u/DrToady

With the budget deficit there are difficult decisions to make, the cleanest amendment was Clark 1 which took $10M from the Police Accountability Commmission, the police accountability commission called for 5% of the police budget. Clark ! woud have preserved ALL public safety, fire fighters, CHAT etc. When voters voted for this, I don't believe they knew that would be $16M a year (this is Avalos baby) most of the City's other advisory and citizen boards to not have stand alone operating budgets and one staff. You should also know that there was already a police accountability commission and PPB reports out to seven other groups which they are accountable too. Part of that $16M was intended to provide a $7,000 a month stipend to the commission members, that got shot down and it's now $500. I tell you this because this money will just sit next year and the Councilors who are refusing to compromise per usual are Avalos, Morillo, Green, Koyoma-Lane, Dunphy and Kanal, so when you are the victim of crime and no one shows up or you can't get help at the precinct because they aren't taking police off the streets, they are taking out public support specialist who free up police to respond, these people also solve a lot of issues and provide customer service. The Charter was supposed to help Portland work better, there are six councilors who refuse to compromise don't understand that, that is the key to democracy, those of you in Districts 3 and 4 have an opportunity to make the council work better in the next election.