About 100 city employees are losing their jobs under Portland’s newly adopted budget—and residents who rely on homeless shelter services or certain parks programs will feel the cuts most directly.
The city’s budget news article says the Portland City Council adopted an $8.5 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, citing a “massive shortfall” that forced “painful cuts to shelters, parks, and police.”
Every fire station, park, and community center stays open. No sworn police officers are being cut—the budget keeps all police officers on the job, even as it makes cuts to shelters, parks, and police. But the shelter cuts mean residents who depend on those services will face a changed landscape as the new fiscal year begins…