About 200 people attended an emergency meeting of the Northwest District Association held the night before Portland City Council is to consider defunding sweeps of homeless camps across the city.
NWDA President Todd Zarnitz called the council amendment introduced by Councilor Angelita Morillo and supported by District 4 Council Mitch Green an effort to “kneecap a program to keep our neighborhood safe and get people off the street.”
Referring to Green, the only District 4 councilor not in attendance, Zarnitz asked, “Why is one of our own even part of this?”…