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(EPAP)

Draft Meeting NOTES JANUARY 28, 2015

MEETING ATTENDANCE:

Roger Anthony (ROSE CDC + EPAP Grants Review Committee)

Brian Lockwood (Powelhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association, EPAPbike Co-Chair, and EPAP Operations Committee)

David Abrahamson (Portland Police Bureau) Julio Maldonado (Multnomah County MidCounty Health Clinic and Civic Engagement Subcommittee)

Edwardo Aceveiza (NAYA) Kem Marks (Powellhurst Gilbert neighbor, East Portland Land Use and Transportation Committee, and EPAP Powell-Division Transit and Development Project Representative)

Rick Bartko (Mill Park) Matt Martin (Rosewood Bikes)

Bridget Bayer (Historic Parkrose and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Annette Mattson (Portland Development Commission-PDC- Neighborhood Economic Development Leadership group, and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Lori Boisen (Division Midway Association, Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Brenda McSweeney (Glenfair Neighborhood Association, East Portland Neighbors, and EPAP Multnomah County Commission of Children & Families Council Representative)

Tom Bluth (City Club of Portland) Rob Mederos (Glenfair Neighborhood Association)

Luke Bonham (ROSE Community Development Corporation)

Grace Neal (U.S. Senator Wyden’s Office)

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Hongsa Chanthavong (IRCO and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Galina Nekrasova (Association of Slavic USA + East Portland Parks Coalition + EPAP Multicultural Center Subcommittee)

Reverend Cliff Chappell (MAN-UP and Saint Johns of All Nations)

Jeremy O’Leary (Centennial Neighborhood Association and EPAP Co-Chair + Operations committee and Emergency Preparedness Representative)

Frieda Christopher (David Douglas School District + EPAP Housing Subcommittee Co-Chair + Civic Engagement Subcommittee + Education Subcommittee + Gateway Education/Ec Dev Center Representative)

Jessica Vega Pederson (State Representative HD 47)

Cassie Cohen (Groundwork Portland and EPAP Brownfields Subcommittee)

Jackie Putnam (Hazelwood Neighborhood)

Doug Cook (Argay Neighborhood Association) Abby Reinhardt (Historic Parkrose)

Michael Cummings (Lent resident and EPAP Education Subcommittee)

Linda Robinson (EPAP Gateway Green + Parks Representative and City of Portland Parks Board + East Portland Parks Coalition)

Jean DeMaster (Human Solutions and EPAP Housing Co-Chair + Economic Development + EPAP Representative on Minority Housing + Multnomah County Consolidated Plan+ Gateway Education Economic Development Center)

Jessica Rojas (City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services – CWSP)

Krista Dennis (Earl Boyles Parents United) Gladys Ruiz (Portland Audubon and Portland Parks & Recreation Board)

Bob Earnest (Hazelwood Neighborhood Association + EPAP Structures Committee Chair + Gateway Education Economic Development Center + Operations Committee+ Representative on Neighborhood Economic Development Leadership Group)

Jasmine Rucker (Neighborhood)

Jenny Glass (The Rosewood Initiative and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Nick Sauvie (ROSE CDC and EPAP Housing, Economic Development + Operations Committees + Representative on Neighborhood Economic Development Leadership Group + Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity)

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Ron Glanville (Russell Neighborhood Association and East Portland Neighbors)

Chris Scarzello (City of Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability and EPAP Technical Advisory Committee Chair)

Karen Gray (Parkrose School District, City of Portland Planning & Sustainability Commission, and EPAP Technical Advisory Committee)

Ivan Scharbrough (Sunshine Awakenings)

David Hampsten (Hazelwood Neighborhood Assoc.+ East Portland Land Use and Transportation and EPAP Bike + Economic Development + Structures + Housing + City of Portland Transportation Budget Advisory Committee Representative)

Keith Scholz (OPAL Bus Riders United)

Jo Ann Hardesty (Coalition For a Livable Future and EPAP Grants Review Committee)

Korey Schotz

Jossie Hernandez (Rosewood Initiative and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Jill Slate (Portland State University)

Rosa Hernandez (Latina Learning Community and EPAP Civic Engagement Subcommittee)

Teresa Keishi Soto (Organizing People Activating Leaders: OPAL and East Portland Land Use and Transportation)

Alexandria Jones-Patton (Urban League of Portland)

Sue Spencer (Mount Hood Community College and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)

Arlene Kimura (Hazelwood Neighborhood Association + East Portland Parks Coalition + East Portland Land Use and Transportation and EPAP Co-Chair + Operations + EPAP Parks, Street Car, Pedestrian Advisory Committee and Main Street Representative)

Tonisha Toler (Regional Arts and Culture Council: RACC and EPAP Civic Engagement Subcommittee)

Matt Koch Andrea Valderrama (City of Portland Commissioner Novick staff and EPAP Grant Review Committee)

Kathy Krisinski (Ocean Child) Sean Vasser (PANGRIA)

Adriana Larraga (Padres Unidos) Anna Volkova (Russian Speaking Network and EPAP Civic Engagement)

Emily Larraga (David Douglas High School) Jeffrey Waldo (Portland State University)

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Katie Larsell (EPAP Citywide Budget Advisory Committee Representative)

Sharon White (City of Portland Bureau of Transportation)

Joyce Ley (Wilkes Community Group) lore wintergreen (EPAP Advocate)

Eliza Lindsay (East Portland Neighborhood Office)

Bobbi Yambasu (Elders In Action)

I. Welcome:

A. Arlene Kimura facilitated the meeting: 1. Recognition of Karen Fisher Gray for gathering food from Siam

Grill

2. Recognition of tonight’s Host Brian Lockwood 3. Next meeting: 4th Wednesday, February 25, 2015

4. Introductions

5. EPAP ‘Strategic Priorities’ document review http://eastportlandactionplan.org/sites/default/files/2014.05.15%20EPAP%20Strategic%20Priorities%202014%20-%2015%20Municipal%20identification%20lettered%20All%20combined2.pdf

6. Participating Member Agreement reminder

7. Recognition of Time Keeper Jeremy O’Leary

8. Success Trackers Teresa Keishi Soto

9. Recruitment and recognition of Roger Anthony and Bridget Bayer as microphone runners

10. Orientation for a ½ hour with David Hampsten

II. Committee Updates:

A. Bike – Brian Lockwood See October and November notes on pages 9 - 11.

B. Brownfields – Cassie Cohen 1. See January notes on pages 12 - 13.

C. Civic Engagement – Tonisha Toler

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1. See English & Español language January notes on pages 14 - 22.

D. Economic Development – David Hampsten

1. See December and Januarynotes on pages 23 - 32.

E. Education – Krista Dennis 1. See January notes on pages 33 - 34.

F. Grant Review – Brenda McSweeney

1. See January notes on pages 35 - 36. 2. See Recommendations for 2015 EPAP Civic Engagement

Grant Projects on pages 37 - 38. a. ACTION: Recommendation was unanimously approved.

G. Housing – Jean DeMaster, Frieda Christopher, and Nick Sauvie

1. See December and January notes and updated ‘Tools to Mitigate Displacement on pages 39 - 52.

2. See ‘East Portland Community Housing Needs’ letter on pages 53. a. ACTION: Adjustments made, See letter that was

unanimously approved on pages 54 - 55. b. Oregon Opportunity Network ‘An update from the East

Portland Action Plan Housing Committee’ Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:00 noon at the First Unitarian Church’s Buchan Room, 1226 SW Salmon, Portland.

III. Municipal Partnership Project Selection Process – Katie Larsell and

lore wintergreen A. See instructions playlet script on pages 56 - 57. B. See ‘Criteria Used in Project Selection’ on page 58.

IV. Municipal Partnership Project Presentations

A. Developing Prosperity in East Portland: Municipal Partner is Portland Development Commission – Todd Struble, Lori Boisen, Jenny Glass, and Bridget Bayer 1. See application on pages 59 - 63.

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B. Document Translation Services : Municipal Partner is David Douglas School District – Frieda Christopher, Krista Dennis, and Adriana Larraga 1. See application on pages 64 - 67.

C. East Portland Parks Local Hiring Project: Municipal Partner is

Portland Parks and Recreation – Nick Sauvie 1. See application on pages 68 - 72.

D. East Portland English as a Second Language (ESL) Driver

Education Program: Municipal Partner is Portland Police Bureau – Anna Volkova, Natalya Sobolevskaya, and Sergeant David Abrahamson 1. See application on pages 73 - 77. 2. JoAnn Hardesty was surprised that the Portland Police Bureau

would legally support this project.

E. Language Specific Outreach and Informational Material for Portland Parks & Recreation Mobile Playgrounds East as part of the ‘Summer Free for All’: Municipal Partner is Portland Parks and Recreation – Natalya Sobolevskaya 1. See application on pages 78 - 81.

V. Representative Updates:

A. Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) Report – Karen Fisher Gray 1. See PSC Report on pages 82 - 83. 2. Steve spoke of Oregon Voluntary Organizations Active In

VI. Announcements

A. Urban League of Portland East Portland Senior Program – Alexandria Jones-Patterson Services to seniors over age 60 living east of 82nd. Focus is African American population. Will be at the Rosewood Initiative Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact Alexandria at: 503.901.9550

B. City Bureau of Environmental Services Community Water Stewardship Program Grant – Jessica Rojas and Jennifer Devlin

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$10,000 available. Criteria includes partnerships, under-represented population involvement. Contact Jessica at: Jessica.rojas@portlandoregon.gov

C. OPAL Extended Tri-Met Transfer Success – Keith Scholz

OPAL advocated and got 2.5 hour transfers. This will go into effect on March 1, 2015.

D. Regional Arts and Culture Council Grants – Tonisha Toler Go to www.racc.org to learn about grant opportunities for the arts.

