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Council adopts annual strategic-priority procedure after debate over facilitation and safeguards
Summary
Council approved a resolution establishing an annual strategic-priority-setting process, including amendments to clarify facilitator selection and to require the framework to identify consensus and divergence; council also debated safeguards to prevent the framework from being used to block individual councilors' legislation.
The Portland City Council voted Thursday to adopt a new annual process for setting council strategic priorities, a procedural move sponsors said is intended to create a clearer collective focus for the new form of government.
The resolution establishes an annual period in January for council to identify shared priorities, objectives and measurable outcomes. It authorizes the city administrator and council leadership to work together on pre-work and facilitation logistics and asks that a strategic…
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