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192196

Label: Emergency ordinance

*Approve levying taxes for the City for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027

Passed

The City of Portland ordains.

Section 1.  The Council finds:

  1. The Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget for the City was adopted, and appropriations made by the Council on June 17, 2026, by ordinance.
  2. The City has approved and certified tax increment collections, which will be used to pay urban renewal debt service requirements.
  3. In no case will an urban renewal district receive more than the amount of tax increment revenue allowed under the statutory formula outlined in ORS 457.440. 
  4. In addition to the Notice of Property Tax and Certification of Intent to Impose a Tax, Fee, Assessment, or Charge on Property (Form LB-50), the Department of Revenue has issued a Notice to Assessor (Form UR-50), on which the City is required to categorize urban renewal levies by Option One Plans, Option Three Plans, Other Standard Rate Plans, and Other Reduced and Permanent Rate Plans. Form UR-50 also requires the City to certify the Amount from Division of Tax and the Special Levy Amount.
  5. Collection of tax levy revenues is contingent on the actual assessed value.
  6. The City will certify and collect property tax revenues based upon the assessed values as determined by the respective County Assessors of Multnomah, Clackamas, and WashingtonCounties.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

  1. Taxes are hereby categorized and levied for municipal purposes for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, on all taxable property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of the City as follows:
    1. For General Government, the permanent tax rate of $4.5770 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
    2. For General Government, to be credited to the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund, the amount of $279,235,522.
    3.  For General Government, a voter-approved local option children's levy taxing rate of $0.4026 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. 
    4. For General Government, a voter-approved local option Parks levy taxing a rate of $1.4000 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
    5. Excluded from Limitation, for bonded indebtedness the estimated amount of $30,801,933.
  2. The City Budget Director is hereby directed to certify on Form LB-50 the tax levies made in Section 1.A of this ordinance to the Assessors of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties.
  3. In order to continue the City's active urban renewal districts and provide for potential future tax revenue for obligations of the North Macadam Urban Renewal Area Debt Redemption Fund, the Gateway URA Debt Redemption Fund, and the Cully Tax Increment Finance District Debt Service Fund, the Assessors of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties are hereby requested to implement the procedures specified in ORS 457.420 through ORS 457.440 and other applicable state law relative to tax increment financing of urban renewal indebtedness, subject to the certifications contained in Section 1.D of this ordinance.
  4. The City Budget Director is hereby directed to certify that the City requests that tax increment revenue be collected for urban renewal bonded indebtedness and other indebtedness in FY 2026-27 for Gateway Regional Center; North Macadam; and Cully, 82nd Avenue, East 205, Sumner-Parkrose-Argay-Columbia Corridor, Lloyd-Holladay, Central Eastside Corridor, and Westside Tax Increment Finance District debt service requirements as outlined in Exhibit A. On Form UR-50, the amounts listed in Exhibit A will be certified for urban renewal collections.

Section 2.  The Council declares that an emergency exists in order for the City to be able to levy taxes on July 1, 2026; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by Council. 

Exhibits and attachments

FileExhibit A105.6 KB
FileTestimony1.08 MB


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 listed above must be passed by Council to prepare the City for the beginning of a new fiscal year on July 1, 2026. This item levies City property taxes in the amount of $868,476,000 and urban renewal collections of $13,070,000 for FY 2026-27.

Financial and budgetary impacts

The ordinance will raise an estimated $743,380,000 (net of compression, delinquency, and discounts) in City property taxes for FY 2026-27. Urban renewal collections noted above will also be collected net of compression, delinquency, and discounts.

Economic and real estate development impacts

These tax levies do not represent a change from the most recently adopted tax rates. 

Community impacts and community involvement

The Adopted Budget as filed includes programmatic changes that will impact the community. These programmatic changes invest resources and reallocate internal resources into bureau programs as articulated in the Mayor's Proposed Budget document and subsequent City Council Amendments passed on May 19-20, 2026. There were Council work sessions held to discuss the FY 2026-27 Budget process in April and May of 2026. Council conducted listening sessions in each district throughout 2026 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 April 21, 2026 during the Mayor's Proposed Budget Hearing and on May 18, 2026. Public comment will also be taken during the Tax Supervising Conservation Commission meeting on June 9, 2026 and during the City Council meeting on June 10, 2026.

100% renewable goal

Not applicable

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: 2026-197

President's referral: City Council

Agenda Council action
Regular agenda
City Council
Continued
Continued to June 11, 2026 at 9:30 am
Regular agenda
City Council
Continued
Continued to June 17, 2026 at 6:15 pm time certain
Time certain
City Council
Passed

Votes
  • Aye (11):
    • Kanal
    • Pirtle-Guiney
    • Ryan
    • Koyama Lane
    • Morillo
    • Novick
    • Clark
    • Green
    • Zimmerman
    • Avalos
    • Dunphy
  • Absent (1):
    • Smith

Document number

2026-197

Introduced by

City department

Service area

Contact

Ruth Levine

Director, City Budget Office

Agenda type

Time certain

Date and time information

Meeting date
Requested start time
06:15 pm
Amount of time requested
1 hour (5 of 7)
Confirmed time certain
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