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The intergovernmental agreement between the city and county had an expense of $32.5 million to the Portland City Government in 2020. [28] Partially using federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 , the Joint Office of Homeless Services uses city-owned land to site Safe Rest Villages, which are managed temporary housing that ...
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The City of Portland paid $119,000 per month for SoloPower's default on a loan the City guaranteed under Mayor Sam Adams in 2011. The payments continued until October, 2020. [38] The money is taken out of Portland's Bureau of Transportation. [39] [40] The Bureau of Transportation pays because parking-meter revenue was used as guaranty. [41]
The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.
The 1980s saw additional renovations. The auditor's office and the mayor's office were both renovated, though work on the mayor's office halted when funds were exhausted. [7] The city expanded the office of the city's attorney, and in 1982 the Portland Building was finished across the street. [7]
The Portland Charter was the subject of much debate circa 1911–1912. Rival charters were drafted by four different groups. One of these proposed charters was unusual in that it would have used Bucklin voting to elect the mayor and implemented interactive representation of the people through the commissioner system; each commissioner's vote would have been weighted according to the number of ...
All of N and NW Portland, portions of NE, SE S, and SW Portland (including downtown), Maywood Park, and parts of Washington County, including West Haven-Sylvan and small portions of Bethany and Cedar Mill: 278,302: Mary Nolan: 6 Portions of S, SW, SE and NE Portland, Raleigh Hills, and West Slope: 278,727: Duncan Hwang Total 1,671,767
The Portland Water Bureau is the municipal water department for the city of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.The bureau manages a water supply that comes mainly from the Bull Run River in the foothills of the Cascade Range east of the city and secondarily from the Columbia South Shore Well Field near the Columbia River.