E. State Representative Jessica Vega Pederson’s seeking East

Portland stories: She is available after the meeting to talk.

F. Success Tracking Report – Teresa Keishi Soto

1. EPAPbike - SE Division and SE 130th are getting flashing beacons to improve safe crossing.

2. Brownfields – circulating the petition to seek use of 124th and Division property for something other than fast food.

3. Civic Engagement – Leach Botanical Garden took input on design. They had a productive discussion about for involuntary displacement recommendations.

4. Economic Development – productive discussion about involuntary displacement tools and about EPAP 2015 – 16 Strategic Priorities.

5. Education – Faith-based partnerships event was successful at David Douglas School District.

6. Grant Review -- Re-worded EPAP General Grant application and included a survey of need for changes.

7. Civic Engagement Grant – CE Grant recommendations were approved unanimously. Yea, some great new projects for East Portland.

8. Housing – Multnomah County Auditor support for tax equity. Housing will be presenting about their involuntary displacement prevention work at the February Oregon Opportunity Network event. Letter advocating for East Portland fair share of resources to Portland Housing Bureau was unanimously approved. They have reviewed 25 of the 34 displacement prevention tools.

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9. Planning & Sustainability Commission Representative – Karen Gray educated us further about the Comprehensive Plan. Encouraged pushing City to use tools to prevent displacement.

G. Orientation – David Hampsten (4 people attended)

VII. Voting with $ To Select Recommended Municipal Partnership Projects (Participating Partnership Agreement Signing Members get to vote) – Arlene Kimura A. Process document is referenced again: See instructions on

page 84.

Next EPAP general meeting:

Next Meeting: 4th Wednesday of the month: February 25, 2015

6:30 – 8:30 PM David Douglas School District Office, Board Room

1500 SE 130th Ave. (at SE market between Division and Stark)

Dinner, Childcare, and Spanish language interpretation provided

If you want to be on the February agenda or need additional language interpretation, contact:

503.823.4035 or lore.wintergreen@portlandoregon.gov. East Portland Neighborhood Office 1017 NE 117th Ave.

Portland, OR 97220 Website: www.eastportlandactionplan.org

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Civic Engagement January, 2015, NOTES: 1—Introductions: Galina Nekrasova, ASIUS; lore wintergreen, EPAP; Natalya Sobolevskaya, RSN; David Porter, Leach Garden; Joann Herrigel, Elders in Action; Nancy Aragon; Alfredo Guzman; Tonisha Toler, RACC; Claudia Carrilo, LLC; Lum Thang. ZOMI USA. 2—Leach Botanical Garden Development Plans and Community Involvement

- David Porter, Exec. Dir. of the Leach Botanical Gardens located at SE 122nd Ave. and Foster spoke about the gardens are about to embark on new work and upgrading facilities. Also commented that the Gardens have many activities besides just visiting the garden and walking around.

- Reason for being at the EPAP/CE meeting…working to connect with the community to hear ideas from the community about what the community wants. Working to put the word out to the community through newspaper distributions and community meeting input. Their goal is make the Garden a “destination like the Japanese Garden”.

- EPAP/CE decided to put this item on the next meeting’s agenda to hopefully come up with some ideas to contribute; Garden will be accepting ideas April – June 2015.

3—Civic Engagement Displacement Prevention Tools: What are Specific civic engagement tools that may be used to prevent displacement?

- Galina Nekrasova had spoken with her community, representing the Slavic Community here in Portland/E. Portland. Galina brought up many good points that were issues her community expressed. These issues were not altogether seen as specific displacement causing issues or tools –seen more as livability issues and tools.

o Displacement being defined as “one can no longer afford to live in a certain place”.

- Issues brought up:

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o Work places are far away o Schools are not as good o Moms want to work, not enough child care o Desire good neighbors o Want to feel safe

- Items brought up as tools o Community engagement/involvement o How to find work o How to work with the police

meetings with Police or different public entities to communicate with the Slavic community, including interpretation, to talk about problems

meeting with pastors to aid in communicating with the community

• lore mentioned there is actually a meeting being organized by David Douglas, taking place Wed. Feb. 11th, 9-10:30am

• meeting is inviting all pastors in E. PDX o Galina feels not all pastors especially

within the Slavic Community will meet with each other. Maybe will meet with all communities of faith

Crime prevention Religious support Neighborhood watch

- Other items discussed o A land trust could be seen as a displacement tool

One could own equity in their house but not own the property

This enables selling prices for the next home buyer to be affordable

o Civic Engagement Grants could be seen as a tool Could help communities hold meetings/events to become

better informed of civic engagement; overall possibility to strengthen communities

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o Information from organizations such as Community Tenants Alliance They can provide information to renters about rights and

resources o Supporting Transit Oriented Development housing

Housing oriented to new transit developments—for example along the new SE Max Line

o Services/support from Work Source to help people learn how to increase earning potential

4—Review Brainstorm of New Advocacy Projects and select priorities that have Action Plan relationship:

- Items tabled for next meeting; the people who need to explain suggestions are not in attendance

5—Dinamica Fun! 6—Ideas of New Ongoing Projects for East Portland, which will be supported by EPNO and ONI (for example: movie in the park in Russian and Spanish languages…)

- Suggested to continue movie in the park o Further investigation needed as to how this can be support

financially For example, instead of 15 movies, provide 10 and make

more money available per movie - Bring back E. PDX Expo event

o Mark White was the founder and coordinator of this event for 3 years

o The model of this event was not sustainable Committee discussed ideas on how to bring this back

financially • Cut costs; find outside funding sources • Encourage collaborations

o Previously event held in conjunction with Sunday Parkways

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o Previously collaborated with organizations, TREE Institute and NW Housing Authority

- Eliza Lindsey representative of EPNO announced the ONI Advisory Committee is looking for ideas to support Feb. 22nd meeting

- Committee would like to continue this conversation at the next meeting

7—Meeting business

- January 28th presenter of the notes at the general EPAP meeting o Tonisha Toler

- Next EPAP CE meeting roles o Facilitator – Galina Nekrasova o Note taker – Tonisha Toler o Food – Lum Thang

8—Finalize the meaning of word “cultural” for Civic Engagement Grant. Establish new language for the EPAP Civic Engagement Grant that better represents what Civic Engagement Subcommittee intends by culture. Patrik suggested that we change to “racially/ethnically/linguistically marginalized communities”.

- Not all words in Patrik’s suggestion were understood by everyone - Suggestions:

o keeping “racially/ethnically” o adding “language specifics” o adding “not normally included”

Additional discussion:

- Grant review committee asked why there were so few grants this year - Recommend receiving more feedback especially in regards to

language needs - Comments regarding too many criteria in grant guidelines

o Additionally, have criteria be listed with individual questions criteria pertains to vs. applicant having to flip back and forth from questions page to criteria page

- CE needs to decide if they want to make changes for next year’s grant application

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La reunión del Subcomité de participación cívica

1—Presentaciones: Galina Nekrasova, ASIUS; lore wintergreen, EPAP; Natalya Sobolevskaya, RSN; David Porter, Leach Garden; Joann Herrigel, Elders in Action; Nancy Aragon; Alfredo Guzman; Tonisha Toler, RACC; Claudia Carrilo, LLC; Lum Thang, ZOMI USA. 2— Los planes para el desarrollo de el Jardín Botánico Leach y la participación comunitaria

- David Porter, Director ejecutivo del Jardín Botánicos Leach, ubicado en SE 122nd Ave. con la Foster, presentó que está a punto de comenzar nuevos proyectos en los Jardines y la actualización de sus instalaciones. También comentó que el Jardín ofrece muchas actividades aparte de solamente visitar y pasear por el Jardín.

- Su motivo de asistir la reunión del EPAP/Participación cívica (CE, por sus siglas en inglés)...trabajar para conectarse con la comunidad para escuchar sus ideas sobre qué quiere la comunidad. Está trabajando para hacer correr la voz en boletines y por asistir reuniones comunitarias para pedir comentarios. Su meta es hacer que el Jardín sea "un destino, como el Jardín japonés".

- El EPAP/CE decidió agregar esta materia a la agenda para la próxima reunión para que con suerte se encuentren unas ideas. Se aceptarán sugerencias para el Jardín entre abril-junio de 2015.

3— Las herramientas de participación cívica para prevenir el desplazamiento: ¿Cuáles son las herramientas específicas de participación cívica para la prevención del desplazamiento?

- Galina Nekrasova había conversado con su comunidad, representando a la comunidad eslava aquí en Portland/el Este de Portland. Galina mencionó varios puntos muy buenos que su comunidad había expresado. No se pensaba necesariamente que estos puntos podrían ser herramientas o problemas que podrían

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provocar el desplazamiento. Fueron considerados más como asuntos tratando con la habitabilidad.

o Se define el desplazamiento como "la falta de recursos económicos para poder quedarse en un lugar específico".

- Los asuntos que se mencionaron: o El lugar del trabajo se queda lejos o Las escuelas no son buenas o Las mamás quieren trabajar pero no hay cuidado de menores

suficiente o El deseo de tener vecinos buenos o El deseo de sentirse uno seguro

- Se mencionaron los siguientes temas como herramientas: o La participación/involucramiento comunitario o Cómo encontrar empleo o Cómo trabajar con la policía

Reuniones con la policía o con diferentes organizaciones públicas para comunicarse con la comunidad eslava, con interpretación, para hablar de los problemas

Realizar reuniones con pastores para aumentar la comunicación con la comunidad

• lore mencionó que ya habrá una reunión organizada por David Douglas el miércoles, 11 de febrero, 9:00-10:30am

• Son invitados todos los pastores en el Este de Portland

o Galina opina que no todos los pastores, especialmente los de la comunidad eslava, van a reunirse entre si. Tal vez si hubiera una reunión entre todas las comunidades de fe.

