Morris, 48, said he was surprised to be the top vote getter in his first bid for public office.
“It’s been an exhausting experience,” he said. “I walked through every neighborhood in the township and the city of Miamisburg over the last three months. I’ve met a lot of great people and I’m extremely excited to serve them.”
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Morris and Culp were two of the five candidates in the race for the two seats in the township, a south suburban commerce corridor that’s the home of Austin Landing and the Dayton Mall.
Results show incumbent Andrew Papanek in third with 2,888, followed by Eric Flasher with 2,273 and Zebulon Music at 1,870 votes, according to the board of elections results showing about half of precincts counted.
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Papanek won the most votes four years ago in a six-way race for two seats in the state’s seventh most populated township. Flasher was appointed to the board this spring, replacing Robert Matthews Jr.
Matthews stepped down from the seat he was elected to in 2013 to accept a job with Frost Brown Todd, a firm with which the township has contracted.
The winners of this election will be elected to four-year terms for on the three-member Miami Twp. Board of Trustees, positions which pay about $20,000 a year.
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