May 13, 2026 Council agenda

2:48So I guess I've got to hand it here.

2:49I'm going to ask Right now?

3:33Should we just go?

3:34Oh, okay.

3:35They'll kick stuff off officially.

3:36Oh, they're gonna start?

3:37Yeah.

3:38Okay.

3:39I'll double-check.

3:50Okay.

4:01Good afternoon, everybody.

4:04Before we begin our meeting of the Portland City Council, we have a pre-gavel recognition from, uh, uh, from our friends at AARP and the Age Friendly Network.

4:14Am I turning it over to you, Councilor?

4:16Yes.

4:16Or am I turning over to Stacy?

4:16I believe I'm starting.

4:17I'm going to start it.

4:19To start us, I'm going to turn it over to Stacy Triplett with the AARP Oregon.

4:23Thank you very much.

4:24Thank you.

4:24I'm Stacy Triplett, Engagement Director for AARP Oregon.

4:27I live in District 2 and I work in District 4.

4:30And we are so excited today for the city and partners for this moment of fanfare to move us into the next 5-year cycle of age-friendly actions.

4:40This age-friendly plaque is truly an expansive effort.

4:44It represents what everybody has been working on together, and we hope that everyone finds a role in it.

4:49Thank you very much to the Raging Grannies who sung us in here, who were founded over 15 years ago.

4:56Oregon has 13 current age-friendly members from Hood River to Ashland, and Portland is in very good company in that network.

5:03Portland was the first U.S.

5:05City involved in the World Health Organization's Global Age-Friendly Research Project that started in 20— In 2006, that research project led to the creation of global and national age-friendly networks, which Portland and Multnomah County remain a part of right now.

5:22Today, as I present this plaque to the City of Portland, recognizing that the city and its numerous partners have completed a cycle of assessment, action planning, implementation, and evaluation, I will read the plaque out.

5:35AARP says Portland, Oregon is a member in good standing of the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities has successfully completed a cycle of improvement as an—.

5:45And is recognized for its age-friendly leadership achievements and continuing commitment toward being a livable community for people of all ages.

5:52That is the 2026, uh, plaque that I will leave here.

5:56I will not take it back with me.

5:58As such, Portland is recognized as a member in good standing with the other 1,020 current members and growing.

6:06Congrats from AARP Oregon.

6:08Thank you for all the leadership getting the community active in advancing age-friendly outcomes spanning so many aspects of housing, transportation, public spaces, and beyond.

6:18And now back to you, Councilor President Dunphy.

6:22Thank you so much, Stacy.

6:23Colleagues, I've had the privilege of being part of Portland's age-friendly journey for more than a decade, dating back to my time as staffer for late Commissioner Nick Fish.

6:32I witnessed the City of Portland and Portland State University support Portland's broader age-friendly efforts on housing, civic engagement, mobility, and health and well-being.

6:44Over time, the community infused age-friendly policies into the Portland Plan, the Comprehensive Plan, and other policies and plans.

6:53Portland's age-friendly features include world-class natural features and green spaces and strong opportunities for lifelong education and community engagement.

7:02Thank you.

7:03Real work remains ahead, and I'm excited to work with Councilor Koyama Lane, with Multnomah County, with AARP, and others on revitalizing our age-friendly efforts so that Portlanders of all ages and abilities can live their best lives in our cities.

7:18It's my honor to turn over to Irma Jimenez, the Multnomah County Aging, Disability, and Veterans Services Division.

7:25Thank you.

7:26Good afternoon.

7:26As he stated, my name is Irma Jimenez.

7:28I am the division director for Multnomah County's Aging, Disability, and Veterans Services Division.

7:33Stacy from ARP, who noted that Portland was the first U.S.

7:36City to work with the World Health Organization.

7:39And Council President Dunphy highlighted Portland and Multnomah County's partnership.

7:45Multnomah County Aging, Disability, and Veterans Services has been involved in each step of Portland's journey, including our longtime role in the Advisory Council for an Age-Friendly Portland and Multnomah County.

7:56In 2014, Multnomah County joined the ARP network of age-friendly states and communities as part of As part of our efforts, we focused on making sure the county is a good place to work no matter your age or your ability.

8:10As Portlanders Area Agency on Aging, we continue to innovate, coordinate with national and state partners, and deliver key services and supports to older adults, people with disabilities, and veterans.

8:22Recently, we launched an age-friendly business program that aims to attune local business to the needs of older adults and to offer quality services that work for people no matter their age and their— Councilmember Herbold.

8:34Nor their disability.

8:35We are excited to partner on what comes next.

8:37Together, the city and the county can create a healthy, supportive, age-friendly community.

8:42Thank you.

8:45I don't know.

8:47All right, um, I want to give a huge heartfelt thanks to Council President Dunphy, AARP, Multnomah County, our many community partners for the work that you do every day to make Portland more welcoming, connected, and caring for people of every age.

9:02I also have to give a very special thank you to Thank you to our Raging Grannies for joining us and sharing your music today.

9:10I see you show up at rallies, protests, community events, in moments when people really need courage and some joy the most.

9:19I met you first many years back at a Trans Day of Visibility march, and I know that there are Raging Granny groups all over the world, and I'm really proud that we have the largest cohort here in Portland in this chapter.

9:34And also, they—.

9:35Yeah.

9:35They informed me today that I'm only 10 years away from being able to join the club, so I am counting down.

9:41You remind us that older adults are not just sitting on the sidelines.

9:44Older adults are leading, organizing, singing out, helping move our communities forward.

9:50My office also has been really proud to support members of the District 3 community in the Mount Tabor neighborhood whose ideas and advocacy recently secured funding through the AARP Challenge Grant.

10:03And this These are examples of what people— people-powered change looks like.

10:07So today, as we recognize Older Americans Month, this year's theme, Champion Your Health, I want us to think bigger than individual choices because health is shaped by the communities we build.

10:17Health is shaped by the housing we create.

10:20Health is shaped by the transportation that we provide.

10:23Health is shaped by whether people feel connected, valued, and safe at every stage of life.

10:29So that's why my office is focused on some 4 big ideas in this area.

10:33The first one is being able to grow here at every age.

10:37The second is everyone ages.

10:39Aging is not something that's someone else's issue.

10:43If we're lucky enough to keep living, then we are aging, and we all deserve to age with dignity, connection, and opportunity.

10:50The third is longevity.

10:52That means living well with health, purpose, joy, and belonging, and planning for well-being across An entire life course.

11:00And finally, partnership.

11:01An age-friendly Portland only happens when public agencies, nonprofits, educators, businesses, community members are working together across generations.

11:10So please stay tuned.

11:11We're going to be continuing this, this work in bigger, bolder ways.

11:16Be on the lookout.

11:17And here's to a Portland where aging is joyful and empowering for all.

11:22And now I am going to read the proclamation on behalf of Mayor Keith Wilson, who cannot join us this afternoon but is very supportive.

11:32Whereas the City of Portland is home to over 647,805 people, of whom 11.6% are 65 years of age or older, and whereas the number of older adults in Portland is projected to increase significantly in the future, with estimates indicating that by 2050, 27.2% of our population will be comprised of people 65 years of age or older, and whereas Portland's older adults represent Diverse races, ethnicities, cultures, communities, neighborhoods, and generations, contributing to the rich tapestry of our state.

12:09And whereas older Portlanders continue to be active, engaged, and influential members of our community, participating in volunteer activities, mentoring, and contributing to the workforce.

12:20And whereas May is designated as Older Americans Month, a time to celebrate and honor the achievements, contributions, and sacrifices of older Portlanders.

12:28And whereas the theme for Older Americans Month 2026 is Champion Your Health, encouraging us to take an active role in managing and advocating for our health.

12:37And whereas we strive to build age-friendly communities for people ages 0 to 100+ who are included, engaged, and can thrive.

12:46And whereas the City of Portland is committed to promoting the health, independence, and well-being of older Americans by addressing issues affecting older adults, including housing, caregiving, workforce, and economic vitality, as well as accessible, inclusive programs to promote the health and well-being of older adults.

13:03Second.

13:04Now, therefore, I, I am not Keith Wilson, but Keith Wilson, the mayor of City of Portland, Oregon, the City of Roses, does hereby proclaim May 2026 to be Older Americans Month in Portland and encourage all businesses and community members to engage with and support older Americans, their families, and their accomplishments to celebrate their contributions.

13:27Thank you so much.

13:29Thank you.

13:35Thank you all so much for being here today.

13:38I am now going to go ahead and call our meeting to order.

13:42Can we please call the roll?

13:47Kanal?

13:48Here.

13:49Pirtle-Guiney?

13:51Ryan?

13:52Here.

13:53Koyama Lane?

13:54Here.

13:55Morillo?

13:56Here.

13:57Here.

13:59Here.

14:00Here.

14:04Here.

14:05Here.

14:06And can we please read the rules of decorum?

14:09Thank you.

14:10Welcome to Portland City Council.

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15:10Thank you.

15:11Thank you very much.

15:12Colleagues, we have an incredibly busy agenda today.

15:15We are already scheduled to stay until 6, but we absolutely have to get through this agenda today.

15:20Many of these things need to be approved or moved Moving forward before the budget is approved.

15:26And so I'm hoping that we can all keep that in mind.

15:29To that end, the consent agenda item today has been pulled to the regular agenda at the request of staff.

15:36I believe that this is a— this item is also a must-pass item today for contractual reasons.

15:42So I would move to place it on the agenda between items 6 and 7 on the regular agenda to get it out of the way.

15:48That is the first item after we finish up the second reading.

15:52Second.

15:54Are there any other requests to amend the agenda, to reorder items, or reschedule an item for a future meeting date?

16:00Yes.

16:01Councilor— Vice President Clark.

16:03Thank you, Councilor President.

16:04I would like to move that we take item 10 and move it up until after item 5, make it item 6.

16:14Item 6 is the— before the item pulled through consent.

16:18Yes.

16:19Okay.

16:20Councilor Clark has moved to move item 10, the water bonds item, to the top of our regular agenda after the second readings.

16:28And Councilor Smith has seconded it.

16:31Point of information, can you tell us why?

16:33Just a sense of urgency on this.

16:37Pretty straightforward.

16:38Great.

16:40Colleagues—.

16:40Point of order.

16:42Are there people signed up for the water bond There are.

16:46There are 20 people signed up for this.

16:47Okay, so I suspect that many of those people would not be able to attend and testify if we reordered the agenda, and they might have strong feelings about it considering how drastically this could impact water rates over the next few years.

17:00So I recommend that we maintain the agenda the same, but I understand this is a vote, so I'm just saying that for my colleagues as they consider their vote.

