Ed Offerman has announced his run for Fishers City Council Northeast District.
Offerman stated that he wants to continue his commitment to community service and to help Fishers transition from a town to a city. He currently serves on the Salvation Army Indiana District Board and the Hamilton County Community Correction Board, in addition to serving as president on the Fall Creek Township Board.
Offerman stated that he supports new economic development, yet he believes growth must be carefully planned and controlled to maintain a sense of community and to maintain low taxes for residents. He said he is also concerned with traffic and street maintenance in the Northeast District. Offerman stated that he is a strong supporter of police and fire services and is a veteran’s advocate. Offerman had previously worked as a volunteer on the re-election campaign of Buffalo, New York, Congressman Jack Kemp and was a Congressional District Chair for the Ohio Citizens for Reagan.
After moving to Indiana from Hawaii, Offerman retired with the US Department of Defense. His last position was as Deputy Director and senior civilian for DOD contract compliance in Indiana with the Defense Contract Management Agency, where he had managed a multi-functional team overseeing more than 200 defense contractors in the state.
His first assignment in central Indiana was to serve on the US Navy Team to study and potentially award a contract for the privatization of the Naval Air Warfare Center Indianapolis proposed by former senators, Dick Lugar and Evan Bayh, and former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. After the privatization of the facility was finalized, he was assigned as the first director of the resident contract compliance office, overseeing the new $15 billion contract awarded to Raytheon. Offerman said that privatization resulted in saving over 3,000 jobs at the facility and creating 35 new contract compliance jobs for contract specialists, quality assurance specialists and engineers. In 1999-2000 he was a resident student at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., where he received a master’s degree in National Resource Strategy with concurrent graduation from the Defense Acquisition University, Senior Acquisition Course.
Offerman and his wife Deb live in the Northeast corridor of Fishers, near Olio & 126th Street, and have three grown children. He is combat veteran of Vietnam and retired from the US Army Reserve as a Special Agent Counterintelligence/Counterterrorism.
