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The three have identified themselves as “Smarter Spending Candidates,” along with fellow District 1 hopeful John Donovan and Board of Education nominees John Llewellyn and Eileen Liu-McCormack. The group says it wants to limit taxes by making government more efficient.
“My neighbors’ priorities continue to be my priorities: to support Town Budget tax growth limited to inflation; support efficiencies in Town Government and Education without cutting programs, and encourage reduced spending without reducing the quality of programs,” Sundman said in a news release.
Sundman has been a representative since 2007 and is chair of the RTM’s Public Works and Planning Committee. He is also vice president of the Pine Creek Area Association, president of Scandinavian Club Fairfield Pine Creek, a board member of Southport Conservancy, a member of Sasquanaug Association for Southport Improvement and a member of Pequot Yacht Club.
Lipp joined the RTM in January, when he was voted in after a special election to replace Carolyn Richmond. A 23-year veteran of the Navy, Lipp is the principal of the Aerospace/Hydrospace and Engineering School at Fairchild Wheeler Inter-district Magnet Campus, which will open in August.
In his platform, Lipp criticizes the division between the Board of Education and the rest of the town’s services, saying the town could save money if it combined Fairfield public schools’ human resources, maintenance, payroll, accounting, and other departments with their counterparts on the town side.
“While our taxes have increased, fewer dollars make it into the classroom to pay for programs that directly affect our children’s education,” Lipp said in a news release. “Increased overhead cost, Central Office staff, redundancy with other town services, has resulted in cutting programs, vice increasing efficiencies or outsourcing.”
Meyer is in her first two-year term on the RTM. She is the owner of Southport Estate Caretakers, a household management service based in Southport. While on the town’s legislature she has been a vocal opponent of increased town spending.
“I believe if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything,” Meyer said in her campaign announcement.
RTM District 1 covers Fairfield’s coastal sections from Southport to the western Fairfield Beach area. Five candidates from the district will make the RTM this fall.
All three candidates are up for the Republican Party’s nomination at the party’s caucus July 23, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Fairfield Ludlowe High School. All registered Republicans are eligible to vote in the caucus.
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