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Portland delegation prioritizes state budget work and asks legislators to identify top bills
Summary
City officials and members of Portland's legislative delegation focused the meeting on the supplemental and biennial state budgets, potential impacts for local institutions and a request that each legislator send the city their one-to-three top bill priorities for monitoring and testimony.
At a delegation meeting, city officials and state legislators concentrated discussion on the state supplemental and biennial budgets and on coordinating which bills the city should monitor and support.
The meeting opened with Kate Knox, the city’s contracted lobby counsel, saying, “our primary work right now is around the budget and the proposals around general assistance.” Senator Rachel Talbot Ross (Senate District 28) said the delegation has been “total[ly] focused on getting the budget, both the supplemental, and as Kate said, now working on the biennial done,” and stressed the need to pass measures “in a timely manner.”
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