{ "meetingId": "2026-09-29-ws-2", "title": "Portland City Council Work Session - Civic Engagement + Neighborhood Program 09/29/26", "displayTitle": "Work session · Civic Engagement + Neighborhood Program", "date": "2026-09-29T09:00:00-07:00", "duration": 162, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86lDMDe9gQ", "videoId": "h86lDMDe9gQ", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/auditor/council-clerk/events/2026/9/29/city-council-work-session-0", "agendaItems": [], "summary": "**Portland councilors spent a three-hour work session on September 29 debating how to rebuild the city's shrunken civic engagement system, after staff reported the Office of Community and Civic Life had fallen from about 50 employees to fewer than 10 before a realignment brought it back to roughly 30.**\n\nThe session took no vote. Councilor Olivia Clark of District 4 opened it, said she had arrived late with a flat tire and would leave early, and handed the gavel to Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane of District 3 to preside. Koyama Lane organized the afternoon around three policy questions put forward by Civic Life staff.\n\n## What staff told the council about the bureau's decline\n\nLaura Oppenheimer, Interim Chief Engagement Officer and the long-term Chief Communications Officer, walked the council through the bureau's history. She said that over five budget years Civic Life shrank from \"50-some staff down to fewer than 10,\" with **only 4 of those positions filled in July** as the city headed into a core service realignment, and that the bureau now has **about 30 staff** ([00:10:03](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@00:10:03)). She said the period included three interim or acting directors without a permanent director.\n\nHarmony Dashiell, Senior Engagement Manager, said the realignment that went live August 4 moved bureau engagement staff into Civic Life, creating a core team of 9 positions and embedded teams of 21 positions across three service areas. She said staff had been \"anxious about being part of the engagement realignment because of the reputation that Civic Life has,\" which she described as a place \"where people go to get laid off or for things to get cut\" ([00:33:00](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@00:33:00)).\n\nAdam Lyons, the city's interim district and neighborhood liaison and a former director of Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, said Portland has **94 recognized neighborhood associations** supported through four district coalition offices. He said the office that supports them had dropped from five staff to \"a single funded coordinator position\" this fiscal year ([00:37:40](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@00:37:40)). Lyons recommended updating the ONI standards — the Office of Neighborhood Involvement standards adopted in 2005 — through a community-driven process starting in **2027**.\n\n## The councilors' arguments\n\nClark delivered the sharpest critique. She called the support level \"completely ridiculous, inadequate,\" and said it was \"absolutely bananas\" that \"one person is going to do that for a city of 165,000\" ([01:01:37](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@01:01:37)).\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney of District 2 warned that overlapping systems confuse residents: \"when we try to have a no wrong door policy, what we end up with is nobody actually knowing where the door is\" ([01:16:04](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@01:16:04)). She later laid out three distinct places for community input — what the council puts on its agenda, what it debates, and the decision it makes — and said the city must be honest about which it is asking for.\n\nCouncilor Sameer Kanal of District 2 drew a line between communications and engagement, calling engagement \"co-creation\" and saying communications is \"one way, engagement is 2 ways\" ([01:22:21](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@01:22:21)). He said he was \"really disappointed\" that the interim structure combined the two disciplines under single managers.\n\nCouncilor Candace Avalos of District 1 said the city must seek input \"before decisions are made\" and described feeling out of place as a renter decades younger than others at a Hollywood Neighborhood Association meeting. Councilor Eric Zimmerman of District 4 cautioned against discrediting longtime volunteers, recalling \"a dark era for our city where the city kind of went to war with the neighborhood associations\" ([01:53:00](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@01:53:00)). Councilor Steve Novick of District 3 said the council should be \"sensitive to how much of the community they're hearing from.\"\n\nOn the third question, Councilor Mitch Green of District 2 proposed an annual pool of city funds granted to coalitions \"through a transparent and competitive process\" rather than individual council offices \"doling out grants here and there\" ([02:30:40](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:30:40)). Kanal said the amounts at stake are \"a rounding error in the budget,\" citing a **$150,000** diversity and civic leadership amendment from the prior year ([02:34:25](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:34:25)). Councilor Loretta Smith of District 1 said volunteers \"need to be paid.\" Avalos said the current standard for engagement is too low: \"the bar is in hell\" ([02:22:21](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:22:21)).\n\n## Coalition directors speak after a floor request\n\nThe four district coalition directors were in the room but not scheduled to speak. Kanal pressed for that to change, invoking the feedback theme \"nothing about us without us\" and saying, \"here's a chance\" ([00:48:16](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@00:48:16)). Koyama Lane accommodated the request and set aside time later in the session.\n\nNancy Champlin, executive director of Southeast Uplift, the District 3 Coalition, described how her office partnered with the Urban Forestry department and the Portland Clean Energy Fund on a yard tree giveaway in priority neighborhoods, and asked the council to build a dashboard letting the public track items moving from committees to council ([02:00:53](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:00:53)). Allison Stoll of the District 1 Coalition, formerly Central Northeast Neighbors, said a boundary change left her coalition with one active neighborhood association and that all 14 are now active after a rebuild. Carly Barich, executive director of the District 4 Coalition, reported an estimated **40,000 volunteer hours and about 10,000 participants** across the district last year, run with two full-time staff ([02:09:34](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:09:34)). Jonna Davis, executive director of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, the District 2 Coalition, urged the council to build \"a larger table\" that includes renters and younger residents through tools such as transportation vouchers and childcare ([02:13:31](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:13:31)).\n\n## What's next\n\nOppenheimer said the Civic Life team would turn the discussion into a summary of key themes and next steps and share it with the council \"by mid-October at the latest\" ([02:40:54](meeting:2026-09-29-ws-2@02:40:54)). Lyons's proposal to restart the ONI standards through a community process in 2027 remains a recommendation, not a decision. Several councilors asked that bureaus notify council offices of engagement happening in their districts, and the coalition directors said they are ready to continue the conversation. Koyama Lane adjourned the session at 4:38 p.m.", "summaryText": "Portland councilors spent a three-hour work session on September 29 debating how to rebuild the city's shrunken civic engagement system, after staff reported the Office of Community and Civic Life had fallen from about 50 employees to fewer than 10 before a realignment brought it back to roughly 30.\n\nThe session took no vote. Councilor Olivia Clark of District 4 opened it, said she had arrived late with a flat tire and would leave early, and handed the gavel to Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane of District 3 to preside. Koyama Lane organized the afternoon around three policy questions put forward by Civic Life staff.\n\nLaura Oppenheimer, Interim Chief Engagement Officer and the long-term Chief Communications Officer, walked the council through the bureau's history. She said that over five budget years Civic Life shrank from \"50-some staff down to fewer than 10,\" with only 4 of those positions filled in July as the city headed into a core service realignment, and that the bureau now has about 30 staff (00:10:03). She said the period included three interim or acting directors without a permanent director.\n\nHarmony Dashiell, Senior Engagement Manager, said the realignment that went live August 4 moved bureau engagement staff into Civic Life, creating a core team of 9 positions and embedded teams of 21 positions across three service areas. She said staff had been \"anxious about being part of the engagement realignment because of the reputation that Civic Life has,\" which she described as a place \"where people go to get laid off or for things to get cut\" (00:33:00).\n\nAdam Lyons, the city's interim district and neighborhood liaison and a former director of Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, said Portland has 94 recognized neighborhood associations supported through four district coalition offices. He said the office that supports them had dropped from five staff to \"a single funded coordinator position\" this fiscal year (00:37:40). Lyons recommended updating the ONI standards — the Office of Neighborhood Involvement standards adopted in 2005 — through a community-driven process starting in 2027.\n\nClark delivered the sharpest critique. She called the support level \"completely ridiculous, inadequate,\" and said it was \"absolutely bananas\" that \"one person is going to do that for a city of 165,000\" (01:01:37).\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney of District 2 warned that overlapping systems confuse residents: \"when we try to have a no wrong door policy, what we end up with is nobody actually knowing where the door is\" (01:16:04). She later laid out three distinct places for community input — what the council puts on its agenda, what it debates, and the decision it makes — and said the city must be honest about which it is asking for.\n\nCouncilor Sameer Kanal of District 2 drew a line between communications and engagement, calling engagement \"co-creation\" and saying communications is \"one way, engagement is 2 ways\" (01:22:21). He said he was \"really disappointed\" that the interim structure combined the two disciplines under single managers.\n\nCouncilor Candace Avalos of District 1 said the city must seek input \"before decisions are made\" and described feeling out of place as a renter decades younger than others at a Hollywood Neighborhood Association meeting. Councilor Eric Zimmerman of District 4 cautioned against discrediting longtime volunteers, recalling \"a dark era for our city where the city kind of went to war with the neighborhood associations\" (01:53:00). Councilor Steve Novick of District 3 said the council should be \"sensitive to how much of the community they're hearing from.\"\n\nOn the third question, Councilor Mitch Green of District 2 proposed an annual pool of city funds granted to coalitions \"through a transparent and competitive process\" rather than individual council offices \"doling out grants here and there\" (02:30:40). Kanal said the amounts at stake are \"a rounding error in the budget,\" citing a $150,000 diversity and civic leadership amendment from the prior year (02:34:25). Councilor Loretta Smith of District 1 said volunteers \"need to be paid.\" Avalos said the current standard for engagement is too low: \"the bar is in hell\" (02:22:21).\n\nThe four district coalition directors were in the room but not scheduled to speak. Kanal pressed for that to change, invoking the feedback theme \"nothing about us without us\" and saying, \"here's a chance\" (00:48:16). Koyama Lane accommodated the request and set aside time later in the session.\n\nNancy Champlin, executive director of Southeast Uplift, the District 3 Coalition, described how her office partnered with the Urban Forestry department and the Portland Clean Energy Fund on a yard tree giveaway in priority neighborhoods, and asked the council to build a dashboard letting the public track items moving from committees to council (02:00:53). Allison Stoll of the District 1 Coalition, formerly Central Northeast Neighbors, said a boundary change left her coalition with one active neighborhood association and that all 14 are now active after a rebuild. Carly Barich, executive director of the District 4 Coalition, reported an estimated 40,000 volunteer hours and about 10,000 participants across the district last year, run with two full-time staff (02:09:34). Jonna Davis, executive director of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, the District 2 Coalition, urged the council to build \"a larger table\" that includes renters and younger residents through tools such as transportation vouchers and childcare (02:13:31).\n\nOppenheimer said the Civic Life team would turn the discussion into a summary of key themes and next steps and share it with the council \"by mid-October at the latest\" (02:40:54). Lyons's proposal to restart the ONI standards through a community process in 2027 remains a recommendation, not a decision. Several councilors asked that bureaus notify council offices of engagement happening in their districts, and the coalition directors said they are ready to continue the conversation. Koyama Lane adjourned the session at 4:38 p.m.", "summaryLede": "Portland councilors spent a three-hour work session on September 29 debating how to rebuild the city's shrunken civic engagement system, after staff reported the Office of Community and Civic Life had fallen from about 50 employees to fewer than 10 before a realignment brought it back to roughly 30.", "sections": [ { "title": "Welcome and Introduction", "startTime": "00:04:52.213", "endTime": "00:07:44.372", "items": [ { "title": "Opening Remarks and Agenda Overview", "startTime": "00:04:52.213", "endTime": "00:07:44.372" } ] }, { "title": "Staff Presentation on Civic Life and Engagement", "startTime": "00:07:44.372", "endTime": "00:44:14.809", "items": [ { "title": "Civic Life Assessment and Key Themes", "startTime": "00:07:44.372", "endTime": "00:21:31.382" }, { "title": "Core Civic Life Functions and Core Team", "startTime": "00:21:31.382", "endTime": "00:34:58.025" }, { "title": "District and Neighborhood Liaison 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Vice President Clark.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-12", "start": 321.97, "end": 323.318, "text": "Good afternoon, everyone.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-13", "start": 323.976, "end": 329.111, "text": "Today at this work session, we're going to dive into the future of Civic Life and the Neighborhood Program.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-14", "start": 329.609, "end": 333.091, "text": "This is an especially important and timely conversation.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-15", "start": 333.846, "end": 345.979, "text": "As we've seen, Civic Life is at an important point navigating leadership changes, reduced resources, structural changes across the city, and at the same time, Portlanders have been really clear.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-16", "start": 346.219, "end": 355.512, "text": "They want to see engagement that's equitable, easier to access, easier to participate in, and more 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inflection point for civic life.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-38", "start": 539.711, "end": 542.138, "text": "One is just kind of acknowledging the elephant in the room.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-39", "start": 542.203, "end": 545.048, "text": "There's been a great deal of leadership turnover over the years.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-40", "start": 545.097, "end": 552.041, "text": "There have been budget reductions, a lot of change Secondly, we've obviously had charter reform.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-41", "start": 552.137, "end": 554.544, "text": "That was a mandate for a responsive city government.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-42", "start": 555.041, "end": 561.78, "text": "Engagement was at the heart of that work and of Portlanders' expectations for their new form of government.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-43", "start": 562.261, "end": 569.786, "text": "And third, engagement is one of about half a dozen core services that have gone through realignment and moved into a more centralized structure.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-44", "start": 570.588, "end": 576.525, "text": "Taking all 3 of those things together, we really see this as a moment where we can set that future direction with some guidance from all of you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-45", "start": 576.573, "end": 576.749, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-46", "start": 578.081, "end": 582.848, "text": "So there's a journalism term called don't bury the lead, so we're not going to do that.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-47", "start": 583.265, "end": 588.079, "text": "Starting with where we believe civic life is headed, and then we'll kind of walk through the mechanics.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-48", "start": 588.898, "end": 599.297, "text": "We really see the Office of Community and Civic Life building relationships and creating pathways for Portlanders to shape the city decisions across neighborhoods, identities, and communities.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-49", "start": 600.051, "end": 610.326, "text": "As Portland's hub for inclusive and coordinated engagement, Civic Life strengthens the connection between community voices, city services, and City Council priorities.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-50", "start": 612.485, "end": 618.625, "text": "That is really an expansion of the origins of Civic Life, and we're gonna take just a real short trip down memory lane here.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-51", "start": 620.67, "end": 629.06, "text": "What we now know as Civic Life began very much as a community-centered movement around neighborhood-based engagement.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-52", "start": 629.382, "end": 643.683, "text": "That really got going in the 1960s, and it was about a decade later that the city formally developed a program then called the over the years, there have been quite a few iterations and several names along with that.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-53", "start": 643.747, "end": 645.85, "text": "You'll see some of the key milestones marked here.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-54", "start": 646.476, "end": 658.85, "text": "In the early 2000s, really a focus on inclusion, capacity building, and kind of shifting the culture, leading to the major modern revision of the neighborhood program standards in 2005.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-55", "start": 659.219, "end": 661.578, "text": "You'll hear those referred to as the ONI standards.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-56", "start": 661.643, "end": 663.793, "text": "It was called the Office of Neighborhood Involvement at the time.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-57", "start": 663.841, "end": 664.355, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-58", "start": 666.937, "end": 681.323, "text": "Over the years, various programs were added beyond the neighborhood program, and in 2018, the City Council gave Civic Life its current name and really broadened that mission with the idea that it was there to connect Portlanders with their city government.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-59", "start": 682.718, "end": 690.047, "text": "However, since 2021, we have seen significant downsizing and a lot of turnover in leadership.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-60", "start": 690.417, "end": 698.286, "text": "Right at the same time that voters were approving charter reform and creating the geographic districts that now anchor our City Council.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-61", "start": 701.643, "end": 710.171, "text": "So I had to go back myself and dig through the past 5 budgets to really get a sense of how dramatic the scope has changed for Civic Life.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-62", "start": 710.769, "end": 727.687, "text": "You'll see here over the past 5 budget years, the bureau kind of shrinking year by year from 50-some staff down to fewer than 10 as of this last budget year, with only 4 of those positions filled in July as we headed into the core service realignment.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-63", "start": 728.489, "end": 735.751, "text": "You know, and during that 3.5-year period, there were a series of 3 interim or acting directors without a long-term director in place.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-64", "start": 736.584, "end": 741.49, "text": "So I say that just to kind of understand where we are coming from as we launch this rebuild.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-65", "start": 742.035, "end": 744.968, "text": "But then you will see the upward trajectory at the end, and that is—.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-66", "start": 745, "end": 745.449, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-67", "start": 745.806, "end": 747.642, "text": "Core service realignment kicking in.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 747.902, "end": 749.396, "text": "We now have about 30 staff.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-69", "start": 749.526, "end": 751.346, "text": "Harmony will share more about that later.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-70", "start": 752.902, "end": 755.07, "text": "It really does create a new opportunity for us.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-71", "start": 757.87, "end": 767.532, "text": "This graphic visualizes the ecosystem of engagement as it existed up until our new form of government and core service realignment.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-72", "start": 768.679, "end": 775.429, "text": "Civic Life was a collection of small— the neighborhood program and other small engagement programs, in most cases run by a single person.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-73", "start": 777.328, "end": 787.7, "text": "Within bureaus, there were engagement staff doing fantastic work to ask Portlanders what they thought about projects and programs and to build relationships.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-74", "start": 788.407, "end": 796.194, "text": "However, the experience was pretty uneven for Portlanders, with each bureau doing things a bit differently.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-75", "start": 797.254, "end": 801.268, "text": "There wasn't a common ecosystem or infrastructure tying that work together.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-76", "start": 802.62, "end": 819.35, "text": "This represents the system that we are moving toward under the umbrella of community and civic life with a core team providing citywide strategy, resources, and programs, and embedded teams in the service areas conducting engagement in alignment with citywide strategies.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-77", "start": 821.96, "end": 829.399, "text": "Now, all of this needs to be centered around what Portlanders want from engagement.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-78", "start": 829.48, "end": 831.423, "text": "And fortunately, we are not starting from scratch.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-79", "start": 831.476, "end": 836.508, "text": "There have been some really significant efforts over the last several years to hear from Portlanders.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-80", "start": 837.022, "end": 844.52, "text": "I'm just going to briefly highlight 3 of those, and we'll certainly follow up with some additional reading for anyone who wants to do a deeper dive.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-81", "start": 845.772, "end": 850.621, "text": "First, the Portland Engagement Project in 2023 and 2024.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-82", "start": 851.408, "end": 872.072, "text": "Civic Life at the time worked with a contractor, 40 community partners who mobilized their networks, and heard from about 700 Portlanders who generated 1,000 ideas, all in the name of informing how we can move forward with better city engagement that met the needs of our diversifying population and our new form of government.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-83", "start": 874.19, "end": 876.617, "text": "3 Key themes emerged from that research.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-84", "start": 877.81, "end": 879.344, "text": "Number one, start with us.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-85", "start": 880.022, "end": 883.462, "text": "Portlanders want to be proactively engaged before decisions are made.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-86", "start": 883.979, "end": 886.305, "text": "For each of these, you'll see a couple of representative quotes.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-87", "start": 886.662, "end": 887.352, "text": "Of what we heard.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-88", "start": 888.57, "end": 890.815, "text": "Number 2, vary the options.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-89", "start": 891.473, "end": 892.13, "text": "Make it easier.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-90", "start": 892.515, "end": 897.133, "text": "Don't expect everyone to engage the same way and meet people where they are, literally and figuratively.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-91", "start": 898.288, "end": 899.907, "text": "Number 3, centralize.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-92", "start": 901.318, "end": 913.569, "text": "We heard that people would like a common hub where they could find the ways to get involved with city government and make their voices heard without having to hunt things down through different bureaus and different offices.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-93", "start": 916.31, "end": 921.455, "text": "The second input that I'd like to highlight is the Portland Insights Survey.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-94", "start": 922.177, "end": 925.431, "text": "This is our biennial benchmark survey of public opinion.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-95", "start": 925.559, "end": 937.292, "text": "It's conducted in conjunction with Portland State University, statistically valid research with community partners helping boost participation among underrepresented communities.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-96", "start": 937.87, "end": 945.185, "text": "There's a standard question we can track from one survey to the next next, about the ease of contacting the city on issues important to you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-97", "start": 946.212, "end": 954.703, "text": "You will see here that the response is lukewarm across the board, with particularly in District 1, a lower level of satisfaction.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-98", "start": 955.699, "end": 969.84, "text": "And again, you'll see 2 representative comments here, and I think they reflect that there is a good deal of skepticism on the part of Portlanders, but also hope as we move into a new form of government that there's the opportunity for change.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-99", "start": 970.386, "end": 972.152, "text": "I do wanna note that the 2026 Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-100", "start": 972.233, "end": 978.22, "text": "And the 2026 survey has been out in the field and we'll be getting results back in a few months and look forward to sharing those and seeing where we are.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-101", "start": 980.82, "end": 995.464, "text": "Last but not least, the Charter Commission itself focused on not only conducting innovative and inclusive engagement, but also thinking about how that needs to be part of the new form of government going forward.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-102", "start": 996.018, "end": 1009.499, "text": "You'll see here a quote from the final recommendations from the Charter Commission, urging all of us to continue to engage with the communities historically left out of City Hall decision-making and our community partners.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-103", "start": 1010.494, "end": 1018.844, "text": "I highlight these 3 bodies of work to say that they're here to inform and to anchor where civic life can go in the future.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-104", "start": 1019.887, "end": 1026.454, "text": "With that, I'm going to turn it over to Harmony to share an overview of our system today.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-105", "start": 1027.921, "end": 1028.261, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-106", "start": 1028.503, "end": 1031.107, "text": "Harmony Daschiel, she/her pronouns for the record.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-107", "start": 1031.253, "end": 1038.584, "text": "I am currently the Senior Engagement Manager for the city and oversee all of the staff that are embedded in bureaus for engagement.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-108", "start": 1039.001, "end": 1045.606, "text": "And we're going to take a walk through what makes up Civic Life right now from a staffing component and what we bring to the table.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-109", "start": 1047.576, "end": 1056.535, "text": "Our current state as of August 4th, when the engagement realignment went live and all of the staff that were in the bureaus became embedded as part of Civic Life.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-110", "start": 1056.759, "end": 1059.131, "text": "That includes 9 in the core team.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-111", "start": 1059.58, "end": 1065.302, "text": "Those are those single-staffed programs, and we'll do a little bit deeper dive in a future slide here.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-112", "start": 1065.911, "end": 1072.69, "text": "2 Of those programs, including the Portland Insight Survey, moved from other bureaus into that core Civic Life team.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-113", "start": 1073.283, "end": 1083.557, "text": "And then the embedded teams that represent 3 service areas in several different bureaus that are 21 positions that are now part of the Civic Life umbrella that historically were not so.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-114", "start": 1083.605, "end": 1083.717, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-115", "start": 1084.905, "end": 1088.886, "text": "In the past, those bureaus designed and implemented their own engagement 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"speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-149", "start": 1314.695, "end": 1324.343, "text": "I'm gonna run through these really quickly, but the partnerships, which is the We Are Better Together program, historically was in human resources and moved over with realignment to civic life.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-150", "start": 1325.273, "end": 1331.22, "text": "The immigrant and refugee engagement position—we just finished up welcome week, welcoming week.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-151", "start": 1331.3, "end": 1333.913, "text": "So amazing that we have that here in civic life.