Tracy Walker is a candidate for Blaine County Clerk. She has been a property owner here since 2010, a resident of the county since 2012 and her husband is a Watonga native.
Her daughter and sonin- law have recently opened their own business in Blaine County, Red Dirt Truck Services, meaning the family is invested in the area and looks forward to its expansion.
Walker said she has been in business more than 40 years, operating her own beauty shop, then working in the trucking industry as a company owner, operations manager, and human resources and safety manager. She served as a unit secretary at GEO in Hinton. She operated a hot shot company, coordinating multiple small loads on a single trailer, and also worked in the county clerk’s office for about eight months. Another endeavor was working as a consultant in an uncompensated capacity to business startups.
Walker said her reason for running was simple. “I just want to do a job, get in there and do the work and change the demeanor of the office.”
One big goal is reorganizing the office and streamlining the processes. “I’m trying to do something good, I’m not
saying anything negative about the existing office. But you have to be there and be organized. I’d put 100% of myself into the job.”
Walker thinks the payroll should be done twice a month, and like other candidates, would keep any current staff who wanted to stay on.
“I hold no ill will toward anyone. I want their experience. You would be stupid to let them go,” she said.
A change Walker is looking forward to making, if elected, is changing deed handling. She would like to see it completely digitalized so that when deeds are brought in, they are photocopied and returned to the owner immediately. They would be scanned into the records that day or the next, she said.
Walker hopes she could serve for eight or even 12 years, even though she doesn’t consider herself a politician.
“I’d like to go in and run it as a business. When it’s other people’s money you double, and triple check the numbers. And you have to listen to the people, to our customers.”
Walker feels the staff in the clerk’s office is adequate in number.
“That is, if they are directed correctly with a director that works as hard as the staff does,” she said. “We can utilize time for the best efficiency. I want to be able to make that difference and my heart is in it.”