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Portland’s Council Votes, Verified. Its Public Money, Sourced and Dated.

The Portland Record is a record of Portland city government built to be checked: final City Council votes are compared against two City sources (the council’s vote index and the item’s own page) and appear only after the editor approves them; every figure links its source and shows an “as of” date; and corrections are logged.

How the checking works · How this differs from other Portland resources

Verified Votes →

520 verified roll calls, through 2026-10-01

How each councilor voted, from the City’s written record, shown once the editor has approved it. Each of the 344 votes on an item matched in both City sources. 176 are roll calls on amendments, recorded in one City source and labeled as amendments.

Voters and the Council →

6 ballot measures 6 sponsor-disclosed polls

Certified ballot-measure results next to the council’s recorded roll calls on actions tied to those measures. The page computes no score.

Promised vs. Delivered →

5 voter-approved programs

One page each for Preschool for All (PFA) , Supportive Housing Services (SHS) , the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) , the parks levy , and the Arts Tax : what was promised next to what was reported, with the money, the council votes, and the audits. 16 promise records so far, across 3 of the 5 programs.

What It Costs You ↓

Estimate what the voter-approved programs bill your household this year, worked out in your browser from each administering government’s published rate schedule. Add your district to see who represents you.

How Portland's city government works — council, mayor, city administrator

Since January 1, 2025, Portland has had a mayor-council form of government, adopted when voters approved City Charter amendments in November 2022 (Measure 26-228); from 1913 through 2024 the city used a commission form of government.[1][2]

City Council. Twelve councilors, three from each of four geographic districts, hold the city's legislative power: making laws, appropriating money, and raising revenue.[3] Councilors, the mayor, and the auditor are elected by ranked-choice voting : councilors by district, the mayor and auditor citywide.[3][4]

Mayor. The mayor is not a member of the council. The mayor holds executive and administrative authority, oversees the city's bureaus , and proposes the annual budget, which must reach the council by May 5; the council, acting as the budget committee, approves it.[3] The mayor votes on council matters only to break a tie, on final passage of certain items when the council splits six to six.[3][5]

City administrator. The city administrator is a professional manager appointed by the mayor, subject to council confirmation, who is responsible for administering City affairs: appointing and removing bureau directors (other than the City Attorney and the Chief of Police) and preparing the budget under the mayor's direction.[3]

Council president. Each year the councilors elect a council president from among themselves, who presides over council meetings and refers incoming items to a committee or the full council.[3][5]

Committees. Council committees of four to six councilors, plus a Committee of the Whole that includes all twelve, review items in a topic area and make recommendations; the full council makes the final decisions.[5][6]

Your district. To find which of the four districts you live in, use the address lookup on the home page, or see the district pages on portland.gov/council. For who currently holds each office, see the leadership listing on portland.gov. Unfamiliar terms are defined in the Glossary.

  1. [1] Council Clerk: Learn about City government
  2. [2] City Charter index and change history, Measure 26-228 (effective January 1, 2025)
  3. [3] City Charter Chapter 2, §§ 2-101, 2-102, 2-110, 2-128, 2-201, 2-301, 2-401, 2-406
  4. [4] City Charter Chapter 3, § 3-102 (Ranked Choice Voting)
  5. [5] City Code Chapter 3.02, §§ 3.02.030 J, 3.02.040, 3.02.050
  6. [6] Portland City Council: Policy Committees
  7. Sources retrieved 2026-09-26.

What it costs you, and who represents you

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Your privacy. The estimate is worked out in your browser: income, filing status, rent-or-own, and assessed value stay on this page and are never sent anywhere — the site's anonymous counters (see the footer) never see them. The address box is optional and is used only when you press Look up: it goes to our lookup service, which passes it to the US Census Bureau's geocoder to find your district on the City of Portland's council-district map, and to PortlandMaps (City of Portland / Multnomah County) for your assessed value. That service stores no address — its only record is an anonymous daily count that a lookup happened and which district number came back. Your district choice is remembered in this browser's local storage so the page can greet you with it; clearing your browser data clears it.

Estimated, per year, under the published schedules

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    See where every dollar flows →

    Arithmetic on the programs' own published rate schedules, each linked and dated on the Voter-Approved Taxes page. An estimate for orientation, not tax advice.

    District vote feeds: District 1 RSS · District 2 RSS · District 3 RSS · District 4 RSS