17:08Thank you, Councilor.

17:09Any further discussion?

17:11Oh, um, and One more point of information.

17:14Councilor.

17:14What you mentioned about moving the consent item, I guess, are they— are those separate actions that we need to vote for your change and then Councilor Clark's change?

17:24I think it is one.

17:27I don't know.

17:28I'm looking at the agenda.

17:28I think you can decide how you want to handle it.

17:31Okay.

17:31I would like to divide the questions.

17:32Let's do 2 separate.

17:33And also, I misspoke.

17:35I'd actually like to have the pulled item heard after item 6.

17:387, Because that is the second reading of an ordinance also.

17:40So it would go between items 7 and 8.

17:44So I'm happy to— yeah, let's divide the question.

17:46Let's call the roll on the item, on the scheduling of the pulled item from consent, and then we'll have a second vote on reordering item 12 to the top of the agenda.

17:56So can we call the roll on the first part?

17:59Calling the vote on reordering consent agenda item 6 to after regular agenda item 7.

18:05Kanal.

18:06Aye.

18:07Pirtle-Guiney.

18:09Ryan.

18:10Aye.

18:11Koyama Lane.

18:12Aye.

18:13Morillo.

18:13Aye.

18:14Novick.

18:15Aye.

18:15Clark.

18:16Aye.

18:17Green.

18:17Aye.

18:18Zimmerman.

18:19Aye.

18:19Avalos.

18:20Aye.

18:21Smith.

18:22Aye.

18:22Dunphy.

18:23Aye.

18:24And that agenda reorder is approved.

18:27Thank you.

18:27We call the roll on moving item number 10— uh, 12 up.

18:33And we're moving item— this is a vote to move item number 12 after, uh, the reordered item 6.

18:40Wait, do I have the wrong numbers?

18:41Yeah, or sorry, item 10.

18:43Item 10.

18:44Sorry, I have the wrong numbers on my sheet.

18:46Yeah, moving item number 10 up to— where did you want to put it?

18:49Um, maybe before 7, after 6.

18:53Okay, between items 5 and 7.

18:56Sure.

18:56That's fine.

18:57Okay.

18:58Okay, so voting to reorder item 10 to be heard after the newly moved consent item order agenda item 6, but before item 7 on the regular agenda.

19:10That sounds right to me.

19:11Okay.

19:12Kanal?

19:12No.

19:15Pirtle-Guiney?

19:16Ryan?

19:18First reading, we have people here to testify.

19:20Yes.

19:21Aye.

19:28No.

19:31No, because I'm worried that people who signed up to testify won't know that this order change happened and therefore won't be here in time to testify.

19:45I'm really struggling with this one.

19:47Could we like Find out if the people who are signed up are here.

19:53There's 20.

19:55Many are not.

19:56Okay, many are not.

19:58All right, no.

20:02Clark, aye.

20:07Green, no.

20:08Zimmerman, aye.

20:10Avalos, no.

20:13Smith, yes.

20:16Dunphy?

20:18No.

20:20No.

20:21So the reorder, uh, fails with 7 no, 4 aye.

20:27Okay, the agenda is approved.

20:32Can we please move to public communications?

20:39First up for public communications, we have Metro G Hello, everyone.

20:47Welcome.

20:48Metro.

20:49Um, so I noticed that you had a lot of promises for Portland, and there's also a lot of issues that you're working on, such as homelessness, addiction, the $171 million deficit gap, 203 jobs being cut from the city, transferring $27 million from the Portland Clean Energy Fund from Well, clean energy to something else.

21:14And then the $2.7 billion trade deficit in Oregon.

21:17But I'm here to talk about a solution that would work on a lot of these issues, um, in addition to promoting pre-pandemic foot traffic, which is changing the pay schedules in Oregon.

21:32It's instead of having a universal basic income, we're changing the frequency in which people get paid, meaning people would have more financial freedom to do what they need to do in the times that they need to do it.

21:46Um, I believe that this could be done making a POS system or something like that that takes better accountability of people's hours, um, the discrepancies and the taxes that need to be taken.

22:03Um, right now there's also $240 million to $400 million loss to wage theft every year.

22:09So even if this program ran at like 10% capacity, which would be considering failing by most standards, we would be covering potentially up to $40 million, which would help not only run the program, but also mean there'd be less loss of jobs and there'd also be no new tax created to do this.

22:31Thank you.

22:33And this could also mean that there's less action needing to be taken from BOLI since there's about 120,000 cases made each year and less than 5% of them are even taken to BOLI.

22:52That's really all I have to say.

22:55Thank you very much.

22:57All right, thank you.

23:00Next is Jesse Atkins— apologies, Akins.

23:11Welcome.

23:12Hi.

23:14So make sure to introduce yourself.

23:16I'm Jesse Akins.

23:18Um, I am an unemployed veteran of the United States Army.

23:22I live in District 3.

23:25Um, I'm pretty annoyed, honestly, with a lot of the things that have been going on lately.

23:30Um, and basically it comes down to morals and ethics, right?

23:38This budget thing we're dealing with, with the Moda Center and all the backroom dealing and the backtalk and the— all of the duplicity that's been in play.

23:48Um, it's really frustrating to see All of that go down.

23:54Um, there's a lot of us in this city who live on a fixed income who can't, you know, can't afford all of our utility rates to go up, can't afford— that includes the street utility fee, unfortunately.

24:06Um, it includes, you know, all of our gas money going up, which we can't control.

24:12You know, we can't afford all of the things that we have to afford in order to sacrifice In order for MOTA funding to go through.

24:22We have this huge bundle of money that we could use to solve a lot of problems for a lot of people that are environmentally related, right?

24:30Between, again, all those utility fees.

24:34Think about how much a renter pays in utility fees in this city.

24:38Like, it's wild that we are talking about transferring funds from one— from this other fund.

24:45Thank you.

24:45To the Moda Center when the Moda Center should be funded already in the lease, in the ordinances that go into it.

24:53Those, those go from one tenant to the next tenant according to those documents.

25:03Why are we worried about the PSIF?

25:04Why are we pulling money out of the PSIF?

25:06That money should already be there.

25:08Why are we sacrificing everybody else's cost of living?

25:13For a basketball team, which we love.

25:16I've loved the Blazers since I was a kid.

25:20But are they really the heart of Portland, or are the people who live here the heart of Portland?

25:27The people who are struggling every day, the people who can't— who make just enough, they can't get enough money from any assistance agencies because they're just over that edge, but they don't make enough to survive all the cost increases that we constantly, constantly, constantly, constantly vote Let's cut everything else.

25:48Let's leave the— let's, let's, let's raid the fund that we do have for renovation that's already paid for.

25:56Why?

25:58Why are we doing that?

26:02Let's think about our morals and our ethics.

26:04Who are we screwing over, and who are we protecting, and who are we helping?

26:08Some of us have already made that decision in previous sessions.

26:10Councilor Regarding the Moda Center, his name signed on it.

26:15He already, he already displayed his.

26:17I'd like to see yours.

26:19Thank you very much.

26:21Marshall McFarland.

26:28Welcome.

26:31Good to see you guys.

26:33Ladies and gentlemen of the City Council, my name is Marshall McFarland.

26:37Good evening, everyone.

26:37I am Ghalib bin Imhotep El.

26:40And Portland is being besieged by a fiatocracy.

26:44What is a fiatocracy?

26:46Fiat, an authoritative, arbitrary order or decree issued by someone in power.

26:52Fiatocracy, rule by authoritative, arbitrary order or decree.

26:58What is fiatocracy really costing the city of Portland?

27:02We're told that democracy is the price that we pay for a civilized society, but Portland is being taxed By a fiatocracy.

27:09Our government has devolved into an unsustainable, self-sustaining loop where democracy, ruled by the people, is being replaced by fiatocracy, ruled by an arbitrary administrative class under a decree, internal fees, and a willful ignorance to the public's trust that somebody put in power.

27:28Since numbers don't lie, consider these numbers.

27:30There are 98 active communities Whose costs or amounts that I can't— able to— excuse me, that aren't able to be properly sounded with public access tools, but I can verify that they're over $20 million.

27:43Then you've got the 12-member council that costs $1.6 million per office.

27:49That's another $20 million.

27:51Internal interagency rates, which is the rent the city charges itself, has ballooned to over half a billion dollars.

27:58While the public is left clamoring for meager grants or loans from an overwhelmed Small Business Association that has its own bureaucratic quagmire to deal with.

28:07Our region lost nearly 9,000 jobs, ranking us 4th worst in the nation.

28:12We are spending $23 million a year on legislative overhead and facing a $170 million budget shortfall.

28:19The city's own audits show material weaknesses in financial reporting, according to their auditing law firm Baker Tilly.

28:25There's literally no accounting for the efficiency that their budgeting should accommodate With abundance.

28:31Human Resources Rule— Administrative Rule 11.01 speaks of public trust, yet it's being disregarded in its totality.

28:39We prioritize emergency ordinances that hike employee benefits while tabling independent transparency oversight.

28:46When a government treats the public as a revenue source instead of beneficiaries of a public trust, they cease becoming a republic and become a public liability.

28:56Thank you.

28:57True du jour governance begins with reference, relation, and regard to the people, the public, the public that put— the same public that put the mayor and you 12 wonderful beings on that dais.

29:09Please, councilors, no more arbitrary decrees, no more intergovernmental gouging agreements, and no more willful ignorance of the public's trust.

29:18Our government must refer to the public, relate to the public, and regard the public or be restructured.

29:24By the public.

29:26I will always offer solutions.

29:29This document I've already submitted to the councilor for public record— or the council clerk for public record.

29:35It's also for your record should you undertake to review it.

29:39Thank you for your time, and it is will that your ethical standards align with reference, regard, and relation to the public.

29:45Thank you.

29:46Thank you very much.

29:47James Donnelly.

29:53Welcome.

30:00Good afternoon, councilors.

30:03My name is James Donnelly and I live in East Portland, um, but I'm really speaking for myself.

30:09In Buddhism, as in other philosophies that have endured, one teaching is that there is a limit to compassion.

30:15It is indeed good to help others, but that can be done only to the degree that it does not cause yourself also to suffer.

30:23For if not, this helping just increases the overall suffering in the world.

30:27And if unchecked, causing yourself to suffer will eventually destroy you and leave the person you are trying to help with no one.

30:34Portland has been trying to be compassionate and has been suffering for it for 6 years.

30:39It needs to stop.

30:40Thank you.

30:41Homelessness, high housing costs, high medical costs— these are all worthy problems to solve.

30:47But Portland did not create these problems.