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-152", "start": 1334.635, "end": 1338.947, "text": "The youth engagement is the Multnomah Youth Commission that we have in partnership with Multnomah County.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-153", "start": 1339.46, "end": 1341.544, "text": "This is our portion of that program.", "speaker": "Harmony 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"text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-179", "start": 1490.345, "end": 1492.722, "text": "And then outreach, how we share out programs.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-180", "start": 1492.915, "end": 1497.751, "text": "When we talk about engagement and outreach, oftentimes these words are used interchangeably.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-181", "start": 1497.976, "end": 1508.289, "text": "There are some important notes that those of us in the business, if you will, do see as a difference, that when we're looking at engagement, we're usually looking at getting input back.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-182", "start": 1508.915, "end": 1514.393, "text": "So not just sharing what we're doing, but also being able to elicit that feedback to help inform that decision-making.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-183", "start": 1514.924, "end": 1518.237, "text": "And outreach, where we are able to share 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{ "id": "cue-193", "start": 1574.87, "end": 1583.651, "text": "Improvement to save capacity, but also to create an expectation from community and from leadership on what engagement looks like and how it's reported out.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-194", "start": 1584.678, "end": 1588.37, "text": "We would love to integrate one-person programs into a coordinated engagement system.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-195", "start": 1589.012, "end": 1604.696, "text": "It is a passion of mine that we don't leave our staff on islands by themselves, especially when we do engagement, that if there are these one-person teams, that it is come into our fold, you're not by yourself, how can we support you, where can we come together and, and work together so that you are not alone in this work.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-196", "start": 1604.761, "end": 1604.921, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-197", "start": 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"start": 1628.602, "end": 1631.283, "text": "As we are all new to this work sitting up here at the dais, we're all learning as we go.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-204", "start": 1631.331, "end": 1631.475, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1632.31, "end": 1639.835, "text": "This is an opportunity for us to really start fresh and be able to articulate that to bring everybody along for the journey and to collaborate in that work.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1641.103, "end": 1644.697, "text": "I touched on a few of our vacant positions that will help us with capacity.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1645.13, "end": 1648.403, "text": "These are important positions for us to be able to move the work forward.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1648.724, "end": 1657.902, "text": "The Urban Native Engagement Coordinator, having an 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"text": "All of this learning journey has not been without some challenges and some identification of gaps in where we are at as a city.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-219", "start": 1717.553, "end": 1721.936, "text": "So we wanted to be straightforward with where those are, that It's not all sunshine.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-220", "start": 1723.107, "end": 1733.179, "text": "We do have some notable places where we have pinch points that we don't have any dedicated positions for citywide initiatives or employee engagement.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-221", "start": 1733.612, "end": 1753.816, "text": "When I talk about citywide initiatives, that's support of the chief offices, the sustainability officer, comms officer, the engagement officer, any of those we don't have any kind of engagement person for, which Which leaves us in a crunch for when we have outreach needs and engagement needs for the programs that are run out of 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"end": 1875.733, "text": "So we'd love to have some thought partnership on what that can look like.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-242", "start": 1877.27, "end": 1886.859, "text": "As the whole city has experienced funding constraints, that has been exacerbated with realignment of not knowing what budgets we have to use in engagement.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-243", "start": 1887.593, "end": 1893.285, "text": "We are a pretty scrappy group and like to do things as inexpensively as possible.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-244", "start": 1893.67, "end": 1901.574, "text": "And yet to reach communities, to do right by communities, especially communities that have not been engaged with the city, a lot of it is pay to play.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-245", "start": 1901.719, "end": 1923.987, "text": "So going into the new fiscal year where we didn't know if we were going to have access to budget, what that budget was going to be, what IOs to charge, we did have some missed opportunities of long-term partnerships that we could not make commitments but also just a, even in this first quarter of the fiscal year, what do we have to work with and where can we show up where we need to be able to pay for things?", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-246", "start": 1924.163, "end": 1929.206, "text": "And there was not that certainty when positions moved, but the budgets did not.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-247", "start": 1930.41, "end": 1933.316, "text": "That is getting rectified partially in the fall TAO.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-248", "start": 1933.413, "end": 1937.443, "text": "So all is not lost, but it is a pinch point in the here and now.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-249", "start": 1938.198, "end": 1940.799, "text": "Varying understandings and definitions of engagement and outreach.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": 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how do we start to rebuild that trust internally and externally with our staff in our cities and take care of our staff and not have it be a perceived punishment to come over to Civic Life?", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-260", "start": 2018.5, "end": 2019.44, "text": "So we have recommendations.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-261", "start": 2019.489, "end": 2020.996, "text": "We're not here just to be doomsday.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-262", "start": 2021.126, "end": 2022.358, "text": "We'll turn it around a little bit.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-263", "start": 2022.423, "end": 2024.434, "text": "We have some ideas on where we can get to a better place.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-264", "start": 2025.756, "end": 2039.869, "text": "Establish a 5-year stability plan in collaboration with the bureaus, with service area leadership, with you all, with the city administrator, that we can start to change that trajectory where we've had about 5 years of decline, that we can get to a place where we're better off.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-265", "start": 2040.19, "end": 2052.649, "text": "I think keeping in mind of what the fiscal state of the city is right now, we're not looking to wave a wand and have everything be better in a year, but I do think we can come up with a intentional plan of what the future looks like.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-266", "start": 2053.516, "end": 2065.376, "text": "We would love to have recommended staffing and funding adjustments for next fiscal year to make sure that we do have the resources that we need to do the work to come by community and also get what you all need for your decision-making.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-267", "start": 2066.195, "end": 2087.618, "text": "And develop a structure and funding model that provides that flexibility that I talked about earlier, that when we do have one-off projects that maybe don't necessitate a bureau having an engagement team, but they do have something that comes up, that we're able to pivot to that demand, or if we have just something big in the city that happens to need our attention, that we have the flexibility and ability to be able to do that.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-268", "start": 2090.037, "end": 2094.079, "text": "And with that, I'm going to pass it over to my colleague Adam to speak more about the neighborhood program.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-269", "start": 2094.724, "end": 2095.336, "text": "Thank you, Harmony.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-270", "start": 2095.915, "end": 2097.751, "text": "Yeah, for the record, my name is Adam Lyons.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-271", "start": 2098.025, "end": 2101.855, "text": "I use he/him pronouns, and I'm the city's interim district and neighborhood liaison.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-272", "start": 2102.998, "end": 2106.264, "text": "In a previous role, I was also the director of Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-273", "start": 2106.313, "end": 2109.852, "text": "So I've also— I've had the experience of being in the community side as well.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-274", "start": 2111.112, "end": 2116.738, "text": "The Neighborhood Program is Portland's longest-standing public involvement infrastructure connecting Portlanders with their city.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-275", "start": 2117.498, "end": 2122.727, "text": "Today I want to give you a clear picture of how that system works, where it's had challenges, and what we're doing to stabilize it.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-276", "start": 2123.842, "end": 2127.842, "text": "We also have recommendations on how it can evolve under Portland's new form of government.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-277", "start": 2129.24, "end": 2129.673, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-278", "start": 2131.553, "end": 2134.502, "text": "I want to thank Laura for her walkthrough of the program's history.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-279", "start": 2134.923, "end": 2136.934, "text": "Even over the past few years, there's been a lot of change.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-280", "start": 2136.983, "end": 2137.794, "text": "We've combined 7 districts into 4.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-281", "start": 2137.842, "end": 2147.1, "text": "We've At its core, the neighborhood program is about partnership.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-282", "start": 2147.85, "end": 2154.92, "text": "Portland has 94 recognized neighborhood associations supported through 4 district coalition offices aligned with the city's new boundaries.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-283", "start": 2155.33, "end": 2164.85, "text": "Those associations are open to anyone in the community and utilize hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers to run meetings, events, social media, and other activities.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-284", "start": 2165.93, "end": 2170.05, "text": "District coalitions are all now nonprofits with paid staff to support neighborhoods and lead district-wide programming.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-285", "start": 2170.05, "end": 2170.09, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-286", "start": 2170.09, "end": 2188.199, "text": "We've also expanded the number of Next slide, Laura.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-287", "start": 2188.199, "end": 2189.76, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-288", "start": 2189.76, "end": 2192.9, "text": "This slide represents how the responsibilities are currently divided.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-289", "start": 2193.08, "end": 2197.44, "text": "On the city side, Civic Life funds and manages the coalition grants and scopes of work.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-290", "start": 2197.44, "end": 2200.88, "text": "We provide bureau-specific notices and communications to neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-291", "start": 2201.628, "end": 2206.046, "text": "We maintain a community contact database and oversee and support the whole system.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-292", "start": 2207.25, "end": 2218.269, "text": "Our district coalition partners then translate that infrastructure into direct support for neighborhoods, including insurance, fiscal sponsorship, small grants, communication support, and other types of technical assistance.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-293", "start": 2219.619, "end": 2223.458, "text": "District coalitions' work extends beyond just neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-294", "start": 2223.57, "end": 2229.109, "text": "Combined, their offices support hundreds of other small community-based nonprofits.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-295", "start": 2229.821, "end": 2233.638, "text": "So the value of this model is that the city doesn't have to build every connection itself.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-296", "start": 2233.848, "end": 2237.471, "text": "We invest in infrastructure that already exists in the community.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-297", "start": 2239.15, "end": 2241.477, "text": "I want to also note that I meet with the districts every Monday.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-298", "start": 2241.705, "end": 2244.878, "text": "I've been to board meetings and met with neighborhood leaders over the last few months.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-299", "start": 2245.73, "end": 2254.917, "text": "I've been really heartened to hear a strong desire to reengage the city and resume information flow between bureaus and our hyper-local volunteers and district staff.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-300", "start": 2256.39, "end": 2256.924, "text": "Current state—.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-301", "start": 2257.264, "end": 2258.413, "text": "Next slide, please, Laura.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-302", "start": 2260.339, "end": 2263.26, "text": "I also want to be transparent about where the neighborhood program stands today.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-303", "start": 2264.049, "end": 2269.989, "text": "Until this fiscal year, there were 5 staff for this office, and now it's down to a single funded coordinator position.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-304", "start": 2271.276, "end": 2280.006, "text": "While we are still doing a staffing analysis, I can tell you my personal experience in the last 3 months— one staff is going to struggle to meet the needs of the community and the city.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-305", "start": 2280.054, "end": 2280.215, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-306", "start": 2283.056, "end": 2291.277, "text": "Over the last several years, city leadership turnover, limited administrative capacity, and inconsistent contracting have created instability within the neighborhood system.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-307", "start": 2292.11, "end": 2300.491, "text": "That instability has had real operational consequences for our partners, including delays in contracting, reimbursements, and communication.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-308", "start": 2301.148, "end": 2305.459, "text": "And when these processes have become inconsistent, the relationships are affected too.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-309", "start": 2306.196, "end": 2313.875, "text": "We've heard a lot of frustration from coalition and neighborhood leaders, and rebuilding trust is going to be a big part of the, the work moving forward.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-310", "start": 2314.788, "end": 2317.033, "text": "But I want to emphasize something equally important.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-311", "start": 2317.273, "end": 2318.427, "text": "We know what our problems are.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-312", "start": 2319.02, "end": 2323.092, "text": "Our focus is moving from identifying the problems to systematically addressing them.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-313", "start": 2323.925, "end": 2329.776, "text": "We are working to stabilize backend structures, improve external communication, and rebuild community relationships.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-314", "start": 2331.043, "end": 2338.067, "text": "And on a positive note, despite all these challenges, there's still significant interest and goodwill in partnering with the city and Civic Life on this.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-315", "start": 2338.859, "end": 2345.375, "text": "Our goal isn't to just return the program to where it was, it's to build the structure necessary to operate at a high level going forward.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-316", "start": 2346.672, "end": 2346.961, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-317", "start": 2349.387, "end": 2354.514, "text": "With a little shorter priorities and action plan, um, our immediate work is centered around 3 priorities.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-318", "start": 2354.69, "end": 2356.93, "text": "First is contract and reimbursement stability.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-319", "start": 2357.835, "end": 2361.617, "text": "Our partners need predictable contracts, clear expectations, and timely payment.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-320", "start": 2362.054, "end": 2367.285, "text": "We are looking at how long-term contracting could provide greater stability and reduce reduce administrative disruption.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-321", "start": 2368.056, "end": 2369.694, "text": "Second, information flow.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-322", "start": 2369.791, "end": 2376.681, "text": "We need clearer and more consistent communication between civic life, city bureaus, and our coalition and neighborhood partners.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-323", "start": 2377.982, "end": 2384.471, "text": "The third is rebuilding community trust, and that requires responsiveness, transparency, and regular friendly engagement.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-324", "start": 2385.371, "end": 2388.519, "text": "These priorities may sound operational, but they are really foundational.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-325", "start": 2388.679, "end": 2394.317, "text": "Before we can redesign or expand, we need to make sure we have the basic systems in place to be successful.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-326", "start": 2396.426, "end": 2396.877, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-327", "start": 2398.536, "end": 2407.019, "text": "Our first recommendation is to modernize the neighborhood program so that it operates as part of a broader, more coordinated engagement ecosystem.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-328", "start": 2407.935, "end": 2413.966, "text": "Neighborhood associations remain an important pathway for civic participation, but they're not the only way we do engagement.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-329", "start": 2414.917, "end": 2419.821, "text": "Portland needs— also engages residents through cultural and community-based organizations.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-330", "start": 2420.079, "end": 2423.305, "text": "There's bureau-specific engagement programs and many other networks.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-331", "start": 2424.451, "end": 2428.382, "text": "The opportunity and our goal is not to have those systems compete with one another.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-332", "start": 2428.754, "end": 2429.854, "text": "It's to connect them better.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-333", "start": 2430.86, "end": 2442.779, "text": "That means ensuring we have appropriate staffing and financial stability for trainings and resources that help broaden and deepen diversity and participation, and also coordinating neighborhood engagement with Civic Life's whole body of work.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-334", "start": 2445, "end": 2448.172, "text": "Modernizing isn't just— isn't abandoning the neighborhood system.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-335", "start": 2448.252, "end": 2451.959, "text": "It's about making it stronger, more connected, and integrated with our new form of government.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-336", "start": 2453.201, "end": 2453.651, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-337", "start": 2455.772, "end": 2456.64, "text": "The ONI standards.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-338", "start": 2457.492, "end": 2460.578, "text": "Our recommendation is an update to the ONI standards.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-339", "start": 2461.98, "end": 2464.438, "text": "Stabilizing today's operation is only one part of the work.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-340", "start": 2464.599, "end": 2467.51, "text": "We also have to modernize the framework governing the system.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-341", "start": 2468.897, "end": 2472.846, "text": "As Laura indicated earlier, the ONI standards were adopted in 2005.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-342", "start": 2472.976, "end": 2477.379, "text": "Our government, our communities, and engagement landscape has changed significantly since then.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-343", "start": 2477.943, "end": 2482.486, "text": "A recommendation is to restart this work through a community-driven process in 2027.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-344", "start": 2483.321, "end": 2487.768, "text": "The city's responsibility would be to establish clear goals and guardrails for the process.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-345", "start": 2488.538, "end": 2492.44, "text": "Community then would help shape the desired outcomes and how they can be achieved.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-346", "start": 2493.419, "end": 2497.256, "text": "Ultimately, a proposal would return to the city for public testimony and consideration.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-347", "start": 2498.331, "end": 2512.94, "text": "The objective of this process is to create clear contemporary expectations around accountability, transparency, and As I said before, this program is at a similar inflection point.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-348", "start": 2512.94, "end": 2519.71, "text": "We've been candid about the challenges because rebuilding trust requires transparency, but we also see tremendous opportunity.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-349", "start": 2520.02, "end": 2521.68, "text": "There is renewed interest from our partners.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-350", "start": 2522.62, "end": 2525.35, "text": "There's a new district-based government structure.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-351", "start": 2525.66, "end": 2530.78, "text": "There's an opportunity to clarify how neighborhoods, coalitions, civic life, and council offices work together.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-352", "start": 2530.78, "end": 2538.308, "text": "And there's an opportunity to build a new relationship with the city's Our immediate responsibility is to stabilize the system, strengthen administration, and rebuild trust.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-353", "start": 2538.484, "end": 2543.141, "text": "Our longer-term responsibility is to create a clear vision for what this program can become.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-354", "start": 2543.59, "end": 2545.212, "text": "We don't need to recreate it from scratch.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-355", "start": 2545.613, "end": 2551.249, "text": "We need to take what's endured, address what hasn't worked, and build the infrastructure for the next chapter.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-356", "start": 2551.955, "end": 2555.664, "text": "We look forward to doing that work with our community partners and with our City Council.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-357", "start": 2555.712, "end": 2555.905, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-358", "start": 2556.29, "end": 2556.515, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-359", "start": 2556.676, "end": 2559.63, "text": "Thank you, Adam and Harmony.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-360", "start": 2560.128, "end": 2565.458, "text": "Now we will turn to the 3 policy questions that we laid out for discussion today.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-361", "start": 2565.86, "end": 2572.715, "text": "I'll give a quick preview of those, and then I believe we'll move into any clarifying or factual questions.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-362", "start": 2573.55, "end": 2575.22, "text": "First, big picture.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-363", "start": 2575.622, "end": 2588.177, "text": "We're really interested in knowing from all of you what principles you believe should guide the rebuild and integration of our engagement system for the city to ensure that it is responsive, coordinated, and inclusive.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-364", "start": 2589.605, "end": 2594.402, "text": "Second, we're hoping to talk about decision-making input that comes to you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-365", "start": 2595.044, "end": 2603.291, "text": "How should community input inform council decision-making, and how can we design an engagement system that reliably meets those expectations?", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-366", "start": 2604.365, "end": 2614.8, "text": "And third, focusing more specifically on the neighborhood program, let's take the moment after this 18, 20 months we've had in our new form of government to talk about.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-367", "start": 2615.268, "end": 2622.843, "text": "How can we make the most of the transition to district-based council seats, fostering connections between neighborhoods and elected leaders?", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-368", "start": 2623.939, "end": 2628.873, "text": "I'll leave it there, and I believe Councilor Koyama Lane will facilitate, uh, the next section.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-369", "start": 2631.037, "end": 2631.987, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-370", "start": 2632.824, "end": 2645.688, "text": "So at this point, do any colleagues have clarifying questions before we take a short break and then come back to discuss each of Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-371", "start": 2647.648, "end": 2648.004, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-372", "start": 2648.7, "end": 2650.077, "text": "Thanks, everybody, for the presentation.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-373", "start": 2650.19, "end": 2650.871, "text": "A lot of thoughts.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-374", "start": 2650.919, "end": 2652.134, "text": "I'll get to those when we get to this part.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-375", "start": 2652.199, "end": 2653.948, "text": "But I wanted to clarify 2 things.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-376", "start": 2654.81, "end": 2661.985, "text": "One, Adam, you said our goal isn't to just return the program to where it was, it's to build the structure necessary to operate at a high level going forward.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-377", "start": 2663.03, "end": 2667.895, "text": "And the word just there implies that it is also in part to return the program to where it was.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-378", "start": 2668.394, "end": 2669.669, "text": "And my question is, where it was when?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-379", "start": 2671.47, "end": 2675.134, "text": "How far back in time are we trying to, to use as a metric point?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-380", "start": 2675.616, "end": 2694.328, "text": "I think the, the metric point would be probably before charter reform and after, and how— I mean, I really see in this process of discovering and looking at this system again after having been gone that, that, that is a significant advance in the way that we do participatory government.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-381", "start": 2695.488, "end": 2706.152, "text": "And figuring out how to marry the neighborhood program with that new form of government, I think, is a really interesting and compelling question, but it's going to take a lot of work.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-382", "start": 2706.328, "end": 2712.743, "text": "So that's the— I think that's the demarcation that I see when I look at this evolution, if that makes sense.", "speaker": "Adam Lyons" }, { "id": "cue-383", "start": 2713.544, "end": 2714.026, "text": "Yeah, thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-384", "start": 2714.747, "end": 2721.065, "text": "The other question, Harmony, you said that public safety only had 2 people and that it covered PSR and PBAM.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-385", "start": 2721.707, "end": 2728.027, "text": "My question is, what is the situation with BOEC Fire, community safety programs, and police?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-386", "start": 2729.181, "end": 2729.951, "text": "That's a good question.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-387", "start": 2730.064, "end": 2744.307, "text": "I'm going to tell you all what I have told the staff, that with all of us being new as of the end of May, these moves in the allocation of where people were coming from and who was part of engagement realignment came before our time.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-388", "start": 2744.965, "end": 2749.199, "text": "And we have gone on as much of a hunt as we could for the whys.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-389", "start": 2749.856, "end": 2751.603, "text": "And don't have most of them.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-390", "start": 2751.811, "end": 2761.187, "text": "So I don't have an answer as to like why those decisions were made or who was moved and what thought and dialogue went into that.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-391", "start": 2761.267, "end": 2765.642, "text": "So I don't know, but it is a gap.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-392", "start": 2765.738, "end": 2777.084, "text": "Like clearly there are some large bureaus and buckets of work in the city that don't have representation and that I will work with Public Safety to see what needs to happen.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-393", "start": 2777.197, "end": 2783.389, "text": "But we do welcome their staff that do engagement work into Being at our monthly meetings, participating with us.