by Alex Zielinski • Dec 23, 2020 at 2:01 pm COSMONAUT / GETTY IMAGES Mayor Ted Wheeler has released his much-anticipated bureau assignments for Portland city commissioners in 2021. The decision—one of the rare executive powers of a Portland mayor—offers a peek at what roles Wheeler wants his freshman commissioners to take on in the coming year. Here's the breakdown: Comissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Hardesty has been assigned two of the top bureaus overseen by outgoing Commissioner Chloe Eudaly: Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and the Office of Community and Civic Life (OCCL). The later assignment is most notable, since incoming Commissioner Mingus Mapps is a former employee of OCCL and centered much of his campaign on decrying Eudaly's work in the bureau. This decision shows that Wheeler's cautious about tearing down the work Eudaly put into the bureau, including her contentious proposal to allow other community groups the same access to City Hall as neighborhood associations.