Prevención de delitos Apoyo religioso La vigilancia en los vecindarios

- Otros temas mencionados

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o Se podría considerar un fideicomiso de tierras como una herramienta anti desplazamiento Uno podría tener el valor líquido de su casa pero no ser

dueño de la propiedad Esto facilita que el precio de venta para el próximo

comprador sea asequible o Las Becas de participación cívica podrían ser consideradas

como una herramienta Podrían ayudar a las comunidades a llevar a cabo

reuniones/eventos para informarse aún más sobre la participación cívica; [conllevan] la posibilidad general de fortalecer comunidades

o Información de organizaciones tales como la Alianza comunitaria de inquilinos Ellos pueden dar información a los inquilinos sobre sus

derechos y recursos o Apoyo de las viviendas orientadas hacía el desarrollo del

transporte público Viviendas destinadas hacia la nueva construcción de

transporte público - por ejemplo, a lo largo de la nueva línea del sureste del Max.

o Servicios/apoyo de Work Source para ayudar a la gente a aprender cómo aumentar su potencial de ingresos.

4—Repasar la lluvia de ideas sobre los nuevos proyectos de apoyo y escoger las prioridades que tengan que ver con el Plan de acción:

- Tema aplazado hasta la próxima reunión; las personas necesarias para explicar las sugerencias no asistieron hoy

5—Dinámica ¡Divertida! 6—Ideas para nuevos proyectos regulares para el Este de Portland, los cuales serán apoyados por la EPNO y la ONI (por ejemplo, las películas en los parques en ruso y español...)

- Se sugirió continuar con las películas en los parques o Se necesita más investigación para encontrar cómo se puede

apoyar económicamente el proyecto.

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Por ejemplo, en lugar de ofrecer 15 películas, ofrezca 10 y haga que haya más dinero disponible por película

- Reintroducir el evento de la Exposición de PDX (PDX Expo) o Mark White fue el fundador y coordinador de este evento por 3

años. o El modelo del evento no era sostenible

El comité habló de ideas sobre cómo financieramente reintroducir este evento

• Recortar los costos; encontrar fuentes externas de financiación

• Alentar las colaboraciones o El evento anteriormente fue llevado a cabo en

colaboración con Sunday Parkways o Anteriormente hubo colaboraciones con

organizaciones, el Instituto TREE y el Departamento de viviendas en el noroeste

- Eliza Lindsey, representante de la EPNO, anunció que el Comité de asesoría de la ONI está buscando ideas para apoyar la reunión del 22 de febrero

- El comité prefiere aplazar esta conversación hasta la próxima reunión

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de enero o Tonisha Toler

- Para la próxima reunión del EPAP/CE o Facilitadora – Galina Nekrasova o Apuntes/actas – Tonisha Toler o Comida – Lum Thang

8—Finalizar qué quiere decir de la palabra "cultural" en la Beca de participación cívica. Establecer nuevo contenido para la solicitud que represente mejor la intención del Subcomité de participación cívica al decir "cultura". Patrik sugirió que la cambiemos a "comunidades marginadas racial/étnica/lingüísticamente".

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- Todo el mundo no entendía todas las palabras en la sugerencia de Patrik.

- Sugerencias: o mantener "racial/étnicamente" o agregar "con lenguas específicas" o agregar "que no normalmente son incluidas

Conversación adicional: - El comité de revisión de las becas preguntó por qué solicitó las becas

tan poca gente este año. - Recomienda recibir más comentarios, especialmente en cuanto a las

lenguas necesitadas - Hubo un comentario que había demasiados criterios en las pautas de

la beca o Adicionalmente, hacer que las preguntas individuales listen los

requisitos del criterio aplicables para que el solicitante no tenga que hojear la solicitud para encontrar los criterios y regresar a la página de preguntas.

- El subcomité CE necesita decidir si quiere hacer cambios a la solicitud de becas para el próximo año

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East Portland Action Plan Economic Development (Ec Dev) Subcommittee Meeting Notes: December 1, 2014

The purpose of the East Portland Action Plan (EPAP) Economic Development Subcommittee is to develop a strong business environment that strengthens existing businesses, promotes new businesses, and expands family wage jobs in East Portland.

Attendees: Nick Sauvie – Facilitator; Todd Struble – Notes; David Hampsten; lore wintergreen; Susan Spenser; Ricardo Lopez, Jenny Glass, and Dillon Reidfeery. Bridget Bayer arranged for food. Agenda: 1. Next Month – Food Sue, Facilitation Todd, Notes Dave February – Food Todd, Facilitator Dave 2. EPAP advocacy success – To be reported by the EPAP Subcommittees at the February general EPAP meeting. Community Benefits – Ricardo will contact PPS to advocate for services in East Portland (EP). As part of CBA, PPS is taking 1%, and part is going to work place, and part is going to TA. PPS will likely do an RFP to select the workforce partner. A bigger coalition formed around water bureau projects in Kelly Butte, Stanton Yard. Portland Youth Builders, IRCO, some others advocating for CBA. Dave thinks that the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation will likely contract out a lot of the work scheduled for the East Portland In Motion implementation, because they’re behind on EP projects, and City Agencies don’t want to expand staffing they cannot sustain. Building these 2nd stage projects are tied to the passing of the transportation Street Fee. What advocacy have we done? Ongoing advocacy in transportation in addition to

A. Marketing EPAP as a place to do business a. What advocacy was done b. What has been accomplished c. What is to be done next?

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i. Advocate to PDC about marketing EPAP as a place to do business

B. Maximize EP economic benefits from public projects a. What advocacy was done b. What has been accomplished c. What is to be done next?

i. Advocate for CBA’s December 10th when Council makes a decision on the transportation fee

C. Promote catalyst workforce development projects in EP; partner with NPI’s

a. What advocacy was done i. Idea for a job fair

b. What has been accomplished i. Planning has begun for a job fair ii. Mt Hood has provided ESL and other services to potential

employees. c. Advocacy surrounding the Gateway Education Center

i. PDC is focused on that because they own property there. ii. Arose out of the Gateway URA. Lots of players got

together and discussed the broader view of what the project would look like.

iii. Mayor Hales staff suggested a private project would work, as the City would not support the project.

d. What is to be done next i. Sue will connect with Corki about the job fair ii. Jenny will meet with Corki and Jared about improving the

Columbia corridor and the programs that Rosewood have. iii. Ricardo will also follow up about jobs in the Columbia

corridor and how to connect employers with job seekers. iv. Leatherman tools is hiring right now.

1. Connect employers with supervisiors who are bilingual and bicultural to connect with immigrant and employees of color.

v. Connect about the Gateway project to discuss what type of advocacy EPAP wants to do about the site –

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discrepancy between types of organizations that would go in, either for-profit generating TIF or a more community minded organization.

D. Connecting Residents to Family Wage Employment a. Advocacy done

i. Conducted the study showing where people who work in Portland live, and vice versa. Now we have that data.

ii. Workers here work everywhere except downtown. iii. Advocating for transportation to serve those populations,

including North-South alignments iv.

b. Accomplishments i. Finished the study and learned where people live and

work. ii. Street fee plan included increased service in EPAP, safer

crossings at 122, frequent service for the 71. c. Next steps

i. Continue advocating for increased service to workers in the Columbia Corridor

ii. Advocate for workforce shuttling 1. Successful example in Forest Grove

iii. Childcare and Transportation are the largest barriers to getting folks to work on time and consistently getting to appointments

E. Integrate EPAP into the comprehensive plan, a. Advocacy Done

i. Mixed use advocacy ii. Cards – anti-displacement

iii. tsp@portlandoregon.gov iv. psc@portlandoregon.gov v. Stronger if we go through people that are doing direct

advocacy rather than writing e-mails. vi. Dave worked on advocating for TSP changes as part of

the comp plan.

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1. This is where we can get EPAP comp plan goals actually into the comp plan.

b. Accomplishments i. Will find out when the TSP project list gets released in

January c. Next Steps

i. Comment period is from January 30th and comments are due February 24th.

Displacement Prevention Tools A. Living Wage Provisions

a. Support. B. Local Hiring

a. Support. C. Minority Contracting

a. Support. D. Commercial Stabilization

a. Move Forward E. Community Reinvestment Act

a. Move Forward F. TOD

a. On the list G. Developer Exactions

a. Continue reviewing H. Discussion re: what different terms mean and how we go forward

a. Move forward with everything except G. b. But we need to either recommend these tools or further

examine based on how these tools interface with each other and whether they work.

c. Housing has closely examined this idea but have a much larger list

d. Narrowing it down might work through the URA and NPI programs.

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e. We can recommend a list to the other subcommittees with the ultimate goal of making a joint recommendation to the main EPAP meeting about which tools to advocate for.

f. Housing doesn’t like TOD – but we may feel strongly about it on EcDev. Need to determine where overlap is.

g. A-F we have decided on, we’re waiting on G. h. Health Equity didn’t recommend any of the food options

Announcements A. APANO/Jade Office Warming/Holiday Party

a. December 11th at 5:30 B. Legislative Advocacy 101 Training

a. 6 to 8 pm Monday December 15 C. Rosewood announcements

a. Holiday Market Saturday i. 10-2 December 6th at Rosewood Initiative

b. Bike Shop Grant award! c. Awesome Portland!

i. Need volunteers to get a shop going. D. Process motion

a. NPIs send written reports to mailing list before the meeting b. Concerns about whether people would read them c. Committee is deciding that a written report would be nice if you

don’t show up in person. In general though, no written reports are needed.

d. Announcements at the end are nice.