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-394", "start": 2783.518, "end": 2795.532, "text": "Like, we do want to have that there, but I— we unfortunately just have to kind of make peace with there are some things that we will not have known because the people who made those decisions are no longer in the roles that put that into action.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-395", "start": 2796.641, "end": 2797.733, "text": "Okay, that makes sense.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-396", "start": 2797.829, "end": 2803.724, "text": "I think it would be helpful to get an idea of what that means for the future.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-397", "start": 2803.788, "end": 2806.069, "text": "Is the intent to keep it in the bureaus forever?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-398", "start": 2806.872, "end": 2809.573, "text": "Or is the intent that that's just a second phase of the work?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-399", "start": 2810.591, "end": 2813.535, "text": "And I understand you won't be able to answer that on the spot.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-400", "start": 2813.599, "end": 2813.696, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-401", "start": 2813.907, "end": 2820.812, "text": "And I imagine that'll be when we have a new permanent city chief engagement officer, that that'll be a part of it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-402", "start": 2821.281, "end": 2825.909, "text": "I've had this similar conversation with you, Laura, about the communication side.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-403", "start": 2825.957, "end": 2826.817, "text": "This is not the same.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-404", "start": 2826.882, "end": 2833.87, "text": "I think there are reasons why it makes sense to keep engagement in the bureau that I don't think apply to communication and vice versa.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-405", "start": 2834, "end": 2839.777, "text": "But it I think it is similar in the sense of it's the same question of what's the best course of action.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-406", "start": 2842.232, "end": 2851.385, "text": "And I think the interest I have is some of these smaller groups don't have people who are doing it longer than 5, 10% of their time.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-407", "start": 2852.072, "end": 2857.629, "text": "And then I guess I have a question that maybe more, it may be more for you, maybe more for our chair today.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-408", "start": 2858.741, "end": 2862.65, "text": "Were neighborhood association representatives or coalition directors invited to speak today?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-409", "start": 2862.732, "end": 2863.542, "text": "Are we gonna get to hear from them?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-410", "start": 2863.591, "end": 2863.921, "text": "I know that they're here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-411", "start": 2863.987, "end": 2864.037, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-412", "start": 2869.555, "end": 2874.775, "text": "They are here in the room, but I don't think that was part of how this work session was structured.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-413", "start": 2875.614, "end": 2886.414, "text": "Okay, uh, I would love to know why that is, and I understand that the— that that may not be something that you were involved in the decisions on, but in which case it's okay to say so.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-414", "start": 2887.299, "end": 2888.585, "text": "D4 is in the audience.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-415", "start": 2889.454, "end": 2889.599, "text": "Sorry?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-416", "start": 2890.033, "end": 2891.625, "text": "I said D4 is in the audience.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-417", "start": 2892.046, "end": 2893.314, "text": "Yeah, D2 as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-418", "start": 2893.907, "end": 2895.367, "text": "So I think all 4 are here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-419", "start": 2895.495, "end": 2895.752, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-420", "start": 2896.217, "end": 2898.607, "text": "I would love to hear from our district coalition partners.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-421", "start": 2899.441, "end": 2900.596, "text": "Okay, so that's acceptable?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-422", "start": 2900.709, "end": 2903.115, "text": "Like, we've got till 5, so if it's possible.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-423", "start": 2903.211, "end": 2909.371, "text": "I, I know I don't mean to disrupt or run a show that was already planned here, but I, I would love to have that sometime before the end of today.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-424", "start": 2909.692, "end": 2918.915, "text": "Um, I, I think we've, we've had the, uh, part 1 of your 3-part thing of what you heard in the, uh, in the feedback was effectively nothing about us without us.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-425", "start": 2919.773, "end": 2921.56, "text": "So here's a chance.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-426", "start": 2922.349, "end": 2922.671, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-427", "start": 2923.461, "end": 2923.928, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-428", "start": 2924.105, "end": 2927.116, "text": "We'll get through our clarifying questions and then see if that's possible.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-429", "start": 2928.3, "end": 2930.167, "text": "Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-430", "start": 2930.505, "end": 2931.004, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-431", "start": 2931.487, "end": 2935.351, "text": "I just have to ask, PBOT has one engagement person?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-432", "start": 2935.576, "end": 2937.331, "text": "I mean, I know they do a lot of outreach.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-433", "start": 2937.412, "end": 2944.735, "text": "Does that reflect a distinction between engagement and outreach, or does it reflect the fact that all their outreach people, that's not their entire job, they're just doing regular jobs and outreach?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-434", "start": 2946.268, "end": 2946.974, "text": "All of the above.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-435", "start": 2947.631, "end": 2953.45, "text": "And I will say, and that engagement person also has a significant body of work that's not engagement on their plate as well.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-436", "start": 2953.658, "end": 2962.811, "text": "So I think it's a place where we do collaborate with PBOT leadership and Public Works leadership of what do we need to adequately cover the work.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 2962.875, "end": 2973.487, "text": "But you're spot on that a lot of PBOT staff are maybe planning staff or execute the projects that do engagement as part of their daily work, but it's not a majority of it.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 2973.68, "end": 2992.993, "text": "And so part of the system and infrastructure that we need to set up is making sure that we're making sure that we are supporting staff that are in that shop as well, that maybe 20% of the work that they do is engagement, and we want to prepare them and equip them to be successful at that, but that they're not a whole lot of just dedicated engagement staff that mobilize across the bureau.", "speaker": "Harmony Dashiell" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 2993.64, "end": 2993.963, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 2994.043, "end": 2995.123, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 3002.243, "end": 3003.806, "text": "Any other clarifying questions?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 3007.164, "end": 3009.763, "text": "All right, colleagues, we're going to take a quick 10-minute break.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 3010.183, "end": 3012.121, "text": "So it is 2:46.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-444", "start": 3012.331, "end": 3014.97, "text": "Let's get back at 2:56.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-445", "start": 3016.963, "end": 3024.077, "text": "10 Minutes, 2:56.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-446", "start": 3024.143, "end": 3024.718, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-447", "start": 3632.783, "end": 3633.377, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-448", "start": 3633.505, "end": 3634.709, "text": "And we are back.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-449", "start": 3635.111, "end": 3639.446, "text": "We are going to move into discussion time.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-450", "start": 3640.008, "end": 3653.545, "text": "We have 3 policy questions, and before we get to policy question number 3, we will We'll have time for our representatives from the different district coalition groups to come up for about 10 minutes to share some of their thoughts.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-451", "start": 3654.074, "end": 3658.338, "text": "So we will kick it off with policy question number 1.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-452", "start": 3658.627, "end": 3660.519, "text": "Colleagues, please feel free to get in the queue.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-453", "start": 3661.192, "end": 3670.313, "text": "What principles should guide the rebuild and integration of Portland's engagement system to ensure it is responsive, coordinated, and inclusive?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-454", "start": 3670.89, "end": 3671.179, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-455", "start": 3672.496, "end": 3676.258, "text": "Thank you, Chair Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-456", "start": 3677.078, "end": 3681.227, "text": "Um, I'm going to veer a little bit off script here, or off the issue.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-457", "start": 3681.582, "end": 3685.8, "text": "Um, I would say the bottom line, we have to provide them with support.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-458", "start": 3686.34, "end": 3689.204, "text": "This is completely ridiculous, inadequate support.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-459", "start": 3689.754, "end": 3691.566, "text": "And I'm— I might get a little heated here.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-460", "start": 3692.84, "end": 3696.704, "text": "Um, it's embarrassing to me that we have so little support for our neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-461", "start": 3697.11, "end": 3697.45, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-462", "start": 3697.45, "end": 3704.9, "text": "They were just thinking we're going to help them with insurance, technical assistance, maybe small grants, and one person is going to do that for a city of 165,000?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-463", "start": 3706.11, "end": 3708.05, "text": "That's absolutely bananas.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-464", "start": 3708.05, "end": 3709.23, "text": "It's bananas.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-465", "start": 3709.23, "end": 3722.09, "text": "You know, I have to say, I'm going to reveal my own bias, is I worked for neighborhood associations in Eugene, and I did the neighborhood newsletter, and I organized Voters for Livable Neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-466", "start": 3722.23, "end": 3723.43, "text": "Then I went to Salem.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-467", "start": 3723.43, "end": 3727.09, "text": "I actually, before I worked for 3 mayors in Salem, I worked for the neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-468", "start": 3727.09, "end": 3729.907, "text": "I had 5 neighborhood Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-469", "start": 3730.726, "end": 3733.601, "text": "And, and the city gave them money to do their own thing.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-470", "start": 3734.5, "end": 3744.587, "text": "And of course, you know, the, the issues were generally around traffic, sidewalks, storm sewers, all the things that we hear all the time, and that's not any different.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-471", "start": 3744.635, "end": 3754.32, "text": "So here we find ourselves here today, and I've made it a point to go to every single neighborhood association meeting, to organize my own meetings where I ask the neighborhood associations to come, Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-472", "start": 3754.817, "end": 3760.572, "text": "And it's the same issues that I heard up and down the Willamette Valley.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-473", "start": 3761.309, "end": 3769.694, "text": "And folks, I think this city is dependent on not just neighborhood associations, but volunteerism generally, and we don't do enough to support that.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-474", "start": 3770.223, "end": 3773.381, "text": "You know, volunteers make the world go around, around here.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-475", "start": 3773.814, "end": 3779.889, "text": "If it weren't for volunteers, you know, the Arboretum wouldn't work, all the way down to, you know, different community places.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-476", "start": 3780.098, "end": 3783.518, "text": "So this is a high priority for me.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-477", "start": 3783.615, "end": 3788.159, "text": "It's part of my advocacy for partnerships, volunteerism.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-478", "start": 3788.818, "end": 3790.279, "text": "I just think it's vital.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-479", "start": 3790.359, "end": 3799.93, "text": "And the one thing that I didn't hear earlier, and I'm not sure how this fits in number one, but I'm sure we can make it fit, is that there's a demographic issue going on here.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-480", "start": 3800.701, "end": 3807.622, "text": "And I think a lot of our volunteers, the people that are keeping neighborhood associations afloat, Yes.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-481", "start": 3807.958, "end": 3812.621, "text": "Are an older demographic, older generation, at least in District 4.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-482", "start": 3813.855, "end": 3818.406, "text": "And I went to the Saul Alinsky Midwest Academy School of Organizing.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-483", "start": 3818.502, "end": 3820.008, "text": "I know what it takes to organize.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-484", "start": 3820.104, "end": 3823.293, "text": "You know, you have to— immediate, specific, realizable kinds of things.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-485", "start": 3823.71, "end": 3828.356, "text": "And that's usually around a stop sign, or it's usually around a pothole, or it's something unsafe.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-486", "start": 3828.997, "end": 3834.349, "text": "And those are the kinds of things that we need to use to motivate younger people also to get involved.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-487", "start": 3834.622, "end": 3841.216, "text": "As long as there's an immediate, you know, real— realizable thing we can do, it does get people more involved.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-488", "start": 3841.344, "end": 3849.029, "text": "And but we need resources for that, and maybe we need some training, maybe we need some organizing training for some of the neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-489", "start": 3849.847, "end": 3853.264, "text": "So obviously this is a high priority for me.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-490", "start": 3854.034, "end": 3858.847, "text": "I just think it's absurd that we have this lack of resources for our neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-491", "start": 3859.393, "end": 3861.559, "text": "And as far as District—.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-492", "start": 3861.575, "end": 3885.6, "text": "The District 4 coalition goes, um, it's geographically so huge and so diverse that we also should look at having a satellite office, or not just one office way up in the northwest, but something in Southwest Portland, or maybe in Sellwood or something, because we have a huge, uh, huge area that we have to cover in District 4.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-493", "start": 3886.194, "end": 3889.915, "text": "But I guess Bottom line here is we need more support.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-494", "start": 3890.189, "end": 3893.927, "text": "That should be your principle because we're woefully inadequate.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-495", "start": 3894.748, "end": 3895.473, "text": "Just leave it at that.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-496", "start": 3896.82, "end": 3898.677, "text": "Thank you for listening to me harangue.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-497", "start": 3902.12, "end": 3906.143, "text": "Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-498", "start": 3906.241, "end": 3909.258, "text": "So, Madam Chair, is it okay if I sort of jump around?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-499", "start": 3910.474, "end": 3911.441, "text": "Go for it.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-500", "start": 3911.604, "end": 3911.948, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-501", "start": 3912.962, "end": 3926.762, "text": "So I think that, and this really sort of relates to question 3, but I think that the existence of the representation by district has the chance to be a real game changer.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-502", "start": 3926.858, "end": 3933.79, "text": "I mean, for one thing, when I was in the commission form of government, I hardly ever went to neighborhood associations because you knew I couldn't go to 99, so why go to any?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-503", "start": 3934.464, "end": 3939.245, "text": "And now, like Councilor Clark, I— that if I haven't gone to all of them, it's not for want of trying.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-504", "start": 3939.662, "end": 3950.639, "text": "So I think That, that means that we can tell the general public that neighborhood associations are a place to go to, you know, interact with your councilor, and that should make them more appealing.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-505", "start": 3952.944, "end": 3963.576, "text": "Um, and what— I mean, one of the problem— I mean, one, one thing I just wanted to really underscore here is, um, there's— damn, where is it?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-506", "start": 3963.822, "end": 3973.168, "text": "Um, you talk about, um, providing Develop training resources, capacity for increasing diversity and expanding participation.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-507", "start": 3973.891, "end": 3977.022, "text": "And I think that's something the neighborhood associations could really use.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-508", "start": 3978.146, "end": 3988.005, "text": "I remember saying 10 or 11 years ago that I thought that neighborhood associations' funding should be dependent on the extent to which their membership meetings reflected the diversity of their neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-509", "start": 3988.583, "end": 3991.103, "text": "And Amanda Fritz almost cut my head off with a machete.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-510", "start": 3992.067, "end": 3996.696, "text": "So I think that we should— could achieve the same thing, you know, with carrots rather than sticks.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-511", "start": 3996.937, "end": 4009.184, "text": "If, I mean, if we had the resources to help, and maybe we don't, but if we had the resources to help the neighborhood associations sort of recruit people in order to make the people that show up more well-representative.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-512", "start": 4010.187, "end": 4020.366, "text": "And the last thing I wanted to say is that we should make sure that the bureaus let—.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-513", "start": 4020.623, "end": 4020.848, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-514", "start": 4021.57, "end": 4025.776, "text": "Councilors know if they're doing outreach on specific projects in their districts.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-515", "start": 4026.434, "end": 4031.186, "text": "Uh, like if PBOT's doing outreach on something or other, they should let the councilors know.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-516", "start": 4032.63, "end": 4042.808, "text": "And then the councilors, A, can be aware that the outreach is happening on, and B, might be able to steer— help steer people to be, you know, part of the— part of the people who are outreached to.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-517", "start": 4043.483, "end": 4056.457, "text": "So, I mean, I just— all of my comments obviously have to do with I think that representation in my district is a game changer, and it should be a game changer in a positive way, in a variety of ways.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-518", "start": 4057.946, "end": 4065.385, "text": "I mean, the public— I mean, maybe this was somewhat true before, but the public— we are the front door for a lot of people, and we should take advantage of that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-519", "start": 4066.514, "end": 4087.1, "text": "I did want to briefly say we're actually already working on a system to be able to provide both council offices and the district coalition offices Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-520", "start": 4087.1, "end": 4089.66, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-521", "start": 4089.66, "end": 4090.78, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-522", "start": 4090.78, "end": 4096.34, "text": "And can you remind me what you, like, we're answering the first question or whatever we want to do?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-523", "start": 4096.34, "end": 4099.54, "text": "I'm trying to get folks to answer the first question.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-524", "start": 4099.54, "end": 4102.38, "text": "That is what was asked as we break it up into 3 conversations.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-525", "start": 4102.86, "end": 4112.903, "text": "The first one is what principles guide the City of Portland's approach should guide the rebuild of an integration of Portland's engagement system to ensure it is responsive, coordinated, and inclusive.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-526", "start": 4113.753, "end": 4114.394, "text": "Okay, great.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-527", "start": 4115.821, "end": 4118.754, "text": "Briefly, I'm just going to say I want to echo Councilor Clark's comments broadly.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-528", "start": 4119.107, "end": 4120.533, "text": "I like when you go off on a rant, by the way.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-529", "start": 4120.87, "end": 4124.925, "text": "You don't always use a lot of mic time, but when you do, it's just like, listen.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-530", "start": 4125.358, "end": 4128.852, "text": "And you said something in there that I think is directly relevant to the question.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-531", "start": 4129.525, "end": 4136.065, "text": "You mentioned the Saul Alinsky School, that sort of theory of of organizing that is deeply neighborhood-driven.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-532", "start": 4136.497, "end": 4142.346, "text": "When I took my courses at Portland State on community development, we read all that too, and Portland was a lab for that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-533", "start": 4142.506, "end": 4164.883, "text": "And so I think if we were to resource our budget with the resources necessary to do that work and focus on building the neighborhood association, enable them to build and do that sort of neighborhood-level community organizing, I think we'd find That we get more inclusive and broad-based participation.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-534", "start": 4164.931, "end": 4166.825, "text": "We build the bench with younger people.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-535", "start": 4167.419, "end": 4168.11, "text": "We want to do that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-536", "start": 4169.105, "end": 4176.555, "text": "I think our city staff, I want us to actively and intentionally build out that diversity of opinion and participation.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-537", "start": 4177.149, "end": 4178.193, "text": "That's what that looks like for me.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-538", "start": 4178.273, "end": 4192.612, "text": "But I want to enable them to continue to sort of be the sort of source of a lot of the, the ideas, the volunteer work, and, and like elevating what needs to come to the councilor's attention.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-539", "start": 4193.029, "end": 4196.048, "text": "Um, that's, that's I think what I had for my first one.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-540", "start": 4196.176, "end": 4200.447, "text": "And then, and then you said all that stuff and I was like, I like, I like all that stuff.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-541", "start": 4200.495, "end": 4205.055, "text": "So, um, there's other pieces here that I'll speak to when we get to the other parts of the structure conversation.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-542", "start": 4205.168, "end": 4205.425, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-543", "start": 4206.372, "end": 4207.079, "text": "Great, thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-544", "start": 4207.4, "end": 4208.106, "text": "Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-545", "start": 4212.266, "end": 4212.978, "text": "Okay, hello.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-546", "start": 4213.156, "end": 4217.834, "text": "Thank you so much for your presentation today and just bringing this conversation forward.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-547", "start": 4217.948, "end": 4224.02, "text": "It's so important as we're standing up this new form of government that we really get the future of our engagement right.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-548", "start": 4224.776, "end": 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}, { "id": "cue-555", "start": 4249.45, "end": 4255.45, "text": "And I think the success there was about the partnerships with groups that had connections to community.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-556", "start": 4255.45, "end": 4262.41, "text": "And I think that's the key for me in what we need to continue building is what it looks like to partner with people.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-557", "start": 4262.75, "end": 4266.91, "text": "Because understandably, not everybody is comfortable with government.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-558", "start": 4266.91, "end": 4267.61, "text": "Not everybody is interested in hearing from government.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-559", "start": 4268.76, "end": 4270.042, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-560", "start": 4270.555, "end": 4273.167, "text": "But they love to hear from their own neighbors.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-561", 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"end": 4311.842, "text": "And it is important that we really assess, that we not make that the default, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-567", "start": 4312.793, "end": 4321.715, "text": "And, you know, I think neighborhood associations, from my time prior to becoming a homeowner, I tried to dabble in some of them.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-568", "start": 4322.312, "end": 4333.547, "text": "I remember I went to the Hollywood Neighborhood Association And it was fine, but I was like the youngest person there by like 40 years.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-569", "start": 4333.595, "end": 4334.124, "text": "I'm not kidding.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-570", "start": 4335.422, "end": 4345.153, "text": "And they were all like, oh, like it was all welcoming and all that, but I didn't feel like I knew how to engage in that space because I was a renter and I was 40 years younger.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-571", "start": 4345.762, "end": 4353.376, "text": "And I just, so, and I obviously was making an effort to go because, you know, I'm this, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-572", "start": 4354.113, "end": 4357.143, "text": "So an everyday person is not gonna take that kind of a risk.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-573", "start": 4357.319, "end": 4366.12, "text": "And if they walk into a room like that, Like that, that would be an immediate, like, I'm not going back there, just because, you know, they, they just might not feel represented, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-574", "start": 4366.521, "end": 4375.417, "text": "Um, and I think too, um, just this concept of people who rent, like, not feeling part of their neighborhoods is something that we really need to address.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-575", "start": 4375.514, "end": 4377.117, "text": "It's something I experienced a lot.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-576", "start": 4377.662, "end": 4384.314, "text": "Um, and I hear often from folks who want to be engaged in their community but don't feel like they're treated the same.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-577", "start": 4384.394, "end": 4389.925, "text": "They're treated like they're just temporary because they're renting, which I honestly don't understand that concept.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-578", "start": 4390.117, "end": 4390.245, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-579", "start": 4390.486, "end": 4394.148, "text": "I've had people telling me like, oh, you can just go rent somewhere else if you want to live in another neighborhood.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-580", "start": 4394.197, "end": 4395.578, "text": "I'm like, what?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-581", "start": 4395.738, "end": 4397.297, "text": "Do you know those deposit fees?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-582", "start": 4397.393, "end": 4398.63, "text": "Do you know how hard it is to move?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-583", "start": 4398.694, "end": 4400.509, "text": "Like, that is just not a realistic thing.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-584", "start": 4401.007, "end": 4413.214, "text": "And so this like concept of renters being fluid and they can just go anywhere and therefore they have no place and no home, it permeates in the culture of the neighborhood associations in my experience and what I hear from people.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-585", "start": 4413.294, "end": 4415.158, "text": "And so I think I just want to elevate that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-586", "start": 4415.222, "end": 4415.832, "text": "Like, it's important.