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Portland City Council | |
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Type | |
Type | |
Leadership | |
Mayor | |
President of the Council | |
Structure | |
Seats | 5 |
Political groups | Democratic (5) (Officially nonpartisan) |
Elections | |
At-large (until November 8, 2022) Single transferable vote (current) | |
Last election | November 5, 2024 |
Meeting place | |
Council Chamber, Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th Ave Portland, Oregon 97204 |
The Portland City Council, (officially the Portland City Commission), is the legislative body of the City of Portland in Oregon and forms part of the Government of the city.
Portland runs on a commission form of government, the largest city in the United States to do so. The council is composed of five members, referred to as Commissioners, which includes the Mayor, each elected at-large for a term of four years. One of the Commissioners elected to be the ceremonial President of the Council. There are no term-limits for Commissioners and Commissioners are all officially nonpartisan. [1]
Commissioners are each assigned to run and oversee various city Bureaus (eg. Police, Fire, Environmental Services, Water). These assignments are occasionally switched around with the exception of the Police Bureau of which the Mayor is always Commissioner based on tradition.
The City Council convenes on Wednesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons in the council chamber on the second floor of Portland City Hall, and meetings are open to the public. [2]
In 2022, Portland voters passed Measure 26-228, which changed the structure of the city council from a commission form of government to a mayor-council form of government. The measure also expanded the council from 5 to 12 members, established 4 new geographic electoral districts, and changed the voting system from first-past-the-post to ranked-choice voting, with the mayoral race using single-winner ranked-choice voting and the council races using single transferable vote to elect 3 council members per district.
Position | Name | Elected |
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Mayor | Ted Wheeler | 2016 |
1 | Carmen Rubio | 2020 |
2 (President of the Council) | Dan Ryan | 2020 |
3 | Rene Gonzalez | 2022 |
4 | Mingus Mapps | 2020 |
District | Name | Elected |
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1 | Candace Avalos | 2024 |
Loretta Smith | 2024 | |
Jamie Dunphy | 2024 | |
2 | Dan Ryan | 2020 |
Elana Pirtle-Guiney | 2024 | |
Sameer Kanal | 2024 | |
3 | Steve Novick | 2024 |
Tiffany Koyama Lane | 2024 | |
Angelita Morillo | 2024 | |
4 | Olivia Clark | 2024 |
Mitch Green | 2024 | |
Eric Zimmerman | 2024 |
Beginning in 2024, the council will be districted as follows: [3]
Year | Mayor | Commissioner #1 | Commissioner #2 | Commissioner #3 | Commissioner #4 |
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1913 | H. Russel Albee | Will H. Daly | Robert Dieck | Wm. L. Brewster | C. A. Bigelow¹ |
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1915 | George L. Baker | ||||
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1917 | George L. Baker | A. L. Barbur | John M. Mann² | Dan Kellaher³ | |
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1919 | S. C. Pier | ||||
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1923 | Stanhope S. Pier | ||||
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1929 | |||||
1930 | Earl Riley³ | ||||
1931 | Earl Riley | Ralph C. Clyde | |||
1932 | A. G. Johnson³ | ||||
1933 | Joseph K. Carson, Jr. | Earl Riley | Ralph C. Clyde† | Ormond R. Bean¹ | J. E. Bennett² |
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1935 | |||||
1936 | |||||
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1938 | |||||
1939 | Wm. A. Bowes³ | ||||
1940 | |||||
1941 | Earl Riley | Fred L. Peterson | Kenneth L. Cooper³ | ||
1942 | |||||
1943 | Dorothy McCullough Lee³ | ||||
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1947 | |||||
1948 | |||||
1949 | Dorothy McCullough Lee | Ormond R. Bean | |||
1950 | |||||
1951 | J. E. Bennet | ||||
1952 | Nathan A. Boody³ | ||||
1953 | Fred L. Peterson | Stanley Earl | |||
1954 | |||||
1955 | |||||
1956 | |||||
1957 | Terry Schrunk | ||||
1958 | |||||
1959 | Mark A. Grayson | ||||
