AUGUSTA — Long-time public servant Stephan Bunker of Farmington won a recent election to become the next vice president of the Maine Municipal Association. Laurie Smith, Wiscasset town manager and former assistant city manager in Auburn, will join the Executive Committee in January for a three-year term. Errol “Abe” Additon, a selectman in Leeds who currently serves on the MMA board, was re-elected to the Executive Committee.

Bunker, chairman of Board of Selectman in Farmington who works as operations manager for the State of Maine’s Emergency Services Bureau, will assume the vice presidency in January. That puts him in line to become MMA president in 2013.

“I am honored and excited to be elected to this important role within MMA,” Bunker said. “It is clear to me that in these challenging times, cities and towns need each other more than ever. As an organization, united, we are stronger than simply the sum of our total number.”

Bunker has held many public positions over a 40-year career. He is a member of the Farmington Fire & Rescue Department, serves on the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission and is a retired Lt. Commander with the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves.

He is a former military policeman and K-9 handler, emergency medical technician, police officer, juvenile crisis counselor, emergency dispatch and corrections supervisor and he held the post of Executive Director of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association.

Smith was named Town Manager in Wiscasset last year. She previously worked as Assistant City Manager in Auburn, Acting Finance Director in Auburn and as Town Manager in Boothbay Harbor, Oxford and Boothbay.

In addition to his previous term on the MMA Executive Committee, Additon, a Selectman in Leeds since 1998, has experience with several boards that fall under MMA’s Risk Management Services Department.