DA orders Portland to release controversial bureau audit May 11 2021
The City Attorney s Office had refused to release the third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life.
The Multnomah County District Attorney has ordered Portland officials to release a third-party audit of an embattled bureau.
District Attorney Mike Schmidt said the audit of the Office of Community
& Civic Life was not exempt from disclosure as the Portland City Attorney s Office had claimed. In a Tuesday, May 11 ruling released late in the day, Schmidt said the city had not proven its claim the audit was protected by attorney-client privilege. The City has not met its burden of showing that the primary purpose, or even a substantial purpose, of this document is the facilitation of legal services. All indicators show it to be business, management, personnel, and public relations advice intended to guide the transformation of a struggling office. Such advice, and the fact finding unde
Why We Need to Take the ‘Fire’ Out of ‘Fire Department’
Firefighters don t actually fight that many fires these days. It s time to re-think how we deliver costly emergency services.
June 26, 2015 • It s arguably the best known, least acknowledged and most inconvenient truth in local government: Fire departments in the precise meaning of that label no longer exist anywhere in America.
Thousands of official entities bear this or a similar moniker. But given what they and their employees actually do, Emergency Medical, Incident Response and Every-Once-in-a-While-an-Actual-Fire Department would be far more accurate.
In 1980, according to the National Fire Protection Association, the nation s 30,000 fire departments responded to 10.8 million emergency calls. About 3 million were classified as fires. By 2013, total calls had nearly tripled to 31.6 million, while fire calls had plummeted to 1.24 million, of which just 500,000 of
Downtown Portland office vacancy rate reaches 15%
Pandemic, protests among several factors dragging down Portland s office space market.
From the COVID-19 pandemic forcing people to work at home to property destruction during protests downtown, office space in the Portland metro area is steadily becoming vacant.
The market faces a shaky outlook for the remainder of this year, even as people receive their vaccinations and employers consider bringing their staff back into the office.
State economist Josh Lehner pointed to the combination of business closures, less foot traffic and lower demand for office space as key factors in declining construction activity. Lehner said leading demand for office, retail, and leisure and hospitality space would need to rebound considerably for vacancy rates to decline and rents to increase.
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