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January 14, 2015 1:00—2:30 p.m. David Douglas Board Room EPAP Education Committee Minutes: Members Present Helen Ying Don Grotting Lore Wintergreen Michael Cummings Adrianna Larraga Krista Dennis Jill Weir Carol Fenstermacher Introductions of members and revisited purpose of committee. Lore provided minutes and information regarding goals of committee. Carol Facilitated and Don took notes. Both Jill and Helen offered to do notes in the future, if we bring a laptop. Don Grotting discussed upcoming Faith Based event taking place at David Douglas on February 11, from 9 to 10:30. Reviewed purpose of faith-based partnerships, separation of church and state and how organizations could partner to serve children and families. Jill suggested possibly inviting SUN coordinators to meeting as well as Hands On Coordination individual as this organization has experience in pairing organizations. Parent Involvement Advocacy The work of Bill Baney was suggested for consideration. Helen suggested that we focus on what is the desired outcome of parent involvement – student success. Approaches and abilities can often be culturally based. Without the ability to communicate basic information to parents in their own language, parent involvement cannot happen. Adrianna spoke of her experience seeing parents get excited when they received information in a language they could understand. Michael suggested that we focus on what we can do and develop specific achievable outcomes. Carol suggested that we need an agreed upon definition of what parent engagement means to everyone.

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It was decided to apply for an East Portland Action Plan Municipal Partnership Project focused on translation services of essential documents for David Douglas, Centennial, Parkrose, and Reynolds school districts. Don Grotting will take the lead to construct a project. The Municipal Partnership Project application is due January 19th, with a verbal report to the general EPAP on January 28th. The Project would provide each district the opportunity to translate select documents in their most significant languages. Krista and Adrianna agreed to be co-sponsors as regularly attending general EPAP meeting members. Lore suggested that Frieda also sponsor the Project. Don will contact each school district superintendant to verify their commitment to the project. Don will also utilize his contact with the University of Portland to do research work with this group to define parent involvement and family engagement and achievable outcomes. He will invite them to our next meeting. Carol suggested having the U of P doctoral students do cross-district leadership training for parents to build leadership in the future. The committee thought this was a good idea. Next month’s agenda will focus on this discussion and review of the submitted Municipal Partnership Project. Lore will bring lunch since it will be a big meeting day for the group members who are attending the DDSD communities of faith meeting. The meeting adjourned at 2:30

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Grants Committee Meeting – January 15, 2015 – 5:00-6:00pm

Notes

1) Discussion on the intent of “culturally specific” grants. Are they restricted to ethnic/language-specific cultures only? The Civic Engagement Committee refined the language for CE Grants to be intended for “racially/ethnically/linguistically marginalized communities”. Committee accepted this language as appropriate. 2) What are the reasons behind the lack of grant applications? What can be done to change this? Discussion points were that some may find the application difficult to understand – while the information on what they need to submit is there, it may not be as easy to find it as it could be. Concern was also raised that that some groups are declining to participate, as the committee has evolved a more stringent evaluation process over time. For many groups, the general attitude is that the money awarded is not worth the effort. Action item: Committee members will review the application and suggest changes via email process. In addition, a new place on the application for groups to leave feedback will be incorporated. 3) What can we do to streamline the application process? In addition to potential application changes, there was broad agreement that fewer criteria should be used for scoring. 4) How can committee members further our own cultural competency

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and racial equity lens? A discussion was held regarding what types of activities committee members can take to enhance our individual cultural competency. Members were in broad agreement that some level of training would be welcomed. Action item: Members will in the future strive to attend grantee workshops/celebrations and also would welcome training before picking up their next grant packets – training that potentially could be given by some of our current/past grantees. 5) Request for new Grants Chairperson At this point, no one has yet stepped up to be the new chairperson. The current need is for someone to report on committee activities at the January EPAP general meeting.

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December 8, 2014

EPAP Housing Sub-committee Meeting East Portland Neighborhood Office

Meeting Notes

The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. ===============================================================

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December 8, 2014 Housing Sub-committee Meeting Meeting began at 6:05 pm Attendees –Frieda Christopher, Nick Sauvie, Lore Wintergreen, Chris Scarzello, Leah Grey, David Hampsten, Isidro Reyes, Vivian Satterfield, Sasha Davis, and Jean DeMaster. Betty Dominguez was excused. Welcome and Introductions: Jean welcomed everyone and each attendee introduced themselves. Minutes: The November minutes were reviewed and edits were made. The minutes were approved as presented. There was discussion to go to an 8pm stop time. After a discussion, it was decided to keep ending time to 7:30 and try not to go over. Follow up with Comp map. Chris Scarzello sated they were looking at downzoning in some of EP. She said there were requests for down zoning in Eastmoreland area. to keep out density, yet they have the most amenities. Chris showed the citywide maps that show that there is more multifamily housing zoned in EP than other parts of city. Lore mentioned there are suppose to be quadrant plans. Chris was not aware of Quadrant Plans. She said we should pay attention to the Mixed- Use Plan. Jean clarified that the message we want Chris to bring forth was that commercial property is at least 20-30% commercial and that for housing that it meet residential standards such as face the street and have sidewalks. Chris will not be at the next meeting but will ask Uma to come and Jean said we should bring computers to add info to the map app. Would a separate endorsement of Welcome Home be helpful or is the EPAP General Meeting Endorsement just fine: Nick said he had enough with EPAP endorsement Announcement of the Legislative Workshop: There is a workshop for education on Dec 15 at 6-8pm. Lore said they may not take input on the city’s agenda.

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Response to the Comp Plan from the EPAP Jean said no one sent in comments so the letter will go as written. Strategies to avoid displacement: Linkage Fees: Nick said that thisis similar to Systems Development Charges (SDC) fees and they are charged on all kinds of development. Nick feels it would be one of the most powerful tools. (+3) Anti-speculation or real estate transfer tax: Nick explained that this is when any real estate is sold a fee is collected and could be dedicated to affordable housing. It discourages flipping of property. Downside is it is the tax is illegal in Oregon. (+2) Tax increment financing: Nick references this as a financing tool for urban renewal. This has been done in Portland and it has caused displacement due to not enforcing the requirements for affordable housing in the Urban Renewal Areas (URAs). (-3) (David feels it would be +2 and could still be a useful tool.) Chris said the law should be changed to allow for investment from one URA to a non-contiguous area. Homeowner/home buyer programs: Leah said that there are limited programs and some are geared to families in the system and most have long waiting lists. Proud Ground has one of the best programs. They keep the house as affordable. Habitat for Humanity is a good program. One of the problem is there it is not clearly published where to go for information. (+3) Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning – Leah said from her research OR law may violate the Federal Statute. Jean said they don’t have enough incentives, but Nick said that incentives are used with voluntary inclusionary zoning. This is mandatory inclusionary zoning. (+2) Frieda reported on:

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Owner-Occupancy Ordinance: The ordinance is used to maintain affordable home ownership and reduce speculation by investors. This is often coupled with inclusionary zoning, but does not need to be. The ordinance is used to ensure that affordable residential units would be maintained as ownership opportunities. If a community is interested in deterring speculation and maintaining a local workforce, it should consider an owner-occupancy component with any affordable housing requirement (Foster 2011). Even in cities without inclusionary zoning, owner-occupancy restrictions can help preserve housing for homeowners. For example, they could be applied to other affordable housing programs or subsidies. (???#) Condominium Conversion Ordinance: There are laws around condominium conversions, but a conversion of rental apartments to a condominium typically requires about 120 days notice to the tenants with a right of first refusal to purchase their units during that time. In Portland, City Ordinance #150739 requires that developers pay for the moving expenses of low-income tenants though it is not clear that it is enforced. (+2) Condominium conversion ordinances can also include the following:

• a cap on the number of condominium conversions that can take place during a year

• approval by the local planning commission or city council; and • payment of a housing mitigation fee to the city’s housing

trust fund to offset the im-pact of the tenants being displaced.

Jean feels this needs to be coupled with “Just Cause eviction” Convert or Preserve Units as Affordable Housing: This includes tools that preserve existing affordable housing units or take other units out of the market and convert them into affordable housing This does not add to the overall housing stock as do the tools. There are multiple methods to preserve units such as: Affordable Housing Preservation Ordinance: Owners of affordable housing projects are required to give a city and tenants notice of any plans to sell the project or make it no longer

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affordable. The city is then given the opportunity to buy the property. Portland has a current policy which includes: (???#)

It is the policy of the City of Portland that publicly assisted rental housing affordable to low and moderate income persons and households should be preserved as a long-term resource to the maximum extent practicable, and that tenants of such properties should receive protections to facilitate securing new housing should the affordable units be converted to market rate units or otherwise be lost as a resource for low and moderate income housing.

Affordable Housing Replacement Ordinances: Affordable housing replacement ordinances require a developer whose actions result in the loss of affordable housing—through demolition or condominium conversions—to replace all or a percentage of the affordable units lost. The ordinances can require the units to be re-placed onsite or offsite, or can permit an in-lieu-of payment into a housing trust fund to be used for housing preservation projects.99 Replacement ordinances can “further replacement of affordable housing or discourage inappropriate demolitions or conversions,” but, if not crafted appropriately, “may also act to discourage needed investment in upgrading or re-placing the local housing stock.” City could enact themselves and it could be a good tool. (+3)

We will continue with the reports next month.

Jean said Traci will have answer to question by January. Jean will check into Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) sending a representative to our meetings.

Jean suggested people go to the PHB meeting In Gresham on December 11th 6pm – Annual Community Need Meeting.

On Feb 5th at first Unitarian Church to have a panel to be part of a forum at noon. Jean thinks they will be more interested in the displacement tools. Jean, Frieda, Nick and possibly Justin or Isidro will represent the Housing Sub-Committee.

