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May 5, 2025 Governance Committee Agenda

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

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Meeting Minutes

Session Status
Adjourned

Committee in Attendance:
Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney
Councilor Dan Ryan, Vice Chair
Councilor Olivia Clark
Councilor Jamie Dunphy
Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane, Chair

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

Motion to reorder the agenda to hear Item 3 before Item 2: Moved by Ryan and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)  

Committee adjourned at 4:33 p.m.

Regular Agenda

1

Adopt committee rules (Resolution)
Resolution number
37707
Document number
2025-166
Introduced by
Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane
Councilor Dan Ryan
Time requested
5 minutes
Previous agenda item
Council action
Referred to City Council as amended
Motion to send Resolution, Document Number 2025-166, to the full Council with the recommendation that it be adopted: Moved by Ryan and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)

2

Document number
2025-037
Introduced by
Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane
Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney
Time requested
15 minutes
Previous agenda item
Council action
Continued

3

Ordinance number
192093
Document number
2025-186
Introduced by
Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane
Time requested
1 hour
Council action
Referred to City Council as amended
Motion to amend Exhibit A, Code Subsection 3.02.030 J.1. to strike resolutions and reports: Moved by Ryan and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (4): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Dunphy, Koyama Lane; Nay (1): Clark)

Motion to amend Exhibit A, Code Subsection 3.02.030 J.2. to strike everything after the first sentence and amend first sentence to strike “result of the tied vote is deemed inconclusive” and add “vote fails”: Moved by Ryan and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (4): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy; Nay (1): Koyama Lane)

Motion to define a tie vote as receiving specifically six affirmative votes on final passage: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Dunphy. Motion withdrawn.

Motion to amend Exhibit A, to add Code Subsection 3.02.030 J.3. In determining if a vote is a tie, absences, abstentions and vacancies will be counted as no votes: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)

Motion to send Ordinance as amended, Document Number 2025-186, to the full Council with the recommendation that it be passed: Moved by Ryan and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)

4

Document number
2025-187
Introduced by
Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane
Time requested
15 minutes
Council action
Placed on File
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