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Portland's leaders include a mayor, an auditor, city councilors, a city administrator, an assistant administrator, four deputy administrators, and several officers. Together, they lead 7,000+ employees dedicated to serving our community.
Portland voters approved a new charter in 2024. Under this form of government:
- The Mayor oversees City services and appoints the City Administrator.
- The City Council performs legislative and quasi-judicial functions.
- The Auditor is charged with certain responsibilities and roles outlined in City Charter and Code.
Read on to learn more about the City's leaders.
Elected Officials: Mayor, Auditor, City Councilors
City Administrator
Raymond C. Lee
As Portland's City Administrator, Raymond C. Lee oversees day-to-day operations across more than two dozen bureaus and offices, supporting over 7,000 public servants who deliver essential services to Portlanders. He is responsible for aligning citywide operations, working with the mayor to develop the City's budget, and helping lead Portland's transition to its new form of government with clarity, stability, and accountability.
He is an ICMA Credentialed Manager (ICMA‑CM), reflecting his commitment to professional excellence and continuous development in local government leadership.
Lee's leadership is grounded in a people-first approach that emphasizes organizational health, transparency, and responsiveness. He focuses on building clear roles, healthy systems, and sustainable workloads so teams can perform at their best over time. His approach prioritizes setting clear goals, measuring results, continuously improving service delivery, and designing city services around the people who use them, with open communication that explains the "why" behind decisions.
Learn more about City Administrator Lee
Chief Financial Officer
Jonas Biery
Programs: Accounting, Public Finance and Treasury, Revenue, Risk Management
As Deputy City Administrator for Budget & Finance, Jonas Biery also serves as Portland's Chief Financial Officer – and guides the city's work to manage money transparently, responsibly and sustainably.
Before this role, Biery spent four years serving as the Vice President at D.A. Davidson & Co. as a public finance banker and municipal advisor to local governments. He has over 20 years of multi-faceted experience in the government and public finance sector. From 2011 to 2020, Biery worked for the City of Portland – first as the City’s Debt Manager and later as Business Services Manager for the City’s Environmental Services. Biery has experience as an issuer, banker or advisor on over 200 financing transactions of various sizes, structures and security.
Biery is currently a board member for the State of Oregon’s Infrastructure Finance Authority. He previously served on the Government Finance Officers Association Committee on Governmental Debt Management and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s Compliance Advisory Group. Jonas graduated from Portland State University with a BA and an MBA.
City Operations - Deputy City Administrator
Tracy Warren
Programs: 311, Budget, Business Operations, Communications, Community-Based Police Accountability, Fleet and Facilities, Fire and Police Disability and Retirement, Grants, Human Resources, Independent Police Review, Procurement, Security, Small Donor Elections, Technology Services
Tracy Warren serves as the Deputy City Administrator for City Operations, providing executive leadership for the City of Portland's enterprise service areas that support citywide operations. She oversees a workforce of more than 700 employees and a $1 billion operating budget, helping ensure the effective, efficient, and accountable delivery of critical administrative services across the organization.
Since joining the City of Portland in 2018, Tracy has held progressively broader leadership roles, including Human Resources Director, before being appointed as interim Deputy City Administrator. She currently leads the City's Core Services Realignment, a major organizational transformation focused on modernizing operations, improving service delivery, strengthening accountability, and creating more consistent, customer-focused services across the organization.
With more than 15 years of public-sector leadership experience, Tracy specializes in organizational strategy, operational excellence, workforce development, labor relations, change management, and leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that improve how government delivers services to employees, elected officials, and the community.
Community and Economic Development - Deputy City Administrator
Donnie Oliveira
Programs: Portland Children's Levy, Planning and Sustainability, Housing, Office of Arts & Culture, Prosper Portland, Permitting and Development, Spectator Venues
As the Deputy City Administrator for Community & Economic Development, Donnie Oliveira is responsible for aligning city efforts to build prosperity for all Portlanders. This work includes creating and delivering efficient, transparent, and equitable solutions for a resilient built environment – and services, resources and experiences for our community.
Throughout his career, Oliveira has cultivated successful partnerships among communities, governments and businesses to advance shared goals for prosperity and livability. As the Director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, he led a dynamic group of policy and programmatic change agents focused on making Portland more equitable, healthy, prosperous and resilient. Collaborating closely with City Council and colleagues throughout the City, Oliveira has played a pivotal role in shaping sustainability, urban planning, digital equity, and municipal waste policies.
During his time at Planning and Sustainability, the bureau saw significant transformation and growth, including fortifying the City’s Graffiti Abatement Program, unifying Community Technology programs and establishing the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund. The energy fund's ongoing evolution to meet the needs and opportunities in climate justice has required a balanced approach to meet community and City goals and has had notable success under Oliveira’s leadership.
Along with his investments within the organization, Donnie has shown an unwavering commitment to strengthening public-private partnerships that center economic prosperity for all Portlanders. His achievements include establishing the Clean Industry Initiative, setting a governance framework to accelerate the adoption of clean industry standards and attract new clean tech industries in the future, and working with Portland haulers to improve Portland’s waste collection systems.
Before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, Oliveira worked for the City of San Francisco, focused on advancing the nexus between climate action, job creation and innovation. He led the development of the City’s 2014 climate-action strategy, including the launch of the internationally lauded 0-50-100-Roots climate communications framework. Along with helping shape waste reduction, transportation and energy policies for San Francisco, Oliveira launched the Environment Now program, a workforce program that continues to create good, green jobs. His work included development of innovative partnerships with the likes of Google, IDEO and Adobe to launch groundbreaking climate programming around food-waste reduction and tech incubation.
Along with annual "Dad of the Year" awards from his two kids, Oliveira was recognized with the Good Government Award by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, the highest honor a public servant in San Francisco can receive.
Public Works - Deputy City Administrator
Millicent Williams
Programs: Parks & Recreation, Transportation, Water and Environmental Services
A career public servant and graduate of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's School of Business & Industry, Millicent Williams has served as the Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) since July of 2023. The 1,000-employee bureau is responsible for planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the city's transportation system which includes $21B in infrastructure assets (roads, sidewalks, bridges, signals and streetlights, capital planning and project delivery, regulatory and permitting services, parking and right-of-way management, EV/AV policy, modal administration and coordination, Portland Streetcar and the aerial tram, etc.). In that role, she supported the goal of improved project delivery and led the bureau in identifying sustainable funding that will be focused on addressing the bureau's overall operational effectiveness and long-standing maintenance backlog.
Millicent is a five-time Mayoral appointee and has served as Executive Director of Serve DC - the Mayor's Office on Volunteerism, President/CEO of the DC Youth Investment Trust Corporation and Director of the Washington DC Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, she served as Coordinator of Emergency Management Operations and Parks and Community Engagement Administrator for the City of Glenn Heights.
Millicent rejoined the PBOT team after having served as Otak's Oregon/SW Washington Regional Director for the Public Sector and as Corporate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In her previous work at PBOT she served as the Capital Programs Division Manager from 2017-2020 and as the bureau's Deputy Director from 2020-2021.
Organization
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How was this organization structure decided? Learn more about the history of the City Organization project.
Why did we create service areas? Read more about the transition project and the changes Portland voters approved in 2022.
Looking for information on City Council? Go to Portland.Gov/Council.