Candidate, Magistrate District 5, Warren County Fiscal Court
WCC Community Conversation with Eric Aldridge
| Office | Magistrate, District 5 |
| Party | Republican |
| Candidate | Eric Aldridge |
| Background | Eric Aldridge, owner of Southern Kentucky Granite since 2010 |
| Support evening meetings and publishing minutes on Fiscal Court website? | YES |
| Willing to actively communicate to constituents with regular reports? | YES |
| Acknowledges that elected officials work for constituents. The Fiscal Court should receive and act on opinions of citizens regarding taxes, infrastructure, growth limits & recycling. | YES |
| The Fiscal Court should review and update the county Ethics Code annually. The Court should incorporate instructions about how to make an ethics complaint, ethics meeting information, ethics contact information on the Fiscal Court website. The county should appoint an ombudsman to evaluate conflicts of interest and evaluate complaints. | YES |
| Roads, schools, water, gas, internet, communications – and NOT libraries, parks, sidewalks or recreation – should be prioritized for one-time funding allocations, like ARPA. | YES |
| Before new developments are approved, the following infrastructure should be in place: roads, water, sewer, electricity, gas and schools. Controls and penalties should be incorporated into the county’s growth plan. | NEITHER YES NOR NO, Not sure this is a yes or no answer. Not sure penalties can be given. I would need clarification on this question to answer properly |
| Cut real property tax rate 1.25% annually for 4 years with a goal of a 10 percent decrease in the real property tax rate over 8 years? | YES, If the numbers presented are accurate |
| In coordination with the Warren County Sheriff’s office, allocate resources for citizen crime prevention programs? | YES |
| The Fiscal Court should develop a contingency plan for an influx of immigrants in Warren County. | YES |
| Take action to promote limited government by identifying and eliminating redundancies to reduce waste. | YES |
| Supports voluntary term limits of no more than two terms for any Warren County elected official? | YES, I am for term limits. Not sure on the two term limit. I am leaning more to the three term side. |
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