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Bureaus and offices
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Accounting
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We provide quality support to help our customers achieve their goals and meet the City's fiduciary responsibility.
Archives & Records Management
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Archives & Records Management is a division of the elected City Auditor’s Office. We operate the Portland Archives & Records Center and make City administrative and historical records accessible for research and inspection in accordance with Oregon public records law.
Arts & Culture
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The Office of Arts & Culture celebrates and supports Portland’s creative economy, expanding opportunities for Portlanders to participate in creative experiences of all kinds. Our mission is to put arts at the center of public life in Portland.
Assessments, Finance, and Foreclosure
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Supporting City livability goals by helping to finance infrastructure improvements, and supporting the regulatory efforts of other city bureaus. We use Charter-granted authority to assess property for local improvements, system development charges, and code violations.
Audit Services
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The Audit Services Division is the auditing arm of the elected City Auditor's Office. The Division conducts performance audits of City operations, and makes recommendations to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of City bureaus, offices, and functions.
Auditor's Office
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Welcome to the Auditor's Office. We ensure open and accountable government by providing independent and impartial reviews, access to public information, and services to City government and the public.
Budget and Finance Service Area
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Budget and Finance stewards the City’s financial resources through budgeting, accounting, revenue, public finance, risk management and police and fire retirement services.
Bureau of Fleet and Facilities
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The Bureau of Fleet and Facilities provides leadership and strategic support for its CityFleet and Facilities Services divisions. CityFleet acquires and maintains the City’s vehicle fleet, while Facilities Services operates and maintains a portfolio of City buildings.
City Attorney
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The Office of the City Attorney provides legal services to the City of Portland and to the elected officials, officers and employees acting on its behalf. The Office's only client is the City of Portland and we are not able to provide legal services or advice to individual members of the public.
City Budget Office
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The City Budget Office provides timely, accurate, and unfiltered information and analysis regarding budgeting, forecasting, and fiscal policy issues to the Mayor, Councilors, City Auditor, City bureaus, and the public.
City Operations Service Area
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City Operations: the engine that propels the City of Portland.
We provide the people, technology, facilities and support that empower more than 7,500 City employees to deliver essential services that Portlanders rely on every day.
We provide the people, technology, facilities and support that empower more than 7,500 City employees to deliver essential services that Portlanders rely on every day.
Community and Economic Development Service Area
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The City's Community and Economic Development service area (CEDSA) focuses on economic development, housing, climate, culture, art, and urban development. With over 70% of CEDSA's budget going directly to community, we work to ensure Portland's future is resilient, sustainable, and prosperous.
Community Safety
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The Public Safety Service Area's Community Safety program includes Portland Street Response, Ceasefire, and the Office of Violence Prevention, including Community Partnerships and Investments, Safe Blocks, and Rose City Self-Defense.
Council Clerk
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The Council Clerk's Office administers City Council business, manages the repository for Portland Policy Documents, and maintains City Charter and Code.
Elections
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Portland City Elections works with the State of Oregon and Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties to oversee City elections, certify City candidates and measures to the ballot, and certify City election results. We also enforce City campaign finance and lobbying regulations.
Emergency Communications (9-1-1)
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Our mission is to work collaboratively with our community and public safety partners to ensure effective and timely 911 call answering and dispatching.
Emergency Management
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Promote readiness, coordinate response, and build resilience for Portland. The Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) develops and implements strategic planning, programs, and policies to continually advance the city's mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities.
Environmental Services
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Environmental Services is your sewer and stormwater utility. We protect public health and our environment by collecting and recovering resources from the city’s wastewater, managing stormwater, and restoring and protecting Portland’s rivers, streams, and watersheds.
Equity and Human Rights
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The Office of Equity and Human Rights holds the City accountable by providing leadership and developing policies, practices, and procedures that dismantle systems of oppression and build equitable foundations for systemically excluded and institutionally oppressed Portland communities.
Facilities Services
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Facilities Services’ mission is to lead the way in planning, developing, and operating sustainable, accessible, cost-effective public facilities that work well for the bureaus that use them, and the public we serve.
