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First and Last Name
Julia L Kocal
Campaign Email
kocaljulia@gmail.com
Campaign Phone
2198081249
Social Media and Website Links
Facebook, Instagram, Julia@juliakocal.com
Candidate Bio Information
I have been a resident of Porter County for over 25 years. My husband and I have been married for 45 years and we raised three children. I am a grandmother of seven. I’m a clinical psychologist as well as a past medical Director. I have worked in mental health for over 40 years. I also worked in medical research for 10 years. I have worked in medical clinics in rural Indiana for 10 years. I played competitive soccer on a women’s league until I was 47 years old. Other interests include Purdue and Indiana university college sports, our environment, art and reading.
1. Protecting taxpayer dollars through responsible budgeting, and demand transparency in county spending
2. Ensure public safety and essential services are properly funded,
3. Support smart growth that strengthens and does NOT strain our neighborhoods or our environment!
As a clinical psychologist and medical Director, I’ve spent my life’s work, listening, guiding and making difficult decisions that impact people. As a medical liaison I had to manage multi-million dollar budgets, monitor multidisciplinary teams, and meet deadlines with quantitative, achievable successful outcomes. I have spent over 40 years as a clinical psychologist and 10 years as a medical liaison. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams that at times have opposing goals, and I have successfully bridged these differences to find common ground to meet specific objectives together. I believe my ability to listen, analyze needs, and empathize with others that have conflicting opinions and needs to find common ground and mutual agreement.
Strategies would include prioritizing, maintaining transparency, and smarter government. Identify what services must remain high-quality no matter what which includes public safety, emergency response, and health. This includes collaborating regionally. Shift our thinking from budget cuts to priority based budgeting, which includes ranking services; one most critical; two most important like permits and administrative services and three; what can we defer. Standardize performance across departments using specific metrics such as time to resolution, volume handle per staff or citizen satisfaction. Cross trained employees for multiple functions and shared administrative support roles. Bring grant money and volunteer programs to the county!
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As a clinical psychologist and medical Director, my life‘s work has been listening, guiding and making thoughtful decisions that truly impact people. That same care and responsibility is what I’ll bring to the county council budgets aren’t numbers to me. They represent family seniors children, and the future we’re building together. I’m running because county government should be transparent, fiscally responsible, and accountable to the people not political insiders. The county council controls the budget that means your tax dollars and my tax dollars it means funding public safety. It means maintaining our roads. It means planning responsibly for growth every dollar matters because it’s your dollars!
I believe our American dream is under attack from within. I love my faith, my family and my country. I believe diversity is our greatest strength. I also believe we are stronger together. There is so much more that brings us together than what pulls us apart! I believe in embracing our differences together, celebrating our authenticity and being kind. My strength is my compassion not my weakness. My empathy allows me to build bridges amongst hate and despair. I will support working families, not political insiders with hidden agendas that do not put Porter county residents first! I will be accountable to all residents of Porter county regardless of party. I WILL BRING INDEPENDENT LEADERSHIP YOU CAN TRUST!
First and Last Name
Andy. Vasquez
Campaign Email
wjdq40@yahoo.com
Campaign Phone
2196697862
Social Media and Website Links
Facebook, Andy Vasquez for County Council
Public Safety, to ensure our County Police,EMS, and our fire departments are funded to the best of our ability. Positive controlled growth in our unicorporated areas. Transparency, in that all meetings including department head budget meetings are recorded.
Finance Manager Household Finance,Insurance agent with Calumet Securities, Head Manager Restaurant industry overseeing multi million dollar unit and achieving goals set to obtain bottom line profit. Board of Directors Regional Federal Credit Union, Board of Directors Porter County Indiana Farm Bureau, operating JNJ ORGANIC FARM for 30 years, adapting to changing needs to ensure business reamins active.
We would contine to ( as we have for the last 2 years) hold department head budget meetings for the coming year to better understsnd their needs. Also a greater working relationship with the auditors office. Also learning the LLOW system to see all departments budgets in real time.
My cell phone is what I use as a public contact number.
3 years Marine Corps 1969-1972 special airborne unit. Involved with 4 H,10 years as poultry superintendent ( 1999-2009) and contine to help to this day. Summer league Morgan Twp. girls soft ball coach for daughters and granddaughters. Track and cross country coach for Morgan Twp Jr. High school. Kept records on bench for Morgan Twp Varsity girls softball team.
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