HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — Jason Tedrow is challenging incumbent township Trustee Frederick Hanley, who is seeking his 10th four-year term in the Nov. 7 general election.

FRED HANLEY

Hanley said he is running for reelection because he “has enjoyed serving the citizens of his township and community.”

He said he has been and will be a responsible, caring and dedicated trustee.

“In all these years, I have never missed a township trustees meeting,” he said. “I have never accepted any campaign or other donations.”

Hanley is a graduate of Hubbard High School. He attended Youngstown State University and served in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve during the Vietnam War.

He stated that one of his goals is to “expand the Hubbard Township and City Joint Economic Development District to provide economic growth and an alternate use for the proposed landfill site.”

He said he is seeking clients for the landfill with the help of the Youngstown / Warren Regional Chamber.

Another goal is to improve transportation by using the Township Comprehensive Plan developed by Jeff Rowlands, their team leader, and his staff. He wants see the Interstate 80 interchange at U.S. Route 62 / state Route 7 restructured to decrease congestion.

Hanley said he also is seeking to install noise barrier walls along the interstate and local state and federal highways, which will improve public safety.

He also said he plans to continue to pave all gravel public roads.

“As current Road and Bridge Division trustee, I will continue to seek and apply for grants and programs for road paving, especially now considering the timeline for the proposed sanitary sewer system that will involve township road rights-of-way,” he said.

He said the township has put $1.77 million into road paving projects in the past 10 years.

Some of his other accomplishments as a trustee include doing away with landfills and waste brine in Hubbard Township and using Emergency Management Agency grants to purchase a townshipwide tornado or disaster siren.

JASON TEDROW

Tedrow is running for the second time after losing a Hubbard Township trustees race in 2013. He is not affiliated with a political party.

He works as a senior electrical engineer and has held the career position of a manufacturing engineer and an area department lead. He said the skills he’s learned from his career as well as his life-learned skills will make him a “good fit” for the trustee position.

“I have been a lifelong resident of the township who wants nothing more than to strive to ensure the township reaches its potential and does so in the most ethical way possible,” he said. “My hope is not to become a lifelong trustee but rather to serve my community for a period while trying to enhance engagement so that I can pass this responsibility on to the next generation, hopefully helping to ensure a prosperous future for Hubbard Township.”

He said his first goal is to “increase transparency to the local government.

“Although there have been vast improvements in the township transparency since the addition of Jennifer Evans as the fiscal officer and Bill Colletta as one of our three trustees, I want to expand upon that as much as possible,” he said. “This is so the residents can better monitor the spending of their tax dollars and be able to make more informed decisions in the future when they head to voting polls.”

He said his second goal is efficiently spending tax money.

“Recently, I have found issues such as spending for fringe benefits that has been occurring for years,” he said. “This type of spending is permitted when put forth in proper resolution to allow for public comment and when things such as health insurance plans are uniform as required by (Ohio Revised Code) 505.60, however, currently neither of those criteria are being met by the trustees, which leaves the public in the dark as to where and how their resources are being spent.”

His said his third goal is to work on open-access programs and saving Coalburg Lake. He said he plans to work with the Ohio Community Reinvestment Area as his first program to allow residents to seek tax abatements to get help with fixing or improving their property.

He also plans to use the funds trustees received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to repair the Coalburg Dam rather than breaching it.