Candidate for Commission District 8-B

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Jim Eubanks
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Three Reasons to Vote for Jim....

  1. Jim is a new face for commission, is not an employee of the county, has never an employee of the county and has no known relatives working for the county 

  2. Jim supports our present basic system of county government representation and does not support a consolidated city/county government. It is time to stop strip annexation land grabs by the city into our county.

  3. Jim would not fund private club (Club LeConte) memberships with our tax money. Just an example of not taking the necessary time to study the budget and funding plans.

Jim's Thoughts On....

Knox County Schools:
Jim is for better education for our students of Knox County, lets prepare them for the basics and go forward. 

We have graduates that cannot count change or complete a requirement that calls for basic writing ability.  Let’s get some attention to fix these things.  There is a real need for vocational education emphasis in our system.  Try to hire a plumber, electrician, welder, carpenter, neon bender, mason or good mechanic.  Every student is not cut out for college and those that do not go graduate from our county schools without adequate preparation for life and business.

Property Taxes:
Jim would like to see the wheel tax rolled back. 

There has been too much waste in our local government already, clean up what we have and the wheel tax could be rolled back.  Putting the cost of new development back on developers would be a good measure to stop our property taxes from going up.  There are those of us in the county that are in areas that will never get sewer, gas or maybe even better roads, why should these tax payers have to shoulder the burden for new development.

Development:
Jim is for controlled development that does not deter the lifestyle of surrounding residents or impose undue hardships upon them.

We need development in the county for jobs and homes and it is time that zoning takes into account surrounding areas and the related problems development may bring.  A farmer can suddenly be forced out of business because folks in an adjoining subdivision do not like to hear cows in the night and his taxes have gone way up even with the green belt tax  provision.  One possible solution is to look at buffer strips with development. 

Jim supports putting the extra costs of roads, schools, public works and other related infrastructure expenses  to development  back to the developers, not to the tax payers.

Environment:
Jim supports a process where development plans are screened against total resources available in a projected ten year span.

Example, water is something that could become a problem and has already done so in some areas.  Another good example is projected traffic load on given roads around development.  Our total resources are limited both in natural assets and man made assets.