Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announces new bureau assignments for commissioners
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Mayor Ted Wheeler and Jo Ann Hardesty during a meeting of the Portland City Council. (Oregonian file photo)
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Wednesday announced new bureau assignments for himself and the city’s four commissioners.
The assignments, which become effective Jan. 1, include new bureaus for returning council members Jo Ann Hardesty, who will now oversee the Portland Bureau of Transportation and the Office of Community and Civic Life, and Dan Ryan, who will be in charge of the Portland Housing Bureau.
The assignments come after a shakeup in the 2020 elections, which seated three new city commissioners: Carmen Rubio, who won the seat held by retiring commissioner Amanda Fritz in May; Mingus Mapps, who defeated incumbent commissioner Chloe Eudaly in November; and Ryan, who was elected in August to finish the term of late commissioner N
Wheeler assigns bureaus to incoming City Council December 23 2020
Portland is the only large American city where council members oversee bureaus instead of a professional manager.
Mayor Ted Wheeler has announced the bureau and liaison assignments for the City Council that takes office on Jan. 1, 2021.
Portland is the only large American city where council members oversee bureaus instead of having them all supervised by professional city managers. Assigning bureaus is one of the few powers of the Portland mayor.
Two of the council members, Mingus Mapps and Carmen Rubio, will be new and have never overseen bureaus before.
As expected, Wheeler is keeping the Portland Police Bureau, even though Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has asked for it.
by Alex Zielinski • Dec 23, 2020 at 2:01 pm COSMONAUT / GETTY IMAGES
Mayor Ted Wheeler has released his much-anticipated bureau assignments for Portland city commissioners in 2021. The decision one of the rare executive powers of a Portland mayor offers a peek at what roles Wheeler wants his freshman commissioners to take on in the coming year.
Here s the breakdown:
Comissioner Jo Ann Hardesty
Hardesty has been assigned two of the top bureaus overseen by outgoing Commissioner Chloe Eudaly: Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and the Office of Community and Civic Life (OCCL). The later assignment is most notable, since incoming Commissioner Mingus Mapps is a former employee of OCCL and centered much of his campaign on decrying Eudaly s work in the bureau. This decision shows that Wheeler s cautious about tearing down the work Eudaly put into the bureau, including her contentious proposal to allow other community groups the same
Portland shootings continue as leaders struggle to slow surge
Police investigate two Monday shootings after staffing changes announced in response to increased gun violence.
Shootings continued in Portland late on Monday, Dec. 21, as city leaders struggled to slow the surge that began earlier this year.
Police responded to two shootings before midnight on Monday, including one incident where a person was wounded. The name of the victim was not immediately released and no suspect information was immediately available, either.
The most recent shootings occurred three days after Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a series of staffing changes and upcoming budget requests in response to the increase that has seen the number of shootings more than double this year compared to 2019. In his Friday, Dec. 18, announcement, Wheeler said that more detectives will be immediately assigned to investigate and follow up on shootings, and more outreach and hospital-based trauma responders will
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