30:50They were created by governmental policies at the federal level and ultimately can be solved only at the federal level.

30:56At best, all Portland and Oregon can do is take care of their own.

31:01Yet Portland City seems to have little, if any, residency requirements for receiving extra governmental services for help.

31:08And by residency, I mean people who have called Portland their home before they ran into problems.

31:12It is not sustainable to simultaneously offer more supportive social services than other cities, allow anyone who has just wandered across the city line to receive them, and keep the city solvent.

31:23I stress, it is not sustainable, not in 2026 America.

31:28Please fix that.

31:29Thank you.

31:31Thank you very much.

31:34Brandon Morgove.

31:47Can you hear me?

31:48Okay.

31:49Um, first off, I'd like to thank Councilor Dunphy.

31:52I read an article the other day.

31:53It sounds like he's trying to hold the Blazer owner, you know, kind of in check and trying to, um, fight him to keep, you know, the money Going the right way out there.

32:04So what I'm talking about today is 3 things.

32:07These things I think are all important to the city, to its well-being.

32:13First one is, I was going to wear a shirt today that said, blame all your problems on the homeless, close your business, and GTFO.

32:24But I didn't have the funds to get that shirt ready.

32:26Anyways, on closing of the businesses, I kind of feel like It's trendy for Portlanders to close their business.

32:32It's like a trend.

32:33It's cool.

32:33I'm going to close my business.

32:34And what I'd like you all to do, city councilors, when you walk into a business, take a look at the security guards.

32:40The homeless and people that have addictions have always stolen from businesses.

32:43Security guards aren't doing their jobs.

32:45You walk in there, they're looking at their phones half the time.

32:46If I was doing that job, I would look at my phone too, here and there, a couple times during the shift, just when I really needed to.

32:53But these businesses are closing because It's cool to close, I think, really.

32:58Second thing, bathrooms.

33:00We need more bathrooms in the city just to have a clean city.

33:03You have a construction job, you ought to build 4 or 5 more bathrooms just like Pioneer Square with a security guard around town.

33:10Lastly, last thing I was doing, trash cans.

33:14You know, a lot of businesses just don't put trash cans out.

33:16Why?

33:16Because yeah, a homeless person will break into a trash can.

33:18So no trash cans.

33:19You know, they don't want to clean up one time.

33:21You know, it's too much to ask.

33:22You know, Put the people and the people of Portland, ask them, you know, to kind of do something for the city, like put out trash cans, you know, and say, here, you want trash can, pay the city $500 to have a trash can.

33:33Where's the person supposed to throw their trash, you know?

33:35And this kind of goes to the bathrooms too.

33:37If someone doesn't want to clean one bathroom one time, you know, or once every couple months, you know, it's just, you got to ask the people of Portland if you want to keep the city nice.

33:47Trash cans, got to keep them around, the ones that are hard to break into.

33:49Thank you.

33:50You know, and bathrooms, 4 or 5.

33:53And if you guys need workers for them, my temp agency boss can supply them.

33:56Maybe you guys can throw me a little money or something for all the work I do on the side and don't get paid for.

34:01That's it.

34:02Thank you so much.

34:05That completes public comment.

34:07Thank you very much, everybody who came to testify.

34:10Um, colleagues, uh, next item is a quick president update.

34:14Um, I'd like to take a moment very quickly to tell you all about a new rule Moving forward, I'm going to be asking everyone who is participating virtually to turn their cameras on during votes.

34:24This is the only way we can know if you are absent or present for the vote before the clerk calls your name.

34:29You also may notice we have participating virtually for folks who are participating virtually so that folks in the audience and at home can know that they're not just absent, they're online.

34:40I'll give reminders and a little time to get on camera before we do call the roll.

34:44Call roll when that happens.

34:46I'm going to turn this over to Councilor Green for a very brief update as well.

34:50Yeah, thank you, Council President.

34:54On April 3rd, the Portland DSA held a town hall where 4 city councilors who are endorsed members of the Portland City Council, myself included, were present.

35:06And 3 of those councilors constitute a quorum of the Public Works Committee.

35:11And so I'm only bringing this up because we did receive a grievance recently that said Hey, I noticed that there were 3 city councilors of the Public Works Committee at this town hall.

35:20We think this might potentially be in violation of public meetings law.

35:24So my instinct, rather than to sort of say, well, I think that you are wrong, or I think that we didn't talk about anything that was relevant in that committee, was to sort of take seriously the grievance and try to use the cure procedure that is in law.

35:36So within Oregon state law, Oregon public meetings law, you can cure You can recover a misstep or a violation of failing to properly notice a meeting if you do it within 45 days in a publicly noticed forum, and then you read into the record and you place into the record a transcript of what happened there.

35:54So I'm just going to take a brief moment to talk about the nature of the questions that we got into with the members of that audience.

36:03We did talk about the transportation utility fee.

36:06Yes.

36:07Yes.

36:07In the Committee of the Whole at that time, but we talked about that.

36:11Earthquake preparedness and the CEI hub was a matter of conversation.

36:14Emergency management and the importance of having NET volunteers was a topic of conversations.

36:20People in that town hall wanted to know what council's doing on implementing a human rights investment screen, so we talked about that as well.

36:28Folks wanted to know about whether or not we're going to move forward with trying to do a more aggressive relocation assistance.

36:35Type of policy.

36:35And we talked about that as well.

36:37The Moda Center Stadium deal came up in that meeting as well.

36:40And your councilors had a dialogue around where they're at on that.

36:45There was a request to look at our sister city relationship with Ashkelon.

36:50That was in that town hall as well.

36:52And then finally, there was a desire for us to pursue taxes on large corporations.

36:57So councilors talked about that as well.

36:59So while it's not obvious that any of those topics would come before the Public Works Okay.

37:03—In any meaningful timeframe in the near period.

37:07Because of our committee structure and the way we can refer items to basically any committee, I can't rule out that none of those items would ever come before the Public Works Committee.

37:15So we're taking this moment just to read in the record that we had that conversation, that that happened on April 3rd.

37:22We're placing into the public record the transcript that will be available.

37:26And going forward, we'll have to do one of two things.

37:28We'll either notice it I would love to.

37:30You could advertise it as a meeting of the Public Works Committee, which would require the chair over here to say we're going to have a socialist town hall Public Works Committee meeting.

37:37And I would invite you to do it.

37:38I think they'd love to have you.

37:39Same with Councilor Smith.

37:41The more the merrier in the big tent that we call the Portland DSA.

37:45But at the very minimum, we would just read a disclaimer and say, hey, you do have a quorum of your councilors on this committee.

37:51There are things that we have to be very careful about.

37:53We would just decline to comment on that and say Next meeting of the Public Works Committee is on X date.

37:59We encourage you to come and bring your questions there.

38:01So I'll stop talking there, and I think there's 2 other councilors that might want to speak something in the record as well.

38:10Um, thank you, Councilor Green.

38:11I think you covered most of that.

38:13I, uh, sat down with our city attorney Robert Taylor and also spoke about this.

38:18I know that all of us care a lot about transparency and openness, and Do you recall that we also talked about how we could answer questions, but this was a place that we could not have any deliberation or decision-making?

38:32And Robert Taylor agrees that we can have some sort of statement to make sure that we read that at the beginning of any time that we're all appearing at the same place.

38:41And that can apply for any councilors that might make up a quorum if they're at a Socialist Town Hall or a Metro Chamber event or whatever.

38:53We can just do that to make sure that we're covering our bases.

38:55And the only quotes I saw from me was around the CEI Hub.

39:01I said it is really scary.

39:03I think more people should be scared.

39:05And around Vision Zero, I said that we have recommitted to Vision Zero.

39:09I think that's about it.

39:10Around just infrastructure, I said city government should not be a gatekeeper.

39:14It should be a megaphone for the People of Portland.

39:16Those are some quotes.

39:17They will be put into this meeting as an attachment, the transcript will.

39:23Thank you.

39:24Thank you, Councilor.

39:27Yeah, thank you, Council President.

39:29I was the 3rd of the councilors who was a member of that committee.

39:32Just appreciate the work to get that into the record.

39:36Again, nothing that I anticipate coming to that committee, but can't rule it out.

39:41I will note the committee started meeting in April, but we created it in, Later in April, but we created it in February.

39:48So there's a little bit of a challenge there with the timing as well.

39:52But appreciate the transparency on it.

39:55And I'll note this was a publicly noticed event, and I always have my calendar posted of the places I'm going to be in public.

40:03So you can check all of our websites, portland.gov/ourlastname usually has it, even if it's not in the immediate full council website.

40:10Thank you.

40:11Thank you, councilors.

40:11City Manager.

40:13Can I add one thing?

40:14Yes, please.

40:15So I'm a socialist.

40:17I was at the meeting.

40:18I am not part of the Public Works Committee, so I was included in part of the violation of the— or I was listed as one of the people there, but technically I did not commit a quorum violation.

40:28I don't think— I think we're doing the cure right now.

40:31But I just wanted to flag for members of the public that what is essentially happening with the quorum rules that were There was an attempt to correct the quorum rules and some of the issues with them at the state legislature, and that was vetoed by the governor.

40:45And what you are going to see moving forward is that if there is a town hall and, say, you're councilors, there's a tricky topic that comes up for committee.

40:53If I wanted to avoid answering your questions as a member of the committee about those topics, what I would do is I would invite 3 members of the committee to come with me so that when you ask your question, I could say, Whoops, I'm so sorry about that.

41:06We actually can't answer any questions about that because there's a quorum here.

41:11That is going to be the material impact on you as voters and residents of Portlanders trying to get answers from your elected officials at public meetings.

41:19And I certainly don't believe that there should be any deliberations behind the scenes without the public present and available to understand that.

41:27But I want to point out the access issues that you are going to face moving forward.

41:32If, uh, if that happens.

41:34So I, I just want to be clear about why, if we're holding a meeting moving forward, if we can't answer your questions, why that might happen.

41:42Thanks.

41:43Thank you, Councilor.

41:46City Administrator Lee, do we have any updates on the city's response to the federal interventions?

41:52Yes, we do.

41:53The hearing actually did conclude, and there is something posted online on our website As it relates to the hearing officer, uh, releasing her, uh, decision on this on June the 5th at 3:00 PM.

42:10So that ruling will be released at that time.

42:15Thank you, sir.

42:18Can we please call item number 4?

42:22Item 4, consider appeal by Pleasant Valley Neighborhood Association against the hearings officer's decision to approve with conditions a planned development land division and environmental review for the creation of 12 single dwelling lots and 1 multi-dwelling lot in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood, LU23-003731, LDS ENPD document number 2026-144.

42:48Thank you.

