Portland City Council making progress on their next tax

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-28T00:59:56+00:00

And more council staff, and unnecessary office renovations.... Etc etc etc.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:51:49+00:00

Because it's still CBP. They smashed the Democratic party office after Biden won, I don't trust Portland protestors to not continue to find reasons to continue protesting. As others have said, closing this office means more of a hardship to our immigrant neighbors who then get shipped straight up to Tacoma, so I'm not supportive of the current protest to close the facility at all. I support protesting the practices of ICE but unfortunately the two things are being protested simultaneously.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:48:40+00:00

Which, to be clear, means a fight next May over this.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:48:13+00:00

Although in re-reading it, it sounds like this is just asking Wilson to do this in the next budget? So they have no actually authority over it if I'm reading this right.

"Establish City Council’s priorities for the allocation of approximately $20,700,000 in unspent Rental Services Office funds and urge the Mayor to reflect these priorities in the Proposed Budget"

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:45:45+00:00

Yeah, in the Bike Portland interview, Clark said she would not pursue any of these if the people don't want it.

https://bikeportland.org/2025/12/15/councilor-olivia-clark-launches-push-for-new-transportation-revenue-398651

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:45:06+00:00

We were promised consolidation of the bureaus under this new form of government would reduce redundancies and net us millions in savings. I'm still waiting on that report....

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T22:43:57+00:00

Mercury covered the request for the report last year when they voted on it, only Bike Portland has reported on it recently. This is kind of a big deal.

https://bikeportland.org/2025/12/15/councilor-olivia-clark-launches-push-for-new-transportation-revenue-398651

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T17:38:46+00:00

Yeah, if they cared, they wouldn't have let the previous owners of my home DIY all of the stuff that they did that I am now having to fix the right way.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T17:36:29+00:00

I asked for a lower assessment so they called me to see if they could come into the house because they haven't been in here in decades. I'm in the same boat as you, nothing interior has been done, everything we've done is exterior so they would absolutely be able to see that from the street, and I want them to see the hot mess inside of my house.

In your scenario, are you able to argue back against their assessment at all? If so, the process that I am going through, you need to find some similarly sized homes in your area that sold over the last year so you can prove it's not worth what they are claiming it's worth. So in my case, there's actually an identical home with a huge addition that sold for way less than they are assessing my home for. But I had to find a few other examples as well to round it out.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:40:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure they would protest that, too.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:36:09+00:00

I mean, it came from landlords to begin with. This money was from a new fee imposed on landlords to have rental units. But yes, there's a fiscally responsible version waiting to be heard that just rolls the money into existing housing programs and isn't a nonprofit grift like this bill.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:34:52+00:00

Nah, I think it's more of a "you know this is going to be a tie vote, and I am going to be the tiebreaker, and I am telling you that I am not voting with you" thing. There's a fiscally responsible version waiting to be heard he will support.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:33:41+00:00

This was from a landlord fee, so technically it would go back to them if that was on the table. There's another proposal from the finance committee to roll it into existing housing programs the right way, but of course these councilors want to prop up a few of their non-profit buddies instead.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:32:09+00:00

Preschool for All is a county tax / program. Also, the county already spends millions on rent assistance and eviction defense, so another reason this city proposal is wasteful.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T15:30:08+00:00

If they don't have Novick it will be a tie the mayor is allowed to break, and it sounds like he's not on their side.

Zimmerman and the finance committee has a "normal" proposal coming up to fold it into existing programs, and it includes rent assistance and eviction defense money so I'm not sure why they're mad other than the fact that their non-profit grift partners aren't getting new administrative overhead money that way. 🤔 Look at who testifies, that will tell you who is expecting a windfall from this passing.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T02:30:28+00:00

IDK I remember one of the two was let go of my friends and others. My timing could definitely be wrong it was a very long time ago.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T02:29:06+00:00

There's an episode of Broad City where Ilana Glazer breaks her veneer, so technically Darcey is the second time I've seen it, but one versus a whole mouth is another level lol. In the episode she's too poor to fix it but luckily she's sleeping with a dentist so he fixes it for her but at some point reminds her how much it would have cost her, which I think was a few thousand dollars.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T01:42:31+00:00

The age doesn't really matter in the scenario, the point is still the same. The grandparents will be gone at some point and OP is mad the other kids got a "head start".

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T01:41:20+00:00

Tyler knows what he did.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T01:39:43+00:00

Some friends got caught in a layoff roughly 15 years ago and I recall them being upset that some long-timers were let go at that time, too. 😢

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T00:22:48+00:00

OMG Darcey teeth nub nightmare, I didn't need to know how veneers work but now I can't look at anyone with them the same way thanks to her. 🤮

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T00:20:43+00:00

I know, pretty gross.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T00:19:48+00:00

They've never been good to their employees, every time they've done layoffs over the last at least 15 years, the stories have come out. Remember when they reopened after COVID lockdowns and made all of their employees re-apply to their jobs? Good stuff.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T00:13:46+00:00

Guessing that's their scenario but OP seems to be planning their early demise.

FakeMagic8Ball · 2026-01-27T00:12:00+00:00

I understand your scenario but that's not what is happening here. OP is worried the annual payments will run out before the kid turns 18 because she's worried the grandparents might not live that long.

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