Ward 10 Councilman Anthony T. Hairston was elected to City Council in November 2017 a9er 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 OperaKons CommiLee and serves as vice chair on the Development Planning & Sustainability CommiLee. He also serves on these commiLees: Municipal Services & ProperKes; Health; UKliKes and Rules. As chair of the county’s Community Development CommiLee, 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 communiKes in the county can apply for and are awarded $50,000 He is a long-Kme advocate of social service programs and a champion of military veterans, and worked to ensure veterans can receive free idenKficaKon 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-elecKon 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 Kme, he was focused on improving public safety and encouraging economic development, something he plans on conKnuing as a city councilman. Councilman Hairston, who has been interested in poliKcs 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 acKve in the DemocraKc Party and the Cleveland branch of the NAACP. He represented Ohio as a delegate to the 2012 DemocraKc NaKonal ConvenKon in CharloLe, 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 naKonal awards recognizing his educaKonal growth and achievements. rev 01-2021.