(La Porte, IN) - La Porte Mayor Tom Dermody plans to meet with the new mayor of Michigan City once she takes office on January 1st.

Dermody said he’s already spoken to Angie Nelson Deuitch, who will become the first African American mayor in the city’s history.

“We’re setting up a time to sit down for lunch,” he said.

Dermody noted  “what’s good for Michigan City is good for La Porte” and that he’s excited about seeing "what she’s capable of doing and what she is going to do.”

“We want to see Michigan City successful,” he said.

Nelson Deuitch, a Democrat, soundly defeated current Republican mayor Duane Parry in November.

During a sometimes tumultuous four years with Parry as mayor, Nelson Deuitch once wished publicly that Dermody was Michigan City’s mayor because people respected Dermody, not Parry.