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City of Portage
Company Overview
The City of Portage is a progressive community in Southwest Michigan with 48,000 residents. Portage has shown itself to be the municipal equal to a renewable resource. The city offers its citizens a dynamic living environment, energized and sustained by quality of life characteristics that are unmatched in the region, punctuated with great retail, and enriched by a unique pledge to share the natural environment with its citizens. The Government in Portage serves residents in many ways – police and fire protection, water and sewer systems, street maintenance, cultural events, park and recreation activities and much more. Portage City government plays a major role in daily life. The Government in Portage works for the people through the people. Our mission statement is to deliver superior customer service that meets the needs of the citizens, business owners and others in a consistent manner unsurpassed in professionalism, politeness and promptness.
Company History
On February 18, 1963, the residents of Portage Township voted in favor of city-hood and formation of a nine-member charter commission. Over the next nine months, the commission drafted a city charter that among other things would provide for the election of a mayor and six council members, who would appoint a City Manager. This Council / Manager form of government is still used in Portage today. On December 13, 1963, Governor George W. Romney signed the city charter, which was subsequently approved by Portage voters on December 16, 1963. Finally, on December 31, 1963, the first Portage City Council (which was elected on December 16, 1963) was sworn into office, officially establishing the City of Portage. Bernard “Bud” Mein became the city’s first Mayor and Paul Flynn was later appointed its first City Manager.
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