Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Council Vice President
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Clark is a District 4 Councilor, Council Vice President for 2026, and current chair of the Public Works Committee. Her City biography describes experience across state government, transit, health governance, and affordable housing.
City-published biographyHer official profile emphasizes pragmatic collaboration, affordable housing, regional transportation, public works, and institution-building.
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The proposal would appropriate $2,500,000 from the Construction Excise Tax Sub-fund 225020 for homeownership development in District 2.
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 require City Administrator to develop Citywide Asset Management Strategy to establish priorities and practices to address asset management maturity and financial planning gaps.
This resolution concerns urge the Mayor to make the City a signatory to the Swimmable Cities Charter.
This presentation concerns citywide Asset Management Strategy progress report.
This resolution concerns denounce any attempts to deploy the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or militarized Federal Immigration Enforcement in Portland and establish the Protect Portland Initiative.
This resolution concerns reaffirm Council commitment to the Vision Zero Action Plan and convene a cross-bureau Vision Zero Task Force.
This resolution concerns urge the Public Works and Budget and Finance Service Areas to develop a comprehensive strategy for alternative funding for transportation and infrastructure.
The proposal would direct Bureau of Transportation to construct and maintain sidewalks while addressing pavement maintenance deficiencies throughout Portland, improving safety and accessibility for all residents through the…
This presentation concerns asset management discussion.
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“Thank you, Councilor President. I know we're short of time. I just want to make a personal statement. If you don't know already, I am a child of the '60s, and I have a very different, or had a very different relationship with psychedelics. So when this issue first came up, I, you know, started thinking about White Rabbit and, you know, Age of Aquarius and all that kind of stuff. And I'm not sure that I'm ready for that. Kind of stuff. Um, but I, uh, but I have to say that listening to your testimony today, um, I'm gonna choke up now, was incredibly moving. And I just appreciate everybody being here and sharing your personal stories. It was incredibly moving, and I so appreciate you. And definitely changes my thinking about this, um, you know, having dealt with it a long time ago. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm tempted to try to offer an emergency clause to this, but I know we're really…”
“Well, I was just, maybe your Second Amendment addresses my question about delaying acceptance of the grant. That's my concern. And secondly, it seems to me that this is an issue that should be dealt with by, through the budget process and not on every individual grant that comes through. This seems kind of awkward that we know we have this requirement and the budget office should be taking care of it in the larger budget. So I'm not sure why we need to do this.”
“Thank you. Um, this is an amazing lift. This is a lot of work. I really appreciate every member of the team, and you are a team. I see that really pulling together. These are very, some very complex issues, um, I think particularly the low-income side. Thank you, Cynthia, that was a great presentation. I can see you've done a lot of work on that, and we could be plowing really new ground. I'm glad to see that you reached out to other entities. I'm really glad to see, Mark, that you've provided us with another example from Hillsboro. I think it was helpful to think about that. Thank you. This is what, this is so important because it's what people touch every single day, you know, top to bottom. I have lots of questions. I'm sure my colleagues do too. I'm not even sure where to start. There's so much material. Well, let me, if you don't mind, colleagues, I'll just kick it off with a few…”
“Terrific. Thank you all for your good work. We really appreciate your being here and presenting, uh, such a clear overview. We really appreciate it. Um, we are ahead of schedule, but I would like to recommend that we go ahead and take a break now because we're going to have a long session, uh, updating the, um, the TUF and the street damage risk ratio. You feel okay? Councilor Smith, are you okay with a break right now? Why don't we come back at, uh, I'm going to say 10:35. That's a long break. 10:35.”
“Thank you. I don't think I need to repeat that, um, but I would say that this includes a number of, um, pedestrian and ADA improvements. I believe at least one of these does. And I remind the committee that Southeast 148th and Division is the same intersection we heard about from the traffic engineer and the then, uh, now I guess interim PBOT director, uh, Wendy Cully, earlier this summer when we were talking about Vision Zero. We did talk a little bit about this, so I'm going to hand it off to the PBOT staff to, um, introduce this item for us.”
“Terrific. I'm glad to hear that. I really think that, colleagues, this is a great leap forward for PBOT. I don't know what took us so long to get to CMGC, but having worked on it at TriMet, I understand all the advantages of having a CMGC. I think that going to low bid is really kind of a misnomer with these kind of projects. You know, there are change orders, there's a lot of complications. They don't necessarily, low bid doesn't necessarily work with a neighborhood association very well. And I've seen the construction of light rail under CMGC and just know how much more of a benefit it is. And I think you've demonstrated that on 82nd Street, David. So, colleagues, do you, I see that Councilor Smith has her hand up and I'm open to entertaining any questions here, Councilor Smith, or comments.”
