City Council votes stymie police responses and alternatives May 19 2021
Next year s budget will be reviewed on June 17 and take effect on July 1, the start of the next fiscal year.
Even though shootings and visible homelessness are increasing in Portland, the City Council rebuffed pleas from both the Portland police union and police critics when it tentatively approved a $5.7 billion budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday, May 13.
As a result, city residents will not immediately see a beefed-up response to gun violence or alternatives to police responses to 9-1-1 calls.
Before the unanimous vote on the total budget, Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner urged the council to increase funding for the Portland Police Bureau and to reinstate the Gun Violence Reduction Team that was abolished last year. In a morning press release, he blamed the record increase in shootings and killings on the team being abolished.
Portland City Council approves funding to give displaced food carts new home in downtown
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Renderings of a new food cart pod set to open by July 4, 2021 on Southwest Ankeny Street, Southwest 8th Avenue and Southwest Park Avenue.
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Two years after 55 food carts were forced out of their longtime site at Southwest Alder Street to make way for the construction of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the city of Portland is setting aside funds to give them a new home.
The Portland City Council voted unanimously Thursday to enact Mayor Ted Wheeler’s $5.7 billion budget, which includes $269,000 to help food cart vendors that were displaced by the Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2019 relocate to Ankeny Square in the North Park Blocks.
Portland leaders approve $5.7B budget, slow Portland Street Response expansion
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The Portland City Council, from left to right: Mingus Mapps, Carmen Rubio, Ted Wheeler, Jo Ann Hardesty, Dan Ryan.
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Portland’s elected leaders approved a budget for next year that will pour millions of dollars into citywide cleanup efforts and programs to spur economic recovery but take a more cautious approach in expanding a non-police alternative to some public safety calls.
Thursday evening’s vote was unanimous. The City Council is scheduled to take a final vote on the city spending plan in mid-June.
Portlanders praise food cart aid, demand public safety reforms during budget hearing
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Calls for Portland to aid struggling food cart vendors, bolster neighborhood business districts and quicken the pace and scale of non-police alternatives to public safety dominated a hearing on the city’s proposed budget.
About 70 residents spoke during the three-hour virtual hearing Wednesday night, marking one of the few opportunities for the public to weigh in on Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposed $5.7 billion spending plan for next year.
The mayor unveiled a budget last week that he says is focused on spurring the city’s economic recovery, cleaning trash and graffiti and stemming the growing homelessness crisis.
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