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The Finance and Governance Committee referred Mayor Keith Wilson's slate of three Portland Utility Board appointees to the full City Council on a 12-0 vote, after first amending it 11-1 to add a third appointee (01:24:15). The committee also held a lengthy, unresolved discussion of Home Forward, the county housing authority now carrying a roughly $30 million deficit.

Utility Board appointments referred to council

Council Vice President Olivia Clark (District 4) moved to amend the report to add Rose Podin as a third appointee, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of board member Brooke Bernahue; the amendment passed 11-1, with Councilor Loretta Smith (District 1) absent for that vote (00:49:55). The full report, joining Al Haag of District 1 and Joe Robinson of District 4 with Podin, was then referred to City Council 12-0 with a recommendation it be accepted (01:24:15). No one signed up to testify.

Co-chairs Kyle Chipman and Lorraine Wilson and City Budget Office analyst Amy Archer Masters presented. Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) asked the nominees how they would balance affordability against infrastructure needs. Councilors returned repeatedly to rate anger. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) said the Bull Run Water Filtration Project now stands at $2.5 billion (01:12:16) and pressed the co-chairs on oversight; Chipman and Archer Masters said the board had not made a recent onsite visit but was scheduling one within a couple of months. Councilor Jamie Dunphy (District 1) urged the board not to act as "a rubber stamp, a simple body to review documents that the Bureau brings to you." Lorraine Wilson said, "I don't want to see rate increase," while stressing the board asks "the hard questions" before recommending one (00:59:00). The board's annual report and work plan are due September 30.

The amendment roll call briefly went off the rails when clerk Rebecca Dobert started at the wrong district. Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) said, "I'm sorry, I was unprepared. I thought we were starting with District 3 now"; Dobert replied, "my tracker is not updated. Sorry about that" (00:48:53).

Home Forward discussion, framed around future appointees

Kanal opened the Home Forward item by stating it "is not an oversight hearing" but information gathering to signal to the mayor and city administrator what the committee will look for in future board appointees. Interim Executive Director Michael Bonacore said Home Forward, formed by council resolution in 1941, runs about 110 apartment communities, manages roughly 2,600 units in-house and 4,300 through third parties, and faces a deficit of about $30 million (01:39:56). He said 8 downtown properties account for 47% of portfolio vacancies (01:40:05). An organizational assessment RFP is out, with a consultant expected by September and work finished by January. Three board seats are vacant, two Portland and one Gresham.

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The City Life Committee sent a code requiring certification for electricians on city-funded electric-vehicle charging projects to the full council on a 5-0 do-pass recommendation, and held over the proposed Parkrose Forward Enhanced Service District after roughly two dozen residents split sharply for and against.

Parkrose enhanced service district held over

The committee took no vote on two ordinances that would create the Parkrose Forward Enhanced Service District and authorize a management agreement with Historic Parkrose estimated at $3,876,970 over five years (item 5, doc 2026-235). Committee Chair Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) held both items over, saying it would "likely be our meeting in 2 weeks."

The district, proposed by Mayor Keith Wilson and championed by District 1 councilors, would cover Sandy Boulevard from Interstate 205 to 122nd with a proposed annual budget of about $644,000. Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1), who lives in Parkrose, voiced strong support, saying East Portland "has been an afterthought of city services" and that the district is "one tool in our toolbox." He added, "This isn't a perfect solution, but we won't know how close to perfect we can get if we don't try." Hector Martinez, executive director of Historic Parkrose, said he was initially unconvinced but changed his mind, citing crime, homelessness, prostitution and drug activity, and described 171 mailers and more than 50 meetings during outreach.

Testimony ran heavily contested. Roger Coppe, the city's lead revenue and tax specialist, said non-residential parcels would pay the square root of their land area times $8 plus the square root of their building area times $20, with residential caps of $150 per unit, or $35 for affordable housing.

Opponents disputed both the cost and the process. Lindsay Berschauer, a registered lobbyist with the group Protect Parkrose, said the coalition represents owners responsible for $319,780 in proposed annual assessments — 49.6% of the district's total — above the one-third threshold the city uses for dissolution. She cited Ingrid Nichols, near 80, facing $1,200 a year on a vacant lot, and said the group filed a procedural complaint over notice and outreach. Jared Wadimall, an industrial property owner, said the fee funds "zero additional police officers" and locks owners in for a decade. Melissa Finkel cited Oregon business closures outnumbering openings by 1,700 in 2024 and 6,000 in the first nine months of 2025. Chris Wagner and Steve McGinnis said properties they manage received no mailers. Corky Collier of the Columbia Corridor Association reported that in 160 calls to 80 industrial owners, of those reached, 54% opposed, 18% supported, and 28% needed more information (02:56:00).