“But before we get to our main items, we need to approve the committee minutes for the meetings of July 28th and August 11th. Do I have a consensus on that? I think everybody nodding. There's a yes, yes, yes. Okay, great. The minutes are approved by unanimous consent. I don't see any objections. So, um, Diana, can you please read the next item?”
“Thank you, Claire. Would help if I turn the mic on. Um, so for today's meeting, fortunately we do have a quorum. May not look like it, but we have people online. That's great. Uh, so we can conduct business today. So first we're going to consider an alternative contracting method for the Montgomery Park Streetcar Extension Project, the CMGC, which is terrific. Then we're going to have 2 ordinances to secure temporary property rights for pedestrian improvements. And then we'll probably take a break. The second half of the meeting, we're going to return to the implementation of the transportation utility fee and the street damage restoration fee. We're going to dig in a little bit to that, get a progress report. Thank you. Report, really important.”
“Uh, thank you, um, Councilor President. I just want to say this has been an excellent work It's been a long time coming. We're almost there. I'm so excited. But I also just want to reiterate something that Tom said, uh, just quote him about threading the needle through opposing policies. You said balance the outcomes in a regulatory structure. Absolutely right on. I really appreciated that. I want to ask Patricia, you can do this offline. I'm very supportive of the comp plan language changes, but you mentioned the hierarchy of verbs, and maybe offline you could tell me talk to me about that? Or what, what is the hierarchy and how do you feel about the comp plan?”
“Um, thank you, Councilor President. Um, could you just clarify for me? I'm still catching up on all this stuff too. It's happening pretty fast. Um, you said that the 2 reports were contradictory. Could you just, uh, review that for us?”
“It seems really, really important. And the air quality issue aside, someday we ought to talk about that too, but that's a whole other issue. Another question about the Eco Northwest evaluation. We talk about that feedback loop. That's the very last bullet. Sustained fuel price increases also tend to accelerate behavior changes. Did they provide any detail around that? Because I remember that when there was a calculation sometime back at TriMet that when gasoline prices hit $5 a gallon, there was an equivalent increase in transit ridership. And I know transit ridership has gone up slightly here recently, but did they dig into that at all?”
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman and colleagues. I apologize I'm not there. I am treating a tooth with an antibiotic. I'll explain all the details later if you want to know them, but I'll be there for the council meeting hopefully tonight. The Public Works Committee at our last meeting had a great overview of the potential for encouraging more community-based partnerships for we're calling it Portland Public Spaces Partnerships. We had a great panel conversation with people from the Portland Arboretum, the Community Music Center, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, and the Parks Foundation. And it was a great conversation. I think it hopefully will result in potentially a resolution coming to you, but it's definitely about the culture change that's going on within the Parks Bureau, which we all really appreciate. Next week, the Public Works Committee is going to be taking care of some ho…”
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.
35 recorded motions shown below.
Motion to amend the Ordinance to add an emergency clause to be responsive to community concerns about the negative impact of survivors of abuse and others and to ensure facilitation of the timely operations of City staff in changing the name: Moved by Clark and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (12): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Report as amended, Document Number 2026-238, to City Council with the recommendation it be accepted: Moved by Clark and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (12): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Kanal.)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Report as shown in Clark 1: Moved by Clark and seconded by Green. (Aye (11): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Kanal; Absent (1): Smith)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Report, Document Number 2026-208, to City Council with the recommendation it be accepted: Moved by Clark and seconded by Novick. (Aye (11): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal; Absent (1): Zimmerman)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend ordinance as shown in Clark 1 as amended: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. (Aye (12): Kanal, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to move Item 2026-134 to before 2026-155: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. Request by Avalos to divide the question to vote on changes to the agenda separately. Vote called on Item 2026-151. (Aye (11): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Dunphy; Absent (1) Pirtle-Guiney). Vote called on Item 2026-134. (Aye (4): Ryan, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith; Nay (7): Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Green, Avalos, Dunphy; Absent (1): Pirtle-Guiney). Motion failed to pass. The agenda was approved as amended by unanimous consent.
