Jamie Dunphy

“Thank you, Keelan. Colleagues, we are here at last on August 12th. We have before us a draft term sheet and a package of amendments carefully put together by our professional negotiators in response to council's input. I appreciate how these amendments are responsive to so many of the different amendments proposed last week. In a form that our negotiators agree empowers them as they move through this process. We are in a position to move this resolution forward with adjustments that have been authored by and have the full support of our negotiating team. They're responsive to City Council deliberations and maintain a market-rate deal that reflects Portland values. It has been said many times, but it bears repeating, that this term sheet process is unique. Usually a legislative body steps in to review terms that have already been discussed and approved our sports team, the Portland Tra…”

“Thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney. And, uh, Councilor Koyama Lane, uh, your idea of getting a presentation of those leadership cohort, uh, proposals is a great one. My office is going to work to figure out how to make that happen. Colleagues, any further questions for our city administrator about his monthly report? Thank you very much.”

“Colleagues, this is the second reading of a non-emergency ordinance. Is there any further council discussion before we move to a vote? Seeing no one in the queue, Keelan, can we please call the roll? Oh, there we go. People jumped in as soon as I said it. There we go. Councilor Smith first.”

“Okay, thank you, colleagues. Our third item on our agenda is actually a time certain that starts at 9:45, and so we cannot quite move to that quite yet. Um, start with some jokes. That's a full 5 minutes. I don't think I can actually do that.”

“Thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney. So colleagues, uh, as we're going to move into some conversations around amendments, I just want to note I, I really believe that this council has done a commendable job under highly unusual circumstances to consider and contribute to a term sheet that will be a clear demonstration of our seriousness at the negotiating table. As you know, we're— this is a fragile time in this work. My office had asked councilors to craft amendments in conversation with the professional negotiating team, not as a veto point on council, but because every word and comma matters in this document. And the people who will execute this delicate work need to have a hand in creating the tools that they're being told to use. My, my priority remains putting forward a term sheet that sets us up for success and centers the priorities of the people of Portland. This term sheet is…”

“Thank you, Councilor Smith. Putting myself in the queue, I have a quick question. You know, I appreciate that this amendment that is before us narrows it down to a pilot. Sometimes pilots are driven off of not necessarily the highest need, but the one that makes the most sense for measuring and things like that. And I suspect I know the answer to this. I just wanna hear it on the record. Is East Portland going to be well represented in this pilot process?”

“Colleagues, this is the second reading of a non-emergency ordinance. We've had a number of conversations about this. Is there any further council discussion? Seeing none, can we please call the roll?”

“Colleagues, as you will recall, this item involves a change of a parcel owned by the Parks Bureau from open space to residential use to facilitate its sale and development. When we last heard this item, we approved a motion to tentatively approve the application for a comprehensive map plan map amendment and zoning map amendment and to uphold the recommendation of the hearings officer. And we asked staff to return with revised those findings have been filed and are before us today. As this is a legislative land use decision, council now considers the filing as an ordinance using our regular legislative process, and therefore today is the first reading of that ordinance. There's no further presentation, but are there any technical or clarifying questions from councilors?”

“Thank you very much. Colleagues, we have 4 items on our agenda. However, the majority of our time today will be spent discussing the Moda Center items. 2 Of our items are relatively quick. We have already extended this meeting to 6 o'clock. That is a hard out at 6 o'clock. It is my hope we can at least get through the agenda and get first reading's done on everything here. Our original agenda placed the return of the Moda Center item at the end of today's agenda, but we were originally anticipating a relatively quick discussion of Councilors Smith and Koyama Lane's traffic safety item. However, now that amendments have been filed, it looks like we need to do the Moda item before the traffic safety item so that we can be sure to complete that work today. Therefore, I'd like to reorder the agenda.”

“Come on down and introduce yourselves for the record. Hello, Council. My name is Brice. I'm a union letter carrier in North Portland. Shout out District 2. And also, nobody thanked City Attorney, Council Clerk, and the City Administrator for being here. Sorry the mayor couldn't make it. I really— I did not grow up in Portland, but I've lived here the majority of my adult life. Adult life, and I just want to say I really enjoy basketball. Never had a basketball team growing up. There's a concept I like talking about with my coworkers back when the Blazers tickets were $3 each, where the ticket fees were higher than the tickets themselves for the nosebleeds. The healing power of inexpensive NBA basketball. It is great. I, you know, I would be remiss If we were to lose our team. And now it's, you know, we have the fire. I just— the Moda Center investment, it just seems like a great thing…”

“Okay, my notes are wrong. Great. Councilor Kanal. Thank you, uh, Council President. Um, I'll try to make this brief just because I know we have the main event, as you put it, to get to. Um, during the Committee of the Whole, I asked questions of one of the 2 reappointees. Both are reappointees, but one was appointed One was appointed in April of this year for the first time. No concerns about that. The other was in office during the time which the City Council considered the increase of a settlement to folks who were displaced from Lower Albina by the proposed expansion of Legacy Emanuel Hospital. At the time, we were told that Prosper would consider chipping in its share of it. That information does not appear to have made its way onto a Prosper agenda. Thank you. And so I asked an appointee, a proposed reappointee, I should say, if he would be willing to request that that be somethi…”

“As soon as those appointments are resubmitted, those will be placed on a Committee of the Whole agenda. As promptly as possible and considered. Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of how that got to be added and then removed. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Kanal. Colleagues, our 3rd item on the agenda is the presidential update. I'm going to hear— turn it over to City Administrator Lee to see if there's any status updates regarding our ongoing responses to federal interventions in the city. City Administrator. Thank you, Council President, and good morning, City Council. The parties have conferred and will continue to work with the court to set a briefing and hearing schedule. The building owner has until September the 8th, 2026, to file its final writ of review challenging, uh, the city's hearing officer's decision. That will then put the issue squarely, uh, in the hands of …”