42:50Uh, on April 23rd, Council voted 8 to 1 to tentatively deny the appeal and uphold the hearings officer's decision with conditions, with revised findings.

43:01The revised findings were prepared and posted on the council agenda website on Friday.

43:05We are now ready to take a final vote.

43:08May I have a motion to deny the appeal, uphold the decision of the hearings officer, and adopt the findings?

43:14So moved.

43:16Is there a second?

43:17Second.

43:20Councilor Ryan moves, Councilor Kanal seconds.

43:22Can we please call the roll?

43:27Kanal?

43:28Aye.

43:29Pirtle-Guiney?

43:34Aye.

43:36Ryan?

43:36Aye.

43:37Koyama Lane?

43:38Aye.

43:40Murillo?

43:40Aye.

43:42Novick?

43:42Aye.

43:46Clark, absent.

43:48Green?

43:49Aye.

43:50Zimmerman?

43:51Aye.

43:52Avalos, absent.

43:55Smith, absent.

43:56Dunphy?

43:57No.

44:00And the motion is approved with 7 aye votes, 1 nay, and 3 absent.

44:07The appeal is— oh, pardon me, 8.

44:098 Aye votes.

44:10Thank you.

44:11Thank you very much.

44:12The appeal is denied.

44:13The decision of the hearings officer is upheld and the findings are adopted.

44:18Can we please call item 5?

44:23Item 5, approve funding recommendations of the Portland Children's Levy Allocation Committee for July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2029, document number 2026-132.

44:36Colleagues, last week we heard public testimony on this item and moved it to a second reading without debate.

44:41Today we will discuss and vote.

44:43We have staff available in the room to answer any questions about this, so we are gonna move now into council discussion.

44:50Councilor Kanal.

44:51Thank you.

44:52I do have a question for staff, so I can wait as they come up, but—.

44:55Great.

44:56Come on up, folks.

45:03I'll let you all introduce yourself for the record first, and thank you for your work on this.

45:07Thanks, Councilor.

45:08My name is Meg McElroy.

45:09I'm the interim director at the Children's Levy.

45:11I use she/her pronouns.

45:13I use she/her pronouns, and I am a grant manager at the Portland Children's Levy.

45:19And I'm Katrina Peterson.

45:20I'm the policy and engagement coordinator at the Portland Children's Levy.

45:25Thanks.

45:25My, my question, um, It's phrased simply, but I imagine the answer may be complex.

45:32When we talked about this item last year, there was a great deal of testimony that related to the question of, is it relevant when a grantee aims to serve a particular target population, whether or not the organization itself is led by members of the community that it aims to serve uniquely?

45:54Um, in other words, if the, if the, uh, board or the, um, leadership is, is members of the community or, or can include some members of that community.

46:04This was a, a conversation that didn't really get resolved in the context of the philosophical, but one of the questions that I recognize that I don't believe this question was directed at anybody up here, uh, last year, but was if that's something that we even collect information on.

46:18Do we know, not necessarily for every grant category, but for the categories that are aiming to serve a targeted population, whether or not— do we even have the data on whether the board or executives are of that community or identify as such?

46:36Is that information that has started to be collected?

46:40And if— and can you just walk us through any progress on that front?

46:44Sure.

46:45I think I can begin answering that question, and then I can kick it over to Meg to flesh it out a little bit.

46:51We know that—.

46:53So currently, and not including those that we're looking at today as being approved, but our current portfolio, we have 94 grants.

47:01And of those 94 grants, 71% are from organizations with a majority of BIPOC staff.

47:09PCL does collect demographic data on the boards of directors, the employees.

47:19Of the staff, and those are reported to us.

47:22We also collect demographic information on the clients of the organization, whether those are parents or children and youth.

47:32We do not use demographic data such as that in the decision-making of the funding process and cannot do so under the guise of the current executive order.

47:44Yeah, so Thank you for that.

47:46Uh, that's super helpful.

47:47I, I guess sometimes an organization may be applying to serve, um, one— they're not all applying to serve the same populations, right?

47:58So, and, and I'll also note that I think, um, and I'm speaking here as a person who identifies as BIPOC myself but not Black, and there are grant programs that Yes.

48:11Or I should say there were applications which were seeking to serve the Black community specifically.

48:16I don't think that my inclusion on a board necessarily creates representation for the Black community in this context.

48:25I want to just be clear about that.

48:27I think there are uniquenesses to different experiences.

48:31So in terms of disaggregating that data, do you collect it in the context of what they are applying, the organization is applying for a specific program to serve?

48:41In other words, if they're applying to serve BIPOC communities, it might be different than if they're applying to serve women and girls.

48:46Yes.

48:48Also because of the executive order, I'm going to kick that over to Meg.

48:52Sure.

48:53Absolutely, we do collect that information.

48:55And I want to sort of take a step back and try to explain how we ask questions of all applicants.

49:01So when an organization is applying for a grant from the Children's Levy, they're applying to operate specific program services.

49:08So we're trying to understand what is the service you're trying to provide, who are you trying to provide it to, and what's your experience and success doing so?

49:15And so part of understanding that is understanding that information.

49:19And organizations that can answer those questions well and make that case tend to score better from the perspective of reviewers in how they talk about their work.

49:29So there's sort of— we're asking those questions across the board regardless of who the applicant is as an organization.

49:35We want to understand the program's ability to have success with whoever they're trying to serve.

49:40In addition to that, we are collecting demographics.

49:43They are disaggregated.

49:44We've been doing that since 2020.

49:45We've reported it out annually.

49:47All those reports are available on our website, and I would be happy to follow up with you with those disaggregated data for your information at any time.

49:56If I may jump in from the recent small grants application that we Just concluded the funding round for.

50:05As a part of that application and some of the questions that we asked, there are questions about describing the organization's mission, history, and populations, and how they involve the population they serve in their work.

50:18And then in the scoring criteria that are used to evaluate the application, we—.

50:25Points are awarded based on How they—.

50:28How the organization's founding and history.

50:32Let's see.

50:35Like, the applicant demonstrates at least 3 years of experience delivering programming with children, youth, and families in alignment with its mission.

50:44They describe how the population to be served is involved in determining the mission and activities of the organization.

50:51They explain how they gather client and community feedback.

50:53Thank you.

50:54And how they use that feedback to inform or change their programming and policies.

50:58They are also awarded points based on whether or not they're trauma-informed and have experience serving that population, if that's helpful information.

51:11Yeah, I, I think that's very helpful.

51:12In particular, they describe how the population to be served is involved in determining the mission and activities of the organization.

51:18I felt compelled to This is just based on the conversation from last year and to give the opportunity, 'cause I know something had been done, but I appreciate the detail on what that was, and I'm prepared to support this today.

51:28Thank you.

51:29Thank you.

51:31Yes, thank you, Council President.

51:32Colleagues, I won't do the long thing that was prepared last week 'cause we were in a hurry.

51:36And really, I want to start off by saying it's an honor to be the chair of the Allocation Committee.

51:40It's the oversight of the Children's Levy, and it was really wonderful last week that we Thank you.

51:45Thank you, Councilor Dan Ryan, for allowing ourselves to stay late.

51:47I want to thank staff for that, and thank you, Councilor Smith, for advocacy for such civil— such civics and good manners.

51:57Just real quick, all the levy grants are a result of a well-constructed funding process developed over 3 years with extensive community involvement.

52:06This year's small grants process centered community voice.

52:09For example, the levels— the levies, community council advisory boards scored applicant videos and made funding recommendations to the allocation committee.

52:18Finally, the small grants and the 8% increase to the 94 grants will put resources into the community quickly and efficiently starting July 1st, hence the reason we have to vote on this today.

52:28All grants directly serve children across the city, and we all know the need is great and we wish there was more.

52:34Thanks again.

52:34I want to add just one more thing.

52:36We are going to have a conversation at the next meeting about always having an alternate with the small grants because sometimes one might go away and then we have someone in the queue that we were— that we thoroughly discussed.

52:47So we'll be doing that the next meeting.

52:48When is our next meeting?

52:50Uh, June 16th.

52:53Wonderful.

52:54All right, thanks so much.

52:55I hope you all can support this.

52:57We can move on with the meeting.

52:58Thanks.

52:58Thank you, Councilor Ryan.

52:59Councilor Zimmerman.

53:01Um, thanks.

53:01It's been a challenging couple of years in, in your realm, and I just want Give compliments.

53:07I have watched how you've brought this to us last year, this year.

53:12It makes sense to me.

53:12It also seems quite responsive to what you're hearing on the ground and the changing dynamic for kids and families.

53:18And so I just have a lot of appreciation there.

53:20And I want to also, as our representative to that funding board, Councilor Ryan, I think that you are doing us a service in Commissioner Dan Saltzman's shadow in terms of of keeping this, keeping this council directly connected to this.

53:38So I have a lot of appreciation, right, from his building up and working with the staff to build the program into what it is.

53:43Um, uh, not an easy year to do what Portland has decided we want to do, and you have threaded that needle, and I think he would be proud as well.

53:53So thank you.

53:54Thank you, Councilor Zimmerman.

53:57Seeing no one else in the queue, can we please call the roll?

54:00Councilor Kanel?

54:06Aye.

54:06Aye.

54:07No vote on this item.

54:09Aye.

54:10Aye.

54:10Aye.

54:11Councilor Mitchell Green?

54:12Aye.

54:13Councilor Dan Ryan?

54:14Aye.

54:16Councilor Samir Kanal?

54:18Aye.

54:21Councilor Eric Zimmerman?

54:25Aye.

54:26Avalos?

54:27Aye.

54:28Smith?

54:30Absent.

54:32Dunphy?

54:33Aye.

54:34And the ordinance passes with 11 aye, 1 absent.

54:38Thank you all so much for being here.

54:39Now you can show your enthusiasm.

54:41Yay!

54:41Yay!

54:43Could we please call item 7?

54:49It's the new item 6.

54:51Item 6.

54:52Thank you.

54:53Item 6.

54:54Authorize borrowings of not more than $95 million in anticipation of the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund levy for FY 2026-27, document number 2026-155.

55:09Colleagues, this is the second reading of a non-emergency ordinance.

55:11Is there any further discussion of this item?

55:18Seeing no one else in the queue, can we please call the roll?

55:24Kanal?

55:26Aye.

55:27Pirtle-Guiney?

55:28Aye.

55:30Ryan?

55:30Aye.

55:31Koyama Lane?

55:32Aye.

55:33Murillo?

55:34Aye.

55:35Novick?

55:36Aye.

55:36Clark?

55:37Aye.

55:38Green?

55:44Aye.

55:44Thank you.

