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Council advances code to create Sustainability and Climate Commission; membership language and bylaws to be refined
Summary
Council took first reading on a new ordinance to codify a Sustainability and Climate Commission. Members debated membership language; an amendment to remove the word “maximum” failed and the ordinance was placed on the second‑reading calendar for final action.
Portland City Council advanced an ordinance on April 16 to codify a Sustainability and Climate Commission in city code, establishing the commission’s purpose, duties and membership structure while removing the commission from the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s internal purview.
The ordinance, considered in governance committee on April 7 and returned to council with committee amendments, sets out the commission’s purpose, membership composition, duties and procedural authorities. Committee staff said the…
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