Ted Wheeler

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has proposed a $7.1 billion budget that attempts to maintain current services with limited new revenue while laying the groundwork for a coming overhaul of the city’s government structure.

In other news, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler will reassign Portland bureaus to City Council members and mussel harvesting reopens along Oregon Coast.

An OPB investigation found Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and his staff sent and received thousands of text messages between 2017 and 2021 that were never available to people requesting city records. Thousands of messages from Portland elected officials and their staff have been erased in violation of city policy that they be kept permanently. Some experts say the city has now opened the door for every single records request for texts that came in during the mayor’s tenure to be re-examined.

Last week Portland City Council’s voted 4-1 to enforce its street camping ban and create mass campsites where people can get shelter and services. The city's plan would create six large camping sites and build 20,000 units of affordable housing.

It’s not clear how much it will cost or if Wheeler and other city leaders have the support they say they need from the county board and local prosecutors.

The city of Portland is requesting proposals from outside groups to oversee a long awaited truth and reconciliation commission addressing the Portland Police Bureau’s historic mistreatment of communities of color.

In his annual State of the City address on Friday, Mayor Ted Wheeler detailed his plans to revive the struggling city and said Portland was in the middle of “a newborn and fragile movement towards recovery.”

Mayor Ted Wheeler's budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which he sent to the press Wednesday, stretches from July 1 of this year through the end of June 2023. Of the $6.7 billion available, the mayor had $621 million in “General Fund discretionary” resources, meaning there are few limitations on how the money can be spent.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to introduce an emergency order Wednesday to create a new homeless service hub within city government, streamlining the work of various city bureaus that interact with people living outside.

Organizers of the effort to recall Mayor Ted Wheeler say they are falling short of the needed signatures, but they say the city's three-month recall window should be thrown out.