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Metro staff propose declaring extreme heat a regional threat and designating May 1–Sept. 30 heat season
Summary
Metro staff presented a draft resolution asking Metro Council to declare extreme heat and climate change a critical, growing threat and to designate a May 1–Sept. 30 regional heat season to better coordinate outreach, monitoring and resilience actions across counties and local partners.
Metro staff presented a draft resolution asking the Metro Council to declare extreme heat and climate change “critical and growing threats” to the greater Portland region and to designate May 1 through Sept. 30 as the region’s official heat season.
Kim Ellis, regional transportation planning manager at Metro, opened the presentation and turned the discussion to Jai Daniels, an associate transportation and climate planner at Metro, who said the resolution grows out of last year’s Cooling Corridor study and was developed in consultation with public‑health staff from Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and the Oregon Health Authority.
Daniels said the Cooling Corridor study identified 47 supporting actions, and…
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