Angelita Morillo

“Okay. I mean, I think that the conflicts of things that they have promised to certain groups on the deal are going to be a conflict that the city has to address as well, because some of our amendments to the term sheet directly conflict with that. But I understand that. Okay. I would have preferred a more rigorous analysis for the rent decision since it was one of the biggest asks that we have up here. Thankful for my colleagues who brought up amendments last week. I appreciate your efforts. Our efforts, really. And it is because of that that this term sheet is going to be improved. And thank you to the advocates for pushing us to bring all of those things and for all of the, frankly, free labor and research that the community did to get us to a much better position, because we wouldn't have been here without you. And I am glad everyone got a chance to give a big speech now that they …”

“Yeah, thank you so much, Council President. And I want to— I can literally see Councilor Green's heart and brain breaking as he's listening to Councilor Smith. In front of me genuinely because of how astounding it is that people are genuinely not looking into these amendments right now. The idea that this term sheet, uh, if we're having a chicken or egg discussion, that later on down the line it's going to get better when we have barely been able to get our points as a council who represent the districts across in the original term sheet is just I don't think accurate in any actual reality. The term sheet that we put out today is the final signal for what we are allowed to do. It doesn't get easier to do analysis, and to say that we are going to go to our negotiating partners and ask them what they want so that we can better position ourselves in a negotiation doesn't make any sense, …”

“Council needs to amend— so if you recall, council voted to adopt the hearings officer recommendation and directed staff to go back to write revised findings. And so staff has prepared those revised findings. Those are filed under the item. And so council needs to amend the ordinance to adopt the Oh, okay.”

“Gotcha. Okay. And first of all, I want to say thank you for answering all of our questions while you're not feeling well today. Appreciate you. I think it would be really helpful to have a breakdown of what exactly we're buying with these dollars. Because it's a little bit unclear to me from this presentation what exactly we're purchasing. And, you know, I'm also wondering if there is going to be a privacy impact analysis we have, or assessment. I can't remember what it stands for exactly, but we do have the Data Privacy Office now at the City of Portland. We are actively establishing it as we speak. And I think that I'm going to be really pushing for in the coming months, both for, you know, this item, the last item, That anytime the city is bringing in new technology, I have questions, or just increasing surveillance and storing that data, right? Whether it's with a camera or with a…”

“Yeah, I'd be very curious to see that because I suspect that we are seeing youth of color, Black youth, being held a lot longer in those spaces than others. And I'm just curious, like, what is being worked on to address that? I'm assuming there's a disparity. My staffer recently went to a juvenile detention facility and did a tour and had those discussions. And obviously a lot of what we heard back was that a lot of the folks that are being held there, it's also largely crimes of poverty and things like that. So I would just like to know more details on that. Do you know off the top of your head if there is a disparity, even if you don't have specific numbers?”

“Okay, that's helpful. Sorry, just taking notes. I did want to sort of level set for my colleagues and for everybody who's watching today that I feel like some of the things that were stated earlier don't capture the full picture of why we're Councilor Smith. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say that I'm very disappointed that we're here at this moment where we are. And first, the Blazers told us that they need a term sheet in order to come sit at the table and negotiate. We provided a term sheet for them, and I think we took a good faith effort to make that happen. Then they said that they needed an architect, and then they moved the goalposts once more and said that now they're concerned about being sued. But I do want to remind everybody that they are only sued if they actually choose to move the team according to the So I think that's something really important for people who are w…”

“Thank you, Council President. Thank you all so much for being here today and for answering our questions. I'm really grateful for our city team who I know is hard at work trying to get us information, and I will say that some of those things do need to be in writing because we need to read through some of those documents. So while things can be shared verbally, I am going to say our team is doing a good job trying to get that information, and I hope that you will help us get that information too so that we can help you. Thank you. My question for today is, If you could share more information on the proposed scope and budget for the renovation. There was an ask for $600 million, but I'm sort of unclear as to where that came from. We've only seen a few artistic renderings so far, but nothing really specific. And so I'm curious as to what exactly that $600 million buys for us as a city.”

“Thank you, Council President. Thank you to folks that have come and testified about this. And I just wanted to take a moment to say that I agree with the people that have come to testify, that I agree, I think things got pretty heated last week, and I was doing it sort of in service of saving some of the employees that had come to Councilor Smith. Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank everyone who came out to our offices, who were worried about the services that were going to be cut, and also the very real humans that we work with who are not going to be working with us any longer, who are not going to be serving Portlanders. I also want to take a moment to clarify that I, I don't know if this makes it any better, but I will say I was not directing my comment to Councilor Smith. I was making a comment generally about someone invoking a different patriarchal authority to come and settle di…”

“Thank you, Council President. Yeah, just listening to this discussion, I definitely am leaning more towards the analysis that I think Councilors Novick and Green have outlined. And I think to Councilor— or to Council President Dunphy's point, I am a little bit concerned that PHB's capacity is reaching a limit. I'm definitely hearing you with all the reports we're making you do, and I expect that if and when this report comes out, the first question that we're going to have to answer is, are these funding sources for down payments also going to apply to this homeownership opportunity or this affordable housing opportunity? And that's sort of forcing PHBA to do that same work again. And I think the— some of the language is also just a little bit incongruent. Like in Section C, it says marketing on affordable housing. But then in B, it says a detailed report on down payments specifically…”

“Our ordinance was the only one that was financially responsible. Again, We didn't close a deal over 0.05% of our total budget, with roughly $2 million in PCF interest that just arrived a few days ago before the forecast unbudgeted at a net cost of ending this fight. And that's about $4 million one time, 0.05% of the over $8 billion budget this council adopted. I think we would rather manage that $4 million gap during the next budget budget than spend next year explaining why the pool didn't open on Saturday, but why nobody was able— why nobody came when they called about a stolen car, why the senior center closed on 21 adults with disabilities, and why we fired 25 people with decades of experience to save these core services. That's 5 hundredths of a percent. It is very clear what's going to happen today. Obviously, the mayor is here to do the tiebreaker vote. I've heard likely that h…”

“Thank you, Council President. I just wanted to reiterate that I think that with either of these ordinances, we're going to run into these issues and reemphasize that because of the timing that this is coming forward after the budget process. So this is, although our ordinance is being heard first, this is not unique to our ordinance. And I still believe that our ordinance provides the greatest amount of compromise amongst this council body. And I think that we're going to have to make some And I believe that we have a duty as the legislative body to try to work together in every way that we can when we can. And I want to outline for perhaps the media that's catching up on this today the compromises that happened since June. Back in June, our Services First Amendment saved 103 jobs. That was around $22 million, and the counteroffer was around $7.8 million. That died 6 to 6. Thank you. …”

“Thank you. I'm happy to go through that. And I would also request that my team just sent a written copy of the amendments to all of the council offices as well. But this presentation, I'll go through it briefly. It will go over what's in the language anyways. If that's— may I, Council President? Go right ahead. Okay, next slide, please. So this amendment is going to fund 55 positions, and many of them were found in the other ordinance as well. So I think that there was a lot of shared values in what was being brought forward. The positions that we're saving are going to be in parks, transportation, water, environmental services, fire, 311, and the police bureau's unarmed responders, PPB, PASS, and desk clerks, and the Office of Equity and Human Rights. Along with BHR. This restores the 24/7 fire and rescue vehicles, and it funds the $3 million in the PBB training for EMS, which I know…”