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anyway, i’m now only 150 new donors away from hitting tier 3, which unlocks another $100k in public matching funds.
if you live in portland and haven’t donated yet, $5 counts as one of those 150
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![Date:
To:
From:
RE:
May 18, 2026
Portland City Council President Jamie Dunphy and Council Members Laurie Wimmer, Executive Secretary-Treasurer,
NW Oregon Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Portland's 2026-2027 Budget
Thank you so much for your consideration of the comments we share today, representing as the convenor of the Portland Labor Leaders Budget Coalition, which provided you our budget-balancing ideas in an April letter that implored the Mayor, CA, and this Council to consider front-line worker cuts your option of absolute last resort.
As you consider which of the Councilors' proposed amendments to adopt to fine-tune the Mayor's 2026-27 budget, we hope you will consider our input.
While we appreciate all the good ideas advanced, a few raise concerns and several draw our greatest support. In the concern category, we would ask that this body resist the inclination to expand programs, add new programs, or add new staffing in this time of crisis, when some 150 city employees have been targeted for cuts. As worthy as any of these ideas may be, now is not the time to add to the family when we're struggling to feed the children we have.
With that said, we do particularly urge you to pass the following "Top Tier" proposals:
Clark-Pirtle Guiney-Novick-Ryan-Smith
This common-sense loan to restore non-sworn core service jobs in public safety would enable all those critical public-contact employees to continue their good work. This is one of just a few proposals that does more than, as some councilors have put it, "nibble around the edges" of the Mayor's recommend budget I
Morillo-Green-Novick 1
This amendment to pause core realignment would restore 46 non-management jobs. We especially appreciate the sensitivity with which its sponsors call for the engagement of front-line workers and their labor representatives to facilitate this concept.
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