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Hartford trustees — 2 to elect

NAME: Michael R. Bridge

AGE: 57

OCCUPATION: Control technician for Johnson Controls

PREVIOUS ELECTED EXPERIENCE: Trustee since 2011

GOALS: Maintain frugal spending habits, continue offering his maintenance abilities to the township to save on labor costs and organizing funds for road maintenance projects.

POSITION PAYS: $11,342

QUOTE: “I want to see us strong financially. I am not up for spending a lot of money. I am stingy when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars. That is why we do a lot ourselves, because we get a lot more out of the money we do have to work with. Many elected officials don’t consider it their job to dig dirt or fix a cruiser, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken a cruiser home to work on it and save on labor.”

NAME: Brian D. Veccia

AGE: 46

OCCUPATION: School administrator in Farrell, Pa.

PREVIOUS ELECTED EXPERIENCE: None

GOALS: Lobby the state for changes in community rights when it comes to fracking, find and enter into shared service agreements with neighboring communities and attract business to the township.

POSITION PAYS: $11,342

QUOTE: “As trustee, I will work to bring investment to this community, to bring businesses to our community and look for more efficient ways to run our township by working together with other communities. We can do this without becoming a dumping ground for the fracking industry’s waste. The safety of our residents is more important. I will lobby for changes to state law to allow us to write regulations that work in our community.”

NAME: Rebecca J. Whitman

AGE: 74

OCCUPATION: Trumbull County Emergency Management office manager 18 years

PREVIOUS ELECTED EXPERIENCE: 24 years as Hartford trustee

GOALS: Continue improvements to the town center, continue budgeting without a park or road levy and support safety forces.

POSITION PAYS: $11,342

QUOTE: “I love my community, that is why I keep running year after year. We have made great strides developing a park in the town center and just before the festival we got our walking paths done. People are loving it and we are doing it without asking for tax dollars. I will continue to keep us on track without asking for anymore funds. We feel people pay enough and we have enough to keep going with what we have if we budget wisely.”

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