55:45Zimmerman?

55:46Aye.

55:47Avalos?

55:48Aye.

55:49Smith?

55:49Aye.

55:50Dunphy?

55:51Aye.

55:52The ordinance passes with 12 aye votes.

55:55Thank you very much.

55:56Can we now please call new item number 6 or 7?

56:00I don't—.

56:00I'm confused on my own.

56:01You got it.

56:02New item number 7, authorize conveyance of city-owned real property to Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East for the construction of Thank you.

56:18This is the first reading of an emergency ordinance.

56:20With us from Council Ops is Claire Adamsick with a committee staff summary.

56:25Take it away, Claire.

56:27Thank you, Council President and councilors.

56:28For the record, Claire Adamsick, Council Policy Analyst and staff to the Housing and Permitting Committee.

56:33The emergency ordinance before you, document number 2026-151, was heard in the Housing and Permitting Committee on May 5th, where it was referred to full council with the recommendation to pass.

56:44It authorizes the transfer of city-owned property near 6631 North Syracuse Street to Habitat for Humanity Portland Region for the construction of the True North project.

56:54The project will include 50 family-sized units of 2 bedrooms or more, with 25 units available to households earning up to 60% median family income and 25 per 25 units available to households earning up to 80% MFI at initial sale.

57:09The Portland Housing Bureau will require the project to record an affordable housing covenant on each home, ensuring affordability in perpetuity to households earning up to 80% MFI.

57:20The emergency ordinance also authorizes the city administrator, in accordance with Portland City Code, to execute a disposition and development agreement and any other documents The ordinance includes an emergency clause in order to meet required project financing timelines.

57:38The full impact statement on this item includes information on financial and budgetary impacts and analysis and community impacts and community involvement.

57:45No written or verbal testimony was provided on this item prior to committee action on May 5th.

57:50And that concludes the committee staff summary.

57:51Thank you.

57:52Thank you very much, Claire.

57:54Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, this came out of your committee.

57:56Did you have any comments?

57:57My committee.

57:57Oh, well, kind of your— I'm driving the wrong thing.

57:59I apologize.

58:00Councilor Avalos, please.

58:01Thank you.

58:03Yeah, I appreciated the opportunity to discuss this project at the Housing and Permitting Committee and hear more about the long-term vision for creating permanently affordable homeownership opportunities in our city.

58:14This is a partnership with Habitat for Humanity Portland Region.

58:17And right now with Portland being in a housing crisis, we need more pathways, not just into housing, but into stable, affordable homeownership for working families.

58:26What stands out about the project is that all 50 units will be family-sized homes, which is something that we desperately need more of in Portland.

58:33I also appreciate that these homes will be permanently affordable and prioritized through the North and Northeast Preference Policy to help address the historic displacement that Black families and communities experience in North and Northeast Portland.

58:44This project reflects intentional community engagement with outreach directly to households impacted by displacement and prospective homeowners helping to shape the project design and priorities.

58:53And lastly, I want to acknowledge the sustainability component of this project.

58:57Building net-zero-ready homes that align with the city's renewable energy goals shows that we can advance both housing justice and climate justice together.

59:04This is exactly the type of housing investment we should continue making— affordable family size, community informed, and focused on long-term stability for Portland families.

59:13And it passed out of committee.

59:14That's all.

59:15Thank you, Councilor Avalos.

59:17Colleagues, are there any technical or clarifying questions on this item?

59:20Councilor Kanal.

59:21Thank you.

59:21I just was hoping, uh, someone could maybe— I'm not sure if it's Claire, if the co-sponsors could speak to the reason for it being an emergency ordinance.

59:29We have staff in the room from the Housing Bureau as well who are coming up.

59:34And why it was pulled.

59:36And yeah, why it was pulled.

59:37That's a good— thank you for that.

59:39Um, a little confused there.

59:45Welcome.

59:49Okay.

59:49Hi, Council.

59:50Thank you for having us here today.

59:51My name is Kara Hamilton.

59:53I'm staff at the Portland Housing Bureau, and I work with Habitat Humanity on this project.

59:58Um, part of the reason that this item was asked to be on the emergency ordinance is that we are planning to close financially on May 28th with our funding partners, OHCS, OnPoint Community Credit Union, and of course Habitat themselves.

1:00:13And Habitat is positioned to start site development immediately after financial closing and is hoping to take advantage of the warm weather to avoid incurring significant costs if they start later in the season.

1:00:29Additionally, PHB is currently managing a security contract with Northwest Enforcement that ends on June 30th.

1:00:36If closing is pushed past the current target, PHB will likely need to solicit bids for a new contract.

1:00:43Additionally, PHB has not budgeted for a security contract past June 30th, the end of the fiscal year, as closing has been planned for this date for some time.

1:00:52I'm happy to answer any other questions.

1:00:59Yeah, just why was it pulled off the consent agenda?

1:01:03We were heard— we heard it was staff who pulled it.

1:01:05Uh, it was not PHB staff.

1:01:07Okay.

1:01:10Okay.

1:01:11Was it pulled by staff or by public?

1:01:14Do you know?

1:01:17It was pulled by— thanks.

1:01:20Hello there.

1:01:21For the record, Eben Hoffer, staff to Councilor Dunphy.

1:01:26DCA administrative staff had placed this on their run spreadsheet as a regular agenda item.

1:01:33Somehow we got our wires crossed.

1:01:36They asked me if we could pull it back to the regular agenda.

1:01:41Okay, and this is DCA for Community and Economic Development?

1:01:47That office?

1:01:47Okay, that's okay.

1:01:50Great, appreciate the— I think this one's on me mostly.

1:01:53Appreciate the clarity there.

1:01:56And I think, Yeah, I'll let others ask their questions.

1:02:01Thanks.

1:02:01Thank you, Councilor Kanal.

1:02:02Councilor Smith?

1:02:03Yes, are we going to get a presentation?

1:02:06Just the staff summary report.

1:02:08So there's a presentation on the, on the exhibit.

1:02:11I, I don't sit on the committee, so I don't know anything about this.

1:02:15Um, yes, there was a full presentation on May 5th, but we are happy to share the presentation if that would be helpful.

1:02:22Where is the land located?

1:02:24It's in the University Park neighborhood of North Portland.

1:02:27University Park?

1:02:31Okay.

1:02:32And so we're—.

1:02:34Peninsula Crossing Trail.

1:02:37It was the Safe Restrooms there.

1:02:39It was the what?

1:02:40It was Peninsula Crossing Safe Restrooms.

1:02:41Yeah, where the cut is, the bike trail there.

1:02:44So are we putting out, um, bonds on this?

1:02:47How, how is— are we actually giving money to this or just land?

1:02:52Um, the item before you today is just to approve the disposition of the land.

1:02:56The financing, uh, is approved by the city administrator, which we did, um, allocate Metro Housing Bond funds and Ecuria Interstate Urban Corridor— uh, Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area TIF funds as well.

1:03:12So it was in— to the tune of $2 million?

1:03:15Um, the Ecuria TIF funds were $2 million.

1:03:18The Metro Bond funds were roughly So how much in all are we as the City of Portland putting forward on this?

1:03:25Uh, roughly $8 million.

1:03:27$8 Million plus the land?

1:03:29Correct.

1:03:30And when was the hearing through the Housing Committee?

1:03:33Uh, May 5th.

1:03:34May 5th?

1:03:37Okay, so that was about a week ago or so.

1:03:41Yes.

1:03:42Okay, um, thank you for this.

1:03:45And how many people is it going to serve?

1:03:49So there are 50 units.

1:03:51Um, they range from 2 to 4 bedrooms.

1:03:55Um, Sarah, do you know how many, uh, households it's planned to serve?

1:04:08Good afternoon, Council.

1:04:09My name is Sarah Radcliffe.

1:04:10I work with Habitat for Humanity.

1:04:12Um, we anticipate that with 50 family-sized homes of 2, 3, and 4 bedrooms that approximately 191 people will call this development home.

1:04:25Okay.

1:04:26And did, did we do a SuperNOFA or something?

1:04:29How did this come about?

1:04:30How did they— did they contact us and ask us if we could help?

1:04:35How did this whole relationship come up, come together?

1:04:39Yes.

1:04:39So PHB held a solicitation in 2022.

1:04:45There were multiple sites and development financing available through the solicitation, and Habitat's proposal was selected as part of this NOFA.

1:04:55Okay, and so we're just now getting to this?

1:04:57It took us 4 years to do this?

1:04:59Yeah, part of that is because there was a Safe Rest Village and the Belmont Goats located on the site, and their lease— not a lease, use agreement ended in June 2025.

1:05:12We expected to close shortly after that.

1:05:15Um, closing has been delayed due to negotiations of contracts, um, and permitting.

1:05:23And so the previous council approved this?

1:05:26It didn't go through us, is that what you're saying?

1:05:29It hasn't gone through council before.

1:05:32Financing is approved through the city administrator.

1:05:36Um, the land is approved by city council.

1:05:39Okay, okay.

1:05:40I'm just trying to figure out how this process went and if there was a process.

1:05:44Yes.

1:05:45Okay, thank you so much.

1:05:47Thank you, Councilor Smith.

1:05:49Councilor Ryan.

1:05:49Yes, thank you, Council President.

1:05:51I just wanted to provide a little bit more context than you provided, but I appreciate what you said and I enjoyed the questions from Councilor Smith.

1:05:58This was an example where bureaus worked together and we had Parks, PBOT, PHB, and then the office that was trying to build Safe Rest Villages.

1:06:09And so we actually saved some time and efficiency because when we built the villages, we did a lot of infrastructure work to set this up.

1:06:17So when they left, you could quickly get in there and do your thing.

1:06:21We also— for those that are from that part of town, it used to be there were unsanctioned camps that went all the way from Willamette down to Columbia Boulevard along the Peninsula Crossing Trail.

1:06:31And for over a decade, I hear 12 to 13 years, the residents of University Park had no access for the most part to that family-friendly amenity that we built.

1:06:42So when we put in the SafeRest Village, we made the whole neighborhood safer by clearing out the pathway, and then that started being used again by the neighbors.

1:06:51And then the infrastructure work was done with PBOT, so after that was closed down, we could immediately start the building.

1:06:56And I think we're all excited about the opportunity.

1:06:57Thank you.

1:06:58Opportunities for homeownership, the pathway to financial stability, and to the North and Northeast preference policy that was always a part of this journey as well.

1:07:07So thank you, Housing Bureau, for seeing this through.

1:07:11Thank you, Councilor Ryan.

1:07:13Can we please move to public testimony?

1:07:17We have one person signed up, Lacey Sutton.

