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12 — Motion to Amend the Budget to Provide $225,000 in one- time General Fund for the Downtown Marketing Initiative as previously funded (Vote Passed)

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Breadcrumb: Councilor Zimmerman > 12 — Motion to Amend the Budget to Provide $225,000 in one- time General Fund for the Downtown Marketing Initiative as previously funded (Vote Passed)

June 11, 2025 and other advocacy and volunteer groups. Their maintenance of signs and trails is not budgeted for action in the PP&R budget. • Increase Portland Parks and Recreation bureau program expenses by $50,000 one- time. • Update Attachments A-H as needed. Zimmerman 12 – Motion to Amend the Budget to Provide $225,000 in one- time General Fund for the Downtown Marketing Initiative as previously funded (Vote Passed) Motion to fund the Downtown Marketing Initiative, which is a long-standing partnership between governments, local business, and community groups. Portland has invested in this for many years, and it was excluded from this year’s allocation in the City Administrator’s Office budget. • Increase one-time general fund bureau program expenses by $225,000 in the City Administrator’s Office. • Update Attachments A-H as needed. Zimmerman 13 - Amend to move 100% of Parks Levy funds ($2,099,278) from the Tree Regulation Program within the Urban Forestry Division and reallocate the Parks Levy funding to the Parks Maintenance program (Vote Passed)

  1. This restores an additional $2.1 million to the Parks Maintenance program that was reduced in the Mayor’s proposed budget.
  2. Park Levy funds are not intended to fund code compliance and enforcement officials and their use is better aligned with Parks Maintenance. This is particularly sensitive as the City prepares to refer a levy to voters in November 2025, and the City should take every effort to ensure voters know their support for the levy is dedicated to meaningful recreation and maintenance programs.
  3. This amendment does not make any changes to the Urban Forestry Division programs Science and Outreach, and Tree Maintenance as these are contained programs in different parts of the Urban Forestry budget. 86

June 11, 2025 Zimmerman 14 - Amend to move all aspects of the Tree Regulation program and staff from the Urban Forestry programs in the Parks and Recreation Bureau to the Portland Permitting and Development Bureau (Vote Passed)

  1. Code Enforcement, permitting, and compliance work requires evaluation and critical application skills and organizational culture to fairly and appropriately apply city code. The Parks Bureau is poorly positioned and untrained to be able to provide such a service to the Portland community.
  2. Rather, placing Tree Regulation inside of PP&D allows a system of oversight, organizational culture, and holistic application of the tree code Title 11. This amendment does not cut any funding the Tree Regulation program.
  3. The Bureau leadership of PP&D will have full authority to implement Title 11, design of and work prioritization for the administration of Tree Regulation programs currently housed in the Park Bureau Urban Forestry Division
  4. This amendment is to be implemented no later than October 1, 2025. Zimmerman 15 - Amendment (Brought on Dais - Vote Passed)
  5. Increase Bureau Operating Expense by $2.1 million to the Parks Maintenance program.
  6. Increase position authority in Portland Parks & Recreation Parks Maintenance program by 10 FTE.
  7. Decrease Bureau Operating Expense by $2.1 million to the Tree Regulation program.
  8. Decrease position authority in Portland Parks & Recreation Urban Forestry program by 10 FTE.
  9. Update Attachments A-H as needed.
  10. Decrease Position Authority in Portland Parks & Recreation Urban Forestry program by 27.0 FTE. • Increase Position Authority in the Portland Permitting & Development organizational unit by 27.0 permanent ongoing FTE. • Reduce Bureau Operating Expenses in the Portland Clean Energy and Community Benefits Fund in Portland Parks & Recreation by $3.6M in Urban Forestry. • Increase Bureau Operating Expenses in the Portland Clean Energy and Community Benefits Fund in Portland Permitting & Development by $3.6M. • Update Attachments A-H as needed. 87

June 11, 2025 Zimmerman 16 Amendment (Brought on Dais - Vote Failed) Amend to move $1.2 million of Opioid Settlement funds into a contingency policy set aside intended for access and payment to Multnomah County for the future operations of a 24/7 drop-off sobering center once opened. a. The city of Portland has been a long-time participant with Multnomah County in designing and crafting the new sobering center program. City services desire a better alternative for severely intoxicated people and a sobering center offers that solution. As a primary user, the city of Portland commits with funding to helping Multnomah County to bring a sobering center to the Portland community as soon as possible Zimmerman 17 Budget Note (Brought on Dais, Vote Passed) Amend Attachment D to add a budget note as follows: The City Attorney will conduct a deep analysis and make every effort to invite alignment of the analysis across the League of Oregon Cities, the Oregon Attorney General, and the District Attorney’s Association if those associations or offices are willing, regarding the siting and operations of ICE centers within the City or other Oregon cities, and the implications and application of Portland and Oregon’s sanctuary laws in order to provide renewed guidance to the City Council, all city officials, and to provide the basis for the City of Portland to ensure all city officials and all city employees have firm, foundational, and legally sound understanding when/if resisting federal overreach and/or refusing to provide assistance to the federal government for actions deemed illegal inside the State of Oregon, given the ongoing threats of legal action by the federal government against city and state officials for simply following their local and state laws. This analysis should also serve as a shared guiding report for other neighboring jurisdictions in an effort to provide united and coherent understanding across multiple jurisdictions in Oregon given this rapidly emerging need of legal opinions and actions. This note should be delivered in the most appropriate manner deemed by the City Attorney and Mayor for city officials to receive legal guidance and strategy and while balancing the needs of any partnering office or participating association. 88

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