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-587", "start": 4415.88, "end": 4416.057, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-588", "start": 4416.683, "end": 4424.616, "text": "Neighbors hearing from neighbors is absolutely the way that people feel most engaged, and let's make sure to not define all of our engagement around that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-589", "start": 4424.954, "end": 4438.218, "text": "And not to say that we can't strengthen it, because one thing that I do too, um, when I do my constituent days and I go knock on doors, one of the goals of that is to invite those people to their own neighborhood association.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-590", "start": 4438.283, "end": 4444.276, "text": "So I'll say, hey, you know, I'm knocking doors in, uh, Parkrose, and you have your neighborhood association coming up this Next week, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-591", "start": 4444.325, "end": 4446.261, "text": "So trying to get people there.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-592", "start": 4447.051, "end": 4448.552, "text": "So I definitely think that's worth the effort.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-593", "start": 4448.664, "end": 4452.294, "text": "But again, how are we expanding beyond that so we're not stuck?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-594", "start": 4452.795, "end": 4458.265, "text": "Because there are real barriers that people feel to their inclusivity in those kinds of spaces.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-595", "start": 4460.462, "end": 4464.12, "text": "And let's see, I'm looking at the question here.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-596", "start": 4468.236, "end": 4468.462, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-597", "start": 4468.559, "end": 4475.554, "text": "Ultimately, we just need to really elevate our own goals of equity and racial justice and accessibility and thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-598", "start": 4475.602, "end": 4476.052, "text": "Transparency.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-599", "start": 4476.71, "end": 4489.732, "text": "Those are the city's stated goals, and how we, um, see those through, and, and I believe the way that, um, we measure that is, um, how do people, you know, how— what is their entryway into city government?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-600", "start": 4490.198, "end": 4493.746, "text": "Um, what is the way that they feel they can be easily heard?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-601", "start": 4494.132, "end": 4499.334, "text": "What are the, the actions that they can take that they see an equal action from the city?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-602", "start": 4499.752, "end": 4504.419, "text": "I'm, I'm feel like I'm rambling on I'm not trying to put my words in the right place, but you get my point.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-603", "start": 4504.516, "end": 4506.755, "text": "I see you nodding along, so you, you picking up what I'm putting down.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-604", "start": 4507.852, "end": 4512.383, "text": "Um, so it's been a long work session day, okay?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-605", "start": 4512.495, "end": 4513.01, "text": "Don't judge me.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-606", "start": 4513.62, "end": 4514.809, "text": "Um, everyone's a little loopy.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-607", "start": 4515.227, "end": 4524.235, "text": "Um, so yeah, I think this is just about rebuilding trust, um, with community and creating, um, clear accountability back to community.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-608", "start": 4524.815, "end": 4526.751, "text": "Um, so who did we hear from?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-609", "start": 4526.912, "end": 4529.405, "text": "Who are we who are we missing hearing from?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-610", "start": 4529.535, "end": 4530.359, "text": "What did they tell us?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-611", "start": 4530.424, "end": 4532.154, "text": "What changed because they participated?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-612", "start": 4532.203, "end": 4541.264, "text": "Those are the kinds of things that make people feel like their engagement was more than just sitting on a piece of paper in a file and not, you know, and not doing anything.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-613", "start": 4541.328, "end": 4548.795, "text": "So how do we show the impact of your engagement is to me the key of how we build our systems.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-614", "start": 4551.299, "end": 4552.865, "text": "Um, yeah, I think I'll leave it at that for now.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-615", "start": 4553.142, "end": 4553.338, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-616", "start": 4553.403, "end": 4562.748, "text": "Councilor Smith, All right, we will, we will go to Councilor Pirtle-Guiney and then Councilor Kanal, followed by Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-617", "start": 4564.745, "end": 4567.172, "text": "Thank you, Councilor, and thank you all for being here today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-618", "start": 4567.884, "end": 4577.138, "text": "Um, I'm going to try to stick to this first question and not get into all of the neighborhood association pieces because I think you have that further down for us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-619", "start": 4578.942, "end": 4581.41, "text": "And I want to start by just appreciating Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-620", "start": 4581.459, "end": 4585.954, "text": "I just wanted to underline some of the words in the question because that integration is so key.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-621", "start": 4586.565, "end": 4593.613, "text": "And sometimes when we try to have a no wrong door policy, what we end up with is nobody actually knowing where the door is.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-622", "start": 4594.85, "end": 4599.683, "text": "And I think that we risk that with the way that folks look at the city right now, right?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-623", "start": 4599.747, "end": 4604.741, "text": "There's neighborhood associations, there are bureaus who do outreach, there are bureaus who don't do outreach well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-624", "start": 4604.789, "end": 4614.999, "text": "There's Messaging and communication going out that we call outreach that is not actually really asking for people's opinions and input.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-625", "start": 4615.785, "end": 4626.556, "text": "And now you have all of these councilors who represent districts who are each going out individually, all 3 of us in a district, asking people their opinions about things and asking them to show up to town halls too.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-626", "start": 4627.6, "end": 4629.735, "text": "And it is not integrated.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-627", "start": 4630.473, "end": 4644.741, "text": "And I really worry that in trying to make sure we can reach everybody where they are, which I'll get back to, that's an important principle, um, that we've created a no clear path to a door policy.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-628", "start": 4645.431, "end": 4675.278, "text": "So I look to you all to say, how are we making it clear to folks that what we are doing is saying there is no wrong door, come talk to us no matter what, but there is guidance to these different paths and people understand how to engage in each path and what each path is for and what the differences between them are, because I don't want somebody in, in one of my communities to feel like they have to go to all of these spaces to be heard.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-629", "start": 4675.423, "end": 4679.83, "text": "So I think that's the first piece that's really important as we think about the future of our system.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-630", "start": 4680.972, "end": 4694.812, "text": "Um, the second piece that I, I just want to name is that we need to make sure that the way we reach people yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-631", "start": 4694.861, "end": 4696.504, "text": "Is reflective of the whole community.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-632", "start": 4697.68, "end": 4709.005, "text": "And we'll talk more about some of the different specifics in questions 2 and 3, but we often talk to ourselves.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-633", "start": 4709.825, "end": 4718.138, "text": "We often see the same people at the same events and the same outreach and the same forums, and that's fantastic that they are involved.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-634", "start": 4719.046, "end": 4721.564, "text": "And I do not want to discourage that in the least.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-635", "start": 4722.51, "end": 4727.015, "text": "But we have to figure out how we're reaching beyond that as well, right?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-636", "start": 4727.079, "end": 4732.498, "text": "Reaching community doesn't mean just reaching people who are already engaged in groups that are engaged.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-637", "start": 4733.589, "end": 4743.193, "text": "So while it's really important that we use our partner organizations who can reach people we can't to help with outreach, that still only gets us to the next layer out.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-638", "start": 4743.898, "end": 4760.782, "text": "What I want to know is what we're doing to talk to people who are not already involved in an organization, who are not showing up to a neighborhood association meeting, who either think that their opinion doesn't matter or who don't have the time, right?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-639", "start": 4760.846, "end": 4771.136, "text": "So where are we going to find those people, and how is that a part of our integrated, inclusive, coordinated system?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-640", "start": 4772.34, "end": 4778.012, "text": "It can't just be using proxies thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-641", "start": 4778.125, "end": 4783.381, "text": "So I'm going to start with those.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-642", "start": 4783.446, "end": 4797.48, "text": "I guess that's 2 and a half principles and leave it there because I think that those are so important, and we will not have a better system and we will not get Portlanders feeling better about government if we can't do those 2 things.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-643", "start": 4797.821, "end": 4799.837, "text": "And I'll probably say more as we get to the next questions.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-644", "start": 4799.902, "end": 4801.23, "text": "Thank Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-645", "start": 4802.439, "end": 4803.1, "text": "Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-646", "start": 4803.648, "end": 4805.904, "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-647", "start": 4806.065, "end": 4811.5, "text": "I agree with my D2 colleague broadly, as well as Councilors Green and Clark on everything.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-648", "start": 4811.629, "end": 4814.99, "text": "I also will separate and do the question-by-question piece.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-649", "start": 4815.038, "end": 4823.045, "text": "So for 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"speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-655", "start": 4842.762, "end": 4848.658, "text": "For me, engagement means co-creation, and that is a different concept than a lot of the other things.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-656", "start": 4849.734, "end": 4852.922, "text": "Another core principle is incorporating council engagement directly.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-657", "start": 4853.18, "end": 4871.037, "text": "I have major concerns about the idea that this thing is housed in the administration to begin but without getting too deep down that right now, I do want to note we have a funded position that I'm disappointed has been vacant for 15 months now, uh, for on the council ops team for engagement.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-658", "start": 4871.117, "end": 4879.858, "text": "And hopefully that person, when it's hired, can work with the chief engagement officer when they're hired as well and keep us connected to try to avoid some of the things that were referenced.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-659", "start": 4880.452, "end": 4888.867, "text": "When we talk about demographics, and I do agree about age, I think we, we— it's not It's not just age or gender or race and ethnicity and all that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-660", "start": 4888.963, "end": 4895.544, "text": "It's also, I think, that the housing status, and this is not exclusive to neighborhood associations, this is a broader piece of it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-661", "start": 4895.656, "end": 4897.55, "text": "So I'll circle back on that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-662", "start": 4897.63, "end": 4902.06, "text": "But I think there are a lot of reasons why people move around.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-663", "start": 4902.91, "end": 4906.987, "text": "And so geography is not always static and it's not always chosen.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-664", "start": 4908.447, "end": 4910.357, "text": "We've talked about renting.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-665", "start": 4911.015, "end": 4912.973, "text": "Most renters don't want to leave the place they're in.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-666", "start": 4913.037, "end": 4923.794, "text": "They get priced out or they have to move for other but also we have a large history of displacement in this city, and so people are connected to multiple areas, either, you know, the parks they go to, the churches they go to, whatever.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-667", "start": 4924.697, "end": 4928.388, "text": "Um, you talked about engagement and outreach.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-668", "start": 4928.485, "end": 4930.968, "text": "Harmony, you mentioned that some of the staff are engagement and equity.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-669", "start": 4931.63, "end": 4935.893, "text": "Uh, I talked to Laura about separating communication and, and, uh, engagement as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-670", "start": 4936.588, "end": 4941.719, "text": "I was really disappointed to see that in the interim process, each service area combined communications and engagement.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-671", "start": 4941.819, "end": 4941.903, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-672", "start": 4943.144, "end": 4944.041, "text": "Into managers.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-673", "start": 4944.105, "end": 4947.183, "text": "There was like a service area manager for those 2 disciplines together.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-674", "start": 4947.776, "end": 4960.663, "text": "I thought that was a really bad choice because I think one of the really big risks and failures of engagement in the city, as someone who worked in the Portland building doing engagement for a few years, is the idea that it's the same thing as communications.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-675", "start": 4961.176, "end": 4963.148, "text": "Communications is one way, engagement is 2 ways.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-676", "start": 4963.244, "end": 4966.867, "text": "It is so different beyond that, but that is the foundational difference.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-677", "start": 4967.364, "end": 4967.444, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-678", "start": 4967.524, "end": 4974.246, "text": "Engagement is co-creation, and I think relates to the collaboration piece of our core values, whereas communication is more about transparency.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-679", "start": 4974.647, "end": 4977.263, "text": "It's equally vital, it's just a very different thing.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-680", "start": 4978.082, "end": 4985.207, "text": "Um, and I, I think I, I agree as well with, uh, Councilor— Council Vice President Clark's point about resources.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-681", "start": 4985.641, "end": 4990.568, "text": "It can't be responsive, it can't be coordinated, it can't be inclusive unless you have the money to do that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-682", "start": 4991.242, "end": 5002.184, "text": "Um, one of the main reasons why engagement is, is not inclusive is we just can do the thing we can do and we can't do that extra thing that we need to do to get that other group of people that can't do the default, whatever it is.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-683", "start": 5004.935, "end": 5009.566, "text": "I agree completely with the point about that Councilor Avalos just made.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-684", "start": 5009.647, "end": 5014.91, "text": "The way I wrote it was we need to show how we used or why we didn't use the input.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-685", "start": 5015.917, "end": 5017.411, "text": "And sometimes we're not going to do it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-686", "start": 5017.557, "end": 5021.065, "text": "We're not going to do the thing that we heard the most from, but I think we owe it to everyone to at least acknowledge it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-687", "start": 5021.13, "end": 5021.195, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-688", "start": 5021.28, "end": 5021.6, "text": "Knowledge.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-689", "start": 5022.033, "end": 5028.475, "text": "You know, we got a lot of written testimony, uh, who supporting a different outcome for Cesar Chavez, right?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-690", "start": 5028.843, "end": 5031.247, "text": "But we all explain why we voted the way we voted.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-691", "start": 5031.407, "end": 5032.545, "text": "That's a good example.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-692", "start": 5032.593, "end": 5037.448, "text": "Sometimes that hasn't happened, but I think it's, you know, more often than not we should listen.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-693", "start": 5037.496, "end": 5039.82, "text": "Also, this was one of those where we didn't, and we should explain why.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-694", "start": 5040.685, "end": 5046.358, "text": "Um, and I think it will be effective, bigger, all of that, if, if it shows.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-695", "start": 5046.711, "end": 5055.942, "text": "And it'll also be I think if it shows, if we show how we used engagement, if we show that what you did here mattered and it affected something that occurred in the city.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-696", "start": 5057.749, "end": 5059.362, "text": "I did engagement on police accountability.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-697", "start": 5059.443, "end": 5065.508, "text": "I cannot tell you how often the reaction had nothing to do with police accountability or the ballot measure or anything like that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-698", "start": 5065.556, "end": 5066.508, "text": "It was, what's the point?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-699", "start": 5066.847, "end": 5067.637, "text": "I already told you this.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-700", "start": 5068.621, "end": 5072.38, "text": "So one really important thing when we talk about centralization, there's good and bad to that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-701", "start": 5072.896, "end": 5077.172, "text": "I would love to have all the reports for all the engagements we've ever done before.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-702", "start": 5077.692, "end": 5080.753, "text": "In a single place for not only city staff but for the public to see.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-703", "start": 5081.859, "end": 5097.819, "text": "Because I had to dig out and spend hours trying to find, you know, acronyms that nobody'd ever heard of that had done research and outreach on police accountability going back to the Stores Commission in the 1980s before I could say, acknowledge, hey, this thing happened.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-704", "start": 5098.188, "end": 5104.723, "text": "And, you know, you're right, you did say it, or your, I guess, grandparents said it back thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-705", "start": 5105.357, "end": 5106.023, "text": "2 Other things.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-706", "start": 5106.105, "end": 5116.067, "text": "I agree completely with Councilor Pirtle-Guiney about the piece about connecting it and about having it show impact.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-707", "start": 5116.196, "end": 5123.515, "text": "I think that the other piece is we have to staff the— sometimes what we do is we direct you to the right place as a response.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-708", "start": 5123.563, "end": 5125.084, "text": "It's not solving a policy problem.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-709", "start": 5125.747, "end": 5129.679, "text": "And so those other places have to be operational as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-710", "start": 5131.123, "end": 5132.745, "text": "So for example, staffing 311.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-711", "start": 5133.66, "end": 5145.964, "text": "That's a thing that helps make engagement events more relevant and more helpful, even though they seem like a different thing, because sometimes either us or them, we're trying to— it's a doorway into not only policy work, but constituent services work.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-712", "start": 5147.233, "end": 5151.714, "text": "And then the last thing is engagement does not have to be business meetings.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-713", "start": 5151.827, "end": 5153.995, "text": "They do not have to be work.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-714", "start": 5156.485, "end": 5158.075, "text": "We should be talking about fun.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-715", "start": 5158.155, "end": 5159.087, "text": "We should be talking about joy.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-716", "start": 5159.617, "end": 5160.709, "text": "We fund block parties.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-717", "start": 5160.805, "end": 5166.491, "text": "We already do this for the exact reason that everybody knew this already when we started funding block parties.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-718", "start": 5167.149, "end": 5172.722, "text": "And I, like, I make a point of just pulling over if I'm driving by a block party that I see, like a road closed.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-719", "start": 5172.771, "end": 5173.67, "text": "I always peek down the way.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-720", "start": 5173.766, "end": 5181.17, "text": "So literally 2 days ago, I was driving, pulled over, chatted with some folks in North Portland about the block party.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-721", "start": 5181.219, "end": 5181.765, "text": "And yes, it was funded.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-722", "start": 5181.813, "end": 5181.925, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-723", "start": 5182.498, "end": 5184.609, "text": "Through a mini microgrant or whatever.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-724", "start": 5184.754, "end": 5188.026, "text": "I can't remember if it's a mini grant or microgrant, but those things are really important.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-725", "start": 5188.074, "end": 5194.513, "text": "And I think scaling that up is really valuable too, because it shouldn't have to be a chore to engage with your city government.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-726", "start": 5194.771, "end": 5198.744, "text": "It should also be a thing that helps enhance your overall experience of being a Portlander.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-727", "start": 5199.517, "end": 5199.694, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-728", "start": 5202.254, "end": 5202.688, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-729", "start": 5203.22, "end": 5205.699, "text": "Councilor Clark, do you want to speak to that first question still?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-730", "start": 5206.271, "end": 5209.877, "text": "I would like to just riff off of the comments that I heard, more of a discussion.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-731", "start": 5210.443, "end": 5212.306, "text": "And I'm happy to then move into 2.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-732", "start": 5213.158, "end": 5216.161, "text": "Um, Councilor Novick, are you wanting to talk about the first question still?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-733", "start": 5216.932, "end": 5217.398, "text": "Arguably.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-734", "start": 5217.976, "end": 5222.811, "text": "Okay, let's go Councilor Clark, Councilor Novick, and then we'll move into question number 2.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-735", "start": 5223.132, "end": 5224.53, "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-736", "start": 5224.722, "end": 5228.208, "text": "I would like to just add the word under the realm of responsiveness.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-737", "start": 5228.272, "end": 5233.107, "text": "I've heard that a couple times, but responsiveness should be a high, um, a high value.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-738", "start": 5233.958, "end": 5236.72, "text": "And to Councilor Avalos's experience.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-739", "start": 5236.8, "end": 5245.387, "text": "I just wanted to speak to that, that when I go to neighborhood associations, sometimes people are amazed that a councilor showed up, or it's like, ooh, the first time I've met a councilor.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-740", "start": 5245.451, "end": 5245.547, "text": "Wow.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-741", "start": 5245.772, "end": 5248.244, "text": "It's like, you know, I don't think it's any big deal, but it is to them.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-742", "start": 5248.886, "end": 5258.21, "text": "And then if you actually listen to their issue and then you're able to respond and get a result, that's huge.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-743", "start": 5258.515, "end": 5276.468, "text": "And I think that if we can do more of that, we can show that the city works for people, you know, if we can respond to their immediate need or whatever it is, we're going to restore confidence in the city if we can, if we can engage in that way with neighborhood associations or whoever it is, respond to their issue.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-744", "start": 5276.949, "end": 5281.404, "text": "I also want to, uh, get back to, uh, Councilor, um, Pirtle-Guiney on the door.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-745", "start": 5281.757, "end": 5283.968, "text": "I thought that was a really great observation.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-746", "start": 5284.016, "end": 5291.764, "text": "There are so many doors, and I have I talked to a few people in the administration about what Seattle does.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-747", "start": 5292.037, "end": 5295.343, "text": "Now, this is different than 311, but I think they have a thing called Fix It.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-748", "start": 5296.194, "end": 5299.501, "text": "And if you call Fix It, it goes to the right bureau.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-749", "start": 5300.223, "end": 5309.854, "text": "You know, if it's a water main is broken or a streetlight is out or there's a horrifying pothole, they have a way of dealing with that immediately.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-750", "start": 5309.934, "end": 5312.583, "text": "Fix It, as opposed to finding your way through PBOT.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-751", "start": 5312.984, "end": 5319.352, "text": "Or I've had neighbors who've called the water bureau about a water leak in the street for 2 weeks and never gotten a response.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-752", "start": 5319.562, "end": 5323.925, "text": "And so when, of course, I intervene, they get the response, it gets fixed, it's great.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-753", "start": 5324.473, "end": 5329.699, "text": "But I think if we had a door, like a fix-it door, that might, that might help.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-754", "start": 5330.519, "end": 5332.014, "text": "But it is different than 311.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-755", "start": 5332.271, "end": 5332.85, "text": "Just a thought.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-756", "start": 5333.96, "end": 5334.798, "text": "I'll stop there.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-757", "start": 5337.392, "end": 5339.135, "text": "Go ahead, Councilor Novick, and then Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-758", "start": 5339.877, "end": 5340.409, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-759", "start": 5340.683, "end": 5356.688, "text": "I just can't resist commenting On a council that's sometimes referred to as being defined by generational differences, I really appreciated hearing Councilor Avalos saying, um, you're picking up what I'm putting down, thus demonstrating that there are idiomatic phrases that all the generations up here can understand.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-760", "start": 5357.336, "end": 5362.549, "text": "And I think actually that might be a principle for our public engagement— use more cross-generational idiomatic phrases.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-761", "start": 5365.615, "end": 5368.259, "text": "Now hold on, is that like some elder phrase?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-762", "start": 5368.454, "end": 5368.908, "text": "What do you mean?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-763", "start": 5369.94, "end": 5370.581, "text": "Got it.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-764", "start": 5371.827, "end": 5372.76, "text": "It's been around for a while.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-765", "start": 5373.436, "end": 5374.402, "text": "Okay, good to know.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-766", "start": 5374.885, "end": 5375.223, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-767", "start": 5375.529, "end": 5376.753, "text": "Councilor Smith, go ahead.