OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Current town councilors Kenneth Blow, Shawn O’Neill and Michael Tousignant, former town councilor Roxanne Frenette and newcomer Gholamreza Namin are vying for three council seats.

Terms run for two years.

O’Neill and Tousignant did not respond to press inquiries.

Blow is a previous partner and current operations manager at BBI Waste/Blow Brothers. He has served on the Town Council for 31/2 years and previously served on the Planning Board.

Blow said among the top issues the Town Council needs to work on are tackling waste water issues without adding a sewer user fee and working with the School Board to find an economical solution to fix the deteriorating conditions of the town’s school buildings.

Also important is working on the town’s infrastructure needs.

“We’ll need to apply conservative thinking and smart fiscal control to address all these urgent needs without overburdening the taxpayer,” he said.

Frenette is an admissions counselor at The Pines. She served on the Town Council from 2002-2008 and for a few months in 2013 when she finished out a term of an ousted council member.

If elected, Frenette said, she would like to be part of an effort to create “a fair and equitable resolution” to the town’s top issues.

Among the town’s top issues, she said, are infrastructure needs for the sewer treatment plant and the town’s schools.

Frenette said she’d like the town to review the sewer use fee. Nearly 9 percent of local tax bills go toward the sewer user fee, she said, and there are many people who don’t have sewer service and some don’t have sewer or public water.

Namin is CEO of Life and Business Solutions, former superintendent of Westbrook Schools and former chief academic officer of Massachusetts Sheriff ’s Office.

If elected, he said, one of his goals would be to continue investment in aging town infrastructure.

Namin said he would like to see implementation of a comprehensive strategic plan through an inclusive and transparent community dialogue.

“The goal is to have a set of priorities with measurable outcome and benchmarks,” he said.

He would work to bring in more commercial activity to diversify the tax base and reduce the burden on residents, in particular, seniors on a fixed income, Namin said. He’d also promote economic growth to support the community. He’d promote tourism while at the same time maintaining the town’s identity and limiting the burden on the town resources.

Namin also said he believes government needs to be transparent.

— Staff Writer Liz Gotthelf can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 325 or [email protected].