{ "meetingId": "2026-02-18-1", "title": "Portland City Council PM Session 02/18/26", "date": "2026-02-18T18:00:00-08:00", "duration": 119, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_Bp3zMtsk", "videoId": "Dc_Bp3zMtsk", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/council/agenda/2026/2/18", "agendaItems": [ { "number": 2, "title": "Public Comment", "type": "Public communication", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/public-communication/placed-file/february-18-2026-public-communications" }, { "number": 4, "title": "Authorize submission of a minor boundary change request to the State of Oregon to amend the Portland Enterprise Zone boundary", "type": "Resolution", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/adopted/37739" }, { "number": 5, "title": "Establish City Council’s priorities for the allocation of approximately $20,700,000 in unspent Rental Services Office funds and urge the Mayor to reflect these priorities in the Proposed Budget (Placed on file per Document Number 2026-210)", "type": "Resolution", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/placed-file/2025-478" }, { "number": 6, "title": "Adopt a supplemental budget for the Portland Housing Bureau for FY 2025-26 (Placed on file per Document Number 2026-210)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/placed-file/2026-010" }, { "number": 7, "title": "*Adopt a supplemental budget for the Portland Housing Bureau (Placed on file per Document Number 2026-210)", "type": "Emergency ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/placed-file/2026-070" }, { "number": 8, "title": "Declare bridge between SE 17th Ave and SE 26th Ave to be named Brooklyn Bridge and direct the City Administrator to authorize update of signage as appropriate", "type": "Resolution", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/adopted/37740" }, { "number": 9, "title": "Amend Council Committee Code to allow for the creation of a Council Committee of the Whole (amend Code Section 3.02.050)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/passed/192147" }, { "number": 10, "title": "Establish new City Council committees", "type": "Resolution", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/adopted/37741" }, { "number": 11, "title": "Amend Civil Rights Code related to sexual orientation and family status definitions and amend nondiscrimination clauses (amend Code Section 14A.50.110 and Code Chapter 23.01)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/passed/192153" }, { "number": 12, "title": "Declare the City of Portland will defend the rights of transgender people and all of the LGBTQIA2S+ community", "type": "Resolution", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/adopted/37743" } ], "summary": "**Portland's City Council put off action on roughly $20.7 million in unspent housing funds Wednesday, voting 8-4 to indefinitely postpone all three items in a Housing Bureau package after Council President Jamie Dunphy said he had not yet been briefed on the money.** ([01:54:28](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:54:28))\n\n## Housing funds postponed after fight over process\n\nThe package covered a resolution setting priorities for the roughly **$20.7 million** in unspent Rental Services Office funds and two supplemental budgets for the Portland Housing Bureau. Dunphy (District 1) moved to postpone all three indefinitely, saying he was \"not even receiving my own briefing from the Portland Housing Bureau on what these funds are until tomorrow\" ([01:24:00](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:24:00)) and was \"not clear that the amendments on the table right now actually pass code.\" He said he had held a work session for **Thursday, March 5**.\n\nCouncilor Loretta Smith (District 1), a sponsor, fought the motion. She argued the council had been briefed and had a February memo laying out the uses, said \"justice delayed is justice denied,\" and told colleagues, \"This feels like institutional racism\" ([01:41:50](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:41:50)), describing the repeated delays as a structural pattern affecting Black and brown residents. She said \"The District 1 people are abandoning the people that they actually say they want to help\" and told the presiding officer, \"You don't need this job. You need something else, because this job is about helping people.\"\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) said she was \"struggling with postponing this item\" because close to two dozen people had signed up to testify. Councilors backing the delay pointed to the shifting numbers: Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) said the conversation had grown from about $21 million to roughly **$100 million** in newly identified funds across Housing Bureau accounts, and Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) said, \"I don't know where this extra $20 million of appropriations came from ... in Councilor Smith's package\" ([01:33:00](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:33:00)). Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) proposed hearing testimony first and then postponing. Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) said only, \"I agree.