Ward 10 Councilman Anthony T. Hairston was elected to City Council in November 2017 aer serving as a member of the Cuyahoga County Council since 2014. He represents an area that includes South Collinwood, St Clair- Superior, Glenville, Euclid Park and Nongham Village neighborhoods.

Councilman Hairston is chair of the Operaons Commiee and serves as vice chair on the Development Planning & Sustainability Commiee. He also serves on these commiees: Municipal Services & Properes; Health; Ulies and Rules.

As chair of the county’s Community Development Commiee, Councilman Hairston worked to secure millions of dollars to demolish vacant and abandoned property. He also secured funding for infrastructure projects, specifically the resurfacing of Eddy Road and East. 152nd Street. He also worked to establish a $1 million Community Development Supplemental Grant that local communies in the county can apply for and are awarded $50,000

He is a long-me advocate of social service programs and a champion of military veterans, and worked to ensure veterans can receive free idenficaon cards through the county’s Veterans Services Commission.

Councilman Hairston was appointed to the Cuyahoga County Council in February 2014. He then successfully ran for re-elecon in 2016.

While on County Council, Hairston represented District 10, which included Cleveland's Collinwood and Glenville neighborhoods, as well as Bratenahl, East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and University Heights. At the me, he was focused on improving public safety and encouraging economic development, something he plans on connuing as a city councilman.

Councilman Hairston, who has been interested in polics since a young age, had earlier run for Cleveland City Council in 2009, at age 23. He successfully managed a both a judicial and a county council campaign.

Councilman Hairston, a life-long resident of the Collinwood community, is acve in the Democrac Party and the Cleveland branch of the NAACP. He represented Ohio as a delegate to the 2012 Democrac Naonal Convenon in Charloe, North Carolina.

Councilman Hairston is a graduate of Collinwood High School and received a business degree from Cleveland State University. As a college student, he received local and naonal awards recognizing his educaonal growth and achievements.

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