Jerry Petrak

Over 40 years ago, Jerry and his wife chose Beavercreek as the place to raise and educate their family. All three of their children graduated from Beavercreek High School. When Jerry and his wife Gerry took up residency, Beavercreek was a township that was just “starting to grow.”

At that time there were many government and community needs, and Jerry started to participate in efforts to address the needs. He has been an active community volunteer and elected City Council member for 35 years. He worked on the incorporation of the City, lead a neighborhood association, served on committees studying water, police performance, environmental issues, signage, and long-range planning, and was appointed to the City’s Planning Commission. Jerry served on City Council from 1992 through 2004, sat out four years because of term limits, returned to Council in 2008 and was recently reelected for another four year term.  During these past sixteen years he has been mayor and vice mayor. During the newest four year term he will serve as vice mayor for the first two years and finish the last two years as a council member.

Jerry observed the transformation of a rural “bedroom community” into a thriving “destination city” with safe residential neighborhoods for families and bustling commercial centers to provide for the needs of families and to attract others for jobs, education,  shopping and health care.  He focuses his efforts on mitigating the inherent conflicts between residential and commercial development, and feels the residential areas have generally been protected. Jerry has stated that this successful maturation of our community depended on a broad-based view of all the major entities that comprise Beavercreek - namely the City, the Schools, and the Township. Each is excellent and works well with each other.