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-768", "start": 5377.381, "end": 5377.735, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-769", "start": 5379.454, "end": 5382.645, "text": "Um, Councilor Clark, I think we have the Fix-It.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-770", "start": 5382.741, "end": 5384.788, "text": "It's 211, right?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-771", "start": 5387.091, "end": 5388.283, "text": "311?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-772", "start": 5388.621, "end": 5392.759, "text": "I think 311 is a little broader than a Fix-It.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-773", "start": 5394.015, "end": 5401.509, "text": "Yeah, and they're supposed to be pushing those calls to the right bureaus, and if they're not, I think you need to tell City Administrator and the mayor.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-774", "start": 5402.614, "end": 5403.352, "text": "That's not happening.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-775", "start": 5403.978, "end": 5411.166, "text": "Because that is the reason why we, we did this whole new system, is to make sure that people go to the right place.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-776", "start": 5412.545, "end": 5414.214, "text": "I think Fix-It sounds better.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-777", "start": 5415.289, "end": 5420.664, "text": "It sounds like, you know, you want— it's more engaging that, you know, if you want something fixed, call Fix-It.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-778", "start": 5421.225, "end": 5422.717, "text": "That sounds more engaging.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-779", "start": 5423.231, "end": 5427.45, "text": "But we do have something that's, that's there, and I think that Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-780", "start": 5427.562, "end": 5427.851, "text": "I agree with that.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-781", "start": 5427.948, "end": 5429.424, "text": "You're also absolutely right.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-782", "start": 5429.488, "end": 5433.627, "text": "We need to put more resources into our neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-783", "start": 5434.445, "end": 5438.793, "text": "Um, I have a couple staff folks who actually— that's what they do.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-784", "start": 5438.938, "end": 5443.911, "text": "They go to neighborhood associations, they interface with them, they bring back things that they want.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-785", "start": 5444.553, "end": 5451.099, "text": "Um, and, you know, you, you can't just do it like once every 6 months.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-786", "start": 5451.147, "end": 5452.639, "text": "You got to do it every month.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-787", "start": 5452.687, "end": 5453.073, "text": "You got I think that's right.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-788", "start": 5453.233, "end": 5456.093, "text": "We got to kind of be a fixture of what's going on.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-789", "start": 5456.366, "end": 5460.88, "text": "But I think we also need to invest in people resources.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-790", "start": 5460.945, "end": 5478.407, "text": "So what they were talking about, I— it's just amazing all the people that we have lost in civic life that are not able to address some of the concerns that we used to do in the neighborhood association and within civic life.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-791", "start": 5479.162, "end": 5480.303, "text": "I think it's important Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-792", "start": 5481.267, "end": 5486.312, "text": "And I also do think that we have to, um, we have to figure out ways to get different people.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-793", "start": 5486.392, "end": 5501.823, "text": "And I've talked to our District 1 Coalition about this, about how to get different folks into the room, because renters, um, diverse communities, uh, folks who just don't want to be bothered, they, they don't come.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-794", "start": 5503.249, "end": 5509.641, "text": "Uh, people who know the issues, who, who understand that there's been a stop sign that's been broke for 4 years.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-795", "start": 5509.689, "end": 5512.143, "text": "They come because they're rallying around that.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-796", "start": 5512.656, "end": 5514.324, "text": "They're rallying around a specific thing.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-797", "start": 5514.917, "end": 5526.43, "text": "But we need to figure out how to do it, because when we don't figure it out, we get ballot measures that tell us we need to do more outreach because we're not reaching people.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-798", "start": 5527.168, "end": 5551.997, "text": "And, um, I think if we have the infrastructure put in place that we can do all of those things And everybody's not going to come to a neighborhood association meeting, but there are other ways in which that they can engage because we have 12 folks who were elected and now they have 12 folks that are interfacing with them at different levels of the community, whether it be the grocery store.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-799", "start": 5552.366, "end": 5554.598, "text": "People are going to events inside their community.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-800", "start": 5555.899, "end": 5557.617, "text": "That's how we're reaching out to people.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-801", "start": 5558.227, "end": 5563.78, "text": "But I think you all's work is Number one, I think it's so important.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-802", "start": 5564.245, "end": 5570.709, "text": "And, um, I will talk to Dana about when she's going to fill that, that position because I think we, we need to have that.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-803", "start": 5571.062, "end": 5575.554, "text": "We don't have the infrastructure as council to be able to reach folks.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-804", "start": 5575.634, "end": 5583.879, "text": "We only have people who you've already, um, talked with, and then we don't really have access to that information if they didn't give it to us.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-805", "start": 5584.552, "end": 5606.392, "text": "So we are reaching the same people, and I find I find it fascinating to a degree, and I don't know, I haven't talked to the mayor about it, but District 1, when we had our budget hearings, I noticed the other 3 districts, they were standing room only.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-806", "start": 5607.39, "end": 5611.539, "text": "We did one with City 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you're doing, and I, I really want to work with you, uh, to try to see if we can do something about Thanks, Councilor.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-814", "start": 5647.325, "end": 5653.965, "text": "Councilor Green, did you want to expand on this first topic, first question about the principles for rebuilding our engagement system?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-815", "start": 5654.03, "end": 5654.756, "text": "I'm going to.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-816", "start": 5655.209, "end": 5655.951, "text": "Okay, great.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-817", "start": 5656.016, "end": 5666.788, "text": "Let's move to number 2, which is how should community input inform council decision-making, and how can we design an engagement system that reliably meets those expectations?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-818", "start": 5670.171, "end": 5671.446, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-819", "start": 5673.44, "end": 5677.36, "text": "You know, I underline council decision-making here because that's sort of the operative fulcrum.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-820", "start": 5677.504, "end": 5682.726, "text": "It's not the decisions and priorities of individual councilors, but it's like, what is the body doing?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-821", "start": 5682.79, "end": 5683.965, "text": "What are we spending our time on?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-822", "start": 5684.238, "end": 5686.186, "text": "What are we engaging on on a policy basis?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-823", "start": 5686.251, "end": 5692.303, "text": "And so I, you know, there's 2 areas I think about through this conversation.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-824", "start": 5692.351, "end": 5692.995, "text": "One is, you know, the work of the city staff.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-825", "start": 5693.118, "end": 5693.47, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-826", "start": 5693.663, "end": 5710.291, "text": "One is I do think that we should try to find ways to structure work sessions intentionally around that being a forum for the district coalition officers or representatives or maybe a delegate from the neighborhood associations to come and make a case to council on something.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-827", "start": 5710.74, "end": 5725.683, "text": "Maybe it's a piece of feedback, maybe it's identifying an opportunity, maybe it's a gap, but the work sessions is how we sort of get ourselves Or to become aware of gaps or become aware of challenges.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-828", "start": 5725.732, "end": 5726.57, "text": "So that's one piece.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-829", "start": 5727.33, "end": 5729.683, "text": "Just some regularity, maybe quarterly.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-830", "start": 5730.137, "end": 5733.334, "text": "I don't know what the right frequency is, but we don't really have that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-831", "start": 5735.882, "end": 5746.749, "text": "And again, just, I know the formality of our institution doesn't often afford it, but having space to almost casually engage in a back and forth across this dais, I think, is really important.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-832", "start": 5746.8, "end": 5747.024, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-833", "start": 5747.13, "end": 5748.366, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-834", "start": 5748.59, "end": 5751.769, "text": "Upstream of policy seems really important and doing it in the public eye.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-835", "start": 5751.897, "end": 5758.848, "text": "And I think we've got folks who do watch these sessions from their laptops, from, you know, their phones.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-836", "start": 5759.442, "end": 5760.485, "text": "They post about it.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-837", "start": 5760.79, "end": 5768.592, "text": "And so being able to have them see that engagement with the district coalitions, that might spark an interest for them to get involved too.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-838", "start": 5769.154, "end": 5769.876, "text": "So that's one idea.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-839", "start": 5771, "end": 5780.593, "text": "The other part is, you know, we've got a really good practice where Where when we consider a council action that came out of committee, we get a committee staff summary.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-840", "start": 5782.069, "end": 5803.782, "text": "I think it might be interesting at the committee level or even at the council meeting level to have a coalition summary of like specific legislative items that maybe have been talked about, are being contemplated, and council might want to vote on because that provides another touchpoint that It's not mediated through specific reps.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-841", "start": 5804.279, "end": 5806.011, "text": "It's straight from the community.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-842", "start": 5807.101, "end": 5823.216, "text": "Of course, making that work requires us to solve some problems that we've still been wrestling with, which is like, how do we create this long lead time of notification about the sausage-making that we're doing long before it does come to the point where we're starting to kind of bring together finished final actions?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-843", "start": 5823.28, "end": 5828.72, "text": "But I think when folks were thinking about this new form of government, they envisioned that sort I think that's a great point.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-844", "start": 5828.72, "end": 5835.46, "text": "I think we need to have a sort of iterative process when we thought about committees, if we're going to have committees, right?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-845", "start": 5835.46, "end": 5836.35, "text": "That's an open question.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-846", "start": 5836.42, "end": 5838.62, "text": "But I think that's the value that they bring.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-847", "start": 5841.36, "end": 5848.7, "text": "Yeah, and I just think, you know, there's also been some conversation around the budget and sort of bringing back things similar to the budget advisory committees.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-848", "start": 5848.75, "end": 5862.765, "text": "But if we're going to do that, if we're going to go in that direction, it'd be great if we empower And gave the tools to our district coalitions to also provide us upstream and early interventions on budget priorities.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-849", "start": 5863.182, "end": 5878.812, "text": "I just think that connected to this idea of council adopting a sort of annual or biennial or whatever the frequency is, like prioritization exercise that then guides our budgeting, I think that we should be in line with what our coalitions are thinking as well.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-850", "start": 5879.052, "end": 5880.447, "text": "So that's— those are just a couple thoughts on that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-851", "start": 5880.511, "end": 5880.607, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-852", "start": 5880.752, "end": 5886.529, "text": "On how to design a, I think, a closer connection with council decision-making.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-853", "start": 5887.817, "end": 5888.06, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-854", "start": 5888.48, "end": 5889.192, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-855", "start": 5889.289, "end": 5892.41, "text": "We will go to Councilor Novick and then Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-856", "start": 5894.141, "end": 5894.658, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-857", "start": 5896.259, "end": 5899.434, "text": "So how should community input inform council decision-making?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-858", "start": 5900.127, "end": 5922.41, "text": "I think part of the answer to that is council should be aware of and sensitive to how much of the community they're hearing Because I think often in this building, you know, we have one nonprofit motivate 200 people to send us an email and 20 people to show up, and we think we've heard from community when actually it's a very small, self-selected part of the community.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-859", "start": 5922.843, "end": 5933.206, "text": "By the same token, if you have neighborhood association people show up and the people who go to the neighborhood association are vastly underrepresented of the diversity of their communities, that's not really hearing from community either.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-860", "start": 5933.254, "end": 5933.575, "text": "I think that's a great point.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-861", "start": 5934.471, "end": 5943.748, "text": "So I think part of how should community inform council decision-making is council needs to be sensitive to how much of the community they're hearing from.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-862", "start": 5944.344, "end": 5951.073, "text": "And we should also all try to do our best to make sure that we hear from the whole community rather than self-selected parts of it.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-863", "start": 5951.443, "end": 5954.321, "text": "And that's really hard, but I just think it's something we need to be sensitive to.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-864", "start": 5957, "end": 5957.662, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-865", "start": 5957.839, "end": 5958.453, "text": "Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-866", "start": 5960.423, "end": 5969.818, "text": "I think the main thing about getting community input for our decisions is that we actually have to seek their input before decisions are made.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-867", "start": 5970.347, "end": 5976.952, "text": "We are always asking people to give us their input on decisions that are basically made.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-868", "start": 5977.016, "end": 5981.858, "text": "Even if we say they aren't, they basically are because we are bringing them in way late into the process.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-869", "start": 5982.531, "end": 5989.809, "text": "And in order to have people help us make decisions, we need to get better at giving them the tools to make decisions.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-870", "start": 5990.563, "end": 6005.086, "text": "Because part of my experience prior to being on council, just as somebody who was constantly trying to influence what was going on at council, I was constantly met with no, but not why no.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-871", "start": 6005.455, "end": 6007.523, "text": "Not here's how you could get to yes.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-872", "start": 6007.699, "end": 6012.973, "text": "Here's the reasons why these things are not possible, but here are other options.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-873", "start": 6013.149, "end": 6016.948, "text": "And so those are the kinds of things that I'm trying to do in my office.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-874", "start": 6017.013, "end": 6026.747, "text": "We started a Workshop with Me program, and I found 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with community, not just with us?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-884", "start": 6091.057, "end": 6094.443, "text": "Because that formality is what I think is a barrier.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-885", "start": 6095.052, "end": 6102.819, "text": "And then especially because if they're being brought on— brought in at a point where it doesn't feel like anything they say is going to change the direction of the decision.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-886", "start": 6102.899, "end": 6102.947, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-887", "start": 6105.121, "end": 6122.17, "text": "So I think how are we structuring our engagement in a way that when we're communicating, this is the time where we're asking you to weigh in because here's the rest of the timeline and here's the point where, you know, like this is the point where decisions need to get made, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-888", "start": 6122.347, "end": 6124.3, "text": "We've gotta file the ordinance.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-889", "start": 6124.365, "end": 6127.046, "text": "We're not gonna be able to make as many changes in this stage.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-890", "start": 6128.854, "end": 6130.727, "text": "So helping people navigate the legislative process, I think, is really important.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-891", "start": 6130.81, "end": 6130.957, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-892", "start": 6131.363, "end": 6137.37, "text": "Process helps them feel like they can actually be informed of where they can influence it.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-893", "start": 6138.23, "end": 6149.622, "text": "And so I just want us to create more conversational type spaces, not just like one-sided surveys or tell us what you think or dot exercises.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-894", "start": 6149.67, "end": 6164.621, "text": "Those are all— they have a role, but when all of our systems are designed by that kind of one-way input, it's not giving people the confidence that their input is being used in the future.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-895", "start": 6164.782, "end": 6173.915, "text": "And one thing I wanted to mention too is we just really need to— I think this might have been towards the first question, but we need to actually value people's time.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-896", "start": 6174.493, "end": 6179.276, "text": "And valuing their time means giving them dinner, having childcare.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-897", "start": 6180.351, "end": 6190.204, "text": "If we have the ability to give stipends, if we have ways to compensate people paying for their parking, Those are the kinds of things that I know for East Portlanders, those are the big barriers.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-898", "start": 6190.702, "end": 6194.135, "text": "Most of our constituents, they've got young families.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-899", "start": 6195.194, "end": 6205.157, "text": "And so if you want to hear from them, you need to make it worth their time and know that their time is valuable and there's a dollar amount to that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-900", "start": 6205.238, "end": 6209.618, "text": "And it doesn't have to mean a dollar you give, but it has to mean value that you give back in return.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-901", "start": 6209.682, "end": 6210.163, "text": "Councilor Dan Ryan.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-902", "start": 6212.313, "end": 6212.409, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-903", "start": 6212.716, "end": 6213.539, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-904", "start": 6213.685, "end": 6214.379, "text": "Councilor Khan.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-905", "start": 6214.96, "end": 6215.977, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-906", "start": 6216.575, "end": 6223.026, "text": "I have some things prepared, but I really just want to pick up on that last piece because it's so important, valuing people's time.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-907", "start": 6223.284, "end": 6234.753, "text": "I also want to talk about parking because this is one of those things that I remember asking about parking assistance for an event that I was trying to do and was told basically it was against the climate values, so it wasn't a good use.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-908", "start": 6234.884, "end": 6246.205, "text": "And it's like people could ride transit, Well, even before the rapid rounds of cuts we've had of transit, that's not valuing their time either if it takes 2 hours to get here when you have to transfer several buses from East Portland.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-909", "start": 6246.703, "end": 6252.868, "text": "And so one of those things related to that is also not always being downtown, but getting out and about in the community.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-910", "start": 6254.169, "end": 6261.635, "text": "I love the spaces we have at the Portland Building or the 1900 or whatever, and of course here, but it's important to get out and about too, even though it's a little bit more difficult.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-911", "start": 6261.7, "end": 6263.415, "text": "Even if the space is a little imperfect.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-912", "start": 6264.698, "end": 6266.061, "text": "But I agree with all of that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-913", "start": 6266.285, "end": 6279.625, "text": "Okay, so another like really big picture thing here is I want to— I'm going to answer the question, but I don't want it to come across as the purpose of engagement is to affect council decision-making.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-914", "start": 6279.705, "end": 6281.581, "text": "It's also to affect the mayor's decision-making.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-915", "start": 6281.677, "end": 6284.563, "text": "It's also to affect the administrations, the bureaus, et cetera.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-916", "start": 6284.964, "end": 6288.139, "text": "And so I'm going to, you know, some of these concepts may be the same.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-917", "start": 6288.267, "end": 6304.237, "text": "That's a conversation that we should be involved in to, um, because I don't— otherwise we're, we're creating a permanent, permanently adversarial situation where this is the input after there's already a proposal when 70% of what we engage with is coming as a proposal from, from the mayor.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-918", "start": 6304.719, "end": 6305.537, "text": "And there's nothing wrong with that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-919", "start": 6305.586, "end": 6308.812, "text": "I just want to make sure that that's something that he gets the same access to the same information.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-920", "start": 6309.759, "end": 6314.736, "text": "Um, I agree completely with Councilor Novick that when there's geographic-specific engagement in our district, we ought to know.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-921", "start": 6315.458, "end": 6317.834, "text": "Um, you know, PBOT or whatever is doing an engagement here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-922", "start": 6318.428, "end": 6322.347, "text": "Um, parks— those 2 I think are the, the most dominant ones, but not the only ones.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-923", "start": 6322.845, "end": 6327.92, "text": "Um, it shouldn't be difficult for me to get invited to the Portland Solutions Problem Solvers in my district.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-924", "start": 6329.109, "end": 6330.329, "text": "I shouldn't have to ask for that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-925", "start": 6331.036, "end": 6334.971, "text": "That's just like the textbook example I can think of of what didn't work.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-926", "start": 6335.533, "end": 6338.601, "text": "Um, I am on them now, but it shouldn't have been that hard.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-927", "start": 6338.697, "end": 6343.451, "text": "Uh, I also think this applies when it's not in the district but adjacent to us.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-928", "start": 6343.563, "end": 6348.876, "text": "So CEI I-Hub, for example, is in District 4, but it definitely affects a good chunk of my district as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-929", "start": 6350.144, "end": 6355.713, "text": "Um, I think in the legislative process, civic life can play a bigger part of that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-930", "start": 6355.777, "end": 6369.595, "text": "I think, um, Prosper is asked when there's a real estate and/or economic, uh, analysis, or, you know, maybe that should be somebody else, but somebody doing that analysis— OEHR should be involved in the, in the, uh, equity, um, impact statement.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-931", "start": 6369.659, "end": 6377.75, "text": "I think the community I think that's a very direct way that we can engage.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-932", "start": 6377.75, "end": 6382.9, "text": "I don't want it to slow down the process, so it involves resourcing, right, for having a policy person who can do that rapidly.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-933", "start": 6383.07, "end": 6383.96, "text": "But that's important.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-934", "start": 6385.23, "end": 6386.819, "text": "And part of this, by the way, is on us.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-935", "start": 6387.23, "end": 6393.35, "text": "And I appreciate this question, not because it's necessarily an ability to give you guidance, but because it's helpful for us to talk about.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-936", "start": 6393.35, "end": 6395.55, "text": "We don't hear from our advisory groups enough.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-937", "start": 6395.55, "end": 6398.53, "text": "We only have like 10 or 12 of them that are council advisory bodies.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-938", "start": 6398.53, "end": 6398.65, "text": "I think that's a good point.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-939", "start": 6399.757, "end": 6403.927, "text": "That I those are the ones I think need time at council meetings, which is very scarce.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-940", "start": 6404.525, "end": 6409.661, "text": "But for those, we should be doing that for the council appointed and council advising ABCs.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-941", "start": 6412.194, "end": 6419.545, "text": "The last thing I wanted to mention here is we need a system that does not pick and choose who matters within a community.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-942", "start": 6420.613, "end": 6425.435, "text": "So in communities of color, and I assume this is the case in a lot of other communities as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-943", "start": 6426.203, "end": 6432.475, "text": "There's the people within that group that we always go to, and we should go to those folks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-944", "start": 6432.523, "end": 6436.87, "text": "We should still go to them, and also we should be adding to that group as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-945", "start": 6437.415, "end": 6440.575, "text": "It can't be the same folks over and over and over again.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-946", "start": 6440.864, "end": 6443.093, "text": "You know, my family is Indian American.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-947", "start": 6443.51, "end": 6448.194, "text": "There are 3 or 4 folks that are engaged with, if at all, at times in the past.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-948", "start": 6448.242, "end": 6448.9, "text": "Now it's broader.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-949", "start": 6449.044, "end": 6453.279, "text": "I have seen some motion there, but I don't want it to be— we shouldn't be picking winners and losers.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-950", "start": 6453.327, "end": 6453.439, "text": "I agree.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-951", "start": 6453.632, "end": 6458.394, "text": "Based on who aligns with our preexisting knowledge of their alignment.