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Koyama Lane is a District 3 Councilor, former Council Vice President, and current vice chair of Finance and Governance. Her City biography centers her career in public education and labor organizing.
City-published biographyHer official profile emphasizes public education, labor rights, community participation, accountable government, housing, public works, and anti-racism.
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Member · Housing and Permitting; Member · Public Works Like all 12 councilors, they also serve on the Finance and Governance Committee of the Whole.
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This ordinance concerns add Psychedelic Health and Safety Code and create the Portland Psychedelics Advisory Commission (add Code Chapter 14B.140).
This ordinance concerns exempt certain code requirements under City Code Chapter 17.93 Renaming City Streets and authorize the renaming of Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard within the City of Portland to Campesinos Boulevard.
The proposal would authorize exception to Code Chapter 17.93 Renaming City Streets and authorize the renaming of Cesar E. Chavez Blvd to Campesinos Blvd (allow exceptions to Code Sections 17.93.010, 17.93.020, 17.93.030,…
The proposal would amend Arts Tax Code to provide tax relief, promote sustainability of Arts Access Fund, define critical terms, and respond to community and audit recommendations (amend Code Chapter 6.10).
The proposal would establish a new Transportation Utility Fee to help fund basic maintenance and safety of the City’s transportation system (add Code Chapter 17.20).
The proposal would declare actions concerning Zenith Energy Terminal Holdings, LLC, including placing communications into the public record, demanding the Mayor to investigate violations of the Zenith franchise agreement, and…
The proposal would amend the FY 2026-27 Budget to appropriate $13,076,892 in Portland Clean Energy Fund interest income, $5,491,002 other fund resources, and $335,000 in County IGA revenues to restore frontline positions and…
This ordinance concerns add Nondiscrimination Requirements for Single-Occupant Restrooms in Places of Public Accommodation Code to establish equal restroom access by requiring gender neutral signage (add Code Section 23.01.071).
This ordinance concerns add Appointed Boards, Commissions and Committees Code (add Code Chapter 3.40).
This emergency ordinance concerns add Code to enact Sanctuary City status protections (add Code Chapter 23.20).
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“Hello, my name is Amy Charlesworth. I am a licensed psilocybin facilitator under Oregon's Measure 109 program. I'm a 16-year military veteran, including service in the Oregon Army National Guard, and a 2022 Rules Advisory Committee member for the Oregon Psilocybin Services. Today I speak only for myself, but on also behalf of extensive work I've done with military veterans and first responders. My military service included time in Afghanistan where I experienced horrific traumas. When I came home, I did not come home all the way. I was extremely suicidal, and I exhausted all of the currently available options to me in the medical system and through the VA. For over 10 years, I suffered and nothing helped, and talk therapy and medications did nothing. And that's the case for many, many veterans. Instead, it is in my experience with psilocybin and psychedelics that I am alive today givi…”
“That makes sense. And bringing up the point of you also need to have resources to help people figure out how to navigate this. I know every time I get a new app, I'm like, oh, I am getting older. Technology isn't always as easy as it used to be. Well, thank you so much for bringing this forward. I'm really excited to see this move forward. And as always, I'm really excited to talk about Vision Zero and how that intersects with also age-friendly Portland priorities. Looking at slide 13, I'm excited to see the programmatic bullet points and some of those capital improvements. I love seeing that, you know, that's what's important is we're really looking at these limited funds and thinking about How are we using the data to make sure that we're using that money in the best way possible? And I'm just wondering if, you know, while I know I see some people who focus on Vision Zero, I also kn…”
“Thanks so much for being here. I just wanted to say how encouraging it is to see this safety project and see the scope of it and see how the Safe System approach is at the center of this and have these examples of buffered bike lanes and completing sidewalks and having the raised center median and safer crosswalks, more streetlights. Thank you.”
“Thank you, Council President. So both the BPS proposal and the proposal that I heard from community suggested changes to require the Port of Portland to demonstrate need for any aviation fuel expansion, and I'm wondering if you can speak broadly to the port's response to that or position.”
“The South Waterfront, both sides of the Willamette River. Look for the black and yellow outlined areas. And since we passed this through the Housing and Permitting Committee only 2 weeks ago, the Oregonian broke a story on an early assistance application that's been filed with the city for a Silicon Valley tech company to convert 5 floors of a downtown office building into a data center space. So yes, it's a very relevant, very real issue. And we know that there are many national, regional, and local conversations about the harm that data centers can cause. Thank you. They draw heavily on the resources that our kids and grandkids will still need decades after any company's lease is up. Air, water, land. They come with real environmental and health consequences. We could spend the whole meeting on that alone, but this resolution is very clear in that it urges the city administrator to …”
“Appreciate it. So the presentation, not that you yell at us other times, just saying. All right, just digging myself deeper in a hole. Okay, so the presentation touched on the fact that LUBA found some of the comprehensive plan language weak and not directive enough. Can you explain a little bit more about that feedback, those findings, and how exactly that impacted the recommendations to these amendments?”
