POEM Community Task Force Meeting - February 10

Public Meeting
All welcome! Opportunity for public comment and materials available online. Please submit all comments via email to POEMComments@portlandoregon.gov. Comments received will be recorded and shared with the Task Force.
6:00 pm 8:00 pm

Community Task Force Meeting #2

Meeting objectives 

  • Review and agree upon Task Force Charter, working agreement and by-laws  
  • Begin to gain a collective understanding of Portland’s transportation history, drivers of change, and inequitable outcomes 

Agenda

Time  

Agenda item  

Speaker  

5:30 p.m.  

Public Officials Training   

Dinner for Task Force members and refreshments available  

6:00 p.m.  

Welcome and opening remarks   

  • Finalize meeting #1 summary   
  • Meeting #1 parking lot follow-up  
  • Emma Sagor, facilitator  

6:05 p.m.  

Public comment  

  • Emma Sagor, facilitator  

6:20 p.m.  

Task Force Charter and By-Laws  

  • Review draft Charter and working agreement   
  • Communication and information sharing protocols  
  • Clarifying questions  
  • Emma Sagor, facilitator  
  • John Brady, PBOT Director of Communications   
  • Task Force members  

6:45 p.m.  

Presentation - Portland's transportation history: Why centering equity matters 

  • Shoshana Cohen, Project Manager 

  • Noah Siegel, Interim Deputy   
    Director, PBOT  

7:10 p.m.  

Small-group discussions: 

  • Reflections on presentation: 
  • What history have we missed? 
  • What other examples, stories or lived experience do you have to share? 
  • What does this mean for this conversation about equitable mobility? 
  • Project strategy team, small group facilitators  
  • Task Force members  

7:40 p.m.  

Report out and plenary discussion  

  • Emma Sagor, facilitator  
  • Task Force members  

7:55 p.m.  

Wrap up and next steps  

  • Action items  
  • Look-ahead to meeting #3 
  • Emma Sagor, facilitator  

 Meeting materials