I think I bring a unique set of skills, life experiences, and ideas to this race for City Council – District 4.
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Here’s what I will do:
- Launch ReBoot Portland to confront a major issue identified by both the new PSU/Pathways report and HSD Director Nathaniel VerGow in a recent Street Roots interview: Continuity of care.
- Stop seeing downtown as a problem to be solved and start seeing it as a resource to be developed through the Grid-Connected Core.
- Propose the Portland Affordability Rule that I developed, keeping growth in City-controlled household costs below the three-year average growth in Portland median household income.
- Propose the Load-Value Standard that I developed, requiring large new power users, like Data Centers, to demonstrate what Portland receives (jobs and other benefits) in exchange for the megawatts they consume.
- Complete the design and permitting for flushing channels to address the Ross Island algae bloom.
- Propose my Demand-Linked Storage Standard, connecting permitted fuel-storage capacity at the CEI Hub to measured regional demand to dramatically speed up draw-down, and begin planning and negotiating for the terminals and riverfront land as storage declines
- Complete the Safe Routes priority network around every District 4 elementary school.
- A unified vision defines the trajectory we want for Portland, strategy connects decisions to it, and then the execution of that strategy is how the Council earns Portland’s trust. I want Portland to become known as the most ambitious city in America, and that requires vision, and that vision can be, should be, clearly defined in a new Portland Strategic Plan.
Here’s a few of my proposals on bringing business back to downtown, solving for homelessness, my position on data centers, and healing our river.
