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Tim Dreffer moved to this area in 1997 to work on a startup tech company in Concord, and moved to Davidson in 2000.
Since then, he’s been one of those people you see around town at meetings, sleeves rolled up and working – whatever the issue. He’s a past president of his neighborhood association. As a parent of school-aged kids, he’s been active in the schools. And as a property owner on South Main Street (he owns a home-turned-office next to the Wachovia drive-through) he has been involved in downtown issues as well.
After his leadership terms on Downtown Davidson Inc. and Davidson Elementary School were up, Mr. Dreffer was looking for another way to stay involved in town affairs. A native of Huron, Ohio, he says public service is in his blood. “My mom was actually on the city council in a town very similar to Davidson in size,” he said. When some folks in town approached him about running for the board, and his wife gave the OK, he decided to run. He sees public service as “almost a duty.”
Regarding downtown, he thinks the town has a “good start” as it increasing its focus on economic development. Downtown is “the heart of Davidson, (which) we need to protect and preserve.” At the same time, he’d like to see better connectivity between downtown and both South Main Street and the Exit 30 area.
As a technology business owner, Mr. Dreffer thinks he can bring some expertise to the town’s partnership with Mooresville in the MI-Connection cable system.
“We own it,” he said, addressing the desire among some to see the town exit the business. “The cable system is part of us, it’s a decision that’s been made, and we need to move forward and do what’s best for the Town of Davidson, whether that be to try and maintain and grow it, and build it into a revenue-generating, profit-generating engine for the town, or maybe promote it, put it together and button it up and put a nice bow on it and see if anybody’s interested in taking it off our hands. It’s part of us, we can’t just shutter the doors.” We need to look at all sides of it, he said, and “do what’s right for the town.”
He said he thinks “I’m pretty even-keeled,” and as a small business owner he brings an entrepreneurial sensibility to what he does. “It’s really what a town board does, it runs a small business.” He also said that as a younger parent of 3 children, he offers a “different perspective.”
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