Someone who will work for the good of the county instead of a chosen few developers/realtors. This individual must be accessible and someone who is forward thinking and willing to research issues instead of accepting input from a small handful of people and taking their suggestions or opinion as gospel.

We need to find a better way to support Bryan County instead of on the backs of the property owners. Impact fees are our immediate best solution. If they are good enough for Effingham County and numerous other counties throughout the state bet they will work here too. However, you will find that residential developers will fight you tooth and nail over this which is why we don't already have impact fees despite the county having spent thousands of dollars with a consulting firm to STUDY them.

Infrastructure: You only need to ride through some of the subdivisions after a major rain and see the drainage problems and decay of the county roads within these subdivisions. Why not adopt stronger building codes and zoning regulations and then train or hire people to enforce the more stringent codes. In fact, you don't have to look much further than south Florida. We can do better than standard building codes. I think the people of Bryan County deserve better than standard.

No subdivision should be approved until such time as the developer can guarantee that the storm water from the development will not impact another individual's property or flow onto state or county property and under no circumstance should it flow directly into our rivers and streams caring with it silt and debris. You only need to travel Highway 144 to see evidence of this.

Bryan County should not accept roads and drainage improvements in any subdivision until the subdivision is at least 50% built out. Your tax dollars are going to repair roads in Buckhead and numerous other subdivision. Why aren't the developers, engineers and architects held responsible? This county needs to find a way to hold these people accountable long term instead of allowing the developers to take the money and run leaving the taxpayers of Bryan County holding the bag. Three years is not long enough for a developer to guarantee the infrastructure in a subdivision.

Bryan County needs an ethics committee. Other counties have implemented this on their own. Why not Bryan? Never mind I know the answer to that one. Let's hope our next commission will do better.

You bring up some good points. If elected I'm willing to work through these issues and others to make sure Bryan County continues to be a great place to live.