I posit that of instead of spending bucketloads to hit Wilson's 1500 shelter bed target, Portland could probably take a greater chunk out of homelessness if we just gave the money to people.

Maybe we should pilot it, test the hypothesis.

87-year-old woman identified as pedestrian killed in SE Portland

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I just pulled the numbers from the December City Administrator Report.

Looks like the 33rd death (87 year old pedestrian) of 2025 was added to the Vision Zero Dashboard - scroll down to the "Crash statistics" visualization here.

public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

youtu.be/zVnx6ECXkCQ?...

On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, City Council will "Reappoint Catherine MacLeod to the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Board of Trustees for term to expire December 31, 2028" as part of the Consent Agenda unless someone pulls the item for discussion.

www.portland.gov/council/docu...

Here's where Councilor Kanal brought up qualified immunity and reform of LESC processes. He also brought up qualified immunity at the federal level.

Not seeing any reference to absolute immunity, although the word "absolutely" appears often in the transcript.

www.youtube.com/live/BRMyP45...

This must be the work session that Councilor Kanal was referring to where they discussed absolute immunity.

www.portland.gov/auditor/coun...

2024 Oregon Law Review article titled "Unleashing Rule 5.1 to Combat Prosecutorial Misconduct."

Hoping to be able to understand at least some of this.

scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/server/api/c...

Councilor Kanal mentioned a work session on the legislative agenda where absolute immunity was discussed, that multiple advisory groups to Council have recommended the city take a stand on the issue at the state level, and he wants the Office of Government Relations to lobby to eliminate it.

Here is Councilor Kanal talking about the issue of absolute immunity for prosecutors.

". . . due to state law providing prosecutors with near absolute immunity from civil liability, the County and DA's office has had the cases against them dismissed."

www.youtube.com/live/TuwRi0M...

One topic that came up is that, the [yes, corrupt] deputy district attorneys who prosecuted the case were dismissed due to absolute immunity so the City of Portland would have been at risk of taking all the blame from a jury had it gone to trial.

Absolute Immunity?

www.nlg-npap.org/absolute-imm...

Some interesting discussion during the 45 minutes it took to get to an 11-1 vote to authorize payment of the settlement.

www.youtube.com/live/TuwRi0M...

Seems like they should go back and unprotect the payment info once litigation is done.

Ah, from the FAQ:

"information pertaining to active or pending litigation is protected; however, information regarding vendor payments of closed cases is not protected . . . if someone is interested in City Attorney vendor payments, they will need to contact that office directly for assistance."

Yeah, spread the word!

I learned about it from someone on that other site a few years ago!

Any reason why you can't use LOAD DATA INFILE instead of converting to individual insert statements?

mariadb.com/docs/server/...

blog.terresquall.com/2021/11/impo...

So it looks like, for each of the 5 fiscal years available in the checkbook, a Bureau Search for the City Attorney's office results in a list of that shows the vendor as OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY.

Even the Mayor's office is more transparent than that!

portlandoregon.quickbase.com/nav/app/bjsw...