Supporters described daily conditions. Kanan Patel said she keeps her children away from her Sandy Boulevard property because of shootings and open prostitution. Don McKeever, former owner of the Parkrose Grocery Outlet, said armed security "did not solve the problem." Sean Hogan of Cultivate Initiatives, formerly homeless in Parkrose, said the group picked up more than 1.1 million pounds of trash in the last year.

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Portland City Council AM Session 07/08/26, Wednesday, July 8, 2026.

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A city committee took no votes at its July 7 meeting, instead placing on file a decade-in review of North and Northeast Portland's anti-displacement housing program and opening public oversight of Urban Alchemy after allegations of abuse at city-funded shelters.

The Housing and Permitting Committee, chaired by Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) with Vice Chair Mitch Green (District 4), heard from Councilors Steve Novick (District 3) and Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2). Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3) was absent. Mayor Keith Wilson attended and questioned presenters. No item on the agenda called for a vote; all four were placed on file.

Ten years of the North/Northeast housing strategy

Oversight Committee Chair Dr. Stephen Holt and Portland Housing Bureau Equity and Business Operations Manager Leslie Goodloe reported on the North and Northeast Neighborhood Housing Strategy, created to address displacement of Black households. Goodloe said the program has spent $121.8 million in tax increment financing through December 2025 (00:17:33), a program that began as a $20 million initiative in 2014 under Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Dan Saltzman. She reported 975 rental units open or in development, 740 of them preference-policy units (00:26:43), and said home repair grants have stayed at $10,000 for the life of the program even as costs rose (01:01:05).

Holt called the program a "blueprint" and said the work "has grit, that has data" (00:35:28). He gave inconsistent figures for homeowners created — "130 homeowners" and "200 homeowners by the time the strategy is done" (00:34:25) — while Goodloe cited component counts that the record does not reconcile to a single total.

Goodloe told Novick that vacancy in preference-policy buildings runs "about the same" as citywide affordable housing, because a 60% area-median-income unit is "about market rate" in Northeast Portland (00:40:53). She estimated between 1,000 and 1,500 people on the active rental waitlist at any time (00:45:16). Pirtle-Guiney asked how funds were split across the strategy's four parts; Goodloe said the community prioritized rental first, and down-payment assistance has been raised four times, from $60,000 to $150,000 within the district (00:59:10). Green argued for decoupling rents from federal AMI definitions toward a cost-based model and buying down building costs; Goodloe said Metro has already funded rent buydowns at several buildings (01:09:50). The committee set an October return to the Oversight Committee's schedule.

Oversight of Urban Alchemy shelters

Green and Avalos opened a public look at the city's oversight of contracted shelter operator Urban Alchemy following what Avalos called "serious allegations involving Urban Alchemy employees" reported publicly (01:40:31). Portland Solutions Deputy Director Hank Smith said the city's shelter system provides 1,609 beds nightly and that Urban Alchemy operates about 700 beds, or 84% of the city's alternative shelter (01:43:13). Emergency Humanitarian Operations Director Brandy Westerman said a complaint tracker had logged 83 complaints from mid-2024 to March 2025, and 22 since a May policy update.

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The Community and Public Safety Committee held over both major items on its agenda — an ordinance to deprioritize personal psychedelic use and create a city advisory commission, and a firearms-code change — sending the psychedelics measure to August 4 without a vote (01:38:07).

Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) presided. Councilors Loretta Smith (District 1), Sameer Kanal (District 2), Angelita Morillo (District 3) and Eric Zimmerman (District 4) attended; Smith arrived at 9:50 and Zimmerman at 10:06. A scheduled Portland Street Response report was cancelled after the bureau said it could not present (00:09:57).

Psychedelics ordinance held for a fourth hearing

The bulk of the meeting went to an ordinance from Councilors Mitch Green (District 4), Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2), Morillo and Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3) to make personal use of natural psychedelics a low law-enforcement priority and to create a Portland Psychedelics Advisory Commission. Two questions dominated: whether the city needs to codify a deprioritization police already practice, and whether the city should host a commission that touches public health.

Green said he would want to pass the deprioritization even without the advisory body, "because I do think it's appropriate to codify directives for any bureau." Pirtle-Guiney said codifying matters because "changes in leadership happen, and that means changes in policy happen." The sponsors circulated a proposal for a 3-year sunset on the commission and language directing the mayor to consult state and local public health entities on appointments (00:35:40); Pirtle-Guiney said the underlying ordinance had cleared legal and clerk review but the amendment had not (00:40:57).