“Thank you all for being here today and for coming with ideas, for being collaborative, not just coming to yell at us, but to actually try to partner and give some suggestions.”
“Hello, um, my name is Heather Heatley. I am a lifelong Portland resident. I'm not currently a renter, thank God, um, and I'm also a medical practitioner. I'm speaking today in support of lowering the relocation trigger As our, my previous speaker said, it is too high, and the state has made it sort of an ineffective tool. In the last past 20 years, I've worked at clinics that serve homeless, low-income, and medically fragile people, and I have seen an increase in patients who don't have stable or safe housing. I urge you to help create a safety net for those most at risk of losing their homes. This is particularly important for those on fixed income, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Councilmember those most at risk of homelessness and the health impacts from the stress of losing their homes. Moving is one of the top 10 stressors that can lead to increased risk of illness and…”
“And this question, if you have an answer, I'd love to hear. I'd also be interested if there are any advocates when when you testify, if you want to let me know what you think too, if you have seen the process of this. But knowing what we've learned since this was adopted, if you were designing Portland's relocation assistance policy from scratch today, are there things that you would do differently that you wish PHB could do differently?”
“Thank you. My name is Terry McBride, and I developed this initiative from lived experience with homelessness and affordable housing. The problem is not always that resources do not exist. The problem is that residents in crisis often cannot successfully reach and use them. Transportation, documentation, Disability, income, work schedules, childcare, and fragmented agency requirements can turn a manageable problem into housing loss. The community navigator model creates one continuing point of contact who helps the resident identify the right resources, complete the practical steps, make the warm qualified, uh, warm connection, and follow through towards resolution. I am not requesting a job or funding. I'm asking that the county have qualified people people evaluate whether this model deserves a limited pilot. The problem in plain language: availability is not the same as accessibilit…”
“Thank you for this presentation and for also taking feedback. I can see things that my office and I have talked to you all about being implemented and appreciate that this is iterative and there's always a desire to improve. Can I just kind of zoom out? And it's about this, but kind of everything. It's council's job to be focused on policies and systems and to be giving direction to the administration. Mm-hmm. Well, I can see that I have colleagues that have skills to get into the weeds, to do some of the line item looking at that stuff. I think that's your prerogative to do that, but I see our job as more giving the direction. And then also to the mayor, to the administrative side, and then holding the executive, the mayor responsible for executing our policy directions. And I also, we've had conversations how more oversight reporting would be great. Right. But I do want to share tha…”
“Thank you, Council President. I appreciate the conversations being had. I appreciate the work that was done in committee and the amendments that Councilor Avalos brought. I know there's been work on this, and I love PSU. I love the arts. I'm very supportive, and I am leaning no on this. And there are many different things that my colleagues have brought up that are reasons for that. And one of them also is I just left for a little bit to go to PSU campus to I'm going to need to speak to SEIU 501 classified staff who are getting ready to strike for fair wages and job security and dignity on the job. They are the classified staff at PSU. And so when they're not getting those needs met from administration, I'm going to need to have some questions answered before it's feeling like there's space to be doing extra. So at this point, I'm a no and look forward to further conversations that mi…”
Since January 2025. Includes recorded Council and committee motions on amendments, procedure, and substantive items where this Councilor is named as mover, regardless of outcome. Seconding or sponsoring an item alone does not count. Coverage depends on published records and successful extraction; this is not a complete inventory of every motion made. Earlier City Commissioner service is excluded.
Counting correction, September 10, 2026: totals and lists now exclude inactive duplicate records and count an explicitly combined motion repeated under multiple agenda items once. Separate motions with identical wording remain separate. Original source records are preserved.
34 recorded motions shown below.
