The City is incredibly fortunate to be navigating a historic surplus of $62 million dollars. These funds provide a crucial opportunity to address our most urgent needs, assist our most vulnerable community members, and stabilize Portland while the upstream investments we’ve made, and will make, in the next fiscal year take shape.
The proposal reflects the Mayor's priorities of Houselessness, Community Safety, and Economic Recovery. The key investments put $18.9 million dollars into addressing houselessness, over $7 million dollars into improving our public safety system, and $2.2 million dollars into supporting economic recovery.
A copy of the Mayor’s prepared remarks are available here:
You can watch the full work session here.
If you want to stay engaged in the Fall BMP conversation, we invite you to take one or both of the following steps:
- Provide oral testimony to Council on Nov. 10 by signing up at the Council Agenda website between Nov. 5 at 9am through Nov. 9 at 4pm.
- Submit written testimony by emailing the Council clerk cctestimony@portlandoregon.gov at any time, preferably before November 10 so Council offices hear your voice prior to convening.