In February, Portland’s City Administrator announced that the city would need to slash jobs and maintenance projects in order to address a $93 million shortfall in the annual budget.
“There aren’t really any good choices here,” said City Administrator Michael Jordan at a press briefing. “It’s about where you will find the money to balance the budget.”…
To balance the general fund gap, Jordan suggests cutting $22 million from the transportation bureau’s street maintenance and repair programs, slashing $19 million in parks services by reducing community center hours and eliminating summer programs, and eliminating nearly 300 jobs across all city bureaus.
A $93 million shortfall isn’t nothing, but in the scope of Portland’s $8.2 billion annual budget it’s still a fairly small percentage. But it turns out that shortfall is only a fraction of the…
