Elect Brian Miller for Board of Finance

Brian Miller is a lifelong Farmington Valley resident and an incredibly dedicated public servant, and we are delighted to introduce him as a candidate for Board of Finance.

A sixteen-year resident of Canton, Brian lives here with his wife and three beautiful children. He is actively involved in coaching youth sports, including his son’s baseball, basketball, and soccer teams. He’s also an active outdoorsman — hiking all over New England — and a fan of live music. It’s not hard to understand why Brian has chosen to call Canton his home.

Brian graduated with a degree in Business Management from Central Connecticut State University and currently enjoys a successful 12-year (and counting!) career in Property and Casualty insurance. He also holds the worthy distinction of achieving the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout, with a capstone project that supported the Simsbury Historical Society.

He’s an active member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, having served for 8 years and currently chairing that commission, and he has also been an active member of the Zoning Board of Appeals for the past 4 years. Brian is truly invested in our town and its future.

As a Democrat, Brian believes that government is first and foremost a service to the public. He’s staking his campaign on the critical issues of government transparency, data-driven decision-making, and eliminating partisan bias from our financial stewardship of the town. In his words, “the single most pressing issue facing our town is the Canton voters' limited access to complete and accurate information from our elected officials in order to fully understand town government decision making and be able to cast informed votes.”

He sees challenges with the way information is brought to the town’s residents as well as how information is shared within parties and between board members. Brian strongly believes that it’s crucial that all board members share the same informational foundation in an open and transparent fashion. Closed-door meetings, backroom politicking, and information hoarding have no place in effective town governance.

With a background in Property and Casualty insurance and broad exposure to the vital role of data in today’s decision-making, Brian also fully understands that objective, unbiased data is the foundation of non-partisan (and bipartisan) decision-making — particularly when it comes to our budget. As he puts it, “Transparency and data driven decisions will provide our community with the best products and services at the least cost to the taxpayers. Budgeting decisions made on personal or political lines have resulted in inflated costs and suboptimal outcomes.”

All of this — transparency, data-driven decision-making, information sharing — is in service to the ultimate objective of providing our residents with the best possible products and services for our dollars.

Brian sees Canton as a place where people aren’t here to just survive — but to thrive, just as he and his family have been able to do here.