“Budgets are a negotiation, right?”

In this episode, Rose City Reform chats with Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Eric Zimmerman about what to expect as the mayor’s budget hits the council floor on Wednesday.

With big personalities and competing priorities on the line, sparks are likely to fly before councilors land on a final plan.

Want to follow along as district reps make their case for what they believe in? The agenda page for Wednesday’s meeting includes a livestream and a sign-up link for public testimony. And while addressing the council can induce some stage fright, Pirtle-Guiney says Portlanders should shrug off those worries.

“We are twelve Portlanders just like you,” she says. “Please do not be scared to come tell us what you think. The more we understand what you think, the better job we can do creating policy for the city.”

Stump Talk is hosted by Maja Viklands Harris and produced and edited by Jon Garcia of Lake Productions. It is brought to you by Rose City Reform, a nonprofit research initiative dedicated to tracking Portland's historic reform process.

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