The race for Warren County property valuation administrator will be decided in Tuesday’s primary. All three candidates, who had to pass a qualifying test, are Democrats.

Bob Branstetter, Tommy Kelley and Jack Wright seek the office from which 25-year incumbent Bill Carter is stepping down.

Branstetter, of Bowling Green, said he’s lived in Warren County since arriving to attend Western Kentucky University in 1971, with the exception of one year spent in Glasgow. He co-founded 1-2-3 Builders in 1992, and a decade later started Branstetter Built Homes.

&#8220I’ve been associated with the real estate and appraisal services for over 30 years,” Branstetter said. &#8220I feel like I can represent the people of Bowling Green and Warren County honestly and fairly. I feel like I’m the best qualified for the job, through my experience.”

He wants to continue updating the office’s technology and perhaps add some more public work space, he said.

Branstetter would like to consult with PVA offices in larger counties for ideas on how to improve service, but details would have to wait until he took office and surveyed the current situation, he said.

&#8220My main goal is to see that that office maintains a user-friendly atmosphere,” Branstetter said. &#8220If people have a problem they deserve help, or an answer, as they have in the past. Billy (Carter) and his staff have done a good job, and I want to see that it remains equal to that, or perhaps some improvement.”

Alvaton resident Kelley said he’s been a Warren County resident all his life except while attending college. He’s worked with computers for 25 years and been in real estate for five.

Now a Realtor with Coldwell Banker, he said his experience in management and working with budgets and the public qualify him for the office of PVA.

&#8220The thing that got me interested in the PVA job is, as a Realtor, I use the PVA office on a professional level,” Kelley said. &#8220Being able to access the information over the Internet is a huge deal. I use it just about every day.”

He therefore wants to see how much further technological innovation in the office can go, integrating PVA records with the City-County Planning Commission and a detailed aerial map of the county, he said.

Woodburn resident Wright is current director of the county office of Storm Water Management, a job he said gives him experience with PVA data collection and managing a government office.

Wright said he’s already worked with Carter to change the way building permits are received by the PVA, and is standardizing data transfer between city and county departments.

He moved here in 1972 to go to Western, and is former owner of Landmark Engineering and a founding partner in Beacon Construction, he said.

Wright’s stated objectives as PVA are to improve technology, coordinate and streamline the office’s work with other government bodies, and improve public Internet access to PVA records.

But he also wants to form a &#8220users task force” to find evaluate information accessibility and find out what the public wants from the PVA, he said.