Qualifications
| Occupation: | West Chester Township Trustee for 16 years Owner and CEO, Brite Belt Technologies |
| Education: | AA 1966 College of Marin, Kentfield, California BA 1974 San Francisco State University |
As a small business owner for over twenty five years and West Chester Trustee for 16 years, Catherine Stoker has extensive experience with budgeting, administration, new business development (over 700 new businesses and/or new business projects since 1997), healthy job growth (more than 18,500 new jobs), and setting sensible priorities.
Catherine Stoker currently also serves as President of the Board of Trustees of Senior Citizens, Inc., the 501 (c)(3) corporation that manages the three senior centers in southern Butler County and delivers more than 700 meals to shut-ins every day. Catherine also volunteers as the Wednesday morning dispatcher for the West Chester Senior Van service that provides free transportation to seniors in West Chester and southern Liberty Township.
Catherine Stoker was one of the original founders and board members of Veterans’ Voice of America Fund, and has worked with it to raise over $400,000 in grants and donations for the restoration of the Voice of America Bethany Relay Station so that it can become the VOA Museum.
Catherine has helped to raise over $60,000 for Senior Citizens Inc. to benefit seniors in Butler County.
Catherine is most known for lowering taxes so that taxpayers have kept more than $80 million in their pockets that without Catherine’s hard work, would have been paid out in higher taxes.
In 1995, Catherine personally sued the Transportation Improvement District (TID) and the Ohio Department of Motor Vehicles; forcing them to rescind a $20 annual license plate tax in West Chester that she alleged was illegal. West Chester vehicle owners have saved more than $1.5 million per year—over $15 million to date.
In 2002, Catherine Stoker led the referendum petition that forced the Butler County Commissioners to repeal an increase in our county sales tax rate. Shoppers in Butler County now save more than $18 million each year – over $65 million so far.
Catherine devotes herself tirelessly to helping residents in any and every capacity possible to ensure the residents have the best possible representative on their side in Township government.