Smith questioned whether the council can direct police priorities at all, saying enforcement is "in their discretion." Kanal answered on the record that the measure is an ordinance and therefore binding: "I find the idea that we cannot tell the police bureau what to do through legislation to be one of the scariest things that's been said in this room" (00:32:38). Pirtle-Guiney interjected, "Who has the floor right now?" (00:32:56). Kanal supported the deprioritization but said he prefers the commission live at the county or state, and objected to the mayor appointing a body that advises the council.

Novick questioned the city's role and asked why the county, as public health authority, was not acting. Advocate Nate Howard said advocates met with county public health, which supported the idea and advised the city host it; advocate Courtney Moran, of the Portland Psychedelic Society Action Fund, said the county cited "other political issues" — an ordinance restricting needle exchanges near schools and libraries (00:47:18). Novick called that "a little disturbing." Howard argued the commission would give roughly 10,000 Portlanders with psychedelic experience a trusted, science-based safety resource, likening it to city guidance on swimming in the Willamette. Howard said about 25,000 people have moved through Oregon's state-regulated model (01:20:40).

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Portland City Council continued the appeal hearing on the Lloyd Center redevelopment master plan without deciding it, closing the record and sending the matter to July 8 after two days of testimony split between residents fighting to save the mall's ice rink and a lineup of business and neighborhood groups urging approval.

The Council reconvened Thursday afternoon under Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1), a continuation of a June 24 session in which, Dunphy said, "we barely got through about half of the appellants' signed-up testimony." With roughly 100 people still signed up on the Lloyd Center item (00:07:49), the Council reordered its agenda to clear several ordinances first.

Sewer rate correction

The Council passed an emergency ordinance correcting an error in the sewer and stormwater rate schedule adopted last month. Public Utilities Director Ting Lu told the Council that Exhibit A "had an error" — sanitary and stormwater SDS rates "didn't get updated to the 9% increase as what was presented to the council on May 14th." Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) pressed for clarity that "this is not any sort of additional increase beyond what we've already discussed" (00:13:36), which Dunphy confirmed. The measure passed 9-0 (00:15:12), with Councilors Dan Ryan (District 2), Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3), and Eric Zimmerman (District 4) absent.

Cable ordinances and sandwich boards

Three second-reading ordinances each passed 10-2, with Koyama Lane and Zimmerman absent: creating a Cable Franchise Fund for the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (00:16:14), amending code for the dissolution of the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission (00:17:18), and Councilor Steve Novick's (District 3) ordinance removing the permit and registration requirement for portable business signs (00:19:21). Novick said the permit for a sandwich board was "silly" and "a form of discrimination against particularly well-informed and conscientious people" who "send in my $100" (00:18:08). Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) added, "Today we're legalizing sandwich boards. Tomorrow we're legalizing hot dog carts that will also sell vegan hot dogs" (00:18:39).

Lloyd Center master plan appeal

The core of the meeting was the appeal of the Design Commission's unanimous approval of a voluntary Central City Master Plan for the Lloyd Center site. The mall is set to close August 8, and the applicant said that will happen regardless of the Council's decision.

Roughly 20 appellant supporters testified to preserve the mall and its ice rink, described repeatedly as the only indoor rink in Portland and as a cooling shelter and gathering space. Stephanie Winningham said Lloyd Center's Learn to Skate program is the second largest in the Pacific Northwest and is 80 to 90% women and girls. Paul Cienfuegos quoted a recorded statement by URG's Tom Kilbane about a departed tenant — "we finally came to terms and got them out of the way" (00:36:00). Janelle Collier cited "over 10,000 people who signed our petition." Appellant Boz Epley pointed to nearby stalled projects, including a URG building bought for nearly $10 million in 2018 that "was auctioned for bankruptcy and no one showed up to buy it."

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Portland's Finance and Governance Committee spent nearly three hours dissecting how the city builds its budget and took no vote, placing the discussion on file and agreeing to return to it within a month or two (02:56:15).

The committee, chaired by Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2), structured the June 25 session around three rounds of questions covering the start of the budget process, council deliberation, and how to track outcomes after adoption. City Budget Director Ruth Levine opened with the legally required milestones: base budgets and forecasts in December, the mayor's proposed budget due by May 5 under charter, an approved budget delivered to Multnomah County's tax body around May 20, and an adopted budget heard by roughly June 18. Levine said Mayor Keith Wilson delivered this year's proposal April 20 — about three weeks early (00:27:43).

