Today at 2pm, city council will hear Councilor Kanal’s Right To Know Who is Policing You ordinance. I have co-sponsored this policy, I believe it will stand up in court and add additional tracking of ICE operations in the city that will be publicly available. www.portland.gov/council/agenda

What could possibly be political about using massive amounts of tax payer dollars to renovate a billionaire’s sport arena while a city is facing a $100~ million budget gap? 🧐 I love the Blazers. I want them to stay. This is also a *negotiation.* I’m not showing up hat in hand.

I love that this is something we're learning about in the press.

“‘At this time, please do not accept or schedule meetings with Council members or their staff that are focused on budget development, priorities, or resource requests,’ the memo said.”

This morning in the Committee of Whole we will hold an oversight hearing for the purpose of addressing questions related to the delayed disclosure of housing $ to council and its relationship to the development of the Fall TAO. To my knowledge it’s the first of its kind in the history of the city.

I might have more later, but as an initial impression, I thought today's City Council oversight hearing went extremely well. It delivered on its multiple purposes of airing out what went wrong, and surfacing the problems that need to be solved. 🧵 1/

This morning a D3 resident testified about Sightline, a Portland based AI surveillance company that appears to be testing its tech in Portland, then selling it to militaries overseas to harm civilians. This is why the Data Privacy Office I created is critical. actionnetwork.org/letters/sigh...

“The Portland Metro Chamber, Habitat for Humanity Portland Region, Portland DSA, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon and Multifamily Northwest — also submitted testimony in support of the resolution.” ❤️✨🫡

The Keep Portland Housed amendment to the TAO (technical adjustment ordinance) passed!! Portland has a historic social housing and revolving loan fund!! Thank you to my cosponsors @councilorgreen.bsky.social @counciloravalos.bsky.social and @councilordunphy.bsky.social 💓

Councilor Smith has brought last minute amendments to the Keep Portland Housed Amendment and it cuts into the social housing fund to give money to organizations of her choosing, whose proposals have not gone through any vetting. This is pork barrel politics and that's not a compliment.

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Today we have two big housing policies coming before Council! The first is a Technical Adjustment Ordinance with an amendment that creates a historic Social Housing fund (brought to you by yours truly, along with Councilors Green, Dunphy, and Avalos) and my Inner East Side For All Resolution.

Right now we are hosting the first City Life Committe (chaired by Pirtle-Guiney and Zimmerman). This is the new committee created after the restructuring, I'm as interested as you are in how the new committee structure will go! www.portland.gov/council/agen...

Portland *can* build affordable, beautiful housing that puts you in proximity to your friends, grocery stores, schools,work, etc. My resolution will empower us to do just that! Come to evening Council next week and show my fellow Councilors that we’re ready to take transformative steps in housing✨

portland city council will vote on a ~major~ resolution to allow more homes to be built through the entire central eastside a week from today. join @pnwelcome.bsky.social at a rally at city hall in support of @councilormorillo.bsky.social's Inner Eastside for All resolution, 4/15 at 5pm

Proud to have worked with @councilorgreen.bsky.social @counciloravalos.bsky.social and @councilordunphy.bsky.social on this proposal. We need a balance of long term and short term solutions to our housing and homelessness crisis, and this package strikes that balance.

Proud to have helped bring this ordinance forward 💪

Tomorrow is the District 3 Budget Open House! Talk to your District Councilors about your top funding priorities. This is going to be an incredibly difficult budget season so I recommend sharing what you’d be okay with cutting and what you want to preserve. www.portland.gov/budget/event...

I won’t give a cent of PCEF to backfill a failing shelter system that providers warned the Mayor would fail. There are 3k more people unhoused in Portland today than when he started, nationally homelessness is going down. We gave him a chance, we’re not funding proven mistakes moving forward.

The challenge is complicated, but our goal is simple: Keep Portland Housed today, tomorrow, and well into the future. @councilordunphy.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social

Tomorrow the Committee of the Whole will convene for the first time. In that meeting we will consider an ordinance that establishes a Transportation Utility Fee. I have filed an attachment that is an attempt to respond to demands for an alternative approach I’m hearing from community

While we have this discussion, here are links to 2 resources for low income residents. Infrastructure funding is absolutely needed, and we need to do everything we can to prevent this from falling on those who are struggling the most. www.portland.gov/phb/nplte www.portland.gov/water/custom...

This morning at (first ever) meeting of Portland City Council Committee of the Whole, PBOT will present proposal for 2 major new transportation fees: the Transpo Utility Fee (TUF) & Street Damage Restoration Fee. www.portland.gov/council/agen... Background here bikeportland.org/2026/03/09/b...

As a top official, I was not invited to these meetings hmmm 😂 “Top city officials have held a weekly “Project Mt. Hood” meeting since at least early November focused on a taxpayer funded renovation of the Moda Center, currently estimated at $600 million, according to a review of public calendars.”

