190789

The City of Portland ordains:

Section 1.  The Council finds:

1. The City recognizes that effective implementation of anti-displacement and equitable development strategies will take building intentional structures that reflect the needs of communities who have experienced historic, repeated displacement and those experiencing instability.
2. The Anti-Displacement PDX (ADPDX) Coalition emerged during the development of Portland’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan and was a voice for those impacted or at risk of displacement in City policy, strategy, and budget discussions. They demonstrated the importance and effectiveness of a strong coalition advocating for, and working with City staff, to further community goals.
3. Since that effort, coalition membership has evolved as displacement concerns spread, and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic brought new voices to the table and new urgency to the work.
4. As the City strives to implement anti-displacement strategies with a racial equity lens, it is critical that staff and leadership coordinate and partner across City bureaus, and with regional and community partners.
5. Many community-based organizations are at the center of housing, commercial and cultural instability and displacement. A strong community coalition creates opportunities for collective impact for those groups.
6. A community-led focus is critical to ensure equitable outcomes, particularly those that acknowledge the negative outcomes experienced disproportionately by Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrant and refugee residents.
7. Metro has notified the City of Portland that it has been awarded a 2040 Planning and Development Grant for the Anti-Displacement Action Plan in the amount of $100,000. 
8. This grant furthers several of the Community Involvement Goals in the 2035 Comprehensive Plan, facilitating the meaningful participation of communities most impacted by displacement historically and valuing their wisdom and participation as we work toward more equitable outcomes.  
9. The Metro grant ($100,000) will be combined with $130,000 in previously appropriated City funds to form a $230,000 grant to Unite Oregon to support a community organizer to increase capacity of the ADPDX Coalition. It will increase the coalition’s leadership capacity so it can be an effective partner to the City, now and in the future, implementing anti-displacement strategies and actions.
10. The grant will also support the development of a leadership development curriculum that will focus on empowering, connecting and educating participants to advocate and take action, collectively, and within their respective communities. This cohort will additionally help design a series of public workshops to be held later in 2022. 
11. Unite Oregon will be the fiscal sponsor of the coalition. They have institutional knowledge from experience with ADPDX, and experience organizing and bringing together different perspectives. This grant agreement extends and builds upon prior support for the coalition.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

1. The Director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS Director) is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the City of Portland a grant from Metro in the amount of $100,000 for the Anti-Displacement Action Plan and to execute an Intergovernmental Agreement substantially similar to Exhibit A.
2. The FY2021/2022 budget is hereby amended as follows. The Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability will incorporate $100,000 in grant revenue into District Planning budget and provide the full amount as a grant to Unite Oregon.
   GRANT FUND
   Fund: 217
   Business Area – PN00
   Bureau Program Expenses - $100,000
3. BPS and the Office of Management & Finance Grants Division are authorized to perform all administrative matters in relation to the grant application, grant agreement or amendments, requests for reimbursement from the grantor, and to submit required grant documents on the Director’s behalf. 
4. The Director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is authorized to enter into a grant agreement in a form substantially similar to the agreement attached as Exhibit B in an amount not to exceed $230,000 for FY 2021-22.
5. The Director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is authorized to execute amendments to the scope of the services or the terms and conditions of the Metro grant agreement attached as Exhibit A, provided the changes do not increase City’s financial risk.  Any modifications that increase the City’s financial obligation or risk must be authorized by the City Council.
6. The Director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is authorized to execute amendments to the scope of the services or the terms and conditions of the Unite Oregon grant agreement attached as Exhibit B, provided the changes do not increase City’s financial risk.  Any modifications that increase the City’s financial obligation or risk must be authorized by the City Council.
7. The City Council waives the competitive application process required in FIN 2.04 – Budget. Unite Oregon has deep and unique experience in racial equity-centered anti-displacement work and organizing, previously as part of ADPDX. Unite Oregon is committed to racial equity and to growing the coalition’s already diverse membership for collective action.

Section 2.  The Council declares that an emergency exists because anti-displacement work is urgently needed to stabilize Portland communities; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.