Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has announced a last-minute update to the city's proposed 2021-22 budget to expand funding for traffic safety projects. The budget amendment, which will need City Council's approval, proposes using $450,000 of the city's general fund to subsidize several specific Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) projects to combat the recent surge of pedestrian deaths caused by vehicles. According to PBOT, the city has seen a 47 percent increase in traffic.
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IN LOCAL NEWS:
• In order to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, the City of Portland has agreed to pay $600,000 to the family of Terrell Johnson, who was in mental distress when he was shot and killed by a Portland police officer in 2017. Our Alex Zielinski has the details.
This will be second settlement resulting from a wrongful death case involving a PPB cop to reach Portland City Council in 2021. The first was regarding the death of Quanice Hayes, the teenager who was killed just three months before Johnson. https://t.co/r1ARUhkyp1 Alex Zielinski (@alex zee) June 8, 2021
• Portland police reform inches forward: On Monday the state legislature removed any legal hurdles that the Portland Police Association the union for the city s rank-and-file cops would have used to stymie the creation of a new police board.