Who is TMACOG

Tim W. Brown

Tim W. Brown is currently serving as the fifth president of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments.

Prior to serving as president of TMACOG he was elected to two terms as state representative in Ohio’s 3^rd House District. As state representative he chaired the Government Accountability and Oversight Committee, and served on the Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development Committee, and the Health and Aging Committee. Before serving in the Ohio House of Representatives, he was elected to four terms as Wood County Commissioner and served as vice president of the Board. He was elected by his colleagues around Ohio to serve as vice president of the County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO). He also served on a number of committees for the CCAO including the General Government (Legislative) Committee, which he chaired for a number of years, the Joint Committee on Administration of Elections, and he chaired the Commissioners and Sheriffs Task Force Committee. He is also the past president of the Northwest Ohio Commissioners and Engineers Association. Preceding his appointment as commissioner in 1997, he served northwest Ohio for eight years as district representative for the late U.S. Congressman Paul Gillmor.

In 2013, Brown was accepted into the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Executive Education Program. He studied in Boston, and graduated in the summer of 2013. Mr. Brown was selected to attend Harvard's program from hundreds of applicants from around the world, and was the recipient of a fellowship through the David Bohnett Fellowship Program. Tim Brown is a 1986 graduate of Bowling Green State University’s College of Business.

Mike A. Aspacher

Mayor, City of Bowling Green, OH

Mike Aspacher became mayor of Bowling Green on January 1, 2020. Mayor Aspacher is a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, graduating from Bowling Green High School and attending Bowling Green State University.

A plumber and pipe-fitter by trade, Mike spent 34 years as a member of Local 50. Mayor Aspacher held numerous positions within the trades over those years, retiring as a project manager for Dunbar Mechanical in 2018.

He has been an active member of the Bowling Green community his entire life, first holding elective office in 1998 as a member of the Bowling Green City Schools Board of Education. He also served on the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Board, helping to shape programming, ensure citizen led oversight of park facilities, and assisting in the long-range strategic focus of the Parks and Recreation Department. Mayor Aspacher served on City Council from 2010 to 2019 representing the 3^rd Ward of the city. During that time, he served on numerous Council committees including the Finance Committee, Parks and Recreation Committee, and serving as the chair of the Public Utilities Committee. Mike served six years as Council President. He is a current member of the Executive Committee and the Leadership Development committee of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments.

Mayor Aspacher and his wife, Toni, have two sons, one granddaughter and one grandson.

Tom Mackin

Mayor, City of Perrysburg, OH

Mayor Tom Mackin grew up in Avon Lake, Ohio, the fifth of nine children. After graduating from Avon Lake High School, he attended Muskingum College. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in accounting, with minors in economics and communication. He also met his wife, Allison, while in college.

The Mackin family moved to Perrysburg in 1990 and raised their two children, Pete and Margy. Mayor Mackin was an active dad, coaching numerous soccer, baseball, and basketball teams and also volunteering for his fair share of scouting and church programs. Both children graduated from Perrysburg High School before moving on to college.

Mayor Mackin has been very involved in the Perrysburg community. He became a member of Perrysburg's Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee in 1998 and was appointed to fill a vacant Perrysburg City Council seat that same year. He won his first election the following year and was re-elected to council four times. During his time on council, Mayor Mackin served on the Finance, Economic Development, Service-Safety, Health Sanitation, Public Utilities, and Planning and Zoning committees.

Mayor Mackin chaired the Finance Committee the entire time he was on council. As chair of the Finance Committee, he reviewed and oversaw the City's budget. On the Service-Safety Committee, he worked with Perrysburg Police for more than nine years to help ensure that their operations and policies best served the community and were consistent with the City's short and long-term needs.

In addition to involvement in City leadership, Mayor Mackin has worked with many other Perrysburg organizations. He was a member of Perrysburg Alternative to Substance Abuse and became its chairman in 2000. He also joined the Board of the Fort Meigs YMCA and in 2010 became its chairman and a member of the Toledo YMCA Board of Trustees. He is a member of and volunteers with the Perrysburg Rotary and Saint John XXIII. He has also coached Perrysburg High School's 9th grade basketball team.

Mayor Mackin is an honor graduate of The University of Toledo, College of Law. He was in private practice for twenty-five years, until 2015, when he joined the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority as its Chief Legal Officer. He is a member of the Ohio, Toledo, and American Bar Associations. He was President of the Toledo Junior Bar Association in 2000. He also is a Co-Author with William M. Connelly, Esq., of Malpractice, Current Practice of Medicine, I:10:1 (1996).

TMACOG Staff volunteering their time to package meals for kids at the Cherry Street Mission facility in downtown Toledo. We look forward to getting together (NOT virtually) in the near future to continue to help our community!