A top Portland bureaucrat tasked with overseeing the completion of a $2 billion water filtration plant east of Gresham quietly quit her job last month after nearly two decades with the city.
Jodie Inman stepped down as chief engineer for the Portland Water Bureau on April 18 amid an ongoing legal battle that has ground construction on the Bull Run water treatment facility to a halt.
Records show Inman had held the post since 2021 and earned an annual salary of $228,000. Ken Ackerman, who previously managed the bureau’s engineering design team, has been named interim chief engineer, officials said…