Next meeting: at January 12, 2015 at 6 pm at EPNO.

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Sub-Committee Name: HOUSING EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: Housing and Development.1 – .6; Commercial and Mixed Use.1 - .2; Economic Development and Workforce Training.4.5; Public Safety.7.1; Housing Assistance and Safety Net Services.1 - .6; Equity.2.1 + 3.2 The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. Housing Sub-Committee Recommendations:

1. The Housing sub-committee supports mixed-use and commercial zoning in commercial corridors in East Portland. This would promote greater economic development, prosperity, and encourage mixed-income housing development. (CM 1.1)

2. The Housing sub-committee supports single-family housing adjacent to commercial corridors to promote general homeownership, especially minority homeownership, as well as mixed-income and more innovative housing. (CM 1.1)

3. The Housing Sub-committee sees the need for increase in amenities, jobs, infrastructure and public transportation in East Portland to support housing of people in all income levels and to attract more middle and upper income housing.

4. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend prioritizing voluntary Inclusionary Zoning in middle income neighborhoods as one tool to promote mixed-income neighborhoods throughout Portland and to advocate for the City of Portland, Multnomah County and METRO to develop a pilot project for voluntary Inclusionary Zoning within the City/County.

5. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend advocating ending discrimination based on having a Section 8 Certificate, so low income families would have a greater choice on where they could live. The committee supports changing the law at the state level to remove this discrimination.

6. The Housing Sub-committee, after exhaustive research, recognizes that East Portland does not have significantly more tax-exempt housing properties than any other area of Portland, either in numbers or as a fair-share. East Portland does have significantly more “affordable by accident” housing than other parts of the City, but this has nothing to do with properties being tax-exempt or not.

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Tools to Mitigate Displacement:

TOOLS TO MITIGATE DISPLACEMENT

USED IN PORTLAND

HOUSING COMMITTEE NOTES

Create New Affordable Housing City owned land Yes Justin Community benefits agreements Yes Yes plus advocacy

Eminent domain for nonprofits No Inclusionary zoning No Yes Leah Infill development Yes Land banking Yes Yes but who

Justin

Tax Incentives Yes Vacant lot program No Look into what it

means

Voluntary inclusionary zoning/incentives Yes Vivian Convert of Preserve Units as Affordable Housing Affordable housing preservation ordinance

Yes Yes plus ?? Frieda

Community land trust Yes Justin Lease-Purchase ownership Yes Yes plus Limited-equity housing Yes No net loss policy Yes Jean Nonprofit ownership Yes Yes plus

homeownership

Replacement ordinance Yes Yes Tax reactivation program Yes Yes plus

homeownership Leah

Generate Revenue of Housing Programs Document recording Fee Yes Leave as Housing levy No Yes, a bond measure

to use funds for affordable housing, but will it affect compression

Nick

Linkage fees No yes similar to SDC but could waive fees in distressed areas to encourage building

Nick

State and federal funds Yes Tax increment financing Yes Nick Manage Development Anti-speculation or real estate transfer tax No Yes Nick Condominium conversion ordinance No Yes but with strong

tools Frieda

Owner-occupancy ordinance No Yes Rent stabilization No Yes Isidro

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Assist Residents Homeownership/homebuyer programs Yes Leah Housing rehabilitation program Yes Nick Individual development accounts Yes Location-efficient mortgages No Yes Rental/financial assistance programs Yes Tax Abatements, credits or circuit breakers

Yes

Tax deferrals Yes Tenant displacement assistance No Yes, but currently

city is not required Isidro

Tenant opportunity to purchase act No Yes Workforce development/agreements Yes See community

benefits agreement

There was a quick review of the tools and there was a discussion of the tools listed on Policy Link and the ones we decided related to housing are listed below:

Policy Link Tool Category Housing Committee Notes Cooperative ownership models Yes CDCs with Resident Shareholders Yes Code Enforcement Yes Isidro Community Reinvestment Act Generate

revenue Yes

Developer Exactions Generate revenue

Yes

Employer Assisted Housing Yes Foreclosed properties Yes Isidro Limited equity Housing cooperatives Yes Transit Oriented Development Yes Vivian Expiring Use: Retention of Subsidized Yes Housing trust fund Yes add Just cause eviction controls Yes Isidro Affordable Housing Development 101 Yes

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January 13, 2015

EPAP Housing Sub-committee Meeting East Portland Neighborhood Office

Meeting Notes

The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. ===============================================================

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January 13, 2015 Housing Sub-committee Meeting Meeting began at 4:00 pm Attendees –Frieda Christopher, Nick Sauvie, Lore Wintergreen, Leah Grey, Isidro Reyes, Roger Meyer, and Jean DeMaster. Betty Dominguez, Lore Wintergreen and David Hampsten were excused. Welcome and Introductions: Jean welcomed everyone and each attendee introduced themselves. Minutes: The December minutes were reviewed were approved as presented. It was clarified that the two tools were not rated: Owner Occupancy Ordinance and Affordable Housing Preservation Ordinance. Traci Manning, Director, Portland Housing Bureau, response to the EPAP questions: Jean reported that she had received Traci’s response recently---and distributed it to those present at the meeting. Jean asked that all review it on their own time and it will be discussed next meeting. Jean will send out to email list. Proposed Letter to PHB from Nick Sauvie: Nick said there was a set time to give comments on PHB’s community needs assessment. The letter which he drafted was distributed to the group. He explained his letter and the final paragraph included a request for a PHB representative attending the Housing committee’s meetings. Jean asked: should we be asking for budget items in the FY 15/16 budget. Nick said no-- from what he understands that is closed. Jean asked if we should we put some specifics to the PHB Investment in East Portland section. Roger asked could we put respectful language to stop the way they have been funding—i.e. not funding East Portland. Leah wanted more action language in the letter. Frieda suggested that the sentence in the last paragraph regarding the PHB representative was something Traci Manning had already said PHB would do. It was decided to change the request to include a request to have the PHB representative attend the EPAP Housing Subcommittee starting in Marcy 2015 or earlier. There was a consensus to make the changes (see attached edited letter) and Jean and Frieda would

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sign. It was also a consensus to present the letter to the full EPAP for endorsement. . Oregon Opportunity Network (OON) Presentation: Jean explained that the OON Forum is scheduled for February 5th at noon—at the First Unitarian Church in downtown Portland. Jean, Frieda, Nick and Justin will be presenting. Jean asked what issues people wanted to present. Nick suggested that we provide info on tax inequity, the city budget mapping, and anti displacement. There was a discussion of what the group would want to hear and how the presentation should be structured. It was decided to break down the presentation as follows:

• Frieda would do an introduction giving a background on EPAP and the Housing sub-committee and she would present the information on the tax abated property issue.

• Nick will take on the tax inequity. • Justin could do inclusionary zoning since CAT is working on the

issue. • Jean will do displacement and tools to avoid displacement.

Jean said she thought that we could ask Lore to put together a packet of information to go with the presentation. If there was information that each of the presenters wanted to have in the packet, they need to get it to Lore. Nick suggested in the background/introduction we need to discuss the rezoning in the 90’s. Also we can mention that we promoted budget mapping and that it shows that East Portland is lower for service than other areas of the City. Frieda suggested that each presenter should have7-10 minutes and the rest to any questions. Everyone agreed. Zoning Changes: Jean announced that due to the change in the meeting date, neither Uma nor Bob could attend the meeting. Tax Equity Issues: Nick reported that he hadn’t heard back on the Multnomah County representative meeting. Jean asked if we could expect more from our legislators this session since Alyssa Keny Guyer and Carla Piluso are on the Housing Sub-committee and would review the issue. Frieda asked if the proposal to reset taxes at re-sale of a property would bring taxes down. Nick explained the changes that need to be done to do that. It was

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discussed what our focus should be in regard to the tax equity issue. Nick said there were 2 solutions – (1) educate the public; or (2) see if there were allies to work with to make a change at the state level. Jean suggested Oregon ON that might work with it. Jean asked should we identify allies or educate the public. Leah said identifying allies would be best. After some discussion it was decided the next step would be to bring it up at the OON Forum and ask if it can be brought up at the state-wide OON meeting. Leah announced on January 22 & 24th the legislators will be at Rosewood Initiative to discuss housing issues and it was a place we could bring up the equity issue. Most felt the meetings would be more for renters and that tax inequity would not be a high priority with them. Strategies to avoid displacement: Leah handed out information she summarized from a CAT meeting she attended. She wanted to share the information with us since it also touched on displacement. Tax reactivation program: Leah said she has not found anything about this program. Isidro said Justin or he will make sure city owned land, land banking, community land trust information was provided at the next meeting. Jean discussed what we still need to work on and research. Frieda said tools with the”YES” under the Housing comments should be looked at. Nick explained location-efficient mortgages and it was suggested fit wouldn’t help displacement (-1). Jean went down the list and the assignments for next meetings were as follows:

• Frieda will take Lease-Purchase Ownership. • Nick will explain non-profit vs profit ownership. • Leah will due tax reactivation program. • Nick explained the Tenant Opportunity Purchase Act and that it is

used with Manufactured Homes now. Leah will check it out. • Leah will do Cooperative ownership models & limited equity housing

cooperatives, • Nick will do CDC’s,

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• Jean will research the Community Reinvestment Act, Expiring use, Retention of subsidized housing, and housing trust fund.

Next month, the committee will discuss the assigned tools and then review all the rankings. We will also look at which tools need to be used with others. Frieda will put them in rank order. It was decided Affordable Housing Development 101 was being done by organizations and was not something we needed to look at.

Next meeting: at February 9, 2015 at 6 pm at EPNO.

