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Purpose, role, bylaws of Fixing Our Streets Oversight Committee, the appointed body ensuring accountability of the 10-cent local gas tax and heavy vehicle use tax known collectively as the Fixing Our Streets program at the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT).
About the committee
The Fixing Our Streets Oversight Committee plays an important role in ensuring the accountability of the 10-cent gas tax voters first approved in May 2016 and renewed in 2020 and 2024. The list of projects, construction schedule, and line-by-line budget for Fixing Our Streets projects are overseen by both PBOT project managers and this appointed 16-member oversight body.
The diverse group of Portlanders that make up the Oversight Committee bring with them not only budget and project management experience, but a wide range of interests within the transportation community.
Purpose and role of the Fixing Our Streets Oversight Committee
- Monitor revenues, expenditures, and program implementation for the Fixing Our Streets program.
- Provide guidance to City Council on the effective use of new resources.
- Review program priorities, spending, and any necessary revisions to project lists and financial plans, including the annual program audit. May make recommendation to City Council for project list revisions.
- Monitor construction impacts to businesses, neighborhoods, and residents.
- Monitor utilization of disadvantaged, minority-owned, women-owned, emerging small businesses and service-disabled veterans business enterprises (D/M/W/ESB/SDVBE) to support community benefit.
- Provide an annual report to City Council containing the above information.
Fixing Our Streets Committee Members
Fixing Our Streets Committee Members - Updated July 2025
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Business Representative: 51+ employees | Stephen McLandrich, Co-Chair |
| Business Representative: 1-50 employees | Erik Lawrence |
| District 1 | Jeffrey Hinton |
| District 2 | Robin Washington |
| District 3 | Robyn Webb |
| District 4 | Keith Liden |
| Modal Representative: People biking | Ed Abrahamson |
| Modal Representative: Freight | Sorin Garber |
| Modal Representative: People driving | Jennifer Polis |
| Modal Representative: Pedestrians | Claire Vlach |
| Modal Representative: Transit riders | Dan O'Neil |
| Modal Representative: People with disabilities | Sky McLeod |
| Nonprofit Representative: Low-income, communities of color | Abby Griffith |
| Transportation Expert: Paving | Wayne Bauer, Co-Chair |
| Transportation Expert: Construction | Greg Griffin |