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April 7, 2025 Finance Committee Agenda

City Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor – 1221 SW Fourth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204

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Meeting Minutes

In this agenda

Session Status
Adjourned

Committee in Attendance:
Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Vice Chair
Councilor Steve Novick
Councilor Mitch Green
Councilor Candace Avalos
Councilor Eric Zimmerman, Chair

Councilor Zimmerman presided.
Officers in attendance: Keelan McClymont, Council Clerk

Committee adjourned at 2:23 p.m.

Regular Agenda

1

Ordinance number
192050
Document number
2025-131
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Transportation
Treasury
Time requested
20 minutes
Council action
Referred to City Council
Motion to send the Ordinance to the full Council with the recommendation that it be passed: Moved by Green and seconded by Novick. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

2

Ordinance number
192056
Document number
2025-132
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Water
Time requested
70 minutes (1 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council as amended
Motion to amend Exhibit A such that it restores a rate schedule that would have been consistent prior to the Mayor's guidance to adjust downward the rate increases by 5%: Moved by Green and seconded by Novick. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

Motion to send the Ordinance to the full Council for consideration with the recommendation to pass it: Moved by PIrtle-Guiney and seconded by Green. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

3

Ordinance number
192057
Document number
2025-133
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Environmental Services
Time requested
70 minutes (2 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council
Motion to pass the Ordinance to the full Council with the recommendation for passage: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Green. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

4

Ordinance number
192058
Document number
2025-134
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Environmental Services
Time requested
70 minutes (3 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council as amended
Motion to direct staff to recalculate rates in Exhibit A that would have been consistent with the pre 5% cut: Moved by Green and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman).

Motion to send the Ordinance to the Council with the recommendation to pass it as amended: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Green. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

5

Ordinance number
192059
Document number
2025-135
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Water
Time requested
70 minutes (4 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council
Motion to pass the Ordinance to Council with the recommendation for passage: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Green. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)

6

Ordinance number
192061
Document number
2025-136
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Transportation
Time requested
70 minutes (5 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council
Motion to amend the Parking Meter Rate proposal (Exhibit A) to no change in fiscal year 2025-26 for the rate for the following nonevent based parking rates and districts - the Central Eastside, the Downtown, the Llyod, the Marquam Hill, and the Northwest Districts and any sub districts within those that are nonevent based: Moved by Zimmerman and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (2): Pirtle-Guiney, Zimmerman; Nay (3): Novick, Green, Avalos). Motion failed to pass.

Motion to move the Ordinance to the full Council with the recommendation to pass: Moved by Novick and seconded by Green. (Aye (4): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos; Nay (1): Zimmerman)

7

Ordinance number
192060
Document number
2025-137
Introduced by
Mayor Keith Wilson
City department
Permitting & Development
Time requested
70 minutes (6 of 6)
Council action
Referred to City Council
Motion to send the Ordinance to the full Council with the recommendation that it be passed: Moved by Green and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)
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