Meeting adjourned at 5:39pm. Sub-Committee Name: HOUSING EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: Housing and Development.1 – .6; Commercial and Mixed Use.1 - .2; Economic Development and Workforce Training.4.5; Public Safety.7.1; Housing Assistance and Safety Net Services.1 - .6; Equity.2.1 + 3.2 The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland.

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Housing Sub-Committee Recommendations: 1. The Housing sub-committee supports mixed-use and commercial zoning in

commercial corridors in East Portland. This would promote greater economic development, prosperity, and encourage mixed-income housing development.(CM 1.1)

2. The Housing sub-committee supports single-family housing adjacent to commercial corridors to promote general homeownership, especially minority homeownership, as well as mixed-income and more innovative housing. (CM 1.1)

3. The Housing Sub-committee sees the need for increase in amenities, jobs, infrastructure, and public transportation in East Portland to support housing of people in all income levels and to attract more middle and upper income housing.

4. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend prioritizing voluntary Inclusionary Zoning in middle income neighborhoods as one tool to promote mixed-income neighborhoods throughout Portland and to advocate for the City of Portland, Multnomah County and METRO to develop a pilot project for voluntary Inclusionary Zoning within the City/County.

5. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend advocating ending discrimination based on having a Section 8 Certificate, so low income families would have a greater choice on where they could live. The committee supports changing the law at the state level to remove this discrimination.

6. The Housing Sub-committee, after exhaustive research, recognizes that East Portland does not have significantly more tax-exempt housing properties than any other area of Portland, either in numbers or as a fair-share. East Portland does have significantly more “affordable by accident” housing than other parts of the City, but this has nothing to do with properties being tax-exempt or not.

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DRAFT January 8, 2015 Traci Manning Portland Housing Bureau 421 SW Sixth Avenue #500 Portland, OR 97204 RE: East Portland Community Housing Needs Dear Ms. Manning, The East Portland Action Plan (EPAP) was created by the City of Portland to improve the livability of East Portland neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee would like you to take greater consideration the housing needs of East Portland. We are particularly concerned about two matters: declining PHB investment in East Portland and so called “opportunity mapping.” PHB Investment in East Portland EPAP has used the city’s budget mapping data to track expenditures from six key bureaus. For the last three years PHB investment in East Portland has declined from $15 million to $13.9 million. PHB is the only bureau that is spending less here since the beginning of budget mapping. Considering spending on a per capita basis, PHB’s performance is the worst of any bureau. Opportunity Mapping Instead of using budget mapping to redirect funding to East Portland, PHB has chosen to use opportunity mapping to further disadvantage our neighborhoods. PHB has chosen to allocate $1 million in FY2015 to opportunity areas and proposes allocating $5 million in FY2016. The city has rightfully found $20 million to address displacement in North/Northeast Portland; EPAP believes that a similar investment should be made to address the critical housing problems in East Portland such as derelict housing, foreclosures and homelessness. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee would like to continue to dialog with PHB toward reaching common ground. To that end, we request that PHB designate a representative to attend our meetings. We would also like PHB to use the Office of Equity and Human Rights Budget Equity Tool to assess policies such as opportunity mapping. Sincerely,

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Municipal Partnership Project Playlet Script

Instructions (lore):

1. When was the last time you got to decide to spend $78,250 on your community?

2. The Municipal Partnership Project applications were sent with the East Portland Action Plan reminder email on January 21st, for your one-week pre-meeting review of documents/materials that will need your action at today’s meeting.

3. Each MPP applicant will be given 10 minutes to present their project today, including answering questions.

4. As reviewers, you are expected to actively listen to the presentations, ask questions for clarification, and score the project according to the Criteria sheets on white paper in your packets. Criteria means the things you as EPAP have agreed you will consider when deciding which projects to fund.

5. EPAP Fiscal Year 2014 – 15 Strategic Priorities are one of the criteria considerations. We introduced that document at the beginning of the meeting and you will find the list on the dark blue sheet that was right after your agenda document.

6. The Criteria sheets are for your information, they will not be collected. At the end of the meeting, those of you who have signed EPAP Participating Agreements form and have been regularly attending the general EPAP meeting will be given $78,250 in play money to spend on the projects you think most deserve EPAP’s support. You can NOT give any project more than they requested.

7. Those who have not regularly attended the general EPAP meeting, or signed a Participating Agreement form are encouraged to actively listen to the presentations and fill-out the Criteria forms, but will not be given money to spend at the end of the meeting.

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Roleplay/PLAYlet (Mike + lore):

Mike, I encourage you to have fun with this. I imagine you doing most of it as an internal conversation, but if you want to include me as answering a questions juts say my name and I will speak-up. Just bring up things that might occur to folks, for example…but not limited to:

1. What does ‘criteria’ mean anyway?

2. How many points am I supposed to give if I think it will make a difference, but don’t think it will make that big a difference?

3. What if I don’t really think it will prevent displacement and they are

just saying things to get points? How many points should I give?

4. How do I know if it effectively addresses any of the EPAP Strategic Priorities?

5. Do I just believe them when they say they are going to address a

specific Action Plan item or Strategic Priority?

6. There is no way they are going to accomplish all that stuff with so little money…Oh, they have a lot of community partners, maybe that’s how they are going to do it.

7. These are all good projects, how do I decide which ones to fund?

8. ????????????????????????????

9. ????????????????????????????

10. Okay, I can do this. I will just give the points I think each criteria

should get and will divide up my money with what seems best.

EAST PORTLAND ACTION PLAN www.eastportlandactionplan.org

East Portland Neighborhood Office 1017 NE 117th Ave. Portland, OR 97220 503.823.4035 or lore.wintergreen@portlandoregon.gov

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Cover Page Project Title: Developing Prosperity in East Portland Participating Agreement Member proposers: East Portland Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives (NPIs) District Managers: Todd Struble, Lori Boisen, Jenny Glass and Bridget Bayer Phone: 503-964-7807 Email: bridget@historicparkrose.com Mailing Address: 11036 NE Sandy Blvd. City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 97266 Municipal partner organization: Portland Development Commission Municipal partner individual contact name: Dana DeKlyen Phone: 503-823-3312 Email:deklyend@pdc.us Mailing Address: 222 NW Fifth Ave. City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 97209-3859 List additional partner organizations: Division Midway Alliance for Community Improvement The Jade District Historic Parkrose The Rosewood Initiative Action Plan strategy or item to be addressed: Action Plan Items: T.2.2, T.2.3, T.3.6, T.6.2, T.7.2, T.7.3; EC.1.2, EC.1.4, EC.4.2, EC4.5; CM1.2, CM.1.3; CM2.3, CM.2.7, CM.2.6 Action Plan 2014-15 Strategic Priorities: G, I, J, K, L, M & N

Requested Amount: $40,000

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Project Budget Submit this form on fiscal sponsor/municipal partner letterhead. All express all responses as $; only respond to spending items needed.

Item Requested Funds

Leveraged Funds and/or

Additional Grants*

Donated Services &

Time defined as

$** Personnel (Direct project management, contracting for special services, volunteer time**, etc.)

$28,000 $60,000 $40,000

Materials/Printing (Flyers, brochures, advertisements, etc.)

$6,000 $16,000 $22,000 (design & printing)

Event Related Expenses (Renting table/chairs, reserving space, food, paper cups, transportation for presenters, etc.)

$4,000 $62,000 $24,000 (space)

Permitting & Fees (Reserving park space, noise variances, capping meters, street closures, etc.)

Participant Support (Travel costs, stipends, etc.)

Project Materials (Wood, paints, flowers, bags, etc.—the materials needed to complete the project.)

Capital Project Expense

Additional Expenses

SUBTOTALS

Administration*** (project management, accounting)

$2,000 $18,000

TOTALS $40,000 $156,000 $86,000

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Developing Prosperity in East Portland: Narrative 1) East Portland is home to four grassroots organizations (NPIs) that strive to develop and promote strong relationships between local businesses, neighborhood groups, school districts, community residents, non-profit agencies, and other interested groups and individuals. These four groups are working together to continue the project, “Developing Prosperity in East Portland,” and have created work plans that promote growth, increase prosperity, encourage new development, and facilitate revitalization in each of these four districts. While the Division Midway Alliance (DMA), the Jade District (Jade), Historic Parkrose (HP), and the Rosewood Initiative (RI) work together effectively and are frequent collaborators; each group also serves a distinct area of East Portland. The four NPI areas are: SE Division between SE 117th and 148th; SE Division between SE 80th and the 205 freeway; NE Sandy between NE 98th and NE 121st; and SE Stark from SE 142nd to SE 162nd.

