GUILDERLAND — In the Primary Election on Sept. 10, Peter Barber, Democratic candidate for town supervisor, is on the Conservative Party ballot, and there is an opportunity to ballot for Brian Forte, a current Democratic town board member who is seeking the supervisor position on the Republican line.

“I am the endorsed candidate,” said Barber, who has been the long-time chairman of the town’s zoning board. “I received a very warm and supportive endorsement.”

He said he believed the Conservative Party endorsed him because he has a history of conducting meetings in an “open and fair manner” and the party, he said, appreciates his views on new growth in town as well as the fight to keep taxes as low as possible.

The Conservative Party also valued his record as a community leader, said Barber.

“I have a lot of Conservative values,” said Forte.

He said he was “all about keeping taxes low” and responsible growth and he has also connected with a lot of residents who have the same values and want to see him elected as supervisor.

Democrat Rosemary Centi; Republican Lee Carman; and Conservative Michele Coons — who is running on the Republican ballot, are all officially endorsed by the Conservative Party as town board candidates.

Two of the three candidates must be chosen in the Primary Election to officially appear on the party’s ballot in the November election.

“The Conservative platform espouses family values, which I have always embraced,” said Centi. “They’ve always endorsed me.”

The Democratic Party in the town of Guilderland has always been fiscally conservative, she said.

Carman, who is finishing his third term representing the 29th District in the Albany County Legislature and made a previous, unsuccessful run for town board in 2011, said he has “always been about fiscal management, responsibility, and holding the line on taxes.”

He called small businesses “friends of the community” and said local politicians need to promote them.

Coons is enrolled as a Conservative and she made an unsuccessful run for the town board in 2013.

“The government needs to be fiscally responsible for its constituents,” she said. “You have to hold taxes down.”

She called herself “very business friendly” and said economic growth is needed in the community.

Enrolled voters in Guilderland are 38 percent Democrat and 25 percent Republican; enrolled Conservatives number just 450, or two percent. The remaining 35 percent are enrolled in other small parties or as independents.