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Portland targets 20% cuts across internal services; administration outlines phased realignment
Summary
City Administrator Mike Jordan told council the mayor’s proposed budget assumes a phased redesign of internal service delivery with a 20% savings target for several enterprise functions, implementation staged across the coming fiscal year and possible reinvestment of savings into technology.
City Administrator Mike Jordan told the Portland City Council on May 14 that the mayor’s proposed budget embeds a multi‑phase plan to redesign internal service delivery and seek roughly 20% savings in several enterprise service areas.
Jordan said the approach differs from standard “hack away” cuts and asks leaders to redesign business processes so services can operate at an enterprise scale. “We’re asking leaders in each of these business processes, not just to get us 20% savings from the business process, but also redesign it so it can work at an enterprise scale,” he said.
The council was shown a conceptual org chart and a timeline for phased implementation. Jordan said some changes could be implemented by the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year, the bulk…
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