{"id":2726,"date":"2014-06-04T19:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2014-06-05T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:47:58","slug":"michael-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/michael-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 114: Vice President of the Westbrook City Council Michael Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a0114
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0May 31
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Michael Foley
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Michael Foley has lived his entire life in Westbrook, Maine.\u00a0 During his last two years of high school he was on the school board as a student representative.\u00a0 Foley explained to Stevoe that this is where his passion for policy and politics began.<\/p>\n

Foley is currently serving as Vice President of the Westbrook City <\/a>Council.\u00a0 He was first elected in 2005 while still a senior in high school. This past fall he was recently reelected to his fifth term. All-in-all Foley has now been serving his community for over ten years. \u00a0During his role on the City Council, Foley is involved in approving all things from budgets, hiring, tax rates, ordinances, and zoning. \u00a0The Westbrook City Council consists of seven elected members, one from each of the five wards within the city plus two at-large members elected city-wide.\u00a0 Foley told Stevoe how he and the City Council work closely with TST past guest Mayor Colleen Hilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe sat down with Vice President of the Westbrook City Council Michael Foley (right) to discuss Maine politcs.<\/p><\/div>\n

Along with his responsibilities on the City Council, he is currently the chairman of the finance committee, serving on the Portland International Jetport Noise Advisory Committee.\u00a0 He also works part-time with multiple public safety agencies as an Emergency Communications Officer. \u00a0In this role, Foley works for Cumberland County, providing public safety dispatch services for five law enforcement agencies and twelve fire departments. This entails handling customer service for calls relating to non-emergency, emergency, and 911.<\/p>\n

Foley has served as\u00a0President of the Greater Portland Transit District (METRO).\u00a0 As President, he played a role in approving all things from budgets (including spending of municipal, state, & federal funding), hiring, marketing, and operations.<\/p>\n

In his personal life, Foley is currently the Operations Manager for Knight Property Services, a local landscaping company.\u00a0 In his spare time he enjoys attending professional sporting events and owns a four unit apartment building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President of the Westbrook City Council Michael Foley was in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to talk with host Steve Woods about his years of dedicated service to his community of Westbrook. The also covered Foley’s recent trip to Westbrook’s sister city in Russia, as well as Foley’s goal to one day hold elected office. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}