This a is all at root a Sam Adams problem. He got rid of weekly trash service, and now it's 50 bucks to take a bag to the dump, but rid patrol is free. Definitely a Portland issue, not a housing status issue.

Lol. "... a non partisan, boardroom-friendly think tank ..." or a "business-friendly Tax Foundation" (Politico) a "conservative think tank" (the Washington Post)
"generally critical of tax increases, high business taxes, excise taxes, tax preferences for the housing industry" (a quick Wikipedia)

It is the council's job to get an injunction to prevent him from crafting policy by redirecting non or otherwise allocated funds to his every fancy. Why not just hire a a hundred Sam Adams and give him all the $$$? Because Portland changed its entire form of government to prevent this exact thing.

A budget adjustment is not oversight and does nothing to help folks already displaced by these sweeps. Sue him into compliance.
#StopTheSweeps

Yeah, who did the impact analysis for this? It was awful quick.

We should add an eviction tax to the SDCs. A lot of loud voices will get behind rental assistance.

Similar to firing the housing director because of "competing housing, homelessness, and budgetary crises" (Michael Jordan, CA) there are no competing crisis because the mayoral role brings nothing to the table.

Simply, the mayor gets no directives that are not the will of the council. Despite what the business alliance wants, there are no special mayoral powers that get to enact directives that do not come from council.

So the cut to the IRP funds more or less balances what they've already taken from general fund and allocate elsewhere.

Yeah, I guess my question is "there aren't funds allocated for this and as such he's spending down the contingency fund?"

So he's spending down the contingency, not an allocated amount of funds? Seems weird to have a contingency fund that the mayor would get to spend on whatever he wants.

If the city attorney, for example, could be fired by the mayor for giving legal guidance to council that confirmed their counter-to-the-mayor position, the mayor would hold outsized influence over the opinion of the attorney who works for the city, not the mayor.

He's really trying to find a way to Wheeler in policy changes outside of his authority.

Reason?

Yeah, that and to give the business alliance a back door through a new government structure designed to restrict its access.