Motion to refer the Ordinance, Document Number 2026-335, to City Council with the recommendation it be passed: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Smith. (Aye (4): Koyama Lane, Smith, Kanal, Clark; Absent (1): Green)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. Motion withdrawn.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance as shown in Koyama Lane 2: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (12): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Resolution as shown in Koyama-Lane/Green 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Green. (Aye (3): Koyama Lane, Green, Avalos; Absent (2): Novick, Pirtle-Guiney)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Ordinance as shown in Koyama Lane-Smith 2: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Smith. (Aye (12): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Dunphy) Passed to second reading as amended August 12, 2026 at 9:30 am
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance and Exhibits A and B as shown in Koyama Lane-Kanal 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Kanal. Request by Koyama Lane to divide Koyama Lane-Kanal 1 to consider the Senior Center Project, the International Relations Program, and the Ceasefire Coordinator separately. Vote called on Senior Center Project: (Aye (6): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Kanal, Dunphy; Nay (6): Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan). Motion failed to pass. Vote called on International Relations Program: (Aye (6): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Kanal, Dunphy; Nay (6): Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan). Motion failed to pass. Vote called on Ceasefire Coordinator: (Aye (6): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Kanal, Dunphy; Nay (6): Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan). Motion failed to pass. Continued as amended to July 16, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Ordinance, Document Number 2026-189, to City Council with the recommendation it be passed: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Novick. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama Lane, Novick, Green, Avalos) Referred to City Council June 25, 2026 at 2:00 pm time certain.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Novick. Request by Councilor Kanal to divide the question on the
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance as shown in Councilor Koyama Lane/Zimmerman 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Zimmerman. (Aye (11): Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal; Nay (1): Pirtle-Guiney)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Ordinance as amended, Document Number 2026-124, to City Council with the recommendation it be passed: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (4): Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama Lane, Novick, Avalos; Nay (1): Green)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance to add an emergency clause due to the urgent need to have protections in place due to the posture of the federal government: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (11): Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Dunphy; Absent (1): Novick)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit B as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Avalos. (Aye (10): Avalos, Smith, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Green, Zimmerman, Dunphy; Absent (2): Ryan, Clark) Passed to second reading as amended March 4, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Resolution as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (10): Avalos, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Dunphy; Nay (1): Smith; Absent (1): Morillo) Continued as amended to February 25, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit B as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Avalos. Vote not called. Continued to February 25, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Ordinance as shown in Koyama Lane 3: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (12): Avalos, Smith, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Dunphy) Passed to second reading as amended February 11, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A as shown in Koyama Lane 2: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (3): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama-Lane; Absent (2): Clark, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Resolution as amended, Document Number 2025-493, to the full Council with the recommendation that it be adopted: Moved by Koyama and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (3): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama-Lane; Absent (2): Clark, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (3): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama-Lane; Absent (2): Clark, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to add an emergency clause because it is necessary to urgently strengthen Sanctuary law compliance and enhance safety measures for the community and employees as shown in Kanal 1: Moved by Koyama-Lane and seconded by Morillo. (Aye (12): Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Pirtle-Guiney)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend City Code Subsection 3.02.020 B.4. as shown in Koyama Lane 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Avalos. (Aye (6): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Kanal; Nay (6) Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Ryan, Pirtle-Guiney). Motion failed to pass. Passed to second reading as amended September 3, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Ordinance, Document Number 2025-286, to the full Council with recommendation the ordinance be passed: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Morillo. (Aye (4): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Clark); Absent (1): Smith)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A, to replace Subsection J.2 with "If the Mayor is unavailable either in person or virtually to cast the tiebreaking vote on final passage during the meeting, the result of the tied vote is deemed inconclusive. If the vote on final passage remains inconclusive at the end of the meeting, the matter will be automatically postponed and rescheduled to the next Council meeting for the sole purpose of the Mayor casting their vote. If the Mayor is not present, it would be considered a no vote as in J.3.": Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Novick. (Aye (7): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Green, Avalos, Kanal, Ryan; Nay (3): Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney); Absent (2): Clark, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to table the item: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Kanal. Approved by unanimous consent.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Resolution, Document Number 2025-194 to the full Council with recommendation the resolution be adopted: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Smith. (Aye (5): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Smith, Clark)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to table discussion of Avalos Amendment 1: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Smith. (Aye (10): Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (2): Kanal, Avalos)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A, to add Code Subsection 3.02.030 J.3. In determining if a vote is a tie, absences, abstentions and vacancies will be counted as no votes: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to define a tie vote as receiving specifically six affirmative votes on final passage: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Dunphy. Motion withdrawn.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A in Committee Meetings A.1. to add “shall not deliberate,”: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A in Committee Actions A.4. to add "for consideration" and "Section", and to remove parentheses around "(D) (1)": Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A as shown in Avalos Amendment D under Committee Actions A.2. to add “as a whole, not a majority of those in attendance at the time of the vote.”: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. Motion withdrawn.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A in Committee Rules A.1.a. to add "least": Moved by Koyama Lane and Dunphy. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Dunphy, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to move the item to the top of the regular agenda: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (11): Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (1): Kanal)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to call the question: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (10): Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (2): Kanal, Avalos)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to add the following finding to the ordinance: “9. On March 31, 2025, the Chief Engagement Officer presented to the Council Governance Committee about the advisory bodies alignment and modernization project. The Sustainability and Climate Commission will be subject to this project.”: Moved by Koyama Lane and seconded by Clark. (Aye (5): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matter