There have been public safety issues in all four areas – some of the areas have visibly underutilized or vacant properties, and some areas contain blight. Though these conditions can create challenges, each of the NPIs includes one or more local neighborhood associations and one or more district business associations, which share some of the same goals as the NPIs and contribute their resources towards advancing this community-focused work. a. Our project addresses a number of EPAP items. EPAP items: G, H, I, J & K - DMA is involved with all transportation agencies on Powell-Division high capacity projects and DM street connectivity. Jade is partnering with Metro on this effort too. HP is working with ODOT on improvements including a left turn lane at 105th Ave & NE Sandy. HP is also working with PBOT to install crosswalks at 106th & 107th Avenues. EPAP item: K – HP is partnering with Tri Met to adopt all stops in the NPI district and install garbage cans and bus stops. These efforts are to improve ridership so more frequent bus service will be considered. EPAP items: L - All NPIs work to develop public spaces by hosting community activities. Jade is creating a large-scale community Night Market summer event. HP hosts a big annual street fair and two night vendor markets. DMA has a large Fall Festival bringing neighbors together, and RI host ongoing events in their community space as well as large annual activities. EPAP items: M and N – All NPIs are building strong relationships between residents, business owners and community non-profits through committees: HP’s Clean & Safe group is developing skills of residents to form Neighborhood Watch and Foot Patrol programs. DMA does graffiti removal connecting neighbors and businesses. Jade partners with 1000 Friends to host land use leadership tours. RI offers trainings almost weekly to improve financial competency, tenant training,

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job skills etc. The NPIs are hosting a big job fair together and local career fairs. Each NPI markets and brands its district though these activities, and by installing identifying signs and banners. The NPI web presence is also strong, further promoting East Portland centers. b. The project, “Developing Prosperity in East Portland,” will continue to improve livability and prevent displacement in East Portland by promoting local businesses – and by attracting and securing new businesses – while also supporting local residents’ needs and desires for the community. Each of the NPIs is involving low-income residents in meetings, events, and decisions; their voices are being heard and their message is to not allow displacement to occur. c. The NPIs are working to promote higher incomes for the individuals and families currently living in these districts. Strategies involve direct one-on-one technical assistance in improving businesses, helping with employment searches, promoting local job listings and hosting job fairs. The goal is to help all individuals grow and prosper as well as the commercial centers. d. The EPAP 2014-15 Strategic Priorities that will be addressed are: G, I, J, K, L M and N. The NPIs continue to work in cooperation with East Portland residents, businesses, government bureaus - especially transportation agencies and the PDC. NPIs strengthen local commercial centers through development projects, promotions, targeting businesses that improve access to jobs and improving livability in the areas through clean ups and new business recruitment. e. Since its initial efforts in FY 2013-2014, “Developing Prosperity in East Portland,” promotes prosperity within, and beyond, each NPI area. This increased communication with business, property owners, residents and nontraditional communities, provides PDC with direct information on how to improve development in these areas. We have also greatly increased input on the City’s Comprehensive Plan, transportation development plans, ODOT, PBOT and Tri Met’s ongoing projects. The NPI projects are also heavily promoted by both partners, which will reflect well on East Portland. 2) The NPIs work with PDC as their municipal partner. PDC’s involvement will continue to support, encourage and facilitate the NPIs goals. Additionally, PDC matches our funding, allowing for one full time employee. PDC also provides “mini” Urban Renewal Area (URA) tax increment financing (TIF). As the NPIs grow and prosper, additional funding will become available for more infrastructure improvements providing real economic revitalization. If this EPAP application for continued support is successful, the $40,000 requested will be matched by PDC and will result in $80,000 in funding.

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3) The NPIs have already identified unique community partners. The NPIs include five business districts, all involved, and seven neighborhood associations with many participating members. The areas also include three school districts, Portland Public School, Parkrose and David Douglas. Nonprofits such as Human Solutions and IRCO also remain active in the groups’ efforts. Other community partners focused on building community through economic development include Venture Portland and the East Portland Chamber of Commerce. 4) The funding provided by EPAP will be doubled by the PDC’s matching funds with most of the funds being utilized for staffing within each area. a. The majority of the funding ($28,000) will be used for payroll costs – salaries, benefits, employer taxes, etc.; $6,000 will be used for printing, materials, and advertising; $4,000 will be used for event expenses; and the final $2,000 will cover administrative expenses for accounting and payroll functions. b. The funds will have more impact as they are leveraged by each of the four groups. Each group also contributes a wide variety of donated resources as shown on the budget page. Between the four groups, over $156,000 in gifts, grants, and funds have been raised which will be used as leverage. Just the value of donated time (more than 2200 hours, at $18/hour), plus printing and office space is over $86,000. 5) Each of NPIs will promote the unique features of its district while also emphasizing collective involvement in EPAP and the City of Portland as a whole. The NPIs will reach out to hundreds of neighborhood businesses, groups, and individuals in telling our story. We will emphasize the valuable contribution that EPAP and the City have made toward East Portland’s growth. The potential gift would be recognized at all events, in written materials, and in verbal presentations.

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Project Title: East Portland Parks Local Hiring Project Participating Agreement Member proposer: Nick Sauvie Phone: 503-788-8052 Email: nick@rosecdc.org Mailing Address: 5215 SE Duke Street City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 97206 Municipal partner organization: Portland Parks and Recreation Municipal partner individual contact name: Elizabeth Kennedy-Wong Phone: 503-823-5113 Email: elizabeth.kennedy-wong@portlandoregon.gov Mailing Address: 1120 SW Fifth Avenue #1302 City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 97204 List additional partner organizations: ROSE CDC, Human Solutions, Worksystems, Inc., Emerald Cities and other Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity partners such as Portland YouthBuilders, Oregon Tradeswomen and Constructing Hope Action Plan strategy or item to be addressed: Maximize East Portland’s economic benefits from public projects (EC.1.4, EC.2.3, EC.4.2, CM.1.2, CM.2.3, CM.2.7)

Requested Amount: $20,086

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Narrative 2.) Describe your project

A partnership is proposed between Portland Parks and Recreation (PPR), the Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity (MAWE), Human Solutions and ROSE Community Development to obtain jobs for East Portland residents in the construction of Beech and Gateway Parks. PPR and MAWE have been working together to promote participation by East Portland residents in these construction projects as a way to create economic opportunities for low-income residents and people of color who live near the park sites. PPR has agreed to a Community Benefits Plan that includes a 25% local hiring goal for the two projects along with goals for participation by disadvantaged businesses owned by minorities and women. This proposal would fund : 1) Outreach and screening of construction workers by Human Solutions workforce program; 2) Coordination of MAWE construction, labor, workforce and community-based organizations that will support East Portland construction projects by Worksystems, Inc./Emerald Cities; and 3) Participation in the project oversight committee by ROSE. MAWE advocated for and managed a Community Benefits Agreement with the City of Portland for two Water Bureau Construction projects. Thanks to the partnership with MAWE, those projects have achieved excellent results in equitable contracting and workforce diversity. For the Interstate facility, 38% of the total contract – more than $10 million – went to Disadvantaged/ Minority/Women/ Emerging Small Businesses. Of apprentices, 41% were minorities and 32% were women. This project is proposed to build capacity to meet the East Portland local hiring goal and begin to develop a workforce system to identify residents interested in construction jobs, train them and place them in living wage employment. We hope that a successful partnership with PPR will lead to community benefits agreements for future parks projects and potentially other large East Portland public works projects such as Division/Powell Bus Rapid Transit. Community benefits agreements may also be sought from developers of private projects as part of EPAP’s anti-displacement strategy.

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3.) Identify Municipal partner and describe the role this partner will play.

Portland Parks and Recreation is the project manager for the Beech and Gateway Park construction projects. They will be the main contact with the project general contractors, architects and other professionals. PPR will be the fiscal sponsor for this proposal.

3.) Identify community organization partners involved in

this project and describe their anticipated role(s). Human Solutions will lead outreach and education activities with East Portland community members, businesses and organizations; identify potential workers and local companies for Beech & Gateway Parks projects; screen and refer potential workers to pre-apprenticeship training providers, apprenticeship programs and contractors; monitor, verify and report to partners on hiring of local residents and contracting to local businesses; and provide regular reports to the oversight committee to support PPR in achieving the goals of the Beech and Gateway projects. Emerald Cities Portland will coordinate MAWE partner technical support, education and oversight activities related to construction, labor, contracting and workforce on the East Portland projects. This support includes: helping to develop a local hire implementation plan; monitoring and oversight support; strategies and tools to achieve goals (including East Portland local hire); outreach and education about construction opportunities; and resources for workers and businesses; and provide support to help achieve the goals of the Beech and Gateway projects. ROSE will participate in the project oversight committee, as well as acting as liaison between MAWE and EPAP.

4.) Describe how the budget supports the project described above.

The personnel budget includes $10,920 to Human Solutions (estimated at 336 hours x $32.50 per hour); $5,040 to Emerald Cities (72 hours x $70 per hour) and $1,200 to ROSE (12 oversight meetings x $100). Emerald Cities and ROSE will contribute an estimated $4,900 in additional staff time to the project. EPAP funds will also be used for materials and printing ($500; we expect to get another $500 in donated materials) and participant support ($600 for oversight committee meeting costs; 12 meetings x $50). The bulk of leveraged funds for the project represent $120,000 that will be contributed by PPR towards outreach and training to East Portland, minority and women construction workers and technical assistance to neighborhood and disadvantaged small contracting businesses.

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acknowledgement of the East Portland Action Plan, City of Portland.

The Beech and Gateway Park construction projects are going to be highly visible improvements to prominent locations in East Portland. The new parks have generated a great deal of excitement through citizen involvement in design and resource development. Portland Parks and Recreation is eager to promote the projects, both for fulfilling the need for parks in the most park-deficient part of the city and wise use of system development charges. The project will acknowledge the EPAP/City of Portland contribution through site signage, press releases, social media and partner websites, as well as through websites and other publicity of the project partners.

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Project Budget

Item Requested Funds

Leveraged Funds and/or

Additional Grants*

Donated Services &

Time defined as

$** Personnel (Direct project management, contracting for special services, volunteer time**, etc.)

17,160 113,990

Materials/Printing (Flyers, brochures, advertisements, etc.)

500 500

Event Related Expenses (Renting table/chairs, reserving space, food, paper cups, transportation for presenters, etc)

Permitting & Fees (Reserving park space, noise variances, capping meters, street closures, etc.)

Participant Support (Travel costs, stipends, etc)

600

Project Materials (Wood, paints, flowers, bags, etc—the materials needed to complete the project.)

