
Meet Christina Lirones
Christina is a candidate for Pittsfield Township Supervisor who is passionate about public service. She strongly believes in Shirley Chisholm's quote, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." She advocates for social and environmental justice, Christina helped organize Pittsfield residents to successfully stop the Township administration's plan for a Wacker Chemical facility near Marsh View Meadows Park. She currently serves as a member and officer of the Board of Directors of Disability Network Washtenaw-Monroe-Livingston.
About Christina Lirones
Christina has a passion for public service. As Shirley Chisholm said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." After the current board was elected in 2008, Christina brought her figurative folding chair to nearly every Board of Trustees and Planning Commission meeting, speaking truth to power to help her community. She is dedicated to social and environmental justice. She and other Pittsfield residents successfully stopped the Township administration's plan for a Wacker Chemical facility next to Marsh View Meadows Park, near schools, homes, and farms.
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Elected Township Clerk in 2000 and Treasurer in 2004, she also served as Chair of the Planning Commission from 2000-2008. Christina and the Board restored Agricultural land use to the Master Plan and saved hundreds of acres of parkland in the Pittsfield Preserve, Hickory Woods, and Wall Park. They swiftly acted to save the failing water supply system as soon as they took office, building a 5 million gallon reservoir and 30" diameter water main from Ypsilanti Township, all while lowering the Township tax millage rate twice. The Board delivered annual balanced budgets with ample reserves and received an increased Bond rating.
Christina worked as a Federal Revenue Officer from 2010 - 2015 and is a National Treasury Employees Union member. She has served on the Washtenaw County Farm Bureau board, on the Washtenaw County Democratic Party Executive Committee, & is a Democratic Precinct Delegate. Christina & her husband Steve love to help their daughter, Aurelia, a young adult with disabilities who enjoys Special Olympics and attends Liberty Club in Saline.

A lifelong area resident, Christina graduated from Saline HS as an early-entrance freshman at the University of Michigan, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude. She operated her graphics business in Ann Arbor and raised organic catnip. She and her husband, Steve, moved to their 40-acre farm in Pittsfield in 1994 to grow niche crops. Christina was named Land Preservationist of the Year by the Potawatomi Land Trust (now Legacy Land Conservancy). She ran for local office in 2000 due to a lack of transparency in the local government, & over-development, destroying natural features and outstripping infrastructure. Since 2009, these issues have arisen again.
