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Parks bureau lays out draft KPI dashboard for five‑year parks levy; councilors ask for targets, equity and disaggregation

Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee · December 12, 2025
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Summary

Portland Parks and Recreation and the Portland Parks Foundation presented a draft, interactive KPI dashboard for the newly approved five‑year parks levy, proposing about a dozen high‑level metrics and seeking council feedback on targets, district disaggregation, equity measures and baselines.

Interim Portland Parks and Recreation Director Sonia Schmansky and stakeholders from the Portland Parks Foundation on Thursday presented a draft key performance indicator dashboard designed to track the newly approved five‑year parks levy, which funds operations through fiscal 2031 and a modest amount of capital repair.

"This is the beginning," Schmansky said. "We're very happy to keep meeting with you this week, next week, next month, next year." She told the committee the dashboard will launch reporting in July and that a proposed final list will be sent to council in writing by the end of the year.

The dashboard is organized around roughly a dozen high‑level measures that staff and stakeholders said should be linked to outcome goals rather than stand‑alone…

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