In addition to being the school resource officer, Welch is also a mentor and basketball coach. He is what they call plugged in , said superintendent Guy Parmigian. He s coaching for us and he s a mentor. He s someone our students can look up to.
Community members started a GoFundme right away to help with medical expenses. Last fall, the students welcomed him back with signs and messages of love and support. I think it was important for them to be involved, said Hickman, and let them know that they re on their side and they re supporting him and they re there to fight with him.
Rubio and Mapps said there is no room for hate in Portland or in Oregon.
Rubio took the lead in writing a letter, signed by the entire Portland City Council, calling for the resignation of a newly elected commissioner in neighboring Clackamas County.
Mark Shull is under pressure to step down after it came to light he had made racist and Islamophobic posts on social media.
Rubio said she followed the lead of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. Since then, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners formally condemned Shull s posts by censuring him. Shull has apologized, but has said he doesn t intend to step down.
New City Council to take up controversial urban renewal plan January 03 2021
Some oppose spending $67 million more in North and Northeast Portland until previously displaced residents are compensated.
The new City Council will consider a controversial urban renewal proposal for North and Northeast Portland when it meets for the first time Wednesday.
The Jan. 6 meeting will be the first with new members Mingus Mapp and Carmen Rubio. Mapps defeated Commissioner Chloe Eudaly in the November runoff election and Rubio won the race to succeed Commissioner Amanda Fritz in the May primary election.
Mapps and Rubio will be participating for the first time with the previous council members: Mayor Ted Wheeler, who defeated Sarah Iannarone in the November election; Dan Ryan, who defeated Loretta Smith in an August runoff to fill the remainder of late Commissioner Nick Fish s term; and first-term Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who will be up for reelection in 2022 with Ryan.
December 30 2020
Commissioner Carmen Rubio is part of a new center-left coalition on the City Council following the 2020 elections.
Carmen Rubio finally feels prepared for the next challenge of her life becoming the first Latina member of the Portland City Council in a transformational time. Sometimes in the past, I ve felt like an impostor, said Rubio, who was elected to succeed retiring commissioner Amanda Fritz at the May 2020 primary election and sworn into office on Dec. 28. But now I feel like all of my experiences have prepared me for this.
Rubio s previous doubts will sound familiar to many members of immigrant families who broke down barriers. The daughter of Mexican and Mexican-American farmworkers who grew up in Hillsboro, she was the first member of her family to graduate from college, after almost dropping out because she felt so isolated. Inspired by groundbreaking Latina Multnomah County Commission candidate Serena Cruz, Rubio quit a secure job to work
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announces new bureau assignments for commissioners
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Mayor Ted Wheeler and Jo Ann Hardesty during a meeting of the Portland City Council. (Oregonian file photo)
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Wednesday announced new bureau assignments for himself and the city’s four commissioners.
The assignments, which become effective Jan. 1, include new bureaus for returning council members Jo Ann Hardesty, who will now oversee the Portland Bureau of Transportation and the Office of Community and Civic Life, and Dan Ryan, who will be in charge of the Portland Housing Bureau.
The assignments come after a shakeup in the 2020 elections, which seated three new city commissioners: Carmen Rubio, who won the seat held by retiring commissioner Amanda Fritz in May; Mingus Mapps, who defeated incumbent commissioner Chloe Eudaly in November; and Ryan, who was elected in August to finish the term of late commissioner N