This web site was created as a public forum for residents of Portland Michigan to voice our concerns about our city government.

Visit our forum (blog).

It's not enough to just read the paper and vote. If you want to make positive changes to the way our community is run you need to get involved. Attend the city council meetings. Tell the council members how you feel.

If you have anything at all to say about how the city is being run, visit our web log (Blog). You can register and leave your own comments for everyone to see.

  What concerns you most?

• The Grand River Avenue improvement project? 

• City income taxes?

•     --Outline of the Michigan City Income Tax System

• City property taxes?

•    -- Property tax money going to the Downtown Development Authority rather than the school system?

• The boardwalk?

• Our schools?

• Recent zoning changes?

• The way the city spends our tax money?

• Cuts in city services?

• The exclusive trash pick-up law?

• Community apathy towards all these issue?

Here's the 2006 Portland City Audit Report.

  Visit the Blog