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-952", "start": 6458.988, "end": 6462.435, "text": "And we should continue to reach out to everybody we already have, but just broaden it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-953", "start": 6463.013, "end": 6469.523, "text": "And it's an uncomfortable thing to talk about, especially for people who are not a part of that specific community when we talk about it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-954", "start": 6469.587, "end": 6470.501, "text": "And I want to acknowledge that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-955", "start": 6471.014, "end": 6474.414, "text": "But like, which is why the example I used is my own community a second ago.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-956", "start": 6474.799, "end": 6483.639, "text": "But I also think it's really important that we don't just go back to the same folks, especially when we know that they tend to agree with what our policy priorities might be.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-957", "start": 6484.108, "end": 6493.212, "text": "I don't think that's happened with anybody up here, but I want to acknowledge that, uh, in the past, um, it has been a concern, and it's definitely something that's a perception issue even if it's not a reality.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-958", "start": 6493.713, "end": 6493.908, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-959", "start": 6495.816, "end": 6496.253, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-960", "start": 6496.868, "end": 6497.66, "text": "Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-961", "start": 6498.243, "end": 6500.05, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-962", "start": 6501.239, "end": 6512.711, "text": "I just want to note, as you think about this question of how you get community input to us or what we need need, um, that the timing matters.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-963", "start": 6512.825, "end": 6522.532, "text": "And I know a few of my colleagues said that, but I think we need to ask the question about whether we are looking for community input on what we talk about, right?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-964", "start": 6522.629, "end": 6523.566, "text": "The agenda setting.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-965", "start": 6523.744, "end": 6530.971, "text": "What topics do we prioritize as the council president or as committee chairs set agendas?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-966", "start": 6531.164, "end": 6534.201, "text": "What are we making sure doesn't get bumped and what are we allowing to get bumped?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-967", "start": 6534.25, "end": 6534.989, "text": "Council President, I think that's a great question.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-968", "start": 6535.693, "end": 6538.949, "text": "And is that influenced by what community needs us to do first?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-969", "start": 6539.944, "end": 6543.056, "text": "And then there's the issues that we debate.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-970", "start": 6543.778, "end": 6550.821, "text": "Are we making sure that community concerns are getting on the table, are part of the debate, are being considered as we make a decision?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-971", "start": 6551.575, "end": 6553.275, "text": "And then there is what decision do we make?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-972", "start": 6554.703, "end": 6570.108, "text": "And those are 3 very different places for incorporating input, and we need to be clear with folks as we do outreach about where we're seeking their input, at which level in that work, and then follow through on it, right?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-973", "start": 6570.172, "end": 6575.468, "text": "One of my colleagues said that sometimes we take into account what we hear and sometimes we don't.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-974", "start": 6576.03, "end": 6582.033, "text": "Well, if folks are expecting their input to influence that third piece, the actual decision, that's going to feel really bad.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-975", "start": 6582.161, "end": 6583.349, "text": "It's going to feel like a failure.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-976", "start": 6583.766, "end": 6586.639, "text": "It's going to feel like, why do we bother showing up?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-977", "start": 6587.345, "end": 6611.912, "text": "If If we're clear with people that what we're asking for is help figuring out what makes it on the agenda and the opportunity to make sure that every single concern, interest, wish around that topic is part of the debate, that we're considering various amendments that reflect community concerns, then at the end of the day, if we weigh those against each other and decide on something else, so be it.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-978", "start": 6613.562, "end": 6620.546, "text": "But we need to be clear about those first 2 input points and, and honest about what we're looking for between those as well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-979", "start": 6623.3, "end": 6625.899, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-980", "start": 6627.093, "end": 6627.432, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-981", "start": 6627.658, "end": 6628.658, "text": "Um, I had forgotten one thing.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-982", "start": 6628.707, "end": 6635.19, "text": "I, and, and I, I also wanted to just note, I, you know, I mentioned the written testimony on a particular thing in the past that as a case study.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-983", "start": 6635.287, "end": 6640.818, "text": "We also got a lot of, uh, verbal testimony and, and emails in that may I think you may have had a different reflection on that particular one.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-984", "start": 6640.866, "end": 6641.796, "text": "For me, it certainly did.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-985", "start": 6642.79, "end": 6648.93, "text": "The specific thing I wanted to mention that I'd forgotten is this has to do with the agenda setting, but it also has to do with our ABCs.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-986", "start": 6649.106, "end": 6656.015, "text": "I'm looking at another city's agenda for a meeting they're having tonight of their city council, and it has a proposal on it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-987", "start": 6656.416, "end": 6665.346, "text": "And as it's item 1A on their agenda so that they could have a 1B, which is hearing a recommendation from an ABC that they have have against it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-988", "start": 6666.34, "end": 6688.456, "text": "Um, so, uh, the, their Peace and Justice Commission is recommending, um, doing a different thing than the, the legislation here is they wrote a report, they, they went through a formal process that they were empowered to do by previous council action, and then their action ended up being on the agenda in parallel with a proposal that is not fully in conflict with it but partially in conflict with it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-989", "start": 6688.873, "end": 6698.287, "text": "I think that has to do with Again, I'm not talking about the 300-odd different quasi-ABCs or even the 100-something ABCs.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-990", "start": 6698.367, "end": 6707.973, "text": "I'm talking about the council advising ABCs which exist in code, which my understanding is we're talking a number under 25, maybe even that might even be overselling it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-991", "start": 6708.439, "end": 6725.334, "text": "But having the ability to have that direct connection with our agendas and that ability to invite folks up the way that Councilor Green, I think, was talking about inviting thank you, colleagues, for this discussion.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-992", "start": 6725.591, "end": 6726.975, "text": "I will put myself in the queue.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-993", "start": 6727.04, "end": 6741.154, "text": "The one thing I want to say quickly, since Seattle's Find It Fix It app came up in the conversation for a way to engage and give input, just want to make sure that we plug pdxreporter.org, which is our web-based platform for public engagement.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-994", "start": 6742.26, "end": 6744.745, "text": "Here at the city where folks can report issues.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-995", "start": 6744.939, "end": 6748.086, "text": "Also something we can continue to talk about.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-996", "start": 6749.363, "end": 6752.12, "text": "All right, Councilor Zimmerman, do you want to talk about question number 2?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-997", "start": 6758.669, "end": 6759.167, "text": "Yes, I do.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-998", "start": 6759.408, "end": 6759.649, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-999", "start": 6759.874, "end": 6760.083, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1000", "start": 6761.256, "end": 6761.834, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1001", "start": 6762.236, "end": 6768.522, "text": "So I think that the conversation and the Portland vibe is generally how do we get more people involved, and I think that that's admirable.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1002", "start": 6769.739, "end": 6777.587, "text": "And in the last few years, that has manifested itself in, if you've been involved, we may not be so interested in your previous service.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1003", "start": 6777.748, "end": 6788.283, "text": "And I think it's really important that we do take a lot of the feedback we're hearing here and still say we appreciate those who have already shown up and continue to show up.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1004", "start": 6788.605, "end": 6799.001, "text": "And I say that because a significant portion of the work that I've done as a councilor now has been with neighborhood associations and those who do show up, and there is still value there.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1005", "start": 6799.082, "end": 6814.461, "text": "And I, I want to, I want to not discredit that because, um, with, with history and with a lot of experience also comes the nuance of, of lessons learned, of, of how did we get here.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1006", "start": 6814.978, "end": 6820.621, "text": "And sometimes that gets a little lost when all we do is figure out how to go reach more people.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1007", "start": 6821.769, "end": 6832.286, "text": "I think that part of a representation Representative type of government is that some and many folks are asking us to step into a role so that they don't have to show up all the time, right?", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1008", "start": 6832.366, "end": 6841.534, "text": "They're asking to— they're voting with their values, they're voting with people who they think kind of align so that they can focus on the other stuff, and they want the city to take care of itself.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1009", "start": 6841.663, "end": 6859.788, "text": "And I— so I, I, I lean into that role often, and I don't think that, uh, It has to always be about new or different or voices who have just chosen, like, please take care of it.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1010", "start": 6859.853, "end": 6871.958, "text": "So I'm just cautious in a little bit in how we talk about this because this is sometimes what then gets turned into the folks who really want to hammer the neighborhood associations from like 10 years ago.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1011", "start": 6872.023, "end": 6877.54, "text": "And that was like a dark era for our city where the city kind of went to war with with the neighborhood associations, and that worries me.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1012", "start": 6877.62, "end": 6886.159, "text": "And that really started up again within Civic Life last year, and that has stopped, and I'm happy about that, but like big concern.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1013", "start": 6888.692, "end": 6907.617, "text": "So that's where I— it is a— splitting the difference is the wrong term, but there's a kind of threading the needle there between both how do we make sure that more folks feel like they can engage if they'd like to and that that is welcomed and enabled and give credit to service for those who've already volunteered.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1014", "start": 6908.71, "end": 6925.398, "text": "Secondly, um, a lot of the stuff that when we talk about engagement at the neighborhoods in particular versus engagement on larger council initiatives, I think those come in in different ways.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1015", "start": 6925.446, "end": 6928.079, "text": "And so I don't think of them necessarily the same Same topic, right?", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1016", "start": 6928.128, "end": 6934.789, "text": "So how a new intersection is going to be designed in a neighborhood makes a lot of sense for neighborhood engagement.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1017", "start": 6936.63, "end": 6944.102, "text": "How we approach CEI, not so much a neighborhood thing as it is a citywide thing.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1018", "start": 6944.455, "end": 6946.876, "text": "And I just think that nuance and that there's importance there.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1019", "start": 6947.429, "end": 6950.664, "text": "But there was something said earlier, and I have said this to our bureau directors.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1020", "start": 6951.997, "end": 6969.952, "text": "I think that I think there's a really neat idea with the district model when it comes to how we want to do our transportation improvements, our park improvements, our pedestrian improvements, things that we set the umbrella tone at the City Council level for how we want to achieve certain things.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1021", "start": 6970.705, "end": 6979.229, "text": "But then the detailed and nuanced way in which it's implemented at a hyper-localized level, I think there's a lot of room for input from neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1022", "start": 6979.277, "end": 6992.358, "text": "And I would love to see, in particular, PBOT and Parks lean into that because I think if you go to each of the micro downtowns, micro Main Streets of Portland, they all have their own flavor, and I think we should lean into that.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1023", "start": 6992.81, "end": 6997.962, "text": "There is no one-size-fits-all, and that's where neighborhood associations, I think, have been very helpful to me.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1024", "start": 6999.674, "end": 7019.132, "text": "And they also generally understand the umbrella that we're trying to achieve in terms of maybe safer pedestrian things, and they can also give us the sense of like, but we've got to tweak it a little bit on this corner because— and you get like 14 super localized reasons that you never would have thought out of if you just had a planner telling you about it.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1025", "start": 7019.212, "end": 7026.662, "text": "So I want to really— I value so much what I get from the neighborhood volunteers, just so much.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1026", "start": 7027.207, "end": 7031.789, "text": "And then I agree with many of the comments about enabling those who want to be more engaged.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1027", "start": 7033.055, "end": 7035.218, "text": "But I'm super cautious, and you guys all know it.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1028", "start": 7035.298, "end": 7050.45, "text": "Like, if it looks to me like the city is taking I'll be the first there to take that blow before they get hit because I, I really value their input and their, their just their attention to details.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1029", "start": 7050.45, "end": 7062.19, "text": "Um, there are people in this room, frankly, who have taken me on walks in their neighborhood and shown me just the things you're like, yeah, why hasn't the city addressed that?", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1030", "start": 7062.19, "end": 7062.83, "text": "It's so simple.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1031", "start": 7062.83, "end": 7064.77, "text": "But if you're not out of your car or if you're not in the neighborhood, you don't know.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1032", "start": 7064.77, "end": 7064.93, "text": "So I think that's a really important thing.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1033", "start": 7065.082, "end": 7072.392, "text": "And so those things are very— they're very valuable to me, and I think it's a big part of the district model.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1034", "start": 7072.472, "end": 7074.059, "text": "So thank you, Vice Chair.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1035", "start": 7074.54, "end": 7076.864, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1036", "start": 7077.81, "end": 7091.179, "text": "Before we head into question number 3, which is about Portland's Neighborhood Program, we're going to have a little bit of time, about 10 minutes, to hear from our 4 representatives from all of our neighborhood organizations.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1037", "start": 7091.95, "end": 7093.556, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1038", "start": 7094.021, "end": 7097.586, "text": "Thank you for being willing to speak to us.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1039", "start": 7098.035, "end": 7105.47, "text": "There's enough time for about 2 to 3 minutes for us to hear some of your thoughts about any and all of these questions.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1040", "start": 7106.449, "end": 7113.289, "text": "And if you can just state your name for the record, and whoever would like to start, feel free to go.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1041", "start": 7118.008, "end": 7119.049, "text": "Hello, Council.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1042", "start": 7119.097, "end": 7120.62, "text": "My name is Nancy Champlin.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1043", "start": 7120.828, "end": 7127.127, "text": "I use she and her pronouns, and I'm the executive director of Southeast Uplift, also known as the District 3 Coalition.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1044", "start": 7128.184, "end": 7131.935, "text": "I just want to say this conversation is very exciting.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1045", "start": 7132.207, "end": 7139.707, "text": "It is long overdue, and I think we are unanimous in saying we'd be very willing to come back and to continue the conversation.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1046", "start": 7140.525, "end": 7143.602, "text": "Um, a couple things I would really like to say.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1047", "start": 7143.89, "end": 7147.161, "text": "Um, one is about leverage, and the other is Yes.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1048", "start": 7147.225, "end": 7150.624, "text": "This is about spotting the gaps, as Councilor Green pointed out.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1049", "start": 7150.801, "end": 7166.875, "text": "Um, I challenge with you to think about this civic engagement infrastructure beyond just how it can inform policymaking, but also how it can be leveraged after policy is made but also implemented.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1050", "start": 7167.02, "end": 7168.258, "text": "And I'll give you an example.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1051", "start": 7169.255, "end": 7175.523, "text": "For the last 2 years, Southeast Uplift has partnered with the Urban Forestry Department Department on the Yard Tree Giveaway Program.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1052", "start": 7176.037, "end": 7186.143, "text": "And so under their collaboration with the Portland Clean Energy Fund, they've identified priority neighborhoods throughout Portland that are in need of increased tree canopy.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1053", "start": 7186.802, "end": 7203.828, "text": "And so Southeast Uplift leveraged our relationships with neighborhoods in the high-priority areas that need tree canopy, and those neighborhood associations went out over the summer last year and this year to engage their neighbors in getting free trees to put those trees in the areas where they are needed most.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1054", "start": 7204.149, "end": 7213.121, "text": "So this is an example of how this program, this network, this ecosystem can be leveraged to help the city and neighborhoods meet collective goals.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1055", "start": 7214.02, "end": 7237.137, "text": "Uh, the second thing, um, oh, and, uh, if the participatory budgeting, uh, ballot measure passes, there's a role for district coalitions and neighborhoods to potentially play in helping to ensure that the decision-making process about where the city would spend 2% of its general fund— there's a role to play in that, along with many other community groups.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1056", "start": 7238.518, "end": 7253.467, "text": "Another way to leverage this ecosystem is what we all do internally, is we provide fiscal sponsorship services to the neighborhood associations who, while they are all state-based nonprofits, only some of them have federal tax-exempt status.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1057", "start": 7253.531, "end": 7253.643, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1058", "start": 7253.74, "end": 7253.9, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1059", "start": 7254.414, "end": 7268.223, "text": "And so the district coalition offices in that role can play the role of the tax-exempt organization that could help them, allow them to be able to do things like grant writing, to get— have resources to do their community engagement work.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1060", "start": 7269.652, "end": 7284.883, "text": "In doing that, for example, Southeast Uplift has about 15 of our neighborhoods that are fiscally sponsored and then another 15 organizations that we support with fiscal sponsorship services because we already have that infrastructure built in.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1061", "start": 7285.396, "end": 7294.474, "text": "That has helped to incubate entrepreneurs that are running small businesses, not on the, the for-profit side, but on the nonprofit side.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1062", "start": 7294.522, "end": 7301.804, "text": "So it is helping to incubate the nonprofit sector, which are, you know, organizations that are giving back to their communities.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1063", "start": 7302.317, "end": 7315.813, "text": "It is through that program that we over the years have helped incubate organizations like the Southeast Portland Tool library, like Portland United Against Hate, like Black and Beyond the Binary Collective, and currently the Sunnyside Shower Project.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1064", "start": 7315.861, "end": 7323.15, "text": "So it's where a community idea can take root and the district coalitions can help them to, uh, to grow and expand their programming.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1065", "start": 7324.226, "end": 7347.213, "text": "The other 2 things in, in terms of, uh, spotting the gaps that I would like to share, um, is there is a real need now that there is district representation and there are council committees, and council is primarily a legislative body, it has been really challenging for district coalitions to, uh, to follow the sausage making from committees to council.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1066", "start": 7347.502, "end": 7368.258, "text": "And, uh, a real valuable tool not just for district coalitions' neighborhoods but for Portlanders in general would be a dashboard that would make it very easy for the public to see what is coming up in committees where there is opportunity for community input early on, and then when it's going to council for decision-making.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1067", "start": 7368.307, "end": 7372.257, "text": "So that's a piece that we would welcome a further conversation on.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1068", "start": 7373.012, "end": 7383.273, "text": "And I really appreciate, uh, Councilor Avalos, you bringing up the renters, because we've been hearing from our neighborhoods how difficult that is to reach renters.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1069", "start": 7383.707, "end": 7396.029, "text": "There are often physical, literal barriers to being able to to put flyers, newsletters, invitations to participate in things in apartment buildings, flyers up, those sort of things.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1070", "start": 7396.077, "end": 7402.954, "text": "And so we would really welcome some thought partnership around how we can help to better reach renters.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1071", "start": 7404.03, "end": 7407.292, "text": "And so I'll stop there, and thank you so much for this opportunity.", "speaker": "Nancy Champlin" }, { "id": "cue-1072", "start": 7408.77, "end": 7410.168, "text": "Hi, I'm Allison Stoll.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1073", "start": 7410.393, "end": 7415.741, "text": "My pronouns are she/her, and I am with District 1 Coalition.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1074", "start": 7415.821, "end": 7426.67, "text": "We were formerly, uh, Central Northeast Neighbors, and I'll just give you a little tiny history of what we all faced when the transition happened in government.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1075", "start": 7427.151, "end": 7436.025, "text": "We too wound up with different boundaries than we had before, and I'm going to use Central Northeast Neighbors as one of the examples.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1076", "start": 7436.218, "end": 7442.413, "text": "We had, um, about 14 neighborhoods, and when we We got the boundary change.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1077", "start": 7442.478, "end": 7452.995, "text": "We had one neighborhood association left in our coalition, which meant I had 2 board members, and we were facing 14 more neighborhoods out in east.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1078", "start": 7453.396, "end": 7464.604, "text": "So basically for us, it— we differed than some of the other coalitions because we couldn't get to work right away on doing projects and government and those kinds of things.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1079", "start": 7464.957, "end": 7465.904, "text": "We had to build a board.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1080", "start": 7466.017, "end": 7466.097, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1081", "start": 7467.124, "end": 7478.299, "text": "And so we started out, as I said, with 2 board members, and now we have actually all 14 of our neighborhood associations are active.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1082", "start": 7478.363, "end": 7489.137, "text": "We had— we faced 3 neighborhood associations that were inactive, and I can say as of last week, our 14th neighborhood held a meeting and elections.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1083", "start": 7489.201, "end": 7490.357, "text": "So that's really cool.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1084", "start": 7491.272, "end": 7499.418, "text": "Our board consists of 2 members from each of the neighborhood associations, and we have 6 seats for the broader community.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1085", "start": 7499.964, "end": 7503.674, "text": "And we are working on the broader community even as we speak.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1086", "start": 7504.87, "end": 7512.7, "text": "We now have a— we also have a leadership roundtable that meets the first Saturday of every month.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1087", "start": 7513.202, "end": 7520.39, "text": "And this roundtable consists of really anyone in the community you don't have to be a leader.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1088", "start": 7520.75, "end": 7534.1, "text": "And I will say, Councilor Clark and all of you who talked about going out to the community, we've had councilors come to our— just show up at our meetings.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1089", "start": 7534.893, "end": 7537.307, "text": "And thank you so much, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1090", "start": 7537.404, "end": 7539.494, "text": "You actually were at our last one and I wasn't.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1091", "start": 7539.542, "end": 7540.709, "text": "So thank you for attending.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1092", "start": 7543.226, "end": 7546.455, "text": "One of the things that was really important in our community, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1093", "start": 7546.633, "end": 7553.627, "text": "I think what we've done in all of the communities and including the city is building trust and also building respect.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1094", "start": 7555.44, "end": 7571.421, "text": "It was really difficult for myself and my staff, which is actually at the time was, there were 2 of us in trying to build this relationship with people that had no idea who I was or where I came from or where my colleague came from.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1095", "start": 7572.1, "end": 7574.68, "text": "And I feel like we've done a great job at that.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1096", "start": 7575.552, "end": 7597.57, "text": "That while we didn't have the turnout at the budget meeting, which we tried, we, we all tried really hard, we actually did hold, um, a smaller, um, we talked about the budget at one of our board meetings, and we wound up with probably about 55 people there from the community as well.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1097", "start": 7598.405, "end": 7604.984, "text": "Our board members were part of them, but that was only, you know, about A third of who was there, and it turned out really great.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1098", "start": 7605.642, "end": 7611.161, "text": "I think the big part is, um, that trust and respect.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1099", "start": 7611.257, "end": 7618.862, "text": "And then one thing that the, the coalitions do is we convene people, and I think that's one of the things that we're really good at.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1100", "start": 7618.942, "end": 7627.108, "text": "And I really hope that the partnership starts to work again through Civic Life, because convening people is what we do best.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1101", "start": 7627.205, "end": 7627.445, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1102", "start": 7627.51, "end": 7627.734, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1103", "start": 7628.907, "end": 7630.947, "text": "Now, are we perfect at it?", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1104", "start": 7631.075, "end": 7631.959, "text": "Absolutely not.