City of Troy Candidates
Joe Arts, 64
• Candidate Hopeful:
• Family: DNR
• Affiliations: DNR
• Residence: 38 years, five years retired.
• Occupation: Retired teacher, having served 33 years.
• Business knowledge:
• How will your vocation aid in serving constituents: I am used to and confortable dealing with the public. I am experienced in problem-solving.
• What are your avocations and how may they serve your constituents: I want to restore the friendliness and harmony in city government.
• What do you perceive as the biggest challenge to the city: Restoring trust between the branches of government and letting each branch do its job without interference.
• How would you go about offering a solution to this challenge: I would work at restoring the trust in the branches of government and city workers.
• What other, less-demanding challenges do you perceive in the city: I would like to make Troy a city where people want to live and work.
• What else: Deal with problems as they arise.
John Clogston
• Incumbent: Filling unexpired term of Loretta Jones. Has served on the Council for about a year.
• Family: Moved to Troy from Nevada.
• Affiliations: DNR
• Residence: Lived in Troy now about 12 years.
• Occupation: Operates family-owned restaurant, the Club Bar.
• Business knowledge: DNR
• How will your vocation aid in serving constituents: DNR
• What are your avocations and how may they serve your constituents: DNR
• What do you perceive as the biggest challenge to the city: DNR
• How would you go about offering a solution to this challenge: DNR
• What other, less-demanding challenges do you perceive in the city: DNR
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Crystal Denton, 40
• Candidate Hopeful:
• Family: Married 22 years; two children, one grandchild.
• Affiliations: Troy Area Dispatch Board.
• Residence: I have lived in the Troy community for the last 25 years. I have left the area a couple of times in that time.
• Occupation: 911 Administrator / Sheriff’s Administrator / Marine Deputy; manages two employees.
• Business knowledge: I am responsible for assisting the sheriff with preparing the yearly budget, submitting bills to be paid on monthly basis. Ordering supplies and needed items to ensure the office is run smoothly and properly while staying within the approved budget. I am also responsible for preparing the yearly 911 budget and purchasing necessary items, equipment to ensure 911 runs smoothly. We are currently on the way to being fully enhanced 911 from starting at basic 911 a year ago. I am also responsible for the network systems, radios and phones for the office. I am also responsible to oversee and supervise the drivers license unit and the civil deputy unit.
• How will your vocation aid in serving constituents: I have for the last 22 years worked for the people of the community that I have served in. I began my career 22 yrs ago as a volunteer dispatcher, volunteer ambulance attendant and member of Search and Rescue. In that time I have learned many management tools that have assisted me in getting to the position that I am in today. I feel very deeply that any elected official, employee or volunteer is a very important asset to the community and needs to be someone who is willing to set personal goals aside knowing that they are working to better a community ultimately working for and with the citizens.
• What do you perceive as the biggest challenge to the city: There appears to be a lack of team work which in turn appears to be showing the citizens of Troy that they do not have the elected officials working for them.
• How would you go about offering a solution to this challenge: Stick to the issues at hand and not people or what may appear to be personal agendas, and always remember that the people are who you ultimately work for to better their and your community.
• What other, less-demanding challenges do you perceive in the city: To make the citizens of Troy proud of their city government and proud of their community.
• What else: From my experience I believe very strongly that all employees of a city government are very important and should have support from their elected officials.
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Gary Rose
• Incumbent: Filling unexpired four-year term of Don Banning when he was elected mayor.
• Family: DNR
• Affiliations: DNR
• Residence: DNR
• Occupation: Auto Technician.
• Business knowledge: Received an auto technician’s certificate in California.
• How will your vocation aid in serving constituents: DNR
• What are your avocations and how may they serve your constituents: DNR
• What do you perceive as the biggest challenge to the city: Like to see the city’s water feature developed. Also cites improving the city streets.
• How would you go about offering a solution to this challenge: DNR
• What other, less-demanding challenges do you perceive in the city: DNR