To do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God.â Micah 6:8
Humble, kind and soft spoken, Paula Portugal, the first female to serve as Paris mayor, sees both challenges and a bright future for her hometown as she embarks on the first year of a final two-year term on Paris City Council.
First elected to the District 7 post in 2017, Portugal garnered a unanimous vote as mayor by her colleagues at a May 10 meeting after serving two years as mayor pro tem. A Paris native, Portugal returned to Paris in 2012 after a 32-year career in education.
âI donât remember ever reading Micah 6:8 in my life until this morning when it appeared as my morning devotional message,â Portugal said from the mayorâs office at city hall. âThatâs what a leader needs â to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with God. I pray every day for our staff and our council that we make good decisions.â
Paris City Council denied a disannexation request by a disgruntled property owner this week but not before at least one city official gave the taxpayer assurance that he would receive help in navigating building permit requirements for a new home on his property.
âAll we are trying to do is build our house,â Brandon Bond said of plans to build a home on 32 acres within the city limits on CR 32900. âWe started this process in December, but we were told repeatedly by Planning & Zoning (staff) we needed specific information (for a plat). I went to multiple surveyors and every single surveyor told me the same answer â the city is misinformed.â
Paris City Council on Monday named the first female mayor in the cityâs history when councilors unanimously elected Paula Portugal of District 7 to the position and gave the nod to Reginald Hughes of District 2 as mayor pro tem.
âI am very honored that the council has placed its confidence in me, and I would like to make them very proud of the job we accomplish in the next year,â Portugal said briefly after the meeting while acknowledging congratulations from council members and staff. âI would very much like to be mayor of all the citizens of Paris, and I believe as Paris prospers so will its citizens.
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A stop work order on a fence at a South Church Street residence has been canceled, and Paris City Council on Monday instructed staff to take a permit requirement for