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Michael AndroMichael Andro said he knows Canton Township is a great community and he wants to help make it better.
“There’s always room for improvement,” said the township trustee candidate. “Canton can’t rest on its laurels.”
Andro is a former television producer who got involved in the community through the homeowner’s association in the Royal Pointe subdivision. That and his background as a television news writer and editor taught him how to seek out answers and find solutions. His efforts helped his subdivision get on top of the Emerald Ash Tree borer situation; Royal Pointe was the first subdivision to get all their dead tress down and new ones planted.
“It’s something I’ve done my whole life, is be involved,” he said. “It’s fun and I enjoy it.”
He said he moved to the community because of the quality of life there and has been impressed with the way the government operates—an impression that grew through the recent ‘Canton Inside and Out,’ series.
He said he wants to work with the elected team to make improvements in the community.
“I’ll come with my own ideas and thoughts and join the team and try to be an asset that way,” he said. “I want to be an individual with new ideas, with new eyes on the township business.”
His top priorities are maintaining the top notch public safety department, improving the roads, helping local businesses and improving communication.
Public safety, he said, is an essential component of the overall quality of life.
“You should never take a step back on anything that takes away from the public welfare,” he said.
He said the township should partner with Wayne County to bring more road funding into Canton and help stretch funds to provide more improvements. That would help out the local economy, too, he said.
“If people come to Canton to look for a new home or a place for their business and they have to drive down three or four miles of bad roads, they might not want to come here to live or open their business,” he said.
He said he would also push to bring in new businesses by continuing the tax abatement policy and highlighting the other features that Canton has to offer.
“We have a lot of talented, professional people to draw from,” Andro said.
He said he would take a hard look at government spending, too, seeking savings in areas that wouldn’t negatively impact services to residents, such as reducing the number of cars and trucks in the township fleet where possible.
“The big challenge will be to keep doing what we’re doing and improve on it, knowing that we might not have as much revenue,” Andro said.