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1105", "start": 7632.2, "end": 7634.641, "text": "There are tons of organizations out there.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1106", "start": 7634.914, "end": 7644.937, "text": "The community-based organizations in East, I think, probably are one of the largest growing businesses out in East, the nonprofits.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1107", "start": 7645.836, "end": 7648.92, "text": "We have many, many nonprofits.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1108", "start": 7649.049, "end": 7650.141, "text": "And do they provide jobs?", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1109", "start": 7650.189, "end": 7651.297, "text": "Sure, some of them do.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1110", "start": 7651.378, "end": 7654.285, "text": "But one of the things that while we're councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1111", "start": 7654.51, "end": 7654.847, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1112", "start": 7654.959, "end": 7659.953, "text": "So as we're facing rebuilding, we're also facing developing our community.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1113", "start": 7660.29, "end": 7668.222, "text": "We need economic development, we need jobs, we need workforce development and workforce housing.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1114", "start": 7668.415, "end": 7670.871, "text": "As we, we know, we all face these things.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1115", "start": 7671.449, "end": 7678.835, "text": "But one of the things that we are good at is that convening and getting the information out open and transparent.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1116", "start": 7678.9, "end": 7679.145, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1117", "start": 7679.26, "end": 7682.434, "text": "We're trying to be transparent, both in our communications and in our work.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1118", "start": 7684.167, "end": 7686.22, "text": "And, you know, we're not perfect at it.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1119", "start": 7686.35, "end": 7695.67, "text": "I had somebody the other day say, well, you organized a neighborhood meeting and you held elections, but I didn't get the information.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1120", "start": 7696.358, "end": 7705.97, "text": "And I think to myself, I wish you had, and I wish you can be there at the next meeting, and there's still seats available on that board if you want to be part of.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1121", "start": 7706.018, "end": 7713.381, "text": "So, and one last thing that I will say, um, to Councilor Avalos, who was one of our councilors, thank you so much for everything you said.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1122", "start": 7714.119, "end": 7724.129, "text": "And I think back to when I first got involved, and, um, I think I was— it was with, uh, Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhood Association.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1123", "start": 7724.386, "end": 7733.818, "text": "I was 26 years old and got a newsletter delivered to my rental house, and, um, they said, would you like to write an article?", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1124", "start": 7734.026, "end": 7736.373, "text": "And I said, oh, that would be great, I'd love to do it.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1125", "start": 7736.857, "end": 7741.441, "text": "At the next neighborhood association, I got introduced as the newsletter editor.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1126", "start": 7744.52, "end": 7748.215, "text": "So I, I, I will say that there are lots of ways.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1127", "start": 7748.713, "end": 7749.468, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1128", "start": 7749.918, "end": 7755.477, "text": "Yeah, so it's, it's been a few years since then, but thank you so much, all of you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1129", "start": 7755.622, "end": 7770.824, "text": "I was— it, it felt good in my heart to hear the support that you have for the work that all of us do and the work that your community yes, you have so many people out there who do great work, and thank you, um, all of you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1130", "start": 7770.968, "end": 7771.289, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1131", "start": 7771.914, "end": 7773.758, "text": "I want to make sure we have time for all of you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1132", "start": 7773.918, "end": 7774.207, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1133", "start": 7774.896, "end": 7776.628, "text": "Oh yes, thank you, Allison.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1134", "start": 7776.74, "end": 7778.921, "text": "Nancy, hi, my name is Carly Barich.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1135", "start": 7779.049, "end": 7780.717, "text": "I use she/her pronouns.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1136", "start": 7781.294, "end": 7788.574, "text": "I am the executive director of the District 4 Coalition, uh, fairly new member of this team.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1137", "start": 7788.846, "end": 7795.118, "text": "I started this position in February, So I'm still learning the intricacies of this program.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1138", "start": 7797.04, "end": 7801.678, "text": "A couple things that I just wanted to touch base on, give you some numbers.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1139", "start": 7803.14, "end": 7814.588, "text": "Last year, District 4 Coalition reported an estimated of 40,000 volunteer hours and about 10,000 participants throughout the district for the year.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1140", "start": 7814.669, "end": 7816.865, "text": "So that gives you an idea of how much thank you.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1141", "start": 7816.981, "end": 7832.843, "text": "So just to give you a sense of how much effort is going on in the community, the District 4 Coalition has 2 full-time staff members, and we also contract with a variety of different contractors for small projects here and there throughout the year.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1142", "start": 7835.683, "end": 7847.097, "text": "A couple of the main things that the district coalitions provide for value for the neighborhood associations that do really the groundwork work is the insurance.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1143", "start": 7847.211, "end": 7849.637, "text": "We provide the insurance for all of the neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1144", "start": 7850.2, "end": 7854.321, "text": "That's general liability and just— sorry, directors and officers insurance.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1145", "start": 7855.609, "end": 7866.357, "text": "This allows them to also ask for certificates of insurance for some of the events that we all love in the city— movies in the park and picnics and things like that.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1146", "start": 7867.795, "end": 7873.186, "text": "The technical assistance is one of the things That takes a lot of our time.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1147", "start": 7874.519, "end": 7876.495, "text": "I know that we can be unanimous in this one.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1148", "start": 7877.636, "end": 7894.967, "text": "Anything from website help to making sure that they're posting their minutes and their agendas and they've got their— anything that the public meeting laws require, providing assistance for public records requests and grievance processes.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1149", "start": 7895.08, "end": 7895.417, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1150", "start": 7898.369, "end": 7904.225, "text": "There's the capacity building part of it is, well, like teaching folks how to fish, right?", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1151", "start": 7905.509, "end": 7925.677, "text": "Making sure that we've got an asynchronous training portal so anyone can just go up there and build that repository of information as neighborhood associations are volunteer-run and turnover hopefully happens, right, as people get more engaged and more excited and get involved with this program.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1152", "start": 7926.352, "end": 7928.746, "text": "I'll keep this a little bit short.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1153", "start": 7928.795, "end": 7936.62, "text": "I was going to go in a little bit more, but I really appreciate the collaboration between the district coalition executive directors.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1154", "start": 7937.681, "end": 7943.98, "text": "We've, for example, we're doing a few different trainings that are district citywide.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1155", "start": 7945.153, "end": 7962.985, "text": "One is on the participatory budgeting feedback and training for our district and it's— when we talk about the engagement piece, I know that for my perspective, I've only been here for, again, for 7 months.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1156", "start": 7963.886, "end": 7969.281, "text": "We only hear from and talk to a very small percentage of our district.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1157", "start": 7969.425, "end": 7980.226, "text": "And I'm very much looking forward to the partnership that the city and the civic life will provide, hopefully, with really increasing that engagement.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1158", "start": 7980.275, "end": 7980.435, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Allison Stoll" }, { "id": "cue-1159", "start": 7983.176, "end": 7987.713, "text": "To reach all of the different demographics that we're hoping to reach.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1160", "start": 7989.027, "end": 8007.397, "text": "And we're looking forward to, again, we're the capacity building and stabilizing arm for a lot of the neighborhood associations to help with that change, 'cause there will be some changes that are going to be needed to implement so that we can reach all of those folks that we're looking forward to.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1161", "start": 8007.461, "end": 8007.605, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1162", "start": 8008.024, "end": 8008.394, "text": "To reaching.", "speaker": "Carly Barich" }, { "id": "cue-1163", "start": 8011.149, "end": 8012.051, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1164", "start": 8012.276, "end": 8013.452, "text": "My name is Jonna Davis.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1165", "start": 8013.581, "end": 8014.886, "text": "I use she/her pronouns.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1166", "start": 8014.95, "end": 8021.637, "text": "I'm the executive director of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, your District 2 coalition office.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1167", "start": 8022.221, "end": 8023.584, "text": "Thank you all for having us.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1168", "start": 8025.349, "end": 8030.405, "text": "Um, I was taking notes and trying to listen very carefully as you all were speaking.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1169", "start": 8030.984, "end": 8039.888, "text": "Um, in alignment with the, uh, discussion that's happened about inclusivity specifically.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1170", "start": 8041.433, "end": 8051.819, "text": "I believe that the solution is actually not to remove anyone who— or any group of folks, but to build a larger table.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1171", "start": 8052.75, "end": 8063.588, "text": "When I was a council assistant, there were 4 councilors and a mayor, and we had a bit more space but this is a beautiful thing to see.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1172", "start": 8063.749, "end": 8071.055, "text": "I didn't know that I would see it in my lifetime because I'm dating myself, but when I was in council was a few decades ago.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1173", "start": 8071.633, "end": 8073.127, "text": "So this is a beautiful thing.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1174", "start": 8073.4, "end": 8078.024, "text": "Charter form has brought forth some wonderful participation.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1175", "start": 8078.474, "end": 8082.761, "text": "So, and by the same token, we need to do that in the community.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1176", "start": 8083.58, "end": 8084.913, "text": "It is not an either/or.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1177", "start": 8085.748, "end": 8090.164, "text": "We are at a place in history where we need all hands on deck.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1178", "start": 8090.212, "end": 8090.629, "text": "Councilor Loretta Smith.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1179", "start": 8090.71, "end": 8091.063, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1180", "start": 8091.609, "end": 8105.843, "text": "And so we need those folks who have been around for 30, 40 years, and I won't say how many years, but serving in the city, who have that institutional knowledge, who have perhaps the free time.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1181", "start": 8106.148, "end": 8107.738, "text": "But we also need our renters.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1182", "start": 8108.317, "end": 8128.363, "text": "I have 4 adult children who are renters, and if you want to see them participating, we do need to think differently about how we do councilor Avalos mentioned some of those key things that we have seen to be effective when we're engaging folks from across the community.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1183", "start": 8128.863, "end": 8140.958, "text": "Things like transportation vouchers or childcare, making sure you're having your events at a time when working folks can participate.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1184", "start": 8141.296, "end": 8146.421, "text": "One of the things that I, I went to various different District's events over the last year.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1185", "start": 8146.806, "end": 8154.913, "text": "Signage, something as simple as signage and making sure you're communicating in the various languages that are represented.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1186", "start": 8155.282, "end": 8174.849, "text": "So a lot of these things that we do as district coalition offices, we are prepared to help and to come alongside the city to do to make sure that this inclusive table includes renters, young folks, folks from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1187", "start": 8175.507, "end": 8182.489, "text": "And I hope that you can find space for those who have not traditionally been around the table.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1188", "start": 8183.066, "end": 8189.598, "text": "We have in past partnered with your Diversity and Civic Leadership program.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1189", "start": 8190.192, "end": 8196.42, "text": "And as I was told, some of the budgeting from— for the DCL program has even gone to that.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1190", "start": 8196.949, "end": 8200.753, "text": "One of the ways we have gotten creative now is to build partnerships.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1191", "start": 8200.801, "end": 8200.849, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1192", "start": 8201.723, "end": 8202.853, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1193", "start": 8204.871, "end": 8219.664, "text": "We encourage our neighborhood associations through our small grants programs to go out and have— make sure that when we're doing these community activations, that folks are at the table.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1194", "start": 8219.921, "end": 8224.393, "text": "They're invited to the table and they're welcomed to the table.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1195", "start": 8224.847, "end": 8226.86, "text": "I think that Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1196", "start": 8227.197, "end": 8230.068, "text": "That's one of the pieces that we don't talk about enough.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1197", "start": 8230.822, "end": 8238.876, "text": "It's not just saying, hey, there's something happening and you can come, but going that extra mile.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1198", "start": 8239.165, "end": 8248.23, "text": "We built relationships through our fiscal sponsorship program, through our grassroots incubator where we provide technical assistance.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1199", "start": 8248.551, "end": 8254.314, "text": "When there's a hot topic in my neighborhood or in my district, I try to stay on top of that.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1200", "start": 8254.572, "end": 8262.837, "text": "So for instance, one year it was a red house where a Black and Indigenous family was being displaced.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1201", "start": 8263.566, "end": 8268.439, "text": "Our— the staff at the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods were members from the community.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1202", "start": 8268.682, "end": 8269.298, "text": "They were aware.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1203", "start": 8269.846, "end": 8283.206, "text": "We provide spaces for people to convene, so we can help fill the gap, but we need to be Included as collaborators from the beginning.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1204", "start": 8283.803, "end": 8292.572, "text": "And so I just urge you, I say with the right support, we can continue to provide space for the community to come together, and we're looking forward to it.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1205", "start": 8292.652, "end": 8294.179, "text": "We're already doing the work.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1206", "start": 8294.5, "end": 8295.882, "text": "We want to come alongside you.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1207", "start": 8296.204, "end": 8303.995, "text": "We build community through developing long-term trusting relationships and focusing on meeting people where they are at, listening.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1208", "start": 8304.593, "end": 8307.017, "text": "I think I shared with a few, a couple of you Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1209", "start": 8307.113, "end": 8308.847, "text": "And I just want to remind you the spectrum of engagement.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1210", "start": 8309.12, "end": 8311.191, "text": "We're not looking to just talk at people.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1211", "start": 8311.93, "end": 8313.536, "text": "We're looking to talk with people.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1212", "start": 8314.001, "end": 8329.287, "text": "We're listening for what are the issues that are near and dear to their heart, because we will need everybody to come together to say we can be a stronger and more resilient Portland, but that's not going to happen if we can't talk to one another.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1213", "start": 8329.929, "end": 8331.069, "text": "So we're here.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1214", "start": 8331.84, "end": 8332.129, "text": "We're ready.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1215", "start": 8332.641, "end": 8332.962, "text": "Let's go.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1216", "start": 8334.18, "end": 8336.136, "text": "Thank you so much to all of you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1217", "start": 8336.409, "end": 8342.068, "text": "That was really helpful and prepared us for our final policy question.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1218", "start": 8342.18, "end": 8342.998, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1219", "start": 8343.623, "end": 8354.973, "text": "Which is, how can Portland's neighborhood program make the most of our transition to district-based council seats, fostering connections between neighborhoods and elected leaders?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1220", "start": 8362.504, "end": 8366.859, "text": "Just add your hand to the queue if you would like— you have anything to say.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1221", "start": 8370.12, "end": 8370.684, "text": "Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1222", "start": 8373.219, "end": 8379.934, "text": "Well, first I want to say, uh, yeah, I went to that one neighborhood meeting and then they tried to make me the president, so I know exactly the feeling.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1223", "start": 8379.983, "end": 8382.309, "text": "I was like, no, I was just asking a question.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1224", "start": 8382.422, "end": 8383.279, "text": "I don't want to be the president.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1225", "start": 8383.389, "end": 8384.753, "text": "I'm just kidding.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1226", "start": 8385.749, "end": 8397.133, "text": "Also, I wanted to say, as it relates to reaching renters, agree, it's difficult for the reasons that people shared, but also there are quite a few apartments that are like open style.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1227", "start": 8397.711, "end": 8403.86, "text": "And when I knock doors in my district, I focus on knocking on those doors because I know that they don't get a lot of outreach.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1228", "start": 8404.872, "end": 8407.922, "text": "So don't forget, there are lots of apartments that are open.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1229", "start": 8407.986, "end": 8412.686, "text": "I'm sure they don't love me hanging out in there, but no one's run me out yet.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1230", "start": 8412.83, "end": 8425.894, "text": "So, um, as far as this, um, question, I mean, I think it's just we really just got to get out there, like, just boots on the ground.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1231", "start": 8426.04, "end": 8429.955, "text": "And again, how are we— we talk about, like, partnerships, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1232", "start": 8430.485, "end": 8441.328, "text": "But I'm trying to think of, like, what are the ways that we I get often Portlanders who are like, I want to help, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1233", "start": 8441.441, "end": 8442.621, "text": "I want to be part of something.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1234", "start": 8442.718, "end": 8443.429, "text": "I want to do something.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1235", "start": 8444.636, "end": 8449.582, "text": "And we're trying to start up a program in my office to do that, to offer ways for people to help.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1236", "start": 8450.067, "end": 8452.475, "text": "But again, I'd love to see that at scale.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1237", "start": 8453.16, "end": 8462.795, "text": "And what are ways that we can maybe get a bunch of neighbors going out and knocking on those doors and talking directly with folks?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1238", "start": 8463.026, "end": 8464.822, "text": "I just, I see there's a lot of energy there.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1239", "start": 8464.87, "end": 8475.106, "text": "I just don't think we're capturing people's energy enough, especially all the people, you know, we have folks that regularly come to council to, you know, speak to us and testify.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1240", "start": 8475.86, "end": 8478.523, "text": "And that's great.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1241", "start": 8478.619, "end": 8483.593, "text": "I'm also like, can we use that energy to go out to your neighborhood and talk to people?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1242", "start": 8483.673, "end": 8488.037, "text": "Can we use that energy to help facilitate dialogues in community?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1243", "start": 8488.149, "end": 8496.858, "text": "I just don't want us to Like I said earlier, I want us to work with the partner orgs and all that, but I don't want us to feel limited by that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1244", "start": 8497.036, "end": 8501.333, "text": "What are ways that we're getting everyday people to help participate?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1245", "start": 8501.624, "end": 8503.399, "text": "You've got to put structure around that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1246", "start": 8503.802, "end": 8507.029, "text": "You got to give it some purpose and all that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1247", "start": 8507.11, "end": 8513.803, "text": "But at the end of the day, I just feel like we're underutilizing a lot of people who want to be part of change.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1248", "start": 8514.741, "end": 8519.208, "text": "So I think I think that's what I'd love to brainstorm with you all over the coming years.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1249", "start": 8519.305, "end": 8523.138, "text": "Just like, what are some creative ways we can make new programs?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1250", "start": 8523.314, "end": 8526.281, "text": "You know, what, like a neighbor-to-neighbor program, what could that look like?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1251", "start": 8526.522, "end": 8531.397, "text": "I've talked in my office about I wanted to do like a facilitator training.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1252", "start": 8531.509, "end": 8540.859, "text": "I wanted to train folks who want to help lead those group discussions because I do a lot of programs that are like roundtables and I need, you know, a facilitator of each roundtable.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1253", "start": 8540.939, "end": 8540.987, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1254", "start": 8541.132, "end": 8551.212, "text": "And I say this too because I was tapped as— when Commissioner Joanne Hardesty was in office, I was one of her community facilitators.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1255", "start": 8551.63, "end": 8555.563, "text": "So she had an army of people who were like, I just want to help.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1256", "start": 8555.803, "end": 8556.831, "text": "I want to participate.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1257", "start": 8557.168, "end": 8565.098, "text": "And so I was on a list and they would email me and I would come to her little town halls and help facilitate a table.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1258", "start": 8565.146, "end": 8575.728, "text": "So those are the kinds of opportunities I'd like us to create, more ways for for neighbors to help each other instead of it feeling like we have to do all the work or that Portland city staff have to do all of that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1259", "start": 8576.531, "end": 8580.594, "text": "I think, you know, we're underutilizing the energy that I'm hearing.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1260", "start": 8581.173, "end": 8600.749, "text": "And it is, Councilor Dunphy and I talk about it a lot, Council President Dunphy and I talk about it a lot where we feel excited but also sad at times by how overwhelmed with happiness that we get from people who, just from seeing us.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1261", "start": 8600.958, "end": 8602.483, "text": "And it's like, that's great.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1262", "start": 8602.564, "end": 8606.016, "text": "I'm glad that you feel, you know, represented, especially for East Portlanders.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1263", "start": 8606.064, "end": 8611.652, "text": "I'm glad that you feel like we're here, but we're just— sometimes it depresses us because we're like, oh, it's just such a low bar.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1264", "start": 8612.246, "end": 8613.081, "text": "The bar is in hell.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1265", "start": 8613.45, "end": 8619.905, "text": "So it's like, can we raise the bar so that people don't have to feel like just us visiting a neighborhood association is engagement?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1266", "start": 8619.969, "end": 8620.403, "text": "Because it's not.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-1267", "start": 8620.451, "end": 8620.579, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1268", "start": 8621.975, "end": 8623.707, "text": "But that's how low the bar is.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1269", "start": 8624.22, "end": 8632.687, "text": "So how do we set the bar higher so that people can expect, like, yeah, you should have your councilors coming and checking out your neighborhood associations, you should have them out in community.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1270", "start": 8633.104, "end": 8636.328, "text": "But that, again, is super, like, one-dimensional.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1271", "start": 8637.21, "end": 8639.744, "text": "And I just want to raise the bar for Portlanders.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1272", "start": 8640.738, "end": 8644.683, "text": "And lastly, I'll say, I'm not going to remember exactly how he said it.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1273", "start": 8644.747, "end": 8647.762, "text": "He always speaks so eloquently, that Zohran Mamdani.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1274", "start": 8648.596, "end": 8653.732, "text": "But he recently went on an interview and just talked about Like they were asking him, how do you build trust, right, with folks?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1275", "start": 8653.877, "end": 8657.233, "text": "And he was like, you just have to show them that you did a thing.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1276", "start": 8657.972, "end": 8660.091, "text": "You do have to show them that you filled the pothole.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1277", "start": 8660.236, "end": 8662.115, "text": "You got to show them that you fixed the light.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1278", "start": 8662.789, "end": 8668.923, "text": "And so how are we— this is where the blending of communication and engagement happens, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1279", "start": 8668.971, "end": 8672.777, "text": "I know Councilor Kanal said that, that communication is one thing, engagement is another.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1280", "start": 8672.922, "end": 8673.323, "text": "Agree.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1281", "start": 8673.805, "end": 8683.884, "text": "But can we blend those better so that people can actually see, you know, that things are moving, right, that people— actions have been taken on things.