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Portland City Commissioners Make Counteroffer to Mayor: $4.9 Million to Fight Gun Violence but No Cops They suggest foot patrols by Portland park rangers “seven days a week, including graveyard shifts.” Memorials to Jennifer Garcia and Charlie Borbon-Lopez line Khunamokwst Park. (Brian Burk) Updated April 1 Newly obtained documents show that three members of Portland s City Council on March 26 countered Mayor Ted Wheeler s $2 million proposal for a team of uniformed officers to curb gun violence in the city with their own proposal: more money, but no police.
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Bureau Assignment Memos Show Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Focused on Paranoid Park and Food Carts Wheeler issued more prescriptive guidance than City Hall staff can recall him handing out in previous years. Downtown Portland food carts. (Alex Wittwer) Updated January 20 In the run-up to his narrow November reelection victory, Mayor Ted Wheeler apologized for going it alone too often in his first term and promised more collaboration and concrete results if he won a second term.