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Council Meetings — June 2025
25 recorded sessions in June 2025. Each session page has the full transcript and summary.
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Council session — Thu, Jun 26, 2025
1 hr 59 min
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- The committee reviewed five nominees for the Portland Planning Commission and considered sending the appointments to the full council for confirmation.
- Outside experts presented on health risks of methane gas appliances and the case for switching buildings to electric heating and cooking.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 25, 2025
5 hr 2 min
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- Council suspended its rules to add a new item repealing the one-year extension of children's levy funding and instead approve the original allocation committee recommendations.
- Dozens of people, including allocation committee members and nonprofit leaders, testified about the children's levy funding dispute, many urging council to fund the original recommended grantees.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 24, 2025
1 hr 4 min · one of 4 recordings this date
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- City housing staff presented a 10 year report showing over 130 million dollars invested in the North and Northeast housing strategy for displacement prevention, homeownership and rental housing.
- Community oversight committee members said new city council members have shown little engagement with their work, calling the lack of attendance disappointing.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 24, 2025
1 hr 59 min · one of 4 recordings this date
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- The committee considered two nominees for the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing, a body created to bring community oversight to policing.
- Experts presented on how fireworks cause serious distress for veterans with PTSD and for pets across the city.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 24, 2025
1 hr 54 min · one of 4 recordings this date
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- Council held a second work session on renewing the parks levy, aiming to give staff enough direction to draft a levy for the July council meeting.
- Staff presented four example levy scenarios, with rates ranging from about $1.37 to $1.48, showing different mixes of maintenance, programming and capital repairs.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 24, 2025
1 hr 17 min · one of 4 recordings this date
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- Committee heard a staff presentation marking the ten year anniversary of the north/northeast housing strategy, covering investments in home repair, homeownership and rental housing.
- Oversight committee members said no members of the new city council had attended their monthly meetings or engaged with the committee since taking office.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 23, 2025
1 hr 25 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- Staff presented financing options for a roughly $200 million sidewalk and street paving program, covering possible funding sources, bond timing, and repayment terms.
- Staff explained the city is nearing its policy limit for general-fund-backed borrowing, leaving only a few million dollars of room before fiscal year 2028.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 23, 2025
1 hr 48 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- The committee reviewed a resident's nomination to the civil service board's public seat and took a vote on recommending the appointment to the full council.
- One member said it was concerning that a nominee for the board's neutral public seat had a mostly management background, questioning the mayor's vetting of such appointments.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 23, 2025
1 hr 40 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- The committee considered transferring a closed section of Southeast Oak Street near Laurelhurst Park to parks for pickleball courts, a skate ramp and bike track.
- A resident representing the neighborhood association testified in support of the land transfer, saying it meets a district priority for more park facilities.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 18, 2025
4 hr 13 min
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- The council took up appointing members to the new community board for police accountability, following a rushed work session the day before.
- The council took up the city's annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 17, 2025
2 hr 22 min
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- The council held a work session to discuss filling appointments to the new Community Board for Police Accountability, narrowing a list of candidates down to 21 members and six alternates.
- Staff explained the nominating committee process that scored 118 eligible applications and forwarded 40 finalists to council for review.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 16, 2025
1 hr 45 min
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- The committee considered a proposed ordinance that would temporarily waive system development charges for new residential housing projects citywide.
- Staff reported that new market rate housing fell to its lowest level in over ten years, with about 800 units built last year.
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Council session — Thu, Jun 12, 2025
1 hr 59 min
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- The committee took up amendments to the flood hazard areas code required to meet a federal flood insurance compliance deadline.
- Members of the public testified on the flood code amendments, including environmental advocates and representatives of industrial waterfront businesses.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 11, 2025
11 hr 23 min
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- Council continued working through dozens of FY2025-26 budget amendments across policy areas including parks, public safety, community engagement, and housing/homelessness.
- During public communications, speakers raised concerns about policing accountability, asked the council to review Portland's sister city agreement with a city in Israel, and shared results of a rider survey about transit safety and shelters.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 10, 2025
1 hr 22 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- The tax commission held its annual public hearing to review and certify the city of portland's new budget under the city's new form of government.
- Many residents testified that the budget process was rushed, lacked transparency, and left the public without enough chances to weigh in.
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Council session — Tue, Jun 10, 2025
5 hr 21 min · one of 3 recordings this date
Editor-reviewedPortland City Council convened on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, with roll call showing the body present, following which rules of decorum were read. The session opened technical budget items (agenda items 1–7) related to state shared revenue…
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Council session — Tue, Jun 10, 2025
42 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- Due to concerns about losing quorum, the committee postponed the second agenda item on unified housing strategy objectives to a future meeting.
- The committee heard a presentation on the 10 year North and Northeast Housing Strategy report but took no formal action on it.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 9, 2025
1 hr 44 min · one of 2 recordings this date
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- Council considered and sent forward the fiscal year 2025-26 budget for the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, which funds cable franchise administration and community media grants.
- Staff presented a year-end over-expenditure ordinance making technical adjustments so every city fund ends the fiscal year in balance.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 9, 2025
2 hr 4 min · one of 2 recordings this date
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- Staff presented a simplified flowchart showing how an idea becomes a law, and members discussed clarifying when items can skip committee review.
- Council discussed creating two tiers of sponsorship, lead sponsors and co-sponsors, to show who did the work on a proposal.
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Council session — Thu, Jun 5, 2025
3 hr 35 min
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- Council considered a $350,000 settlement for a lawsuit after a city parks truck rear-ended a driver on an icy on-ramp in 2022.
- Council considered a $75,000 workers compensation settlement for a city plumbing inspector with long term health claims.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 4, 2025
1 hr 14 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- Council members proposed and discussed numerous budget amendments covering parks funding, housing preservation, overtime shifts, and opioid settlement money for recovery housing.
- Budget staff reported the size of the current budget surplus and gave updated figures on new revenue from recent fee increases.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 4, 2025
4 hr 12 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- Council considered paying $942,600 to settle two lawsuit claims after a park light pole fell while a hammock was tied to it, injuring two people at Irving Park.
- Council considered paying $1,660,400 to settle a wrongful death claim after a child drowned at a city pool near Montavilla Community Center in 2023.
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Council session — Wed, Jun 4, 2025
38 min · one of 3 recordings this date
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- This was a budget work session for councilors to discuss and withdraw proposed amendments before next week's budget committee meetings, without taking formal action or public testimony.
- A councilor proposed a budget note and amendment to build a shared plan for restructuring the office of civic life while restoring funding for diversity, neighborhood, and district coalition programs.
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- The committee considered minutes from earlier meetings and took no objection to them.
- The committee considered a resolution urging the mayor to make Portland a signatory to the international Swimmable Cities Charter.
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Council session — Mon, Jun 2, 2025
2 hr 10 min
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- The council held a work session because the current parks levy is expiring and it needs to decide what levy proposal, if any, to send to voters this year.
- Staff presented funding scenarios showing that letting the levy expire or renewing it at a low rate would mean tens of millions of dollars in additional cuts next year.