\"\n\nCouncilor Sameer Kanal (District 2) cited council rule 3.02.040, that councilors \"confine themselves to the question under debate and refrain from personal criticism\" ([01:48:30](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:48:30)). Smith raised a point of order asking whether testimony could be heard after a postponement vote ([01:50:31](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:50:31)). City Attorney Robert Taylor said the maker could withdraw the motion to allow testimony first, then re-offer it. Dunphy declined: \"I am not going to withdraw my motion at this time\" ([01:50:53](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:50:53)). Smith asked to divide the question, and the council took three separate roll calls, each postponing an item **8-4** ([01:55:22](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:55:22)). No public testimony on the items was heard. The items are procedurally dead, but Dunphy said he would bring a new ordinance to a later meeting after the work session.\n\n## Alaska Airlines hangar clears Enterprise Zone step\n\nThe council voted **12-0** to authorize a minor boundary change to the Portland Enterprise Zone, a step tied to a proposed Alaska Airlines hangar project at Portland International Airport ([01:22:26](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:22:26)). The item had been delayed a week at Pirtle-Guiney's request to allow talks on labor standards.\n\nKanal asked whether the project would proceed without the tax abatement. Scott Kennedy, Senior Manager of State and Local Government Affairs for Alaska Airlines, said the company was \"very early still in the planning process\" and the incentive \"will enable us to move forward,\" citing **more than 100 permanent positions**, largely union-represented ([01:09:38](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:09:38)). Green said the committee had not examined whether the project would happen without the abatement, and put the jobs at a weighted average of \"$92,000, maybe $94,000 per year\" ([01:11:30](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:11:30)). Randall Friesen of the Columbia Pacific Building and Construction Trades Council, representing about 16,000 workers, said no community benefit agreement was reached on construction labor but credited Green and Pirtle-Guiney for connecting the trades with Alaska. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) said he was \"excited for this opportunity to help boost investments and jobs.\"\n\n## ICE facility dominates public comment\n\nFive people spoke during public communications. Three demanded the council revoke the ICE conditional use permit and shut down the McAdam facility. Isabella Shepherd said a tear gas canister \"set me on fire\" and cited city charter powers to remove nuisances. Elijah Tahir contrasted fines \"up to $5,000 for serving\" foie gras with a \"$934 monthly bill\" for ICE landlord Stuart Lindquist and said people were held \"as long as 47 days\" beyond a 12-hour limit ([00:14:00](meeting:2026-02-18-1@00:14:00)). Beatriz Ibarra, of Portland Contra Deportaciones and the Revoke the ICE Permit campaign, said the permit requires detainees be shackled during transport.\n\nTwo renters spoke on the housing funds. Tristan Marquise, a renter in District 2, cited 12,094 Multnomah County eviction cases filed in 2025 — 93% for non-payment — and homelessness rising from 14,361 to 17,490, \"over 20% in one year\" ([00:23:20](meeting:2026-02-18-1@00:23:20)), and urged funds toward rental assistance and eviction defense.\n\nCity Administrator Raymond C. Lee told the council that Portland Permitting and Development issued a decision February 13 upholding the land use violation at the ICE facility, and that the property owner has until **March 16, 2026** to correct the violations ([00:26:37](meeting:2026-02-18-1@00:26:37)). During his update the chair declared \"this is a disruption,\" issued a warning, and directed security to remove individuals ([00:28:05](meeting:2026-02-18-1@00:28:05)); the council took a 10-minute recess.\n\n## What's next\n\nThe council held a work session on the housing funds for **Thursday, March 5**, with Dunphy saying he would return an ordinance to a later council meeting afterward. On the ICE facility, the property owner has until March 16, 2026 to correct the land use violations and 10 business days to appeal, while staff continues rulemaking on the detention facility impact fee ordinance with Morillo and Green. The council recessed **10-0**, with Smith and Zimmerman absent, to reconvene Thursday, February 19 at 2 p.m. ([01:58:16](meeting:2026-02-18-1@01:58:16))", "summaryText": "Portland's City Council put off action on roughly $20.7 million in unspent housing funds Wednesday, voting 8-4 to indefinitely postpone all three items in a Housing Bureau package after Council President Jamie Dunphy said he had not yet been briefed on the money. (01:54:28)\n\nThe package covered a resolution setting priorities for the roughly $20.7 million in unspent Rental Services Office funds and two supplemental budgets for the Portland Housing Bureau. Dunphy (District 1) moved to postpone all three indefinitely, saying he was \"not even receiving my own briefing from the Portland Housing Bureau on what these funds are until tomorrow\" (01:24:00) and was \"not clear that the amendments on the table right now actually pass code.\" He said he had held a work session for Thursday, March 5.\n\nCouncilor Loretta Smith (District 1), a sponsor, fought the motion. She argued the council had been briefed and had a February memo laying out the uses, said \"justice delayed is justice denied,\" and told colleagues, \"This feels like institutional racism\" (01:41:50), describing the repeated delays as a structural pattern affecting Black and brown residents. She said \"The District 1 people are abandoning the people that they actually say they want to help\" and told the presiding officer, \"You don't need this job. You need something else, because this job is about helping people.\"\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) said she was \"struggling with postponing this item\" because close to two dozen people had signed up to testify. Councilors backing the delay pointed to the shifting numbers: Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) said the conversation had grown from about $21 million to roughly $100 million in newly identified funds across Housing Bureau accounts, and Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) said, \"I don't know where this extra $20 million of appropriations came from ... in Councilor Smith's package\" (01:33:00). Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) proposed hearing testimony first and then postponing. Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) said only, \"I agree.\"\n\nCouncilor Sameer Kanal (District 2) cited council rule 3.02.040, that councilors \"confine themselves to the question under debate and refrain from personal criticism\" (01:48:30). Smith raised a point of order asking whether testimony could be heard after a postponement vote (01:50:31). City Attorney Robert Taylor said the maker could withdraw the motion to allow testimony first, then re-offer it. Dunphy declined: \"I am not going to withdraw my motion at this time\" (01:50:53). Smith asked to divide the question, and the council took three separate roll calls, each postponing an item 8-4 (01:55:22). No public testimony on the items was heard. The items are procedurally dead, but Dunphy said he would bring a new ordinance to a later meeting after the work session.\n\nThe council voted 12-0 to authorize a minor boundary change to the Portland Enterprise Zone, a step tied to a proposed Alaska Airlines hangar project at Portland International Airport (01:22:26). The item had been delayed a week at Pirtle-Guiney's request to allow talks on labor standards.\n\nKanal asked whether the project would proceed without the tax abatement. Scott Kennedy, Senior Manager of State and Local Government Affairs for Alaska Airlines, said the company was \"very early still in the planning process\" and the incentive \"will enable us to move forward,\" citing more than 100 permanent positions, largely union-represented (01:09:38). Green said the committee had not examined whether the project would happen without the abatement, and put the jobs at a weighted average of \"$92,000, maybe $94,000 per year\" (01:11:30). Randall Friesen of the Columbia Pacific Building and Construction Trades Council, representing about 16,000 workers, said no community benefit agreement was reached on construction labor but credited Green and Pirtle-Guiney for connecting the trades with Alaska. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) said he was \"excited for this opportunity to help boost investments and jobs.\"\n\nFive people spoke during public communications. Three demanded the council revoke the ICE conditional use permit and shut down the McAdam facility. Isabella Shepherd said a tear gas canister \"set me on fire\" and cited city charter powers to remove nuisances. Elijah Tahir contrasted fines \"up to $5,000 for serving\" foie gras with a \"$934 monthly bill\" for ICE landlord Stuart Lindquist and said people were held \"as long as 47 days\" beyond a 12-hour limit (00:14:00). Beatriz Ibarra, of Portland Contra Deportaciones and the Revoke the ICE Permit campaign, said the permit requires detainees be shackled during transport.\n\nTwo renters spoke on the housing funds. Tristan Marquise, a renter in District 2, cited 12,094 Multnomah County eviction cases filed in 2025 — 93% for non-payment — and homelessness rising from 14,361 to 17,490, \"over 20% in one year\" (00:23:20), and urged funds toward rental assistance and eviction defense.\n\nCity Administrator Raymond C. Lee told the council that Portland Permitting and Development issued a decision February 13 upholding the land use violation at the ICE facility, and that the property owner has until March 16, 2026 to correct the violations (00:26:37). During his update the chair declared \"this is a disruption,\" issued a warning, and directed security to remove individuals (00:28:05); the council took a 10-minute recess.\n\nThe council held a work session on the housing funds for Thursday, March 5, with Dunphy saying he would return an ordinance to a later council meeting afterward. On the ICE facility, the property owner has until March 16, 2026 to correct the land use violations and 10 business days to appeal, while staff continues rulemaking on the detention facility impact fee ordinance with Morillo and Green. The council recessed 10-0, with Smith and Zimmerman absent, to reconvene Thursday, February 19 at 2 p.m. (01:58:16)", "summaryLede": "Portland's City Council put off action on roughly $20.7 million in unspent housing funds Wednesday, voting 8-4 to indefinitely postpone all three items in a Housing Bureau package after Council President Jamie Dunphy said he had not yet been briefed on the money.", "sections": [ { "title": "Agenda Approval", "startTime": "00:06:29.887", "endTime": "00:10:15.828", "agendaItemNumber": 1, "items": [ { "title": "Agenda approval", "startTime": "00:06:29.887", "endTime": "00:10:15.828", "agendaItemNumber": 1 } ] }, { "title": "Public Communications", "startTime": "00:10:15.828", "endTime": "00:25:50.738", "agendaItemNumber": 2, "items": [ { "title": "Public Comment", "startTime": "00:10:15.828", "endTime": "00:25:50.738", "agendaItemNumber": 2 } ] }, { "title": "Committee Referral Report", "startTime": "00:25:50.738", "endTime": "01:05:43.103", 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436.367, "end": 437.257, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-27", "start": 437.5, "end": 438.811, "text": "Welcome to the Portland City Council.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-28", "start": 439.119, "end": 446.133, "text": "To testify before council in person or virtually, you must sign up in advance on the council agenda at www.portland.gov/council/agenda.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-29", "start": 448.776, "end": 451.992, "text": "Information on engaging with council can be found on the council clerk's webpage.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-30", "start": 452.429, "end": 456.357, "text": "Individuals may testify for 3 minutes unless the presiding officer states otherwise.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-31", "start": 457.116, "end": 459.221, "text": "Your microphone will be muted when your time is over.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-32", "start": 460.018, "end": 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once.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-58", "start": 574.988, "end": 581.044, "text": "Sorry, any other, uh, concerns about the agenda this evening?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-59", "start": 583.12, "end": 587.988, "text": "Okay, then, uh, without objection, the agenda is approved.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-60", "start": 591.01, "end": 592.426, "text": "Keelan, can we please move to public communications?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-61", "start": 596.47, "end": 598.312, "text": "First up, we have Isabella Shepherd.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-62", "start": 601.9, "end": 602.271, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-63", "start": 602.336, "end": 602.449, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-64", "start": 602.82, "end": 603.03, "text": "Please—.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-65", "start": 603.143, "end": 604.969, "text": "Half of the public is still caught outside.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-66", "start": 605.567, "end": 611.027, "text": "Please say your name for the record and your pronouns, and you have 3 minutes or 5 minutes.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-67", "start": 611.54, "end": 614.174, "text": "Yeah, this is Isabella Shepherd, she/her.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 615.829, "end": 618.962, "text": "Elijah is second on public comment.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-69", "start": 619.765, "end": 620.649, "text": "He was stuck out there.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-70", "start": 620.874, "end": 621.906, "text": "Okay, I guess we're starting.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-71", "start": 622.409, "end": 627.819, "text": "Whenever we come to City Council asking you to shut down the Portland Ice facility, you respond saying it's out of your hands.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-72", "start": 628.257, "end": 632.017, "text": "You already issued a land use violation and it's with Portland Permitting and Development.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-73", "start": 632.371, "end": 640.116, "text": "We went to Permitting and Development and they said they have no power over the situation either, that they just do inspections and that City Council are the ones with the power.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-74", "start": 640.63, "end": 646.238, "text": "Each of you are passing the buck on to anyone else, trying to get the heat off yourselves and make excuses for inaction.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-75", "start": 646.736, "end": 653.228, "text": "You're both right though, they could start the reconsideration for ICE's conditional permit, but you could shut down the ICE facility yourselves.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-76", "start": 653.292, "end": 653.549, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-77", "start": 653.966, "end": 685.047, "text": "Per city charter, city has the— city council has the abilities to prevent the erection or cause the removal of buildings found to be unsafe to passersby or to other property, to restrain and exclude from the city businesses which may create a nuisance, and regulate the uses of land and structures within the city, to prevent and remove nuisances, to declare what shall constitute one, to punish persons committing nuisances, to provide the manner of removal of nuisances, and to make the cost of such removal a lien upon the property.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-78", "start": 685.737, "end": 695.822, "text": "A land use violation aside, you have the power to shut down the ICE facility, make its landlord Stuart Lindequist pay for it, and ban ever leasing to ICE again.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-79", "start": 696.399, "end": 699.029, "text": "You can investigate any department of the city.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-80", "start": 699.141, "end": 705.779, "text": "You say it's in Permitting and Development's hands, so why don't you investigate them for allowing ICE to delay the violation for 5 months?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-81", "start": 706.42, "end": 713.395, "text": "Obviously, you know what your own powers are, but I want the public to know that you are deliberately refusing to protect them from ICE.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-82", "start": 713.523, "end": 726.194, "text": "Councilmember At the end of January, DHS released a massive attack on thousands of protesters, including children, burying the neighborhood in chemicals and poisoning the air so the effects were felt for miles.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-83", "start": 726.613, "end": 729.931, "text": "The next day, they did the same attack on our protests of thousands.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-84", "start": 730.317, "end": 735.832, "text": "One of the tear gas canisters fell at my feet, spewing flames so hot it melted my pants.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-85", "start": 736.385, "end": 737.814, "text": "I set me on fire.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-86", "start": 738.512, "end": 739.583, "text": "They set me on fire.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-87", "start": 739.632, "end": 739.795, "text": "Order.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-88", "start": 742.011, "end": 742.428, "text": "Nothing.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-89", "start": 742.476, "end": 751.02, "text": "It was only after a federal judge's ruling, not your empty threats of a minuscule fine, that DHS has temporarily stopped using chemical weapons.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-90", "start": 751.437, "end": 754.146, "text": "You're not treating this like the emergency that it is.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-91", "start": 754.563, "end": 758.41, "text": "That's why we disrupt your meetings and started protesting at Mayor Wilson's house.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-92", "start": 758.971, "end": 759.82, "text": "It's why we're here now.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-93", "start": 759.949, "end": 761.439, "text": "You have to fucking do something.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-94", "start": 761.856, "end": 762.241, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-95", "start": 769.166, "end": 770.336, "text": "No, I have 30 seconds.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-96", "start": 771.795, "end": 786.255, "text": "Elijah, Elijah was waiting out there for me because I stopped in the disabled parking spot for 2 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"end": 805.027, "text": "Uh, Tahir.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-104", "start": 806.261, "end": 810.012, "text": "Uh, please go ahead and introduce yourself for the record, your pronouns, and go ahead.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-105", "start": 810.365, "end": 811.423, "text": "My name is Elijah Tahir.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-106", "start": 811.503, "end": 813.362, "text": "I'm here to speak about revoking the ICE permit.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-107", "start": 814.436, "end": 825.177, "text": "Uh, to clarify how much that you, the members of City Council, have clearly deprioritized the ongoing threat of ICE, it's important to highlight what actions hold greater precedence according to Portland City Council.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-108", "start": 825.754, "end": 858.408, "text": "In spite of the fact that now literally thousands of people have been exposed to and attacked with chemical weapons, Council President Jamie Dunphy and Councilman Mitch Green have made foie gras their key issue, choosing to spend more time on duck liver than the flagrant disregard and abuse of human rights, with fines up to $5,000 for serving it, that are somehow 6 times the $934 monthly bill that ICE landlord Stuart Lindquist could potentially pay for failing to supply detainment data by March 15th and showing whether ICE has rectified their continued failure to adhere to the continual use— conditional use permit.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-109", "start": 859.051, "end": 880.157, "text": "Speaking of ICE landlord Stuart Lindquist, when ICE carpet bombed the elementary school next to the facility with chemical weapons, thus making it completely unusable for this current school year, Councilman Mitch Green took it upon himself to have the school relocated to a Lindquist property, directly enabling the person responsible for housing ICE in Portland to further profit from their continued atrocities.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-110", "start": 880.798, "end": 901.365, "text": "Mind you, ICE's conditional use permit was granted in these very chambers, conditions which were violated from illegally holding people not just beyond the 12-hour limit, but as long as 47 days, and posing an undeniable threat to the surrounding community that was only mitigated with the intervention of a federal judge forcing a temporary hold on the use of chemical weapons.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-111", "start": 902.439, "end": 923.76, "text": "Recently, Councilman Murillo has stated that somehow, regardless of the violation, somehow Portland City Council lacks the power to hold not just the federal government, but the private landlord that they have been enabling liable to the very permit that they issued under the parameters of Councilwoman Rio's own ordinance to curb the use of tear gas by designating it a nuisance.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-112", "start": 924.161, "end": 934.357, "text": "The grounds for the outright removal as defined by this city's charter clearly state that this council has the ability and the authority to hold ICE and their benefactor Stuart Lindquist.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-113", "start": 934.726, "end": 938.353, "text": "Responsible and to have the nuisance that they clearly present to the public removed.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-114", "start": 938.915, "end": 950.439, "text": "The fact that some of you have the temerity to ride the wave of abolish ICE while you unironically have argued and defended keeping the McAdam ICE facility open for the sake of immigrants might be the worst of your offenses.", "speaker": "Elijah Tahir" }, { "id": "cue-115", "start": 951.258, "end": 962.397, "text": "I met with Councilwoman Tiffany Koyama Lane's head staffer standing and speaking on her behalf in August, 5 months ago, to discuss revoking the permit, and all I 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introduce yourself for the record and pronouns, and go ahead, 3 minutes is yours.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-128", "start": 1025.092, "end": 1026.876, "text": "Hello, my name is Beatriz Ibarra.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-129", "start": 1026.972, "end": 1028.209, "text": "She/her are my pronouns.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-130", "start": 1029.206, "end": 1035.199, "text": "My name is Beatriz, and I'm here today representing Portland Contra Deportaciones and Revoke the ICE Permit campaign.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-131", "start": 1036.212, "end": 1042.173, "text": "City Council, many of you claim to stand with immigrants, and yet you do nothing to protect them.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-132", "start": 1042.689, "end": 1046.608, "text": "You have the ability to shut down the ICE facility and you do nothing about it.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-133", "start": 1047.301, "end": 1055.786, "text": "Not only that, but councilors such as Angelita Morillo perpetuated the right-wing narrative that closing down the facility harms immigrants.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-134", "start": 1056.65, "end": 1060.959, "text": "This narrative, not only is it false, it's also evil to repeat.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-135", "start": 1062.802, "end": 1070.343, "text": "Removing the facility's permit not only revokes— only revokes the right to legally retain people inside the facility.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-136", "start": 1070.439, "end": 1071.229, "text": "Councilwoman, you have 2 minutes.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-137", "start": 1071.516, "end": 1076.042, "text": "If DHS wanted, they could still have the facility open to do their check-ins.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-138", "start": 1076.813, "end": 1079.043, "text": "We also know that there are other options.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-139", "start": 1079.477, "end": 1083.377, "text": "During the COVID-19 pandemic, people were doing their check-ins online.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-140", "start": 1083.73, "end": 1086.057, "text": "That facility is not necessary.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-141", "start": 1087.085, "end": 1096.907, "text": "Revoking the ICE permit would end DHS, ICE, and PBB's ability to use the McAdam Building as the central base for their operations.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-142", "start": 1097.539, "end": 1103.97, "text": "The only people who would get harmed by the facility closing are Trump and the regime of terror.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-143", "start": 1105.62, "end": 1110.541, "text": "The permit allows ICE to operate a center, a detention center, in that facility.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-144", "start": 1111.283, "end": 1117.41, "text": "That same permit also requires for detainees to be placed in shackles during transportation.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-145", "start": 1117.766, "end": 1118.058, "text": "Shame.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-146", "start": 1119.145, "end": 1130.144, "text": "In 2011, when the permit for the ICE facility was under review, there were these racist arguments that having the facility would put the community at risk.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-147", "start": 1131.236, "end": 1137.322, "text": "The city agreed with these racist individuals, and they rejected the initial application.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-148", "start": 1138.478, "end": 1147.726, "text": "Due to that, ICE had to create a safety plan that requires detainees to be placed in shackles when they're being transported to and from the facility.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-149", "start": 1147.79, "end": 1148.015, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-150", "start": 1149.919, "end": 1162.644, "text": "To my fellow organizers, if you have been detained near the facility by DHS, all for peaceful protesting, and you get booked and transported, this is why you got placed in shackles.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-151", "start": 1163.727, "end": 1165.878, "text": "This permit allows for this to happen.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-152", "start": 1167.536, "end": 1171.909, "text": "And this is what happens to every immigrant that gets processed through that facility.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-153", "start": 1172.494, "end": 1182.112, "text": "They get placed in shackles as if they were criminals, and they have to wear them the whole time while they get transported to the detention center in Tacoma.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-154", "start": 1183.236, "end": 1195.891, "text": "So to be clear, when you all speak out against revoking the permit, or when you advocate for the mayor to enforce the terms of the permit, you speak in favor of immigrants being placed in shackles.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-155", "start": 1197.047, "end": 1200.982, "text": "This is why we say the permit must be revoked and permanently removed.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-156", "start": 1201.303, "end": 1203.423, "text": "There is no other just solution.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-157", "start": 1203.954, "end": 1204.211, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-158", "start": 1206.911, "end": 1210.094, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-159", "start": 1210.625, "end": 1213.882, "text": "Next up, we have Kuda Baird online.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-160", "start": 1216.377, "end": 1220.924, "text": "Hi, is my audio working?", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-161", "start": 1221.392, "end": 1221.972, "text": "Yeah, go ahead.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-162", "start": 1222.021, "end": 1222.198, "text": "There you go.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-163", "start": 1222.392, "end": 1223.827, "text": "Go ahead and introduce yourself for the record.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-164", "start": 1224.56, "end": 1226.008, "text": "Yeah, I'm Kuda Baird.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-165", "start": 1226.185, "end": 1231.031, "text": "Um, I am a renter in, uh, Portland.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-166", "start": 1231.477, "end": 1234.118, "text": "And I'd like to thank councilors for holding this session.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-167", "start": 1234.859, "end": 1246.037, "text": "Um, the ICE issue is a, is a 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"start": 1273.827, "end": 1285.562, "text": "And I've seen that you guys have looked quite a bit into it, and some of the things that you wanted to put money towards from the found money was in rental assistance and that sort of thing.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-174", "start": 1285.773, "end": 1301.158, "text": "But then there was also a section of it that went towards helping build lower-cost housing, which is great depending on how you do it.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-175", "start": 1301.883, "end": 1309.413, "text": "But a lot of the solutions seem to be to give money to corporations that are going to be really inefficient in how they spend the money.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-176", "start": 1309.851, "end": 1317.68, "text": "And I understand that just helping out with rental assistance in the long run is not a A viable option.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-177", "start": 1317.68, "end": 1322.96, "text": "You have to work towards— I mean, social housing at some point is kind of the only feasible way to do that.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-178", "start": 1322.96, "end": 1334.08, "text": "I know that there's a lot of legislation that bars you from being able to do that, but obviously that's kind of the long-term goal and something that could actually help with these issues that a lot of people are having.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-179", "start": 1334.84, "end": 1338.56, "text": "It's relatively unsustainable right now for everybody paying $2,000 a month.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-180", "start": 1338.56, "end": 1340.04, "text": "Most people can't afford that.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-181", "start": 1340.11, "end": 1341.56, "text": "I, I can't afford that.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-182", "start": 1341.56, "end": 1341.6, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kuda Baird" }, { "id": "cue-183", "start": 1343.439, "end": 1358.071, "text": 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1478.105, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1478.938, "end": 1481.03, "text": "This is social murder, plain and simple.", "speaker": "Tristan Marquise" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1483.246, "end": 1489.8, "text": "I do hope we see some accountability for this $20 million turned $106 million that was found in the couch cushions of the Portland Housing Bureau.", "speaker": "Tristan Marquise" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1490.55, "end": 1498.414, "text": "But more importantly, however, I ask that this council moves as a unified body and directs these funds toward rental assistance and eviction defense.", "speaker": "Tristan Marquise" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1499.41, "end": 1515.843, "text": "Preventing evictions saves lives, and it is the easiest and most cost-effective way to slow the inflow, and this council should use those funds to aid the people most harmed by these missing funds, which are rent-burdened— excuse me— 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"Aye.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 4943.289, "end": 4943.627, "text": "Dunphy?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 4945.72, "end": 4945.736, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 4946.866, "end": 4949.79, "text": "The resolution is adopted with 12 aye votes.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 4951.527, "end": 4952.37, "text": "Congratulations all.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 4952.742, "end": 4953.472, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 4954.039, "end": 4958.3, "text": "Keelan, can we please read items 5, 6, and 7 together?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 4961.098, "end": 4975.052, "text": "Item 5, establish City Council's priorities for the allocation of approximately $20,700,000 in unspent rental services office funds and 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