Negotiations between the Portland Metro Chamber and city officials over the appropriate size of a parks levy to ask the City Council to send to the November ballot have ended, at least for now.

The commission stopped short of saying definitively whether the practice was antithetical to the Small Donor Elections program.

Cornell Wesley is set to assume control of a agency increasingly at odds with the City Council.

Although the bill rescinds “unobligated” funds, Albina Vision Trust remains optimistic about $488 million in federal highway grants.

“Our neighborhood ecosystem is severely out of balance.”

“New York City has 3,000 of these things. Based on road miles, I think we should have 1,000.”

The council appears amenable to a Parks Levy rate between $1.35 and $1.50.

Layoffs are likely, but the city’s transportation bureau remained opaque about the consequences of the bill’s death.

In a Friday morning email, Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane—who in recent weeks has publicly clashed with Pirtle-Guiney—took umbrage at the president’s actions.

Close to ten BIPOC executive directors of nonprofit organizations testified to the council, railing them for rejecting the funding recommendations.

A handful of councilors who voted for the full remand reportedly regretted their decision soon after the vote, council staff have told WW.

The Portland City Council has thrown the Portland Children’s Levy into disarray by rejecting the entirety of its $70.9 million grants package and instead extending existing grants by a year, citing concerns about how nonprofits were scored by the allocation committee.

Portland Parks and Recreation director Adena Long was placed on administrative leave from the city this week.

For the past week, WW has asked protesters as well as elected officials a single question.

The city’s tree inspectors are moving from Urban Forestry to the city’s centralized permitting office.