1:07:22Thank you guys for the presentation.

1:07:24You can Hi, Lacey Sutton.

1:07:37In 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, our 7-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that made her severely immune compromised.

1:07:47It was the beginning of the hardest time of our lives, but Through it all, we held fast to our dream of owning a home, of giving our children safety and stability.

1:07:56We were overjoyed to purchase a Habitat home, and that joy was robbed from us.

1:08:02I've spent the past 2 and a half years fighting for basic code-required safety, for answers, time I should have been spending with my family enjoying the house we worked so hard for.

1:08:13But I had kids sleeping on the third story.

1:08:16Of—.

1:08:16On a dark, unmarked, dead-end road filled with cars, a road Habitat and the city used to insist was not a fire lane.

1:08:24It took 2 and a half years of my life, hundreds of emails, complaints, testimony, investigations by the fire department, the ombudsman, the media, just to get a tacit admission that yes, we do in fact need fire access.

1:08:38They painted some curbs and put in some signs.

1:08:41Thank you.

1:08:41But it's still not up to code and they still won't explain it.

1:08:45Over these years, I have been surprised to learn that while things are particularly bad at Cherry Blossom, we are not alone.

1:08:53Everywhere I go talking about this, people come up to me— homeowners, tradespeople, church leaders—.

1:08:59And tell me they're familiar with Habitat's work.

1:09:02Leaking roofs, black mold, bad wiring, wall heaters that are at best incredibly Expensive to run and at worst burst into flame.

1:09:10One water meter, so struggling families can't get a discount from the water bureau.

1:09:14That's going to get a lot harder.

1:09:16Homeowners in foreclosure for unpaid HOA dues.

1:09:20This low-income housing model is an experiment and it is failing.

1:09:25And we don't— we can't move because permanent affordability with capped equity and silent second mortgages and DPAL, you have to pay back is not how you build wealth.

1:09:34We're stuck.

1:09:36So why don't you hear about this?

1:09:38Maybe for the same reason the ombudsman rewrote their findings after a chat with Steve Massanetti.

1:09:45Or how about that time back in 2019 when the fire plant examiner identified significant violations in the plans and was ordered to just approve it the day before Habitat's deadline?

1:09:57There's a term for that.

1:09:59Dereliction of duty.

1:10:01But without enforcement, those are just words.

1:10:04Habitat for Humanity is a powerful organization with money and lawyers and friends in high places, and we have sick kids and several jobs and bills and homes that are falling apart and fears of retaliation and indifference that are totally founded.

1:10:24Several of you have asked me what you could do for us.

1:10:28Well, here you go.

1:10:30Habitat wants something from you.

1:10:32Seems to me like this would be the perfect time to ask them some hard questions, make some demands, condition your approval on answers, repairs, accountability.

1:10:43It's the only way we're going to get any.

1:10:47Thank you.

1:10:48Thank you so much.

1:10:50That completes testimony.

1:10:52Okay, colleagues, is there further discussion of this item?

1:10:57Councilor Kanal.

1:10:59Thank you.

1:11:00Um, so first off, I want to acknowledge what, what we're talking about here, um, in the testimony and say that we have a necessity to ensure that things that are built are up to code.

1:11:17I've been looking into this off and on.

1:11:18I know it's not in our district, but I do think that there's— it's a worthwhile conversation for us to have about that location.

1:11:25I think it's up to this council whether or not that affects the question about this particular ordinance.

1:11:31I just want to acknowledge that first.

1:11:34I appreciate Councilor Avalos, Chair Avalos, bringing up the context of the size of the units.

1:11:42Yes.

1:11:42This ordinance relates to a property that is in our district.

1:11:46One of the challenges that we're facing, and my colleague Councilor Ryan talks a lot about declining enrollment in PPS schools, and part of the reason for that is we don't have affordable units in which people can have a family, have children in.

1:12:02And so I am grateful that that is a part of the plan and that is the focus of this particular plan.

1:12:08I'm also grateful that there is Inclusion in the North Northeast Preference Policy.

1:12:13I could repeat pretty much everything that you said, Chair Avalos, and I won't, but I did wanna just shout that out.

1:12:18I also wanted to note that I believe all 3 of us from D2 toured that facility together back when it was a Safe Rest Village.

1:12:28And this has been on the radar for a while.

1:12:32This particular plan has been effectively in the works with relation to transferring the property because it was originally purchased, if I recall correctly, for affordable housing development when it was transferred.

1:12:44So that to me is a core part of what we're doing here is we're effectively finishing something that was already put into effect.

1:12:53But I just wanted to get that all on the record.

1:12:57I'm not sure how others would like to approach this in light of other things, but I wanted to at least get that on the record.

1:13:02Thanks.

1:13:02Thank you, Councilor Kanal.

1:13:04Councilor Green.

1:13:06Yeah, I just wanted to say briefly, one of the, One of the issues that we discussed in the committee was that this is an example, a prototype example of the impact of land banking.

1:13:19You know, this was a sort of not part of a systematic strategy per se, but it was a one-off opportunity that the Portland Housing Bureau saw to secure land at a price that it knew would become more dear over time.

1:13:32And the result of that was that we were able to build a number of units that are family-sized Yes.

1:13:36— At a cost that pencils out for these families.

1:13:41And so I made the point that I said, you know, to the extent that the social housing study is looking at land banking as part of a broader framework, to the extent that Unified Housing Strategy is looking at land banking as part of a broader framework, we don't need to wait to start looking at those opportunities to pilot something in the future when we already have a pilot here.

1:14:02And so I just wanted to make sure we use the lessons of this as evidence when we, when we write that report, um, and just recognize that, um, that it can have good impacts.

1:14:13Um, obviously, you know, there's, there's accountability and, you know, code enforcement issues notwithstanding.

1:14:23Thank you, Councilor Green.

1:14:24Councilor Smith.

1:14:26Thank you, Council President.

1:14:27Is this the $8 million that's being used to, um, fund this project?

1:14:33Is this coming out of the '25-'26 Anybody from Housing Bureau available to answer that?

1:14:44And also, I wanted to know, was this project budgeted in this last budget, if it was put in the budget?

1:14:56Um, thank you, Councilor Smith.

1:14:57Uh, it's expected in the FY 2026-2027 budget.

1:15:02Um, we expect the first allocation of funds to be in June or, uh, in July of 2026.

1:15:07'26 This year, and it was included in the 5-year forecast, so it should have been in all of the budgets you've seen.

1:15:15Okay.

1:15:16No, I was just trying to figure out if it was in the budget.

1:15:19What I'm concerned about is that we're approving monies to do monies before our actual budget is done.

1:15:25If it was for '25-'26, I could understand this, but we have not— we're not in the '26-'27 budget year, so why are we approving this now?

1:15:37What if that budget doesn't go?

1:15:39I see the DCA here.

1:15:44Thanks, Tim.

1:15:45Great job.

1:15:46Donny Oliveira, for the record, Deputy City Administrator of Community and Economic Development.

1:15:50Councilor, thank you for the question.

1:15:52So anytime we're talking about something as complex as a housing development deal, it takes place over several years.

1:16:00So when the team goes to do their underwriting with a project, any given project, we have to look at it over time.

1:16:09At the same time, our development partners, in this case Habitat for Humanity, needs to have some level of certainty that the resources, in this case bond dollars, are going to be available to complete the project.

1:16:21So the reality is for any housing production is there is going to happen over several— 10 years.

1:16:29Budget cycles.

1:16:31So, well, it depends on what we do with the '26-'27 budget, and I have a problem with approving stuff before its time.

1:16:39If it was about '25-'26— and again, here we go, we're going out of order again because this is not an emergency that has to be approved today.

1:16:49They know we're good for the money.

1:16:51They understand that we do have a budget, but to have this approved now It does not, it does not math for me because what if we decide to, to choose some other routes to fill that $171 million gap?

1:17:06Councilor, that's a fair question.

1:17:08You— 2 things are why this is pressing.

1:17:11Uh, staff did relay the, the sequence of events that have to happen before the end of the fiscal year, including a burden that we put on the Housing Bureau for, in this case, security costs in the next fiscal year if we didn't land this deal.

1:17:22The second thing, there are other funders, um, that we're partnering with that are, are ready for our final piece to complete the capital stack.

1:17:30So we're putting several partners, you know, at risk here.

1:17:35What, what partners are you putting at risk?

1:17:37I, I, I don't see what partners you're going to put at risk.

1:17:39Uh, it's Oregon Housing and Community Services, so the state funding organization, and OnPoint Community Credit Union.

1:17:46Um, also just adding that the funds are Metro Housing bond dollars and, um, TIF dollars, so they have to be used for specific purposes.

1:17:55So that's what I'm saying.

1:17:56We must be using '25-'26.

1:17:59How can we commit in this ordinance '26-'27 if we don't have it?

1:18:05Because we don't even know what we're going to get.

1:18:07This must be old money because we don't have any more of that money anymore.

1:18:10It goes through the county.

1:18:13Councilor, um, when bond dollars are released, in this case Metro bond dollars, those are revenues that are are predictable in the sense that we know what they are.

1:18:21And so they're programmed out over time.

1:18:23Okay.

1:18:23So it's not like they're a new revenue that we collect every year.

1:18:26They're essentially sitting in our coffers to be spent.

1:18:29In the case of both of the bonds, both housing dollars and, or Portland Housing Dollars and Metro Dollars, these are the ends of the resources that have been committed over many years ago.

1:18:38These are the final products of those investments.

1:18:40So these are basically the final dispersals of those resources.

1:18:44So again, are we dispersing 26-27 or 25-26?

1:18:49Because I don't, I don't see the emergency right now, um, City Administrator.

1:18:55I, I, I, I just don't.

1:18:56I don't understand.

1:18:58It doesn't math for me.

1:19:00Councilor, I thought staff did an adequate job of explaining the emergency.

1:19:12I don't know.

1:19:12I don't, I don't get it.

1:19:14I don't understand it.

1:19:14I don't understand the capital stack on it.

1:19:16I don't understand why we're doing it now and not a month from now, because you already said they know that you're going to do the bonds.

1:19:25They come at a certain time, so they know you're good for the money.

1:19:28Councilor, the action today is to, to disburse the land to Habitat so they can take action, right?

1:19:33That's what's happening today.

1:19:34So we're asking for council's approval of the transition of the property from the city to Habitat.

1:19:40That is the functional action that's happening No, but I asked about the money.

1:19:43I had asked about the $8 million.

1:19:45That's what I was concerned about.

1:19:46I understand.

1:19:47But this, but this is, this is already giving us a direction to take $8 million before our budget is approved, to take that $8 million before the budget is approved.

