioner