- Currently serving as Ordinance Committe Chair
- Added Golf Cart Ordinance
- Added Chicken Ordinance
- Actively working to update city codes
- Previously served on Budget Committee and on the Porter County Waste Reduction Board
- Remodeled City Hall to bring Council meetings back where they belong!
- Invested in Public Safety
- Implemented Body Camera Program
- 23% raise for Police
- 15% raise for Fire Dept.
- Created plan for buying new equipment
- Adding Social Worker to Police Department
- Infrastructure
- Wheel Tax revenue is allowing Portage to pave more roads than ever before.
- Major investments in unseen infrastructure like the Waste Water Treatment Plant
- Cut waste and got Portage’s budget back on track
- Used ARPA funds to secure desprately needed equipment
- Aided by Mayor Lynch bringing in over $18 million in new monies from State and Federal Grants
- Invested Opioid Settlement money into local recovery group. RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE!
- Councilman Gulley has worked hard to recognize and support local groups that make Portage great like NEO, PRA, and Hannah’s Hope.
