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Portland and GPISD officials warn of fiscal squeeze as sales tax dips and Chapter 3 13 payments wane
Summary
City finance staff reported a sudden drop in sales-tax receipts that forced a budget amendment and hiring freeze; school district leaders said revenue-protection ("Chapter 3 13") payments of $13.7 million this year mask a widening future 'recapture' risk that could send tens of millions to the state when abatements expire.
Portland city staff and Gregory-Portland Independent School District officials used a Nov. 4 joint meeting to lay out near- and long-term fiscal pressures for both governments, highlighting an unexplained shortfall in local sales taxes and the looming end of several industry tax-abatement payments that the district now relies on.
City finance director Brian Wright told the joint session the city’s budget depends primarily on property and sales taxes and that the city recently amended its budget and instituted a hiring freeze after sales-tax receipts “went flat, from the year before. And then the next month, they were lower than the year before.” He said staff reviewed confidential comptroller reports…
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