One of the reasons that I am heated about this is that degradation of parks assets is going to be hyper visible. It will be so easy to spin narratives of a city in decline. There is a 40% cut to funding for watering park fields. You’ll see that irl this summer!
Jake
Including parks funding (passable) in the broader CSR amendment (doomed to fail 6-6) was a choice.
Cllrs endorsing a challenger who is gunning for Novick’s seat also didn’t help.
That said, the blame is with the mod squad who killed this last chance to avoid millions of cuts to Portland parks
