Portage police chief wins seat on school board after resource officer firing
Chicago Tribune
November 09, 2018
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-porter-county-school-boards-st-1110-story.html
Newly elected Portage Township School Board member Troy Williams said Friday he’ll focus on “moving forward” and “understanding the nuts and bolts” of the board.
After the dust of Porter County’s general election debacle last Tuesday night settled, Williams, a first time candidate and police chief in Portage, was declared the winner of the Dist. 1 seat over retired education administrator Joan Machuca, also an election novice.
Williams captured 58 percent of the vote to Machuca’s 41 percent, according to the Porter County website.
The win comes months after Williams’ contentious interactions with the school board and schools Superintendent Amanda Alaniz over Alaniz’s decision to fire Portage police officers as school resource officers, ending a 20-year relationship between the schools and the police department.
Machuca said she was “very disappointed” in the loss, congratulated Williams and said she hopes Williams’ “differences with the school district and the administration will be resolved.”
Machuca thanked the voters but said the three-day delay in releasing the results was very frustrating.
“That disenfranchisement of the voters was probably my largest concern,” she said, adding she hopes Porter County officials will give voters “a clear explanation” of what happened in Tuesday’s election
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