Official meeting recordMotion to amend the Ordinance as shown in Clark/Green 1: Moved by Clark and seconded by Green. (Aye (12): Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Ordinance, Document Number 2026-134, to City Council with the recommendation it be passed: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. (Aye (3): Koyama Lane, Smith, Clark; Nay (1): Green; Absent (1): Kanal)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Ordinance, Document Number 2026-055, to the full Council with a recommendation to pass: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (5): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Subsection 3.02.020 B.1.a.(1)(b) in Exhibit A as shown in Dunphy 1, page 1 to add “, including a committee of the whole,”: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (5): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to accept the report: Moved by Clark and seconded by Kanal.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to change the procedure to elect Council President by voting yes or no for each candidate in order of nomination: Moved by Clark and seconded by Novick. (Aye (4): Ryan, Novick, Clark, Zimmerman; Nay (8): Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Pirtle-Guiney). Motion failed to pass. Vote called for Council President - Round 10. No nominee received a majority of votes of Councilors present. (Pirtle-Guiney (0)) (Kanal (6): Avalos, Dunphy, Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green) (Smith (6): Smith, Ryan, Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Pirtle-Guiney) (Novick (0))
Official meeting recordMotion to amend Ordinance, Document Number 2025-475 with Dunphy 1: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (5): Clark, Dunphy, Smith, Ryan, Green)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Resolution as shown in Kanal 1.2: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (4): Clark, Dunphy, Koyama-Lane, Ryan; Nay (1): Pirtle-Guiney)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Resolution as shown in Kanal 1.1: Moved by Clark and seconded by Koyama-Lane. (Aye (1): Koyama-Lane; Nay (4): Clark, Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan). Motion failed to pass.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Resolution as shown in Kanal 1.3: Moved by Clark and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Clark, Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama-Lane, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to divide Kanal 1 to vote on Kanal 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 separately: Moved by Clark.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the Resolution as shown in Ryan 1: Moved by Clark and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Clark, Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama-Lane, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Report, Document Number 2025-440, to the full Council with the recommendation that it be accepted: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (5): Clark, Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to accept the report: Moved by Clark and seconded by Novick.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to divide: Moved by Clark. Vote on amend the sixth Whereas Statement to replace "decreased" with "the" and strike "declining": (Aye (9): Clark, Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick; Nay (2): Zimmerman, Ryan; Absent (1): Pirtle-Guiney) Vote on strike the fourth Whereas Statement: (Aye (9): Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (3): Clark, Zimmerman, Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to refer the Resolution, Document Number 2025-359, to the full Council with the recommendation it be approved: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. (Aye (5): Clark, Dunphy, Smith, Ryan, Green)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to table the item: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. (Aye (5): Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (6): Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Kanal; Absent (1): Ryan). Motion failed to pass.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to accept the report: Moved by Clack and seconded by Kanal.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Report, Document Number 2025-253, to the full Council with the recommendation that it be confirmed: Moved by Clark and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (3): Pirtle-Guiney, Clark, Koyama Lane; Absent (2): Ryan, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the third Whereas statement to add Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, Portland Metro Chamber, and Lloyd EcoDistrict: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (4): Clark, Dunphy, Smith, Green); Absent (1): Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to send Resolution as amended, Document Number 2025-219, to the full Council with recommendation the resolution be adopted: Moved by Clark and seconded by Dunphy. (Aye (4): Clark, Dunphy, Smith, Green); Absent (1): Ryan)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend the resolution to change the second to last Whereas statement to correct the name of the report written by the 82nd Ave Coalition and to change the name to the "82nd Avenue Development Strategy": Moved by Clark and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (11): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Absent (1): Zimmerman)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to call the question on Avalos Amendment 2: Moved by Clark and seconded by Smith. (Aye (9) Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (3) Kanal, Avalos, Dunphy)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to add "and alternative pathways" to the second Resolved Statement: Moved by Clark and seconded by Green. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to close debate: Moved by Clark and seconded by Green. (Aye (4): Koyama Lane, Novick, Clark, Green; Nay (8): Kanal, Ryan, Morillo, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney). Motion failed to pass.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Subsection 3.136.020 A. in Exhibit A to update the membership to “The membership must include at least two individuals from each of the City’s four Council districts.”: Moved by Clark and seconded by Pirtle-Guiney. (Aye (5): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to amend Exhibit A, Section (1) in Council Consideration of Appointments, to replace the second sentence with “Appointments that have been removed from the initial report and placed on separate reports may be included on the consent agenda or on the regular agenda for Council discussion.” Moved by Clark and seconded by Ryan. (Aye (5): Dunphy, Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, Clark, Koyama Lane)
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to move the item forward: Moved by Clark and seconded by Avalos.
Official meeting record Open connected matterMotion to call the question: Moved by Clark and seconded by Zimmerman. Motion withdrawn.
Official meeting record Open connected matter