What councilors wanted changed

Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) said work session time was roughly tripled from last year, but the legislative branch "never fully had access to full and clear program financials" (00:36:38). He said the Budget Office and council both need more staff, including independent legal counsel. Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) attended remotely and did not speak substantively.

Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) proposed November and December bureau presentations on current budgets to avoid what he called the "Washington Monument problem" — councilors treating every proposed cut as catastrophic because they lack basic understanding. Councilor Olivia Clark (District 4) said the bureau presentations this year "almost seemed like a token" (00:50:07) and that the budget was too hard to read. Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) said "the quality of our decisions are only as good as the quality of the information that we receive" (00:53:00) and pushed for position-by-position service impact analyses before any cuts. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) wanted the mayor's proposal always in mid-April and earlier work sessions.

Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) floated a two-year budget cycle to manage volatile business license tax revenue and urged a return to an independent City Budget Office. City Attorney Robert Taylor said the charter contemplates an annual budget but leaves room for longer-term planning (01:31:22). Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) proposed that between the approved and adopted budgets, council briefly abandon balanced amendments and instead have each member rank must-fund items and acceptable funding sources.

Kanal said he disagreed that annual budget guidance to bureaus is the mayor's prerogative "until and unless I see a legal requirement, and I've asked for it for months now and not received it" (01:22:05). He said this year's budget document ran about 1,100 pages, up from roughly 400 the year before (01:27:39).

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The council recessed its hearing on two appeals of the Lloyd Center master plan without a decision, after hearing dozens of skaters and neighbors urge it to preserve the city's only ice rink, and continued the matter to June 25. (03:12:35)

Lloyd Center master plan appeals

The June 24 session was dominated by appeals of the Design Commission's approval of a voluntary Central City Master Plan for Lloyd Center, introduced by Mayor Keith Wilson. City planner Benjamin Nielsen of Portland Permitting and Development told the council the plan covers about 27.1 acres, divides the site into 14 development areas with roughly 6.2 acres of publicly accessible open space, and could accommodate up to 6.8 million square feet of development. He said the site has no historic designation and that the zoning code places no restrictions on demolition there. The Design Commission voted 5-0 to approve the plan on March 5 after hearing 44 in-person testifiers and hundreds of written comments (00:59:38). Design Commission Chair Chandra Robinson, testifying remotely, said the commission "does not have the power to stop demolition of a property" and that its purview was the design of the plan (01:02:56).

Two appeals were filed — one by the Save Lloyd Ice Coalition and Jennifer Gilmore Robinson, one by Matthew Henderson and the Save Lloyd campaign. Attorney Jeff Kleinman argued code criteria on community building were not given due consideration and asked the council to remand the plan or add a condition of approval preserving the rink. Jenny Gilmore Robinson, a District 3 resident, said the rink is the city's only publicly accessible one, reachable by transit, and asked the council to "preserve, replace, or relocate" it. Henderson said more than 10,000 people had signed the petition against demolition (01:16:29).

Roughly 90 people signed up to testify for the appellant and 50 for the applicant, with oral testimony held to 90 seconds each. Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) declined to cap the lists after Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2) objected that limiting testimony when sign-ups were lopsided "would" not "make it a fair process" (00:23:37). Dozens of appellant supporters spoke before the recess. Recurring themes: the rink offers about 50 hours of public skating a week and serves "over 500 skaters a week" (Chelsea Meyer, 02:19:27); lessons are affordable and transit-accessible; and the developer had for years publicly represented that a rink would remain, disclosing its exclusion about three days before the February 5 Design Commission hearing. Several testifiers pressed environmental and reuse objections — Matt Kelly said Nordstrom demolition waste was sent to "Coffin Butte landfill 75 miles away," and multiple speakers noted a "$50 million" renovation about a decade ago. Zach Newman said a 2011 report by Peter Meyer Architects ranked Lloyd Center a "Rank 2 significant historical resource" (02:53:53). The applicant's presentation had not yet been heard.

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Portland councilors used their first public work session on a Moda Center renovation to demand a private capital contribution from the arena's ownership and more detailed cost information, with several rejecting a timeline that would have them vote on a term sheet within weeks; no vote was taken.

The session was led by Kristen Dennis, chief of staff to the Metro Council, on loan to the city council, who said her job was to learn councilors' priorities so she could return "in just a few very short weeks" with a funding proposal and lease term sheet (00:08:14). Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) opened by acknowledging "there are certain things we simply don't know yet."

