01 — Motion to Amend the Budget to Support Our Storefronts – Continue and Expand Repair Grant Program (Amended on the Dais - Vote Passed)

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June 11, 2025 Councilor Ryan Ryan 01 – Motion to Amend the Budget to Support Our Storefronts – Continue and Expand Repair Grant Program (Amended on the Dais - Vote Passed) Motion to realign $1.51,000,000 million from Prosper Portland’s General Fund resources to the Restore and Repair Grant program. • Represents an internal realignment that does not require alteration of appropriation. Ryan 02 – Motion to Amend the Budget to Support our Storefronts – Storefront Vacancies Data Collection (Withdrawn) Motion to allocate $529,997 in ongoing General Fund resource within Prosper Portland to build capacity in the Small Business Office to perform surveying and produce baseline data to assess the locations and volume of empty storefronts and businesses in Portland and to perform exit interviews with businesses who close or relocate outside of Portland. Allocate $529,997 in ongoing General Fund to build capacity in the Prosper Portland Small Business Office to perform 1) storefront vacancy surveying and 2) exit interviews that will produce baseline data of the number of empty storefronts in Portland and reasons that businesses close or leave. These efforts will result in creating an inventory of vacant storefronts that will be presented in an annual report to the City Council and a living point in time dashboard and mapping. Also, the interviews will provide City Council with data regarding reasons that businesses close or leave Portland. The development of the surveying and exit interview approaches will be done with consultation with the Public Environment Management Office (PEMO) as well as other partner City bureaus. The goal of this program is to provide an overall picture of the local business ecosystem to help inform City Council policy decisions regarding the business community. The funding will support 3.00 FTE – one Coordinator and two Analysts - and associated materials and services costs. The program staff will develop a data dashboard and mapping that reflects point in time and cumulative data regarding 1) vacant storefronts counted to date, 2) total number of storefronts counted to date, 3) the geographic location of the vacant storefronts, 4) number of businesses leaving a location for reasons of closure or relocation, 5) identification of any actions, measure or interventions that the city could have taken to avert business closures or relocation. The Prosper Portland Small Business Office will deliver a combined annual report to Portland City Council on or before January 31 of each year; there may be an accompanying work session scheduled for this topic if requested by City Council. 73

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