WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- Pittsfield Township Supervisor Mandy Grewal is not seeking re-election, which has led two Democrats running for the position in the Aug. 6 primary election. Related: After 15 years as supervisor, Pittsfield Township leader won’t seek 5th term Christina Lirones and Trish Reilly are seeking the seat.
Because there are no Republicans in the race, whoever wins the primary will run unopposed in the November general election. Lirones has been a Pittsfield Township resident for 30 years and has past experience as a full-time elected Pittsfield clerk, and then treasurer from 2000-08. She currently serves on the Board of Disability Network Washtenaw-Monroe-Livingston.
Reilly has been a Pittsfield Township resident for 28 years and serves as the current chair of the Pittsfield Township Park Commission and is the Washtenaw County chief deputy clerk/register of deeds. The township supervisor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for setting the agenda, moderating and voting at the township Board of Trustees meeting, as well as developing the township budget and making appointments of members of township boards, committees and commissions with board approval. MLive/The Ann Arbor News has partnered with the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund to provide the Vote411.
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