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Coming soon (hopefully today) we’ll be posting the council candidate’s answers to our lengthy list of questions. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer. That will help the voters know more about who you are.

For the readers, below is a preview of the questions we asked. Excerpts from the answers will run in our Primary and Election Day voters guides.

2009 N&R Candidate Questionnaire

Background and qualifications
1. Candidate name:

2. How would you define your leadership style? Please give an example of a time you led a group that describes this style.

3. What skills or qualities set you apart from your opponents?

4. What community or business interests could possibly create conflicts of interest for you on the council, and how would you handle them?

5. What is one thing you have done to make the city a better place? Please use an example of something that would not have happened without your effort.

Communication
6. How do you plan on reaching constituents if elected? Please be specific.

7. Describe a time when you had to work with somebody toward a common goal, but you vehemently disagreed on how to reach it? How did you resolve this difference? What was the outcome?

Goals and issues
8. What is your vision for the city of Greensboro? Please describe specific steps you will take as a council member to achieve this vision?

9. What is the number one problem facing Greensboro? Please say specifically how you, as a council member, will address this problem.

10. How would you address the problems surrounding poor planning and communication for the Urban Loop that has resulted in development being approved in the path of the highway and some home buyers not knowing the road was coming?

Fiscal issues and management
11. Where do you stand on merging some city and county services? Which services should be considered and how would you help make that happen?

12. What should be Greensboro's long-term plan for household waste disposal? Is reopening the White Street Landfill part of that equation? Why or why not?

13. What is one city expense that you question?

14. Please describe specific steps you will take as a City Council member to encourage job growth in the city?

City policies
15. What, if anything, needs to happen next to bring closure to the lingering wounds created after the resignation of former Police Chief David Wray? What role should City Council play?

16. Should the council also be graded against a set of objective goals and measures? Would you pledge to set up such a system? If you failed to deliver on a majority of those goals, would you agree not to seek re-election?

Your turn
17. What question would you ask your opponent(s)?