You may be wondering, "uh, Sam, year-in-review? It's February... don't these things usually get released in January?"
Usually.
This year we're deviating slightly because December and January were busy months reforming the City's Business License Fee and finishing the Tram. Practically speaking, we completed both projects in December but formally, both were launched in late January.
Okay, I admit that if "business tax reform" showed up as a song on your iPod, you'd likely hit fast-forward. But I promise this topic is worth twenty seconds of your time. Here we go...[more]
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| Hayden Island Residents: What Planning Our Future Means to Us |
Arts & Culture
- Fighting Gentrification: Build Affordable Work/Live Artist Lofts to Rent and Own
- City BLF 'Check off for the Arts' Launches
- New Grant Program Funded for Artists and Non-Profit Arts Organizations
- $500,000 in Emergency Funding to Keep Oregon’s History Alive
- Making it the 'People's Hall', 200 Artists Shown at City Hall '1st Thursday' Celebrations
- 2006’s 'Month of Mozart' is the Result of an Unprecedented Collaboration; More ‘Months’ to Come
- Keeping Vera's Funding Promise to PICA's TBA Festival
- City's New Dollar-for-Dollar Match Quadruples 'Work for Art' Proceeds
- 63.05% of Voters Said "Yes" to Portland Public Schools
- Higher Education: Sam Signs Up to Help Portland Biggest 'Industry'
- New City Law: City Contractors Must Equalize Benefits for Greater Family Equality
- Four Year Effort Pays Off: Come Out to The Q-Center!
- Sam: Diversifying Who Gets City Contracts
- Lobbying Ordinance Refined and Affirmed
- Sam Opposed Limits on Public Communications at City Council Meetings
- BES Public Adocate: Making City Government Work for You
- Reduction in Employee Grievances
- Truth-in-Estimating: Confidence Rating Score Now Required for Proposed Projects
- City Backfills for Federal Government Affordable Housing Cuts
- Stepping Up to Fill the Housing Gap
- Tripling Affordable Housing Funding in South Waterfront
- Guest Editorial by Dave Lister: Sam is Right to Reform the BLF
- Portland's Business License Fee Reduced for 13,000 Mostly Smaller, New and Portland-Based Businesses
- Growing Portland's Bicycle Industry
- Increased City Funding for the Alliance of Portland Neighborhood Business Association Starts A New Era
- Finally, Portland Gets a Freight Master Plan
- Neighborhood Parking Benefit Program Generates Mixed Reactions
- Guest Editorial: Merkley on New Clean River Rewards Program
- Townhall Meeting: How to 'Plant' More Rain Gardens and Eco Roofs in Portland
- Launched: Stormwater Discount Program - Clean River Rewards
- Green Streets will Remove 60 million gallons of Stormwater from City Streets
- City's First Watershed Improvement Plans Approved
- Brownfields to Cleanfields
- Invasive Species
- Westside "Big Pipe" Finishes On Time And Under Budget
Livability
- Guest Editorial: Island Leaders on What Planning Hayden Island Future Means to Them
- Taking a "Time-Out" to Plan Hayden Island's Future
- City Council Approves $200,000 Annual Neighborhood Grant Program
- Central Eastsiders Get a Better Chance to Realize Their Vision
- Everyone Loves a Parade--Especially Sam's Office
- Community Outreach and Special Events
- Trains, Planes, and Trucks: Reducing Noise in North Portland
- Needed: Better Safety on Our Rivers - First Step Taken
- Over $400 million and Two Governments; What's Needed: One Coordinated Public Safety Plan
- What do Sam and Officer McGruff have in Common?
- Better Drug and Prostitution Exclusion Zones Approved
- OHSU Tram: Finished on Revised Timeline, Budget
- Previous Burnside Inprovement Plan Gets Scrutiny, then an Update, and Now, Sam's Support
- Sam Finds Funds to Close Budget Gap for Hawthorne Improvements, Ending 10-year Neighborhood Saga
- I-5/Delta Park Freeway Lane Expansion Approved
- A Willamette River Trail Loop Gains Ground on Swan Island
- Fixing the Traffic Clot at I-5 Columbia River Bridge
- Expansion of Safe Routes to Schools Program
- PDOT: SmartTrips Northeast Hub Underway
- Streetcar Service Extended to Gibbs St., in the SoWa District
- Burn Fat, Not Oil: Making Portland the "Mostest" Bike-friendly City in North America
- "See and Be Seen" lights up Portland
- Neighborhood, PDOT & PDC Complete Old Town Chinatown Improvements
- Securing Funding for Safer Streets Inititative