Today my office received reports of a possible bias crime at a Mosque in District 3. I want our Muslim neighbors to know that we stand with you, and we will keep you safe. I will coordinate with Mayor Wilson and PPB to ensure this is thoroughly investigated and the suspect is held accountable.

Tomorrow my office is hosting a community resource fair from 11-2 at the Mt. Scott Community Center! Come grab some food, play some games, and get access from everything from legal services to household energy efficiency supplies! All ages welcome 💜

Today we will be hearing the Mask Ban policy I cosponsored with @councilorkanal.bsky.social to protect our communities from people posing as federal officers. You can watch it live or recorded later at the link below! www.portland.gov/council/agen...

I’m pretty frustrated that I’ve learned about the details of this process by reading the news. Gotta say that I am concerned that a junket hosted by our counterparty in the deal is shaping our approach to the deal.

Thank you to @councilormorillo.bsky.social for concisely explaining why we need an Inner Eastside for All and why a resolution makes sense in this instance (Oregon land use law!) during her opening remarks:

Good morning! The Portland City Council's Climate, Resilience and Land Use Committee is hearing @councilormorillo.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social and @counciloravalos.bsky.social's resolution for the Inner Eastside for All right now. Tune in and watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6Z...

I was proud to co-sponsor this package with my fellow LGBT colleagues @councilormorillo.bsky.social, @councilordanryan.bsky.social, and @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social, and the package's introducer @councilortkl.bsky.social.

Tomorrow my Inner Eastside For All Resolution to spur housing production will be heard at the Climate Committee! The Committee is being dissolved and I will not be a chair anymore, but I am proud to bring this forward as one last piece of legislation through there. www.portland.gov/council/agen...

Proud to work alongside colleagues who are prepared to meet the moment 💪

Today was my last day on the Housing & Homelessness Committee! We went over a report tracking the impacts of the SDC waiver granted to housing developers to spur on housing construction. Those reports will come every 6 months thanks to my amendment on the SDC policy www.portland.gov/council/agen...

District 3 residents! Have you heard about the safety upgrades being proposed to César E Chávez Boulevard? You can give feedback on this critical project till March 23 ⚠️🚙🚴‍♂️🛣️🚸 www.portland.gov/transportati...

We’re holding the last Transportation & Infrastructure Committee till the new committees are established, and we’re going over revenue raising for our streets. Immensely sad I won’t be on this committee anymore but I’ll continue to focus on bike and pedestrian safety and infrastructure maintenance!

ACTION ALERT: Support an Inner Eastside for All! We need your written testimony to support a resolution that would speed up the re-legalization of building apartments in Portland's high opportunity and amenity-rich Inner Neighborhoods! portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

Thank you to @councilormorillo.bsky.social for introducing the resolution and @councilorgreen.bsky.social for cosponsoring!

For those of you following on with the unbudgeted housing funds work session, we have been talking in reference to a one-pager* that mine and @councilormorillo.bsky.social offices developed ahead of this session. Here's that link. * it's two sided

If you want to learn more about our city’s transportation funding woes and want to give feedback, I highly recommend attending this event! tr.ee/SBgzJt35UM

When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word. Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.

Good to see transportation get a solid amount of attention at an event like this — and to have so many councilors engaged on the topic. bikeportland.org/2026/02/06/d...

Big day for automated vehicles. This morning the AV bill got a hearing at the legislature and right now the Portland Council Transpo & Infra committee is having an informational briefing about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZn...

Days after passing our resolution for an oversight hearing on how this happened, more money was found. While there could be a perfectly innocent explanation for this, Portlanders deserve transparency, especially when we repeatedly tell them we have to cut cherished programs and staff.

Wilson's statement is puzzling... for example, @councilormorillo.bsky.social has explicitly asked for police NOT to impede Federal agents, but to gather evidence and make note of what munitions are being used against protestors. That evidence and info can then be presented to the DA.

The oversight resolution from me, Councilor Green, and Councilor Avalos passes! Aye - Avalos, Smith, Pirtle Guiney, Kanal, Green, Morillo, Koyama Lane, Dunphy Nay - Ryan, Clark, Novick, Zimmerman Portlanders deserve transparency about public dollars, I hope this is the beginning.

If City Council does not have an accurate an reliable accounting of funds to make decisions for what services we save and cut, we cannot do our jobs. Council must exercise our oversight powers to prevent this from happening again, and I will strongly support Councilor Green’s oversight resolution.

We are at a crossroads. The Police Union can choose to stand with Portlanders, to stand against fascism, or they can continue to obstruct policies that would reign the feds in because they see a kinship with corrupt law enforcement and not with the good people of our city. There is a choice here.

The current Portland City Councilors who are endorsed by the police union are: Smith (D1), Ryan (D2), Novick (D3), Zimmerman (D4), Clark (D4) Listing them because the Portland Police Association is making it a fight to have a masking ban (for law enforcement) and a tear gas ban.

Councilor Morillo is calling on the county district attorney - someone who ran on a platform of criticizing protesters - to find legal recourse for the indiscriminate attack on people exercising their First Amendment rights.