NATCHEZ — Five men are vying for the District 3 seat with the Adams County Board of Supervisors.

Luther “Brad” Bradford, a former teacher and school principal, said the first priority of his campaign would be to develop a sound education system in the county.

Part of that would be to have the school board become an elected instead of appointed body so they can be responsible to the voters and taxpayers.

The board needs to unify before anything can be accomplished, Bradford said.

“Without a functioning board individuals cannot accomplish anything,” he said.

Thomas “Boo” Campbell, incumbent for the seat, said he believes he has brought some change to the area, and he was instrumental in bringing a lot of the growth like the new prison to the area.

Campbell said he will use the experience he has gained since his election in 2004 to continue to bring more jobs into the area.

Campbell needs to stay in office to make sure everything he started comes to completion, he said.

Britton Gibson, owner of Carpet Sales Carpet One, said he plans to have community meetings and will budget the supervisor’s traveling funds.

He also plans to bring equine sports and other children’s activities to the area.

Gibson believes the supervisors are not visible and reachable enough, and he plans to rectify that by having community meetings, he said.

Leroy “Roy” Sessions III, an operator at the Georgia Pacific Plant in St. Francisville, said he wants to focus on industry and to broaden the search to bring it to the area.

He also said he wants to focus on the youth of the area.

Sessions wants to see the board united for the whole community, he said.

Raythell Smith, a teacher at Wilkinson County High School, said he plans to address issues such as drainage, sidewalk clutter and soil erosion.

Smith also wants to start several youth development programs to find solutions to reduce the dropout rate and make computers available to every family so students can learn to compete globally.

Smith said though he has run for the position twice before, he decided to run again because he still hasn’t seen the changes he thinks are necessary.