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The former executive director of Prosper Portland who was asked to step down earlier this week by Mayor Keith Wilson, Shea Flaherty Betin, will receive a severance package totaling $212,992—a full year’s salary.

Urban renewal policies in the 1960s and 1970s displaced Black families from the Albina neighborhood.

The Portland Metro Chamber on Thursday morning added pressure to a volatile budget season by sending a research paper it funded to the Portland City Council and Mayor Keith Wilson, claiming that the council does not possess the authority to raise taxes without voter approval.

The council is weighing what levy amount to refer to the November ballot.

The 12-person jury found that Wilson’s workplace was racially hostile and the city’s hiring process for a 2023 fire inspector specialist position was skewed against Wilson. But it stopped short of finding that the bureau intentionally blocked him from advancement because of his race.

A poll commissioned by the Portland Parks Foundation, and provided to leaders of Portland Parks and Recreation this week, shows that there is weak support amongst Portlanders for a doubling of the existing Parks Levy, which the parks bureau says it needs in order to avoid massive cuts to the parks system.

The social-services nonprofit Blanchet House is set to open a 75-bed overnight women’s shelter at a vacant bike shop in the Slabtown area of Northwest Portland.

Novick added that he “displayed a spectacular lack of emotional intelligence.”

PAT president Angela Bonilla wades into the City Council’s discussion around policing.

Any proposed alteration to the police bureau’s budget continues to divide the City Council.

The latest round of polling results show neither police nor parks are the services Portland residents consider most essential.

The Metro Chamber wants to strike a deal to avoid the diversion. One city councilor has positioned himself as the likely mediator.

Things got sour in hour 12 of the council’s marathon budget session.

Tunes played by a children’s string quartet standing outside of City Hall could be heard from within the chambers.

“It feels like an unelected board is able to hold a city government hostage in our efforts to exercise oversight and guidance.”