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Federal funds save most of Portland s next budget April 29 2021 Mayor Ted Wheeler is proposing to use $29 million in emergency aid to offset city revenue losses caused by COVID-19. When COVID-19 first shut down the economy, Mayor Ted Wheeler was facing a $20 million general fund shortfall in the city budget that takes effect on July 1. But Wheeler unveiled a proposed general fund budget for the next fiscal year that is actually $2.7 million larger than the current one, thanks primarily to federal American Rescue Plan funds proposed by President Biden and approved by Congress. For the Portland City Council, the opportunity of 2021 is to work collaboratively to make investments that will help us continue to recover from the pandemic, Wheeler said when the proposed budget was released on Thursday, April 29. The budget I propose reflects my commitment to change and my optimism about Portland s future. ....
Doubling down on failing plans and ideas put both homeless residents and taxpayers at risk. Remember Portland s 10-year plan to end homelessness by 2015? The plan fizzled out, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment. Roughly $70 million flowed into affordable housing production, homelessness prevention and support services each year. Despite all these efforts and all that spending, the number of homeless continues to rise in the Portland area. Portland s homeless service response during the pandemic reveals how quickly taxpayer money can evaporate with no effect. In June 2020, the Joint Office of Homeless Services began providing motel vouchers totaling more than 400 bedrooms across eight buildings by late 2020. The monthly bill to run these programs is more than $2.2 million per month. That s roughly $1,900 in rent per bed plus $1.4 million in services every month. ....
Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran Wants More Aggressive Plan to Shelter Homeless People wweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 22 2021 Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury has released a $2.81 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022. The next Multnomah County budget includes major infusions of cash from the feds, and three ballot measures even as officials prepare to fight state cuts to jails and community justice. County Chair Deborah Kafoury released the $2.81 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 on April 22, starting the clock on six weeks of presentations and public hearings before the document is finalized. Kafoury s executive budget, which funds the county from July 2021 through June 2022, jumps spending 37% over last year s $2.06 billion budget. County coffers got a $78.8 million shot in the arm the first of two such money transfers from the American Rescue Plan, largely preventing further service cuts beyond the 2% across-the-board trim Kafoury OK d as the virus spread last May. ....
Apr 23, 2021 In the largest expansion of Multnomah County responsibilities in modern times, Chair Deborah Kafoury released her 2022 Executive Budget today, a $2.81 billion plan of action that tackles the immediate COVID-19 crisis and launches once-in-a generation efforts to end people’s homelessness and elevate libraries and early childhood education. Released just two weeks after the Board of Commissioners declared racism a public health crisis, the Executive Budget reflects the principles that guided the County’s COVID-19 response: move upstream to prevent crisis and then co-create with community those interventions, policies and environments that promote health and safety equitably. The Chair takes that same approach to funding across County services. But she also applies that lens to strategically deploying $78.8 million in the County’s first share of new American Rescue Plan federal recovery funds, from providing families enhanced summer programming th ....