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Murmurs: Kotek Wants to Bolster DEQ’s Authority In other news: Vaccines for most by April 21. NW Metals in 2018. (Sam Gehrke) Updated March 10
KOTEK WANTS TO BOLSTER DEQ s AUTHORITY: House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) reacted strongly to the catastrophic 2018 fire at NW Metals, a car scrapping business located in her district. Now she wants to prevent the scrapper from operating at a new location. As
WW reported last week, ( Hell on Wheels, March 3, 2021), the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is on the cusp of issuing NW Metals an operating permit, in part because the agency believes current law does not allow it to hold previous bad actions against applicants. Kotek wants to close that loophole and will introduce a bill that would allow the agency to consider an applicant s compliance hi
County Chair Deborah Kafoury vows health approach to gun violence March 05 2021
Yearly state of the county address suggests ambitions for more vigorous efforts on racism and climate change.
The head of Multnomah County s government on Friday, March 5, said the county is positioned to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic while deploying its public health division to tackle other issues as well.
Chair Deborah Kafoury provided a virtual version of the yearly State of the County address, hosted by City Club of Portland, which was broken into different parts, including guest videos prepared by her four fellow commissioners as well as a Q-and-A with Kafoury s close ally and county-funded contractor, Central City Concern president and CEO Dr. Rachel Solotaroff.
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In the year since the first COVID-19 case was detected, Multnomah County has stepped up in so many ways to help our residents navigate incredible, frequent and oftentimes cascading challenges. We re taking the lessons we ve learned forward to both help end the pandemic as quickly as possible and to inform major initiatives around housing, mental health and early childhood education.
Reopening depends on lowering case counts, hospitalizations and deaths. So Multnomah County is aggressively using the small share of vaccines it receives from the state to reach people at highest risk of getting sick and dying.
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Effective January 1, 2021, Portland-metro residents and businesses need to be aware of two new taxes. The first is the Metro Supportive Housing Services Tax (“Metro Tax”), which was formerly known as Measure 26-210. The second is the Preschool for All Personal Income Tax or Multnomah County Income Tax (“Preschool Tax”), which was formerly known as Measure 26-214.
Metro Tax
On December 17, 2020, the Metro Council adopted tax codes that will allow Metro to implement, collect, and enforce the Metro Tax. The Metro Tax consists of a personal income tax component and a business income tax component. Both components will remain in effect through December 31, 2030, unless reauthorized by voters on or before that date.
January 28, 2021 Filla, Director of Family Outreach & Community Programs and Rajee, CHI Program Manager, are leaders in the Community Healing Initiative, or CHI, a program tailored for youth of color involved in the criminal legal system and their families.
There hasn’t been a year quite like 2020, said Kim Filla and Justice Rajee, longtime employees at POIC + Rosemary Anderson High School. Filla, Director of Family Outreach & Community Programs and Rajee, CHI Program Manager, are leaders in the Community Healing Initiative, or CHI, a program tailored for youth of color involved in the juvenile system and their families.
COVID-19 set the stage, shutting down schools, businesses and everyday life last year. Then, in June, George Floyd was killed after a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds sparking protests here and nationwide as a reminder of a catalog of racial disparities that reach back centuries.