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Greenbrier County Commission · Western District residency, Unexpired term

Matt Ford

Candidate for Greenbrier County Commission, Western District residency, Unexpired term

Republican

Background

Occupation
Environmental consultant; nonprofit executive director
Lives in
Rainelle
Campaign website
mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

Co-owner and founder of Greenbrier Environmental Group, an environmental consulting firm, and executive director of the Meadow River Valley Association, which repurposed the former Rupert School. Chairman of the Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation board.

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Documented positions

Public safety

  • Pledges to help first responders coordinate and win grants.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “Matt Ford will work with our first responders to organize efforts to increase efficiency among organizations and facilitate fundable grant applications.”
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Housing

  • Supports tax-credit reuse of empty buildings for housing.

    Points to the Rupert School Apartments, 20 apartments built mainly with tax credit financing, as the model.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “This model needs replicated across the county to address increases available housing, address abandoned/empty buildings, and spur economic development.”
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Economy & jobs

  • Pledges to seek farm groups' input on the agricultural economy.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “work with the Farm Bureau, Farmland Protection Board, and others in the agriculture community”
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  • Proposes marketing recreation tourism across the county.

    Cites the Meadow River Rail Trail, a White Sulphur Springs activity center and Greenbrier State Forest trails.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “Matt Ford will work with Experience Greenbrier Valley and others to market all that the Greenbrier and Meadow River Valleys have to offer.”
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Roads & infrastructure

  • Pledges continued flood recovery and flood resiliency work.

    Names the railroad trestle near the Rainelle sewer plant as a drainage bottleneck he would press the owner to fix.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “Matt Ford will continue work on long-term flood recovery in Greenbrier County. He will also advocate for flood resiliency improvements.”
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Health & human services

  • Pledges county partnerships with addiction treatment providers.

    Matt Ford's Plan

    Campaign website · Committee to Elect Matt Ford · mattford4greenbriercountycommission.com

    “the county is partnering with organizations such a Seneca Mental Health, Seed Sower, God’s Way Home and others to facilitate treatment”
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