Sophie Peel
Staff Reporter at Willamette Week
City Hall and politics reporter @wweek. Holler: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
Angela Bonilla, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, wrote a lengthy email to City Councilor Dan Ryan on May 24, rebuking a newsletter his office sent out the day prior that chastened his council colleagues for passing a budget amendment that reroutes $2 million of new police funding to backfill cuts to outdoor parks maintenance.
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
A week after a marathon budget session, the Portland City Council spent Wednesday morning trying to whittle down the number of budget amendments it must discuss to pass the city’s final budget on June 11. The 12 hours council spent last week touched on just 40 of the 126 amendments proposed by various councilors to Mayor Keith Wilson’s budget. The council must, by law, pass the final city budget of $8.5 billion by the end of June 11.
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
As the Portland City Council spent nearly 15 hours approving an $8.5 billion preliminary city budget last week, much of the media attention focused on debate over whether a police funding increase should be diverted to plug a hole in parks maintenance. But it was another means the council used to fund parks that could have more lasting ramifications. In the opening hours of the May 21 hearings, the council passed two amendments, both proposed by District 3 Councilor Angelita Morillo.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The morning after Portland City Council narrowly voted to divert $1.9 million in police funding to parks maintenance, Councilor Steve Novick said he was prepared to broker a compromise to bankroll both items. The Wednesday vote followed a contentious, late-night debate between city councilors, who are deeply divided on the role of police in the city’s revival after five tough years.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
It was not until the last 20 minutes of the nearly 12-hour marathon budget meeting of the Portland City Council on Wednesday that the Portland City Council went sour. By the end of the heated debate—right at 11:50 pm—the City Council had voted 7-5 to divert $1.9 million in new funding from the Portland Police Bureau’s staffing budget to backfill maintenance cuts at Portland Parks and Recreation.
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