Keeping in touch: Notes from the Mayor

It has been two weeks since I last wrote, so I will try to cover more issues in fewer words than usual.  

Council returned on Monday from its summer break to launch immediately into discussions of broad and significant impact: the Riverfront Urban Renewal District; the state’s rules for Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities; and the City’s current condition both financially and with respect to our city workforce.  

Council is on break in August, but the month is still action-packed.

I had a newspaper interview at the beginning of the week about OR 22 in which I described myself as feeling a “lightness of being” that the 10-day international event had successfully closed. 

Council is rounding the corner on the last few meetings and decisions before our summer break – and as often happens, we are closing out with bang.

We continue to live in a societal roller coaster with joyous moments crashing against trauma.

Every year the last week in June is a critical deadline because the last day of June marks the end of the City’s fiscal year and the deadline for passing the coming year’s budget.