The Port Authority is preparing to transfer control of the Portage Marina to the parks department.

On Thursday, the Port Authority ordered its attorney, Tom Dogan, to get all the necessary paperwork in order for a vote as early as next month.

The Park Board meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Mayor Austin Bonta asked that the property on the west side be transferred to the Portage Redevelopment Commission, which owns the rest of the property there.

The marina and fishing pier would go to the parks department.

The Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission signed an interlocal agreement in 2005 to transfer ownership of the marina site to the city in 2005, Dogan said. The commission is OK with handing control of the marina to the parks department, he said.

The agreement said the Port Au

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