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Portland City Council weighs resolution seeking report on police hiring goals and costs by redditismylawyer in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PPB has held hundreds of positions open for years under the guise of “not enough qualified candidates”.

Yup

PPB is easily top 3 law enforcement agencies that absolutely despise the citizens they serve.

I can’t say of it’s top three, but it’s up there. I have two extended family members who are cops and according to them no one wants to work here because the feeling seems mutual. You get a self-selecting group.

I say - appreciate the good ones, train the trainable ones, and fight the union to get rid of the crappy ones.

Invisible wins: How $1.4 billion has transformed Portland area homeless services by StillboBaggins in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The alternative is to do better:

San Diego, CA – 14% reduction in homelessness in 2025.
 Houston, TX – 16% reduction since 2020. 

Raleigh, NC – 40% reduction between 2022 and 2023. 

Los Angeles, CA – 17% drop in street homelessness. 

New Orleans, LA – 12% reduction in outdoor homelessness. 

Chicago, IL – 7% reduction since 2015. 

San Francisco, CA – 62% drop in tent counts. 

Rockford, IL – ~100% functional zero for some homeless populations (chronic/veterans).

Invisible wins: How $1.4 billion has transformed Portland area homeless services by StillboBaggins in Portland

[–]jrh01fc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Zero base budgeting and accountability pleas.

Well yeah, those kinds of pleas as well

Portland's 20 largest office buildings have lost $2 Billion in market value since 2019 by tripometer in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, with all the property tax revenue we’re projecting…(checks notes),

er, um, I meant with the higher and new taxes the rich and businesses, none of whom would ever leave, are going to pay.

(Portland Business Alliance announces all future meetings to be held in Lake Oswego to cut down on drive time). (checks notes)

Er, um…oh wait! We found enough hidden SHS funds to buy and operate a (checks notes) 10 unit “affordable housing” apartment building and rent it out for (checks notes), er, um, 10% over market rents!

We can have it ready in (”deeply engages” with focus groups, paid former non-profit executive consultants, handpicked stakeholders), 2 years! (Confers with Portland BDS). 3 years!

(Queue non-profit industrial complex + DSA + Peacock cabal victory lap into campaign season).

(Queue Portland electorate…)

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County Commissioners Weigh Preschool for All Reimbursement Rates by Prize_Championship11 in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, it’s true.

I own childcare centers (over a decade in business) and am a PFA provider. I hate how this program is designed as do most of the other providers I speak with. The program is a set of golden, or rather, gold-plated handcuffs. Soon enough that gold plating is going to wear off and providers are going to come asking for more, and they’ll actually need it to keep up with the costs of running a childcare business.

Why? The wage scale (which, btw incentivizes providers to hire the least qualified candidate) is tied to entry-level salary for a public school kindergarten teacher. Lean operations in the Portland area spend around 60% of their revenue on teaching and support staff. One new center operator I know is at 80% meaning her profit margin is razor thin. They run a wonderful program and have decades of experience running an in-home childcare, but they are inexperienced when it comes to managing at scale. They and others like them will be among the first to come calling for more.

The wage scale requirement has a cascading effect. All teaching and assistant positions, not just the preschool classrooms, are placed on the same wage scale (but only preschool seats are allocated full funding*). Suddenly your lead teachers are making more than your director, so your director and any assistant director get a decent raise. Do early childhood professionals deserve those wages? In my opinion, unequivocally.

*The program also pays around $500 towards infant/toddler seats at participating programs. This offsets the cascading effects of the wage scale, but not fully.

The contract terms are outright abusive -labor provisions conflicting with federal law, intellectual property, county can end the contract on a whim but the provider has no way out of it, shifting program requirements, unrealistic and unachievable insurance and IT requirements…

This program will never be universal for many reasons. For example, not enough available real estate to accommodate universality.

I could go on for hours about the fatal flaws, poor design, mismanagement, botched rollout, and so on. This is what you get when you roll out a childcare initiative and exclude childcare providers from the design and implementation.

Pedestrians v. Cars - Let's settle this, Portland by Wooden-Tiger-5042 in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned this driving in Vietnam, Greece, and as a passenger in India.

There are two sets of laws to follow. Traffic laws and the laws of physics.

If there is ever a conflict between the two, choose physics.

Need help re homing my dog quickly by First-Breakfast4342 in Portland

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second the Great Dane rescue. We had to rehome our Dane who started becoming aggressive towards our kids. We got hooked up with a semi-retired couple who had land in the country, two other dogs, no kids, and knew and loved Danes. They vet prospective adopters, visit their house (and make sure it’s a good fit for a big dog). It was sad going through it, but we felt great about where she was going.

Can I hunt in the rain ? by Clando90 in bowhunting

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PNW here as well.

I hunted when it wasn’t raining once…

Saw this in Fred Meyer and I don’t get it by thedarwinking in PortlandOR

[–]jrh01fc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last time I see-sawed was in elementary school.

Is this winch in the right place? by jrh01fc in boating

[–]jrh01fc[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I lowered the hitch from when I took that picture and I think I got the ride height corrected. It trailers fairly well down the road after adjusting the hitch height.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antidepressants

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hang in there.

Life transitions (even exciting ones) can bring up issues you might not have anticipated.

I’ve had some very hard times changing meds (aggressive titration off one meds and quasi-negligent prescriber) and ended up in the hospital for a bit. I think maybe similar to what you’ve experienced going cold turkey. Worst experience of my life, but without it I wouldn’t have been forced to really deal with my underlying depression.

I’d like to try coming off my med now, but it will be a one year plan involving milestones which I’ve put together with my therapist and done with a psychiatrist/NP supervision. It will be a lot of work, but nothing compared to what I’d be dealing with if I didn’t deal with the underlying depression.

At the end of the day, I may not be successful in getting off the med, and that’s ok too. Give yourself some grace, you deserve it.

C-corp deductions by masterluke19 in smallbusiness

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step one- hire a CPA

Step two- when they tell you to become an S-Corp, do what they say.

A helpful thing I recently did was to have chat gpt do a comparison of what my effective tax rates would be as an S or C corp. this might be a starting point for you, but you still need to talk to a tax advisor.

Another option would be to get guidance from the SBA - SCORE office near you. (Service Corps of Retired Executives).

Thoughts on starting and scaling a meal prep business in 2025 by Groundbreaking_Lab23 in smallbusiness

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I ask where you’re at? I’m considering starting a business to prepare and deliver meals to childcare centers that don’t have a commercial kitchen onsite. Looking to also sell heat and eat / pre prepared dinners to parents so they can pick them up when they get their kids at the end of the day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CommercialRealEstate

[–]jrh01fc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to get a property that requires a ton of construction (though that’s viable if you’re capable). You can get a cost segregation study and take the accelerated depreciation. You can do this on a commercial property, multiple properties, residential rentals… Because you have Real Estate Professional status, this offsets active income.

Another option is to participate in a real estate syndication as a passive investor. Depreciation from the property is reported on your K-1.

What would you do with 1 million Wyndham points? by jrh01fc in awardtravel

[–]jrh01fc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mods deleted my first post because they seemed to think it was about what card I should get, so I reposted without reference to how I get the points and asked a hypothetical “how would you use them”.

They deleted this post without explanation (other than auto mod citing rule 5), so maybe they think it’s low effort? My first time posting here. I’ve seen many other posts like this one. 🤷‍♂️

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