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1966 | |||||
1967 | Stanley Earl† | Mark A. Grayson | Frank Ivancie | Wm. A. Bowes† | |
1968 | |||||
1969 | Lloyd Anderson³ | ||||
1970 | Connie McCready³ | ||||
Year | Mayor | Commissioner #1 | Commissioner #2 | Commissioner #3 | Commissioner #4 |
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1971 | Terry Schrunk | Connie McCready** | Neil Goldschmidt* | Frank Ivancie* | Lloyd Anderson¹ |
1972 | |||||
1973 | Neil Goldschmidt¹ | Mildred Schwab | |||
1974 | Charles Jordan¹³ | ||||
1975 | |||||
1976 | |||||
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1978 | |||||
1979 | Mike Lindberg | ||||
1980 | |||||
1981 | Frank Ivancie | Margaret Strachan | |||
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1984 | |||||
1985 | Bud Clark | Dick Bogle | |||
1986 | |||||
1987 | Earl Blumenauer¹ | Bob Koch | |||
1988 | |||||
1989 | |||||
1990 | |||||
1991 | Gretchen Kafoury | ||||
1992 | |||||
1993 | Vera Katz | Charlie Hales¹ | |||
1994 | |||||
1995 | |||||
1996 | Erik Sten¹ | ||||
1997 | Jim Francesconi | ||||
1998 | |||||
1999 | Dan Saltzman | ||||
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2001 | |||||
2002 | |||||
2003 | Randy Leonard | ||||
2004 | |||||
2005 | Tom Potter | Sam Adams | |||
2006 | |||||
2007 | |||||
2008 | Nick Fish | ||||
2009 | Sam Adams | Amanda Fritz | |||
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2012 | |||||
2013 | Charlie Hales | Steve Novick | |||
2014 | |||||
2015 | |||||
2016 | |||||
2017 | Ted Wheeler | Chloe Eudaly | |||
2018 | |||||
2019 | Jo Ann Hardesty | ||||
2020 | Dan Ryan | ||||
2021 | Carmen Rubio | Mingus Mapps | |||
2022 | |||||
2023 | Rene Gonzalez |
¹: resigned
²: recalled
³: council member was originally appointed
†: died in office
*: elected mayor during council term
**: appointed mayor during council term
The Portland Charter was the subject of much debate circa 1911–1912. Rival charters were drafted by four different groups. One of these proposed charters was unusual in that it would have used Bucklin voting to elect the mayor and implemented interactive representation of the people through the commissioner system; each commissioner's vote would have been weighted according to the number of votes he received in the election. eventually, the city council submitted an entirely different charter to the people, which was accepted. [5] The city commission government form then came into use in 1913, with H. Russell Albee being the first mayor under the new system. [6]
Ballot Measure 26-228 in the November 2022 election was an amendment to the city charter that moved the city away from a commission system of government. It removes the five-person board that includes the mayor to a twelve-person board plus a separate mayor. The new city councilors will be elected using proportional multi-winner ranked-choice voting, with three members being elected each from four districts, instead of the standard first-past-the-post method. It also removes responsibility for direct management of city bureaus from commissioners to a city manager overseen by the mayor and confirmed by the council. [7] Previous attempts to reform the city charter had been defeated seven times since 1913, [8] including as recently as 2007. Portland is set to become the most-populated city to adopt the single transferable vote to elect city council members.
The first city council elections under the new districts will occur in 2024. [9] In preparation for transitioning management of city bureaus to a city manager, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced he would group city bureaus into five related service areas. [10]
Thomas Jay Potter is a former American politician and law enforcement officer in the U.S. state of Oregon. He served as Mayor of Portland from 2005 to 2009, and had been the chief of the Portland Police Bureau. As mayor he continued his advocacy of community policing and expressed interest in other reforms of the Portland police department. He marched against the Iraq War on the first anniversary of American involvement in March 2004 and was dismayed at the black uniforms and the militarized appearance of the Portland police he saw. He made it part of his campaign to rid the police of such a militarized appearance.
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