1:20:00It's, it's requiring us to do that.

1:20:02Can we do that?

1:20:03I mean, where's the legal counsel?

1:20:04Counselor, I don't, I don't see anything in here that says we are transferring cash.

1:20:08This looks like it's No, no, no.

1:20:09But, but what it's saying in the document is that we're going to spend $8 million in '26-'27.

1:20:16And so we're doing an ordinance in '25-'26 that it's, it's mixing 2.

1:20:24And so we have to do one before we do the other.

1:20:27We have to approve a budget before you can agree to take '26-'27.

1:20:37You cannot take money from another budget year without approving it first.

1:20:40But I don't— we're not approving money here in this.

1:20:43No, but in the ordinance, he said that it was going to be $8 million that we spend towards it.

1:20:48And so maybe I'm getting this confused.

1:20:50I didn't go to the— I don't sit on the committee.

1:20:52Councilor, I was just trying to respond to your question.

1:20:54Today's action is just about the land.

1:20:56Just right.

1:20:57But I asked you the question, are we putting any cash towards this?

1:21:01And you said $8 million.

1:21:02And I said, what year is it coming out of?

1:21:04You said '26-'27.

1:21:07And so if this is referring that we're, we're doing an action right now, what if we don't approve the budget for '26-'27?

1:21:14Where are you going to get that $8 million from?

1:21:17That's all I'm saying.

1:21:18I'm just trying to say order.

1:21:20We're not doing things in order.

1:21:22And I think we will— yes, I heard.

1:21:25And that's why I'm asking legal counsel I think—.

1:21:33Oh, go ahead, Adrienne.

1:21:36The answer is the action doesn't implicate the budget technically because it doesn't attempt to allocate or appropriate funds from the '26-'27 budget.

1:21:51It technically just transfers land.

1:21:53It's a fair question of whether or not the city should be What if we do this and council decides not to appropriate?

1:21:58I'm just responding to what he said.

1:22:00He said his partners need to know that we're good for the money.

1:22:06But today is not about the money.

1:22:08You said it's about the land.

1:22:10So what about this particular ordinance is going to give them some security that we're going to actually be able to bond that for '26-'27 if we haven't passed it?

1:22:22That's what I'm— that's what I'm trying to say.

1:22:24We're out of order.

1:22:29Any further response, team?

1:22:33I don't have a problem with it.

1:22:34I like the project.

1:22:35I think we need to do it.

1:22:36But I'm just saying that when we're doing the money, we did the same thing last year.

1:22:39We approved a budget with the hopes that we were going to get $15 million from the governor, and we didn't, and it messed our budget up, and we had to go and and do a TAL to correct it.

1:22:49I don't want to have to go and do something different to correct something that we did wrong in the wrong fiscal year.

1:22:56Right.

1:22:56So I think to be really clear, a transfer of land does not have a budget implication in the way of like what your budget looks like.

1:23:05So we're not saying to the partners that, oh, we just buying the land.

1:23:10It doesn't mean that we're not going to give you the $8 million.

1:23:12So are we— Are we signaling we're going to give you the $8 million in some kind of way?

1:23:18Does this give them more confidence if we pass this today?

1:23:22Does this give them more confidence that we're going to actually give them the $8 million?

1:23:28Councilor, I believe that confidence is built on years of working together to get things done.

1:23:32That's what I'm talking about.

1:23:34That's all I'm saying.

1:23:36I think we have a relationship.

1:23:39So the emergency, the urgency is not the urgency that you're saying that it is today.

1:23:45That's all I'm saying.

1:23:48We're not passing any money.

1:23:52Okay, thank you, Councilor.

1:23:55Um, we are well over time right now, folks.

1:23:58We are half an hour over on our calendar already.

1:24:02Um, I like the project, um, DCA Oliveira.

1:24:08I think it's a great project and it is going to The end user are the people who I'm concerned about, and I think that it's gonna serve us well.

1:24:15But in terms of process, every time we make a mistake, and I'm really concerned as it relates to the Portland Housing Bureau because we get— we play fast and loose with certain things.

1:24:27We found $106 million that we didn't have.

1:24:31Yes, sir.

1:24:31Yes, I'm gonna always bring that up.

1:24:34This is for the city.

1:24:36So when you do things out of order in my, in my world, I'm going to ask you about it.

1:24:48Okay, thank you, Councilor.

1:24:50Councilor Zimmerman.

1:24:54Thanks.

1:24:54To just to get the heart of this point, let's say that the budget aspect does not get approved.

1:25:00When we give land away to an organization for an intent that they develop it.

1:25:06Do we have a deed restriction or some sort of covenant that says if they fail, fall on their face, cease to be an organization in the next X number of months or years, that we get the land back?

1:25:17Yes, we'll be executing a disposition and development agreement that has a reversionary interest clause on it.

1:25:23Thank you.

1:25:24Thank you, Councilor Zimmerman.

1:25:26Councilor Morillo— oh, never mind.

1:25:28Okay.

1:25:29Can we— let's see, seeing no one else in the queue, can we please— this is an emergency ordinance.

1:25:36Oh, I'm sorry, is there— we already get testimony?

1:25:39Yeah, can we please move to a roll call vote?

1:25:41And colleagues, reminder, this is emergency ordinance, it requires 9 votes to pass.

1:25:52Indicating an intent here to do significant oversight on This, uh, project and, and a request from everybody, Fire Bureau as well actually, uh, to, to keep council looped in on any approval of any permits related to this project.

1:26:06Um, aye.

1:26:09Pirtle-Guiney.

1:26:12True family-sized units, a real choice for homeownership for more families, and a land banking success.

1:26:19I am proud to co-sponsor and happy to vote aye.

1:26:23Yeah, happy to see this back.

1:26:25Aye.

1:26:26Aye.

1:26:29I appreciate your line of questioning, Councilor Smith.

1:26:31Um, I think that there are things we need to look at and make sure we're doing it in the right order, and I think I feel satisfied by Councilor Zimmerman's answer to those questions, but I just wanted to affirm that.

1:26:40So I vote aye knowing that we can do oversight later.

1:26:44Aye.

1:26:44Aye.

1:26:45Aye.

1:26:50Aye.

1:26:52Aye.

1:26:53Aye.

1:26:54The ordinance passes with 12 aye votes.

1:26:58Thank you very much.

1:26:58Can we please move to item— the next item.

1:27:04I don't know what number it is anymore.

1:27:07Item 8.

1:27:08Thank you.

1:27:08There we go.

1:27:10Add identification of law enforcement officers Code to prohibit facial covering, require badge visibility, and require identity verification for individuals conducting law enforcement activities.

1:27:22Add Code Chapter 23.30, document number 2026-111.

1:27:28Colleagues, this is the continued first reading of a non-emergency ordinance.

1:27:33When we left off, Councilor Murillo had moved all of Councilor Novick's first generation of amendments as a package, and Councilor Avalos had seconded it.

1:27:41All of these amendments are out of date, but while it is still active, we have one amendment from Kanal and one from Novick.

1:27:50Councilor Morillo, would you be willing to withdraw your motion so we can get—.

1:27:54So happy to withdraw.

1:27:56Thank you.

1:27:56There we go.

1:27:57So now I'm turning it over to Councilor Kanal.

1:28:01Is that right?

1:28:02Yeah, can I just ask a clarifying question on what you just said as my policy advisor Jack Jaden's gonna be sharing the screen here, but can I just ask a clarifying— which amendments are still in the universe right now?

1:28:16Is it Novick 7 and Pirtle-Guiney Canal 1?

1:28:18That is my understanding.

1:28:19Okay, is that—.

1:28:21Actually, I'm withdrawing Novick 7.

1:28:23I'm proposing amendments 1 and 2 to Canal Pirtle-Guiney 1.

1:28:28Okay, okay, thank you for clarifying that.

1:28:30So I will, I guess, first just for the record, move Pirtle-Guiney Canal 1 as an amendment, and then I'll, I'll, I have— I'll explain it.

1:28:40Um, but just wanted to, to move that, and, uh, hopefully she's still connected and can second it.

1:28:52Second.

1:28:52Yes, thank you.

1:28:54Thank you very much.

1:28:55So, uh, just a real quick— we got a request, uh, in the last session.

1:29:00There were several, uh, Thank you.

1:29:02I'm not going to go through, explain the whole thing again, and I don't want to take up time on things we've already talked about, but I did want to just do a quick side-by-side comparison here of what is being done.

1:29:14And this is referring to in the amendment what would be done.

1:29:19So I think the screen share is up, but the same underlying legislative intent exists.

1:29:27We have masked people which are taking and detaining folks with no license plates, unmarked cars, things like that.

1:29:35And it is unclear and unable to be immediately determined if people are imposters or not.

1:29:41And there is still an underlying need to build the public trust.

1:29:46The ordinance seeks still to create, and this is the legislative intent once again for the record, the right to know for the public as well as the city government that a person claiming to be law enforcement actually is and is not an imposter, that there is transparency and accountability for all law enforcement, not just Portland Police operating in Portland, and that there's enough information being collected that there's a record of what's going on so someone can file a complaint or, you know, follow up in the event of a feeling that wrongdoing has occurred.

1:30:15So I won't go back over this next slide.

1:30:17I'll just show it for a second here of what it does.

1:30:20Visible identification, preliminary investigations, and documentation here.

1:30:25But I did want to go to these last just 3 quick things: the overlap, the differences, and the differences relative to the state and California law.

1:30:36So for those who again may have forgotten, we are required by state law to create a policy that relates to masking and identification.

1:30:45Mm-hmm.

1:30:46This goes further than that, and that's the right column here.

1:30:48But the left column is what we are required to do.

1:30:50We are fulfilling that obligation.

1:30:53We are complying with the masking piece exactly as the state requires it.

1:30:59With the identification piece, we are— you can see Section 1 there on the left that you're allowed to adopt more stringent requirements.

1:31:05And so we're showing that on the next slide.

1:31:08And then we copied and pasted from the state law the definitions of these sorts of terms.

1:31:13And then the right side of this slide shows that there's a— oh, that's the mass identification.

1:31:20I already talked about that.

1:31:22Next slide, please.

1:31:22The differences is that we add in this piece of potential imposter investigations and then documentation of how it was known that that authority was present for someone claiming law enforcement authority without any immediate way to know that for Sure.

1:31:39So basically what happens when it's looked into.

1:31:42And then just getting to the, the last slide here, because the California law has been asked several times, there are differences in how our ordinance compares to the California law.

1:31:55Our ordinance focuses pretty significantly on imposters, as the second point says, but it is also that we are looking more at the Chicago model than the California model as it relates to mass And identification in terms of being able to seek injunctive relief from a court.