What the city is being asked to fund

An ordinance passed earlier this year authorized state bonds sufficient to yield $365 million for the renovation, Dennis said, with three conditions to unlock it: a joint authority, a local funding commitment of roughly $120 million, and a 20-year lease. Deputy City Administrator Donnie Oliveira tied the schedule to hosting the NCAA Final Four in spring 2030, which requires the state to issue bonds in spring 2027 and construction to begin that summer.

Spectator Venues Program Manager Carl Lyle laid out the finances. The city had no maintenance obligation at Moda before taking ownership in 2024; under the current bridge agreement it reinvests Blazers-derived parking and ticket fees on a 50/50 match, spending about $4.5 million last fiscal year, matched by the team, mostly on a new scoreboard (01:15:22). Public ownership costs about $1 million a year in lost property taxes (01:13:56). Lyle said a facility condition assessment estimated $400 to $500 million to keep the building running in its current form over 20 years (01:52:44). The city receives nothing from naming rights, which the operator holds (01:56:11).

The demand for private money

Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) called private investment her "starting line," saying "I don't care that you bought the Blazers. That is not an investment in the city" (02:50:21). Oliveira said the city had formally asked the team for a private stake and "have not gotten a response," and that the team's response to date had been the existing ticket and parking fees (02:51:11). Avalos answered: "I do not accept that response from them" (02:52:15).

Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) listed minimum term-sheet demands including private capital contributions — noting peer cities range 20% to 60% — rent flowing to the general fund, payments in lieu of taxes, and street-level pricing (01:00:46). Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) said the total project cost approaches $900 million and, with interest, the public could pay north of $1 billion, including $100 million in luxury suite renovations. She argued that if owners put up 25% of the renovation and paid rent equivalent to what the Carolina Hurricanes pay in Raleigh, it "would cover the upfront costs" for the city and county.

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The City Life Committee voted 4-0 to send a five-year extension of the CityKids childcare lease to the full City Council with a recommendation to pass (01:51:41), the only formal action at a June 23 meeting otherwise given over to a presentation on a proposed Hollywood film district.

Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) presided; Councilor Eric Zimmerman (District 4) was absent, and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) arrived shortly after the start. The committee also approved its April 14–May 26 minutes by unanimous consent.

CityKids lease extension referred to council

The committee referred an ordinance extending the lease for the CityKids Childcare and Development Center at Crown Plaza by five years, on a motion by Ryan seconded by Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) (01:51:17). Pauline Goble of the Bureau of Fleet and Facilities said the program began in 2000 at the Portland Building and relocated to Crown Plaza in 2016 during that building's reconstruction. Rick Dyer of the bureau said only the financial terms changed, at a 3% annual rent increase over the five years (01:41:47).

Ron Zito, interim director of the Bureau of Human Resources, said the program serves both city employees and downtown families and supports staff recruitment and retention. Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) asked whether city employees get any tuition discount; program staff said families pay the same rate regardless of employer. Valerie Moreland, director at CityKids, said the center taps state childcare funds, its own tuition assistance, and now Preschool for All, under which qualifying children age three and up in Multnomah County attend free.

Ryan pressed on cost. Staff said infant tuition runs $2,169 a month for five days a week (01:35:27), which they said is lower than many for-profit chains because of the city subsidy; without it, tuition would run about $400 to $500 more per child each month (01:35:02). Staff said about 70% of enrollment over the program's 25 years has been city families, and that the center has never turned away a city employee's child, keeping room open by consolidating an older classroom. Ryan said he had initially understood city employees were only prioritized on a waitlist and that "I'm glad we had more dialogue on that" (01:49:42).

Pirtle-Guiney said the subsidy supports "60 to 70 families of city employees" and that "at a time that is not now, when we're not cutting $160 million from our budgets," the city might consider sliding-scale support to fill open slots (01:46:29). She said childcare "will never support families and providers without public subsidy." Staff said the market was surveyed and staying put was the least disruptive option; there is no automatic renewal, and staff will look at the market again around year three.

Hollywood film district presentation

The committee heard an hour-long presentation on a proposed Hollywood Film District, carried over from the former Arts and Economy Committee at Ryan's request. Doug White, executive director of the Hollywood Theatre, said the theater was built in 1926, is turning 100, and that the neighborhood took its name from it. He said the organization's budget grew from about $600,000 in 2010 to $7.5 million, and membership from roughly 600 to 8,000. He said a donor bought the building across the street to house Movie Madness, which the group can buy in ten years.

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