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1282", "start": 8684.382, "end": 8692.13, "text": "Um, I also get a lot of, um, people who, um, we do like live posting on Blue Sky.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1283", "start": 8693.462, "end": 8694.922, "text": "Uh, Lauren in my office is great.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1284", "start": 8694.986, "end": 8698.387, "text": "She does all of the like, here's what just happened at council.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1285", "start": 8698.435, "end": 8700.456, "text": "And it's just these little things, they add up.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1286", "start": 8700.52, "end": 8704.788, "text": "People— I get lots of comments from that in particular because they're like, I don't have time to go watch your Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1287", "start": 8704.836, "end": 8706.989, "text": "I'm not asking for a full meeting, but I would love to just know the quick hits.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1288", "start": 8707.52, "end": 8713.546, "text": "So those are the kinds of ways that I'm like, what's the engagement strategy for like, how do we communicate what's going on in council every week?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1289", "start": 8713.61, "end": 8715.795, "text": "Are there easy sound bites that we can give?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1290", "start": 8715.859, "end": 8724.89, "text": "And I know that's difficult because, you know, obviously when I'm doing it, it's from my political office and, you know, I have that, and you all have to do it neutrally, if you will.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1291", "start": 8725.742, "end": 8726.625, "text": "But there's got to be a way.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1292", "start": 8726.867, "end": 8728.216, "text": "There's got to be a way to do that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1293", "start": 8728.377, "end": 8733.864, "text": "And I think, again, in the age of like social media and short attention spans.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1294", "start": 8733.928, "end": 8737.406, "text": "Like those long newsletters, they're beautiful, people aren't reading all of them.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1295", "start": 8737.454, "end": 8739.602, "text": "Some people are, but a lot of people aren't.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1296", "start": 8739.682, "end": 8756.865, "text": "And so how do we do more of that communication in these smaller digestible bites so that people can see a constant flow of information and like, oh, well, they recently passed this bill or they had a debate on this topic and now I know kind of a little bit more of the intricacies other than just reading what's on the website, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1297", "start": 8756.929, "end": 8761.791, "text": "Sure, you could go to the website and say, They voted blah, blah, blah for this bill, but what does it mean?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1298", "start": 8762.305, "end": 8776.451, "text": "So how are we connecting those dots so that then when you are bringing them in for the engagement, they feel informed, they feel like they're a part of something because they feel like they've heard it in their own, like, language or in a way that they can easily digest?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1299", "start": 8776.515, "end": 8783.371, "text": "So I'd love to see a blending of our comms and engagement, and, like, they, they should not be happening in isolation.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1300", "start": 8783.42, "end": 8783.741, "text": "They should be—.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1301", "start": 8783.757, "end": 8783.821, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1302", "start": 8784.598, "end": 8788.936, "text": "Flowing between each other, and I'd love to see a strategy developed around that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1303", "start": 8789.39, "end": 8789.633, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1304", "start": 8791.316, "end": 8792.951, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1305", "start": 8793.032, "end": 8802.279, "text": "We will go to Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, then Councilor Green, and if we all keep it to about 5 minutes, everyone will be able to answer this question.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1306", "start": 8803.424, "end": 8809.124, "text": "I will do less than that, and I will try to stick to the question even though there are a lot of other things I would love to say about the topic.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1307", "start": 8811.04, "end": 8811.652, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1308", "start": 8813.392, "end": 8821.38, "text": "When we were first elected, I had some people come up to me and say, well, do we need our neighborhood association system now?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1309", "start": 8821.509, "end": 8823.007, "text": "We have district councilors.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1310", "start": 8823.989, "end": 8840.642, "text": "And I think there is a huge opportunity, and each of us could probably give examples from the work that we've done of how we have taken advantage of that opportunity already to make our neighborhood associations stronger by our presence and And make our work stronger by our neighborhood association presence.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1311", "start": 8840.707, "end": 8840.918, "text": "Both.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1312", "start": 8841.436, "end": 8844.269, "text": "I think that we can and we should work together.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1313", "start": 8846.622, "end": 8853.85, "text": "I have gone to, I think, meetings, I hope meetings for every neighborhood association in our district at this point.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1314", "start": 8853.899, "end": 8855.673, "text": "I try to get to each one at least once a year.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1315", "start": 8856.704, "end": 8865.122, "text": "And I've had multiple times where people are in the room who have never showed up to a neighborhood association meeting before, and they came because a councilor was There.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1316", "start": 8865.909, "end": 8883.298, "text": "And I hope that our district offices are helping neighborhood associations think about how they can capitalize on the momentum of having us come to things to boost interest in the work that's happening and to boost, um, to boost participation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1317", "start": 8884.469, "end": 8900.658, "text": "Similarly, I think we've had a great partnership where our neighborhood association has hosted counselors at events, right, and, and had drop-in hours with counselors at events that the coalition office was at.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1318", "start": 8901.765, "end": 8903.786, "text": "Um, and I think there's a lot of opportunity there.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1319", "start": 8904.188, "end": 8921.7, "text": "But as we think about how you all engage in that, right, how we go deeper than just the one-on-one relationships that we have, I think that there is a real opportunity to take some of the resources that the city Yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1320", "start": 8922.333, "end": 8927.217, "text": "And work with the neighborhood associations and the councilors together to think about the outreach.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1321", "start": 8927.84, "end": 8937.537, "text": "So I think about when PBOT was doing outreach for the TUF, the Transportation Utility Fee, and they made sure to have an event in every district.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1322", "start": 8938.247, "end": 8943.878, "text": "And their event in our district was actually at the same place that our coalition office is located.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1323", "start": 8946.019, "end": 8949.073, "text": "But we didn't find out about it in time to do a lot of outreach on our channel.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1324", "start": 8949.592, "end": 8953.714, "text": "I don't know that the neighborhood associations were engaged in doing a lot of outreach for it.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1325", "start": 8954.387, "end": 8975.603, "text": "And I think that there's a way, as we think about that first question and the integration, that the work that the other parts of our outreach team do can use neighborhood associations and council office lists to make the events better, to reach more people, to bring in more people.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1326", "start": 8975.651, "end": 8975.795, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1327", "start": 8976.839, "end": 8982.395, "text": "And similarly, the neighborhood associations will hopefully then build on that to bring people into their work.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1328", "start": 8983.278, "end": 8991.274, "text": "I think we can use the fact that we have these overlapping systems, if we use them well, to make sure that we are all capturing more people to engage.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1329", "start": 8991.37, "end": 9001.518, "text": "Councilor Zimmerman talked about the importance of rewarding the people who do show up over and over, and I think we need to do that and make sure that the folks who we're hearing from are representative of the community thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1330", "start": 9001.566, "end": 9002.016, "text": "As a whole.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1331", "start": 9002.53, "end": 9012.476, "text": "There's a lot of different metrics we need to look at for that, and making sure that we are all adding to our lists from people coming to events and working together is the best way to do that.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1332", "start": 9013.938, "end": 9038.178, "text": "As you're moving forward in this last— in this work and thinking about the neighborhood coalitions, I know the 4 folks sitting behind you talk to each other and share best practices, but I hope we're sharing best practices about how they each work with our thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1333", "start": 9038.26, "end": 9038.745, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1334", "start": 9040.863, "end": 9042.383, "text": "Uh, thank you, Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1335", "start": 9042.561, "end": 9052.778, "text": "Um, I heard stuff from both of the 2 councilors who spoke on this question before me that I just want to echo for the sake of time and, and emphasis.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1336", "start": 9053.084, "end": 9053.615, "text": "I agree with all that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1337", "start": 9055.492, "end": 9070.874, "text": "But I also want to uplift that those sorts of structural changes require resources, and the resources need to be resourced intentionally for both the city staff as well as the district coalitions through the neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1338", "start": 9070.922, "end": 9072.656, "text": "So I just want to talk a little bit about funding.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1339", "start": 9073.17, "end": 9085.011, "text": "I think if council's serious about building that capacity, then we need to And of course, the city administrator and the mayor, like, we need to put that in our budgets on a year-by-year basis.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1340", "start": 9085.187, "end": 9094.036, "text": "And, you know, there was something I wrote down earlier in the conversation, you know, cutting— I know we've been in some dire times financially with the city of Portland, so we get it.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1341", "start": 9094.084, "end": 9095.255, "text": "I think everyone understands that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1342", "start": 9095.848, "end": 9104.697, "text": "But cutting into the bone of our neighborhood system is pennywise and pound foolish because there's a lot of leverage that comes out of the unlocking of the revenue bonds.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1343", "start": 9104.745, "end": 9104.825, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1344", "start": 9104.89, "end": 9112.837, "text": "I'm talking the volunteer aspect and the hyperlocal organizing aspect that those institutions bring.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1345", "start": 9113.608, "end": 9127.496, "text": "So I think we need to have, you know, some city councils, some cities have, you know, district-based budgets that their councilors might sort of say, okay, we think we can grant this out and do this sort of thing for your activity.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1346", "start": 9127.561, "end": 9129.263, "text": "But we have a different structure.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1347", "start": 9129.327, "end": 9130.595, "text": "We have 3 members per district.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1348", "start": 9130.692, "end": 9132.008, "text": "And none of us are executives.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1349", "start": 9132.056, "end": 9155.515, "text": "So I think what I would propose us to start thinking about is just creating an annual pool of funds that are directly from the city's budget through the Office of Civic Life to these coalition offices so that way they can be awarded through a transparent and competitive process and that we can think about what the outcomes are with that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1350", "start": 9156.784, "end": 9163.115, "text": "The absence of that has produced a situation where individual council offices are doling out grants here and there.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1351", "start": 9163.276, "end": 9169.719, "text": "And, you know, it's in some sense, it's uneven and it's not transparent.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1352", "start": 9170.04, "end": 9178.042, "text": "It's great that they're doing that, I think, but that's a stopgap for, I think, a structural— like, we need to do that up front in the budget, basically.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1353", "start": 9178.09, "end": 9200.34, "text": "So that way, if we do these other parts of the conversation right and we hear from our So I think that's what I would advocate on the sort of money as grants piece to the external.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1354", "start": 9200.4, "end": 9209.93, "text": "And then staffing FTEs that can help us engage more fluidly with these neighborhood associations.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1355", "start": 9209.93, "end": 9210.07, "text": "I think that's a really important I piece.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1356", "start": 9210.056, "end": 9210.11, "text": "Think Councilor Herbold?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1357", "start": 9210.217, "end": 9210.943, "text": "Would be critical.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1358", "start": 9211.508, "end": 9218.238, "text": "I know some offices send out mailers on a sort of semi-regular basis that talks about their individual accomplishments.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1359", "start": 9218.303, "end": 9224.09, "text": "But what if we had a budget to send out mailers that are postcards talking about ways to engage with these neighborhood associations?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1360", "start": 9224.365, "end": 9228.262, "text": "Because, you know, that's expensive for an individual org to try to send.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1361", "start": 9228.553, "end": 9234.492, "text": "And if we do it as a city collectively, we can leverage that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1362", "start": 9234.541, "end": 9242.599, "text": "I think ways to deliver that, and that helps fill that gap So just a couple ideas.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1363", "start": 9242.664, "end": 9255.864, "text": "And I think what will make our new system successful in that is if we just properly resource both sides of the equation and then hold ourselves accountable on both sides of the equation on whether we delivered.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1364", "start": 9256.298, "end": 9258.711, "text": "So, and then I think that's how you get the trust back.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1365", "start": 9260.668, "end": 9261.814, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1366", "start": 9262.282, "end": 9263.186, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1367", "start": 9263.331, "end": 9264.607, "text": "Councilor Kanal, and then we'll go to Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1368", "start": 9264.687, "end": 9264.849, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1369", "start": 9265.132, "end": 9266.334, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1370", "start": 9266.638, "end": 9272.247, "text": "Um, I, I did want to just flag for later because I don't think we're going to have a chance to get to it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1371", "start": 9272.327, "end": 9274.025, "text": "You mentioned something about internal engagement.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1372", "start": 9274.49, "end": 9280.531, "text": "I think there's a whole conversation there that I'd love to, to, um, have discussed at some point when appropriate.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1373", "start": 9280.596, "end": 9288.96, "text": "But to directly answer this question, I first wanted to say, I, you know, I value, um, the input from the coalition so much and grateful for being here, uh, to all of you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1374", "start": 9289.633, "end": 9293.511, "text": "Um, our neighborhood associations, I I did a tour of neighborhood associations in D2.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1375", "start": 9293.575, "end": 9294.408, "text": "I attended all of them.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1376", "start": 9294.937, "end": 9299.664, "text": "Most of them were January through May, but, you know, a lot of them meet on the same days, so we ended up doing a couple in April and May.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1377", "start": 9300.866, "end": 9304.022, "text": "And if you're a neighborhood association out there, do prepare to hear from me again.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1378", "start": 9304.872, "end": 9314.598, "text": "But I also know that we got a lot of amazing feedback there, a lot of amazing input, and things that you never hear about in this building are often raised there.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1379", "start": 9315.431, "end": 9329.473, "text": "I also know that there's a lot of— and I use this word intentionally— trauma around things going back in it, not just around what they are or what they were, but around proposed changes that caused harm too, some of which were implemented, some were not.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1380", "start": 9330.116, "end": 9337.871, "text": "And I just want to recognize that because that's something that is part of why we're having these conversations the way we are.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1381", "start": 9339.268, "end": 9340.938, "text": "And I also know a lot of good work has happened.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1382", "start": 9341.115, "end": 9353.434, "text": "I started to go to neighborhood associations beyond my own Like 4 years ago, and just seeing evolution in how they run, evolution who's there, evolution how many people are there, that's all really helpful.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1383", "start": 9353.963, "end": 9358.196, "text": "And it took a lot of work, and sometimes that work requires support.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1384", "start": 9358.293, "end": 9368.218, "text": "And I know there's been an ask for mediation training, for example, because there's going to be people having disagreements, and sometimes those disagreements become conflicts.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1385", "start": 9368.539, "end": 9371.763, "text": "And before it goes to whatever the next steps are, it's helpful to kind of resolve Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1386", "start": 9372.341, "end": 9375.523, "text": "So I did want to just uplift that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1387", "start": 9375.941, "end": 9386.192, "text": "And broadly speaking, I want to make sure that we're retaining a strong neighborhood system and investing in that while also recognizing that there's so much engagement that occurs outside of the context of geography.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1388", "start": 9386.786, "end": 9393.695, "text": "And a lot of the examples we've cited today are money that was put into something by being taken from something else also in civic life.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1389", "start": 9394.322, "end": 9397.997, "text": "And so we need to— and I'm looking at the administrator and the mayor's chair here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1390", "start": 9398.239, "end": 9399.275, "text": "Uh, we need to get away from that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1391", "start": 9399.614, "end": 9407.314, "text": "Um, and not— because the reason why it became— why it's still been like a, is it this way or that way, is largely about budget trade-offs, I think.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1392", "start": 9407.557, "end": 9417.597, "text": "And we don't have to make it about budget trade-offs because— I don't mean to diminish it in any way, but so much of this money, the money we're talking about here, is a rounding error in the budget.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1393", "start": 9417.646, "end": 9419.763, "text": "These are not big asks, right?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1394", "start": 9419.844, "end": 9427.593, "text": "These are— We had a $150,000 amendment on diversity and civic leadership last year, $150,000, not million, thousand.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1395", "start": 9428.013, "end": 9433.891, "text": "So these are, these are things that, that every penny matters, and also it's possible to do both, and we should.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1396", "start": 9434.391, "end": 9434.569, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1397", "start": 9437.457, "end": 9438.361, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1398", "start": 9438.522, "end": 9439.136, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1399", "start": 9441.492, "end": 9441.766, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1400", "start": 9442.541, "end": 9446.275, "text": "I'd just like to say, um, ditto, ditto, ditto to everything that everyone has said.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1401", "start": 9446.484, "end": 9456.082, "text": "And I, I also want to put a real fine point on the fact that I like to have volunteers and have them energized, but I— they need to be paid.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1402", "start": 9456.933, "end": 9462.162, "text": "And so we need to bring in more resources to, to do this kind of work.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1403", "start": 9462.242, "end": 9472.621, "text": "We can't expect community to come in and do the work that, that, that were being done by FTEs at the City of Portland and expect them to always have this great energy to come and do this.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1404", "start": 9472.733, "end": 9473.311, "text": "No, no, no, no.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1405", "start": 9473.712, "end": 9475.733, "text": "We— they need to have stipends or something.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1406", "start": 9475.797, "end": 9477.867, "text": "People need to be paid and they need to have a Yes.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1407", "start": 9478.444, "end": 9481.509, "text": "Right kind of budget to do this.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1408", "start": 9481.717, "end": 9489.835, "text": "And I'm not going to be asking folks to do all this extra work because, you know, we've decided to make some cuts.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1409", "start": 9490.397, "end": 9501.948, "text": "I mean, we can fill in the hole, but I don't want you to get the message from me that I'm trying to get you to get volunteers who were previously doing the work of people who were paid.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1410", "start": 9502.814, "end": 9510.846, "text": "And so So that is my commitment, is to try to get some of these things paid for.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1411", "start": 9512.973, "end": 9514.901, "text": "And I just want to say thank you for the work that you do.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1412", "start": 9515.061, "end": 9523.58, "text": "Thank you for engaging and inspiring us in a way, because you guys do this every day.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1413", "start": 9523.644, "end": 9525.931, "text": "This is what you do, and I appreciate it.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1414", "start": 9526.639, "end": 9526.977, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1415", "start": 9527.106, "end": 9527.283, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonna Davis" }, { "id": "cue-1416", "start": 9530.911, "end": 9531.664, "text": "Great, thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1417", "start": 9531.712, "end": 9533.027, "text": "I put myself in the queue.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1418", "start": 9533.637, "end": 9541.848, "text": "I, um, love the neighborhoods that we have in Portland, and I love our neighborhood, um, program.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1419", "start": 9542.329, "end": 9547.621, "text": "I'll be at a Rose City Park Neighborhood Association meeting, uh, in just a couple hours here.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1420", "start": 9548.391, "end": 9567.266, "text": "Um, and I think the thought that I want to just mention is our neighborhood associations are really They are a hub and way for folks to get connected, and they are one way to represent and one way to connect with folks in a neighborhood.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1421", "start": 9568.693, "end": 9573.649, "text": "There are folks, as it's come up, that can't access those meetings or don't go to them.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1422", "start": 9573.97, "end": 9578.813, "text": "And so I almost think of them as kind of like PTAs or PTOs at schools.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1423", "start": 9578.877, "end": 9580.497, "text": "Like, they are important and they have a role, but they're not the only way to do it.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1424", "start": 9580.545, "end": 9580.849, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1425", "start": 9581.106, "end": 9584.754, "text": "They're not the only voices that we listen to.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1426", "start": 9584.962, "end": 9593.556, "text": "And it also can be important to look and see, yeah, where those gaps are and where you can go find people and meet them where they're at.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1427", "start": 9593.734, "end": 9608.045, "text": "I know in my office, when we're surveying or getting information, we'll track which neighborhoods we're hearing from, which neighborhoods people are coming from, and then we go out and find, okay, we need to go to Ardenwald and see if we can connect with more people there and hear from them.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1428", "start": 9608.966, "end": 9622.981, "text": "So just wanted to boost, which I think is on everyone's radar, that we are valuing our neighborhood program and we're also knowing that it's not enough just to say, okay, the neighborhood associations in these areas, we've talked to them.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1429", "start": 9623.094, "end": 9631.798, "text": "We have to be able to go beyond that too and think about who's not at the table, whose voices are missing, and making sure that we're going out and getting those voices also.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1430", "start": 9632.218, "end": 9632.347, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1431", "start": 9636.011, "end": 9636.283, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1432", "start": 9636.363, "end": 9639.811, "text": "Well, I think we've gotten to hear from all my colleagues.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1433", "start": 9639.859, "end": 9641.607, "text": "There are a couple, I think they're legacy hands.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1434", "start": 9641.944, "end": 9644.253, "text": "Those legacy hands, Councilor Green, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1435", "start": 9645.247, "end": 9645.968, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1436", "start": 9646.193, "end": 9653.553, "text": "Um, well, I would like to see, um, Laura, if you'd like to do a closing and talk about any next steps before we adjourn.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1437", "start": 9654.21, "end": 9655.638, "text": "Yeah, thank you so much.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1438", "start": 9655.974, "end": 9660.448, "text": "Uh, obviously this was a really a ripe topic for conversation.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1439", "start": 9660.865, "end": 9663.813, "text": "I We have very much appreciated everything that's been said.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1440", "start": 9664.47, "end": 9678.104, "text": "Hope you saw us all taking copious notes, which we will plan to turn into a summary with kind of key themes and next steps and share out with all of you by mid-October at the latest.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1441", "start": 9679.385, "end": 9686.13, "text": "I think civic engagement is part of what makes Portland really special, and this conversation reflects that.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1442", "start": 9686.755, "end": 9691.369, "text": "I see this as a moment of real opportunity that's reflected in this conversation.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1443", "start": 9691.417, "end": 9691.721, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1444", "start": 9692.042, "end": 9696.846, "text": "Let's let it be the beginning of a conversation and not the end and look forward to follow-up to come.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1445", "start": 9697.168, "end": 9697.569, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1446", "start": 9698.951, "end": 9701.538, "text": "Thank you so much to all of you and for all that you do.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1447", "start": 9702.408, "end": 9708.866, "text": "With that, I will adjourn this Civic Life and Citywide Engagement work session at 4:38 PM.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" } ] }