1:32:10And I want to thank Councilor Novick for bringing that issue up more clearly.

1:32:14So, and that's a topic that's not in Oregon state law or in California.

1:32:18I just wanted to get this on the record for legislative intent because there's been a lot of questions.

1:32:22So now that we've moved the amendment and it has been seconded, I'd love to get into the conversation and I'll stop here.

1:32:29Thanks.

1:32:30Thank you, Councilor.

1:32:32So colleagues, we are in an amendment.

1:32:37We have an amendment before us that's been moved and seconded.

1:32:40Councilor Novick.

1:32:42Thank you, Mr. President.

1:32:44First of all, I want to thank Councilor Kanal and his staff and Councilor Pirtle-Guiney over the past few days.

1:32:50We've been— I've been bombarding them with questions, suggested additions, suggested deletions, and we've made a lot of progress over the last few weeks, and I really appreciate that.

1:33:02There's 2 amendments that I want to offer.

1:33:06One is, I originally thought, and I still think, that we should not be in the position of— I mean, I don't think that we need to tell PPB how internally to comply with this law or the state law.

1:33:19I don't think PPB has a history of over-masking or under-identifying, but I'm willing to go along with having some element of that.

1:33:29But one thing that concerns me is that Councilmember Herbold.

1:33:30The one that concerns me is that the requirement for documentation and approval of certain exemptions, in particular the one for working in extreme or severely inclement weather, including freezing temperatures, high wind, highly dusty conditions.

1:33:44And there's a requirement if that exemption is invoked that the operational necessity must be documented, a listing of the assigned duties or deployment at the time of the exception.

1:33:57The specific rationale for the exception, the name and rank of the supervising PPV officer who authorized the exception.

1:34:03And what that raises for me is a prospect of it's a really cold day and 200 patrol officers call their sergeant and say, hey, Sarge, I'm— it's really cold, I'm wrapping my scarf around the bottom of my face.

1:34:19And that just strikes me as overkill.

1:34:21So one of my amendments would Just delete the reference to the severe weather exemption from those— from that requirement.

1:34:33The second amendment that I'm proposing is that in the section which talks about incident reports of encounters with alleged law enforcement officers, I'd like to add something to the incident report requirement, which is that—.

1:34:52Yes.

1:34:53Even if the PPB officer determines finally that the person purporting to be law enforcement is law enforcement, I want to document instances of possible violations of the identification and masking requirements.

1:35:07So my amendment would say that if, if the PPB officer observed that the person in question was wearing a mask or was not wearing a badge, Or was not wearing either a permanent identifying number or a name tag.

1:35:21Oh, sorry, typo here.

1:35:22It says of a name tag, meant or.

1:35:24The report shall include that information.

1:35:27And the purpose of that is that we should be gathering information about potential violations of the law that then we could invoke if we attempt to enforce the law through a lawsuit.

1:35:40So I move to approve.

1:35:43Second.

1:35:44Novick 1 to Kanal-Pirtle-Guiney 1, and I move Novick 2 to Kanal-Pirtle-Guiney 1.

1:35:50Councilor Novick has moved Novick 1 and Novick 2.

1:35:54Is there a second?

1:35:55Can I second one of them?

1:35:57Absolutely.

1:35:58Sure.

1:35:59I'm happy to second Novick 2.

1:36:01Okay.

1:36:02Councilor Kanal seconds Novick number 2.

1:36:05Is there a second on Novick 1?

1:36:11Not hearing one.

1:36:13And I can speak to both in the same if that's helpful when we get to—.

1:36:17Sure.

1:36:18So colleagues, we are now to— yeah, Councilor, it seems as though we do not have a second for your other amendment.

1:36:24Colleagues, we are now in discussion on Novick 2.

1:36:31Councilor Zimmerman to the amendment.

1:36:36Why are we in discussion of Novick 2 if we— if it is only to Pirtle-Guiney Canal 1?

1:36:40Shouldn't we take up Pirtle-Guiney Canal 1?

1:36:42I thought that's what we were discussing before he makes his amendment to a thing that doesn't exist yet.

1:36:46Is that how it works?

1:36:47I guess I'm just trying to understand.

1:36:48Yeah, that's fair.

1:36:51I thought we debate the amendment.

1:36:53You're amending just their amendment, not—.

1:36:54Yes.

1:36:55Okay, I'll hold because I just— my question to you, Councilor, you were talking a little bit about the California thing.

1:36:59I want to get back into that.

1:37:00So I'm going to hold no comments on this.

1:37:02We will come back to that.

1:37:03Yes, Councilor Murillo, to the— to Novick 1 or Novick 2?

1:37:11I'm going to put my hand back down.

1:37:12Gotcha.

1:37:13Councilor Kanal?

1:37:15Yeah, I'm happy to, to speak to this because this is both about, um, documentation in 2 different parts.

1:37:21One is in the context of incident reporting, and that's the one that I seconded.

1:37:25Um, I think it's helpful to have more information, um, Wherever we can all agree that that is not an administrative burden and we all agree it's a good idea.

1:37:34So I see no concern with that and I'm happy to support it.

1:37:39I haven't heard any negativity towards it.

1:37:41Obviously we're all just hearing it, but if there was, I'd be open to that, but I don't immediately see any sort of issue with it.

1:37:47So I just wanted to second it and thank Councilor Novick for the continued, you know, looking into it and seeing where it can be improved.

1:37:55Thank you, Councilor Knoll.

1:37:58Colleagues, seeing no one else in the queue— Councilor Morillo.

1:38:02Am I allowed to ask Councilor Novick, 'cause I like this amendment, I think it's good.

1:38:07Are you— does this satisfy your concerns about the policy?

1:38:10Will you be able to vote in favor of it if this is approved?

1:38:16Councilor, you're asking me to like spoil the fun.

1:38:23I have a couple of clarifying questions to ask.

1:38:25I am disappointed that nobody, nobody seconded Novick 1, so I'm gulping over that a little bit.

1:38:33But you'll notice that I did not move my separate comprehensive amendment, so you can maybe infer that I'm kind of getting there.

1:38:42That's so unhelpful.

1:38:45Okay, that's as far as we go, I guess.

1:38:47Thank you, Councilor Murillo.

1:38:48Councilor Zimmerman.

1:38:51Thanks, Councilor Novick.

1:38:52I'm reading it.

1:38:53Your amendment says in line 232 after agency, so—.

1:39:02Yes.

1:39:02Okay, and to the Pirtle-Guiney-Kanal amendment that I'm holding, line 232 is about body-worn cameras.

1:39:12Maybe I'm looking at it either a too later or a Maybe I'm looking at the wrong—.

1:39:18Oh, what am I getting wrong here?

1:39:19That I had this morning.

1:39:23Where is this?

1:39:25Taking it out of the context of lines, this is under 23.30.060 incident reports, A1.

1:39:34So it would add to the end of A1 after and agency.

1:39:38The report will also include blah, blah, blah.

1:39:41So it'd be the end of A1.

1:39:43Okay, thank you.

1:39:44So got it.

1:39:51Thank you, Councilor.

1:39:54Colleagues, seeing no one else in the queue for debate, can we please call the roll on Novick 2?

1:40:05Novick 2.

1:40:07To Canal EPG 1?

1:40:09Yes.

1:40:10Correct.

1:40:10Okay, Canal?

1:40:12Aye.

1:40:13Pirtle-Guiney?

1:40:14Aye.

1:40:15Ryan?

1:40:15No.

1:40:16Koyama Lane?

1:40:17Aye.

1:40:18Murillo?

1:40:19Aye.

1:40:19Novick?

1:40:20Aye.

1:40:20Clark?

1:40:20No.

1:40:20Green?

1:40:21Aye.

1:40:21Ryan?

1:40:21No.

1:40:21Koyama Lane?

1:40:22Aye.

1:40:23Murillo?

1:40:24Aye.

1:40:25Novick?

1:40:26Aye.

1:40:27Clark?

1:40:28No.

1:40:29Green?

1:40:31Aye.

1:40:32Zimmerman?

1:40:33No.

1:40:35Avalos?

1:40:36Aye.

1:40:37Smith?

1:40:39No.

1:40:41Dunphy?

1:40:42Aye.

1:40:44And the amendment is approved with 8 aye, 4 nay.

1:40:48Okay, the amendment has been approved— has been amended to the underlying amendment to Kanal Pirtle-Guiney.

1:40:56Councilors, discussion?

1:40:59Councilor Novick.

1:41:02Councilor Kanal, I do want to hear your answer to the question about why isn't there a— doesn't it seem kind of goofy to require 200 patrol officers to call up and say, hey, Sarge, it's cold, I'm wrapping the scarf around the bottom of my face?

1:41:21Yeah, so I want to look at, and this is 233030, Section E-2.

1:41:32In— it's in my, um, version, it's in the lines 145 to 151 area.

1:41:38That's what we're talking about here.

1:41:39Yes.

1:41:39Um, so there's a change in the, um— this is something similar to something that Councilor Pirtle-Guiney brought up, uh, about this.

1:41:47And so you'll, you'll notice the words on a per-PPB officer basis So I think my— I think that we addressed the underlying concern that you're trying to solve already in the underlying amendment by removing that so that there does not need to be 200 calls, but any supervisor who's able to, you know, do so can just say it was 20 degrees outside, we exempted for that particular purpose.

1:42:17Thank you.

1:42:17Yes.

1:42:18And so I believe that that covers it and addresses it sufficiently.

1:42:24I'll also note that having no documentation would be challenging because at the request of PSSA, the— at least indirect request— the part that defines extreme weather has been removed.

1:42:41So in order to know that it was 20 degrees, You do need something there, but I think that removing the per-officer basis allows it to be one report instead of 200 if there are 200 officers on duty.

1:42:52Thank you for clarifying that.

1:42:54So when it says the name and rank of the supervising PPE officer who authorized the exception, you could have a captain or somebody say, hey, you guys, I know it's cold out there, I authorize you to protect your faces from the cold.

1:43:07That is a legislative intent, yes.

1:43:08Okay, thank you.

1:43:09Thank you.

1:43:10The only other question I have is where it talks about the 23-30-050A says the section applies when a person of ambiguous authority is engaged in conduct that would be unlawful for a civilian, and ambiguous authority is not defined.

1:43:33I just want to be clear.

1:43:36If a PPB officer shows up on a scene and a reported law enforcement officer is wearing a badge, is not wearing— is wearing a badge and is wearing either a unique identifying number or a name tag, are you assuming that the PPB officer can decide right then and there, okay, this is not ambiguous authority, this is real authority?