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| Council Document | Name | Position | Comments and attachments |
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| 2025-179 | Joseph Spada - Portland Resident | Oppose | I oppose the mayors decision to force supervisors and managers to report to the office full time. The impacts on the employees are negative. More fuel costs (and more exhaust released into the atmosphere), less time with family, more stress, and increased childcare costs for those with small children. I would like to see the city council have a work session so that the mayor and the rest of… Read more |
| Council Document | Name | Position | Comments and attachments |
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| 2025-175 | Anonymous | Support | |
| 2025-175 | Christina Horsley | Support | |
| 2025-175 | Khris Soden | Support | |
| 2025-175 | Kim Larson | Support | |
| 2025-175 | Shawn F | Support | |
| 2025-175 | Bob Joondeph | Support | Everyone benefits if there is an effective response for a person in crisis. The person, the responder, the police, corrections, medical services, and the public budget are all well served. We can keep Portland safer for us all if our public safety array is well designed and funded. |
| 2025-175 | Christian Orellana Bauer (former member of the Police Accountability Commission) | Support | Hello, I would like to fully support this resolution and advocate for its implementation. Alternatives to the police that revolve around de-escalation and connection to social services are incredibly important. Portland Street Response needs to be further supported to reach its true potential which this resolution will do. Much Appreciation, Christian |
| 2025-175 | Philip Chachka | Support | I am so pleased with my experiences with Portland Street Response. I've seen them working on multiple occasions outside my place of employment and in other parts of the city. I've called 911 several times specifically for Portland Street Response services and have seen their professionalism in serving our community. Many times, the presence of an armed police officer would've only… Read more |
| 2025-175 | Anonymous | Support | I join an incredible number of Portlanders who believe our investments in and commitment to Portland Street Response will make everyone is our communities safer. Bringing armed police to every first response situation creates opportunities not only for violence but also intimidation and fear. We need a more nuanced, dignified, humane system. Local citizens and leaders have fought hard to create… Read more |
| 2025-175 | Carolyn Matthews | Support | I support expanding PSR as stated in the document. It's crucially important to help our houseless neighbors, not only for them, but for our neighborhood. Our neighborhood interacts compassionately with houseless people nearby, but we need help. PSR has already shown it's effective. We all need it. |
| 2025-175 | C.L. | Support | I'm writing in support of the motion to expand Portland street response. I am someone who is extremely skeptical of sworn officers' ability to resolve low-acuity public nuisance calls safely, arrive in a timely fashion, if at all, I will not call police for any of not all of my needs. A city without a funded street response system is one where I do not call anyone to help those that are… Read more |
| 2025-175 | Anonymous | Support | PSR is a critical piece of the first responder system and should be expanded as a co-equal branch. |
| 2025-175 | TG | Support | PSR is good for the city. We have an inordinate amount of people experiencing homelessness, mental health crises and addiction in this city. With the current looming financial crisis coupled with our obscene rent prices, this can easily escalate within a year or two. When you witness a person in crisis and cannot personally help them, you call for help. A police response could lead to… Read more |
| 2025-175 | Anonymous | Support | Please support the expansion and full funding of Portland Street Response! Having a non-armed force that can do wellness checks and mental health response in this city is Vital, and can save lives. Please respect the needs and wants of the most vulnerable members of our city; PSR is one of the best solutions we have come up with to protect and respect everyone. Please prioritize it's funding… Read more |
| 2025-175 | Tony Greiner, NE Portland | Support | This is an important issue. People with Severe Mental Illness need help, and the police are rarely in a position to provide it. And the mentally ill are no more responsible for their condition than someone who has COVID or cancer. Please support this effort. |
| 2025-175 | Anonymous | Support with changes | PSR has to be able to carry out the duties that they were envisioned to do with meaningful outcomes. You have to also create metrics that are results oriented and reflect outcomes related to connecting people to services and not just diverting 911 calls. As a crisis worker, the public doesn’t understand why PSR is not effective nor efficient as is. Give them the power to write directors hold |
| 2025-175 | Lance Orton, CityTeam Portland | Support with changes | Written Testimony by Lance Orton Executive Director, CityTeam Portland My name is Lance Orton, and I serve as the Executive Director of CityTeam Portland, a nonprofit homeless services provider and addiction recovery organization that has served the Portland community since 1998. I’m submitting this testimony in strong support of continued and expanded funding for Portland Street Response (… Read more |
| Council Document | Name | Position | Comments and attachments |
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| 2025-095 | Lynelle Macauley | Support | |
| 2025-095 | Kevin Goldsmith | Support | I have an informal petition sign on Shattuck Road for "sidewalks on Shattuck"
Attached is the response download from our community. Please realize these people want sidewalks on Shattuck road. The Alpenrose development will add 200+ houses and will turn our little road into a dangerous one.
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| 2025-095 | Anonymous | Support | I walk daily from my home at 5534 SW Pendleton St to the Trimet stop at SW Beaverton-Hillsdale & Shattuck, where I take the #56 to work at OHSU in the mornings, and the reverse when I return home at the end of the day. Because there is no sidewalk on Shattuck between Cameron St and Martha/Boundary, it is very dangerous to walk that segment, so I need to take a detour along 54th Ave and Martha… Read more |
| 2025-095 | Beth Blenz-Clucas | Support | It's crucial that the city improve on one of the core duties of any municipal government -- maintenance of sidewalks, and providing safe pedestrian access along city streets. Sadly, several main thoroughfares in Southwest Portland (D4) have no safe ways for pedestrians and bicyclists to share the road with cars. Kids have no safe route to school. People in wheelchairs and parents with… Read more |
| 2025-095 | Anonymous | Support | Please see attached comments on the need for community input into SIPP.
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| 2025-095 | Rob Hertert, Chair, Far Southwest Neighborhood Association | Support | The Far Southwest neighborhood is encircled by two main roads: SW Lesser Road, beginning at the Clackamas County line, and becoming SW Capitol Highway ending at SW 49th street, with both roadways lacking sidewalks. There are some very short sections that have sidewalks but 90% of these two streets do not. Pedestrians and cyclists still try to use the roadway but it is truly dangerous. The… Read more |
| 2025-095 | Mary Anne Cassin | Support | We have waited literally decades for basic sidewalk infrastructure in SW Portland. Except for a handful of substantial improvements, like Capitol Hwy, sidewalks in this part of the city remain woefully inadequate. We live on SW VERMONT, a collector and bus route. We lobbied hard about fifteen years ago to get sidewalks on just one side of the street. The number of pedestrians and cyclists… Read more |
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