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192069

Ordinance

Approve accepting funds from the State of Oregon under the State Revenue Sharing Program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026

Passed

The City of Portland ordains.

Section 1.  The Council finds:

  1. The State of Oregon established a State Revenue Sharing Program through the enactment of Senate Bill 11 by the 1977 Oregon Legislative Assembly.
  1. Pursuant to ORS 221.770 the City must elect to receive the State Revenue Sharing Program funds and must notify the State of Oregon, Department of Administrative Services of said election.  

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

  1. The City Budget Office is hereby authorized to notify the State of Oregon, Department of Administrative Services that pursuant to ORS 221.770, the City hereby elects to receive State Revenue Sharing funds for FY 2025-26.    
  1. The actions electing to receive State Revenue Sharing funds contained in this ordinance are binding City policy.

Exhibits and Attachments


An ordinance when passed by the Council shall be signed by the Auditor. It shall be carefully filed and preserved in the custody of the Auditor (City Charter Chapter 2 Article 1 Section 2-122)

Passed by Council

Auditor of the City of Portland
Simone Rede

Impact Statement

Purpose of Proposed Legislation and Background Information

The ordinance must be passed by Council to prepare the City for the new fiscal year on July 1, 2025. This item is included because ORS 221.770 requires the City to formally elect to accept state shared revenues.

Financial and Budgetary Impacts

Conducting this hearing and subsequent resolutions make the City eligible for an estimated $21,000,000 in cigarette, liquor, and state marijuana taxes in FY 2025-26.

Economic and Real Estate Development Impacts

Not applicable.

Community Impacts and Community Involvement

The City’s annual budget includes multiple programmatic changes that will impact the community. These programmatic changes invest resources and reallocate internal resources into bureau programs as articulated in the Adopted Budget. A three-member Community Budget Advisory Board was invited to sit in on budget discussions with the Mayor and Council as the budget was developed. There were Council work sessions held to discuss the FY 2025-26 Budget process in April and May of 2025. Council conducted four listening sessions in March and April of 2025 as well. Public comment has been solicited on the City Budget Office website, and in accordance with Oregon Local Budget Law, live public testimony was received on May 7th, 2025 during the Mayor's Proposed Budget Hearing and will be heard again on May 21st, 2025. Council members receive weekly emails from the CBO compiling the written comments received by the public through the online portal. 

100% Renewable Goal

This action does not directly impact the 100% renewable goal.

Financial and Budget Analysis

Analysis provided by City Budget Office

.The ordinance adopts a total budget of $8,638,585,121. Of this amount, $8,479,992,777 exists in the legally-binding appropriation schedule, with the remaining $158,592,344 existing in unappropriated ending fund balance and debt service reserve budgets—neither of which are appropriated by the Council per state budget law.

The appropriated budget includes program expenses totaling $4,491,210,534. A breakout of program expenses will be detailed in Volume 3 of the Adopted Budget book, expected to be published in late July.
The ordinance anticipates a variety of revenues and expenditures but does not directly generate those revenues or incur the expenses. This budget contains new fees and surcharges that have never been collected and thus their actualization will be groundtruthed as part of analysis of FY 2025-26 revenue actuals via budget-to-actuals monitoring. There exists some risk that projected revenues and planned expenditure reductions will not be actualized, resulting in a need for budget and policy flexibility which can be reviewed and processed through the City Budget Office's Budget Monitoring Processes and addressed by the Council via supplemental budgets.
The ordinance also creates, eliminates, and reclassifies positions. In total, a net of 41.9 FTE are reduced in the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget compared to the FY 2024-25 Revised Budget. CBO notes that position figures do not represent staffed positions but rather position authority and may include limited-term positions budgeted by bureaus.

Economic and Real Estate Development Analysis

Analysis provided by Prosper Portland

An Economic and Real Estate Development Impact Analysis was not submitted for this proposed action. Pursuant to City Council Resolution 37664, Prosper Portland staff has reviewed the action and agree that it does not require an Economic and Real Estate Development Impact Analysis.

Document History

Document number: 2025-239

President's referral: City Council

Agenda Council action
Regular Agenda
City Council
Passed to second reading
Passed to second reading June 18, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Regular Agenda
City Council
Passed

Votes
  • Aye (12):
    • Kanal
    • Ryan
    • Koyama Lane
    • Morillo
    • Novick
    • Clark
    • Green
    • Zimmerman
    • Avalos
    • Dunphy
    • Smith
    • Pirtle-Guiney

Document number

2025-239

Introduced by

City department

Contact

Ruth Levine

Director, City Budget Office

Agenda Type

Regular

Date and Time Information

Meeting Date
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