Sophie Peel
Staff Reporter at Willamette Week
City Hall and politics reporter @wweek. Holler: [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The former executive director of Prosper Portland who was asked to step down earlier this week by Mayor Keith Wilson, Shea Flaherty Betin, will receive a severance package totaling $212,992—a full year’s salary. “Prosper Portland used comparable city of Portland agreements to guide the severance settlement amount,” said Prosper spokesman Shawn Uhlman.
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3 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The Portland City Council on Thursday evening voted unanimously to approve a $8.5 million settlement of a federal lawsuit filed in 2022 by Black families displaced from the Albina neighborhood by the city’s urban renewal practices. The City Attorney’s Office and the attorneys representing 26 plaintiffs from the Oregon Law Center reached a tentative settlement last week for the city to pay $1 million and Prosper Portland, the economic development agency, to pay another $1 million.
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3 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The Portland Metro Chamber on Thursday afternoon added pressure to a volatile budget season by sending a research paper it funded to the Portland City Council and Mayor Keith Wilson, claiming that the council does not possess the authority to raise taxes without voter approval.
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3 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The city of Portland announced Wednesday morning that Shea Flaherty Betin, the executive director of economic development agency Prosper Portland, is stepping down at the end of the week. Flaherty Betin is stepping down just two weeks after the Portland City Council seriously mulled a proposal to strip away all of Prosper’s general fund money, totaling $11 million.
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3 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The Portland City Council on June 2 discussed the future of the Parks Levy, which expires in 2026 and currently pays for 40% of Portland Parks & Recreation’s operating budget. The council is weighing what levy amount to refer to the November ballot: a simple renewal of the current 80 cents per $1,000 in assessed property value; or an increase to $1.30, $1.60 or $1.80 per $1,000.
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City Administrator Mike Jordan, in an usual move, stopped short of recommending roughly $60 million in budget cuts necessary to create a balanced budget. That leaves a set of politically hazardous decisions in front of the new council. https://t.co/w54FyyZv8H
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