Capital Project Expense

Additional Expenses

SUBTOTALS 18,260 113,990 500

Administration*** (project management, accounting)

1,826 11,399

TOTALS 20,086 125,389 500

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Project Title: East Portland ESL Driver Education Program

Participating Agreement Member proposer: Anna Volkova and Natalya Sobolevskaya

with the Russian Speaking Network

Phone: (503) 758-3111 Email: rsnoforegon@gmail.com

Mailing Address: 12414 E. Burnside Street, Portland, OR. 97216

Municipal partner organization: City of Portland Police Bureau

Municipal partner individual contact name: Sergeant David Abrahamson

Phone: (503) 823-2151 Email: david.abrahamson@portlandoregon.gov Mailing Address: 7412 N Philadelphia Ave, Portland. Or. 97203

List additional partner organizations: Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Oregon Impact and EPAP co-sponsors: Russian Speaking Network et al Action Plan strategy or item to be addressed: T.2; T.3; T.4; T.7; EC.4.5; L.5.1; PS.2; SN.1; SN.5; SN.6; CB.1; and EQ.1. Action Plan Strategic Priorities: F. Engage ethnic communities in neighborhood activities; provide translation/language services to remove barriers and improve messaging and invitation. (CB.1.2); J. Foster Equity in transportation decisions and services (T.7.3); and K. Connect East Portland residents to family-wage employment outside of the are by identifying and removing barriers, such as limited transporation options (EC.4.5).

Requested Amount: $36,040

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Issue at hand: Portland Police Patrol is currently responding to a large volume of crashes from immigrants/ refugee/New Portlanders (hereinafter IRNPs) who have been self-taught drivers and are not familiar with local laws. People whose 1st language is other than English and IRNPs are not aware of what to expect on our public streets, have not been properly equipped to drive, and have pre-dispositions/ambivalence regarding police, based on their cultural contexts. Traffic crashes involving people whose 1st language is other than English are growing rapidly. Additionally, it is estimated that 15% of hit and run suspects in Portland are IRNPs who flee the scene out of fear of what police may do and/or fear of deportation. In 2013 alone, Multnomah County Courts had over 8106 requests for court interpreter services in 17 languages. According to Oregon Judicial Department and statistics from a 2012 U.S. Census Bureau study, 14 - 24% of people in counties in the Portland Metropolitan area speak a foreign language in their home and as many as 17% were foreign born. In addition to officer time, interpreters must be provided to ensure a fair hearing. Further, the majority of court related safety classes available to IRNPs are in English. ODOT statistics support that young drivers under 26 are two times overrepresented in crashes. Portland youth drivers (<26 years old, driver of striking vehicle) fatal and serious injury crashes have been increasing steadily from 31 in 2008 to 56 in 2012. From experience, we extrapolate that young IRNPs do not have the financial means or language access to learn traffic safety, and thus, often create a greater risk for others. ODOT subsidy for a driver’s education course only applies to students under the age of 18, which is taught in English. In order for there to be a shift-change, young IRNPs over the age of 18 need to be provided with the opportunity to learn traffic safety and equipped with accessible training. Local Relationships Built: In the past three years, members of the Portland Police Bureau have built relationships and presented safety discussions with English Second Language (ESL) programs in local colleges in the Portland Metropolitan area. These elocutionary presentations have included portions on traffic safety and driver responsibilities. A common issue brought up by ESL students, is that they do not have mentors/family members that are able to teach them to drive, nor are there other affordable or known avenues available for them to learn. Many conveyed ambivalence, stating they felt unprepared to drive on U.S. streets, but that they need to drive, because transportation options are severely limited in East Portland. Out of necessity for employment, many immigrants start driving in their early 20’s - the majority unlicensed. Students shared countless frustrations where either they or members of their culture have had poor interactions with police during traffic stops or crashes. Many conveyed ambivalence and animosity towards police because of what the uniform represents in their culture. Students propounded that the ominous threat of the uniform diminished quickly as we interacted and engaged with them in the classroom setting. Vision / Objective:

1. Although the vision is multi-faceted, the primary objective is for PPB police officers to educate, train and empower IRNPs with classroom and hands-on driver’s education training, thus improving their awareness and traffic safety in our community. Our hope is that students who complete the course will take the training back to their families and communities and a ripple effect will occur within their culture.

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2. Secondly, through this we expect that the ominous presence of the police uniform will be broken down and pre-dispositions removed between police and IRNPs. To further this, we plan on partnering with language and cultural-specific organizations in order to leverage connections and the effectiveness of this program. Practical Application: A compressed version of ODOT’s driver’s education curriculum will be used and is being vetted with ODOT, PPB Trainers and Traffic Division. We are seeking funding for four (4) courses which will each include 48 students: Classroom training will consist of (4) four days of four hour classroom training; (2) Two days for 6 hours of low speed driving; Classroom material will be presented by members of the Portland Police Bureau at either Portland Police Bureau’s Training Facility, leveraging the City’s benefit for East Portland residents. It has been requested for driving to be conducted at Portland Police Bureau’s 10 acre Training Facility; this will include rudimentary cone courses, backing, parking and braking cognates. The last day will conclude with a graduation ceremony where family members and community groups will be invited to attend. Currently, MHCC has over 1300 ESL, who are over the age of 18 who could qualify for this course, of which a large majority live in East Precinct. Students would not be allowed to take this course until their second year (level C) of the ESL program, which means they understand and can hold conversational English. This will allow for instruction to be presented in English and translation will be limited. Students will undergo an application process and will be hand selected through the colleges. If the program is successful, then students from PCC are slated to be invited to participate in later courses. Additionally, as there are currently 19 different languages spoken by members of the Portland Police Bureau, it would be beneficial to have identified officers present during training in order to represent our diverse Bureau, to place students at greater ease, and to further the depth of relationships within these communities. ESL staff and community leaders from Russian Speaking Network, Latino Learning Community, African Youth and Community Organization, Bhutanese Organization of USA, Lao Community Foundation, ZOMI USA, IRCO will be encouraged to attend and participate during training. Municipal EPAP partners will assist with planning, communications, set-up and scheduling of students. EPAP Partners will be encouraged to attend debriefs and actively partnering in the long-term vision of the program. Curriculum: Through recent meetings with Oregon Impact, ODOT, PBOT, and PPB Training Division (PVO instructors), curriculum is being compiled and issues vetted through this oversight committee. The classroom portion will be held at PPB’s Training Facility and will entail a compressed version of ODOT driver’s education curriculum and basic portions of PPB’s PVO material.

• Officers from the Traffic Division will advise students on common laws and cover portions of safety topics from high risk driver courses

• Members from Oregon Impact Panels, PBOT, ODOT will present supporting material • Patrol Vehicle Operations (PVO) instructors from Portland Police Bureau’s Training Division

will oversee the hands-on portion of driver’s training at the Portland Police Training Facility.

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Project Budget

Financial Backing • Future funding is being sought through Oregon Impact, who has ties with insurance groups and

private entities. Financial incentives and insurance discounts are being requested for students who participate in the course.

• MHCC ESL has grants which will cover partial funding for their ESL staff members who will participate. In order to augment costs, we are asking existing safety programs through Multnomah County Courts to provide instructors and cover all related costs to present material; Trauma Nurse’s Talk Tough (TNTT), Victim’s Advocates Panel, Safety Belt Class. Additionally, it has been suggested for ODOT to consider creating online driver’s education courses in multiple languages. This request is scalable: if full funding is not available, we could do fewer courses, our community partners encouraged starting this work with dedication to four courses.

Item Requested Funds

Leveraged Funds and/or

Additional Grants*

Donated Services &

Time defined as $**

Personnel (Direct project management, translation services, contracting for special services, volunteer time**, etc.)

$7592.50 per course (x 4 courses) = $30,370

$10,000 (Oregon Impact) MHCC Grants for ESL Staff = $14,000

(Match PPB hours x 4 courses) = $15,800

Materials/Printing (Books and Course curriculum for students, Flyers, advertisements, awards etc.)

$1,200

Event Related Expenses (Renting table/chairs, reserving space, food, paper cups, transportation for presenters, etc)

$650 $150 per hour meeting and training course X112 hours = $16,800

Permitting & Fees (Reserving park space, noise variances, capping meters, street closures, etc.)

Participant Support (Travel costs, stipends, etc)

$720

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Project Materials (Wood, paints, flowers, bags, etc—the materials needed to complete the project.)

$1,600

Capital Project Expense

Additional Expenses

SUBTOTALS $34,540 $24,000 $32,600 Administration*** (project management, accounting)

$1,500 $1,400

TOTALS $36,040 $25,400 $32,600

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COVER SHEET Project Title: Language Specific Outreach and Informational Material

for PP&R Mobile Playgrounds/East as part of the Summer Free for All Participating Agreement Member Proposer: Natalya Sobolevskaya Phone: 503-679-4920 Email: rsnoforegon@gmail.com Mailing Address: 1017 NE 117th Avenue City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 907220 Municipal Partner Organization: Portland Parks &Recreation Municipal Partner Individual Authority Contact Name: Jeff Milkes Phone: (503) 823-1601 Email: Jeff.Milkes@portland.oregon.gov Mailing Address: 6437 SE Division Street City, State, Zip: Portland, OR 97206 List Additional Partner Organizations: Latino Learning Community Centennial Community Association Russian Speaking Network Hazelwood Neighborhood Association Division Midway Alliance Pleasant Valley Neighborhood Association Rosewood Initiative Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association Centennial School District AYCO David Douglas School District Asian Family Center Parkrose School District Catholic Charities of Oregon Portland Public Schools IRCO Africa House Reynolds School District Lutheran Community Services Human Solutions Metro – ZAP Program Impact Northwest Multnomah County, Midland Library Rose CDC Office of Neighborhood Involvement and New Portlander Program Strategic Priorities (Action Items) to be Addressed: A1 (EQ.1.4 & EQ.3.2) F1 (CB.1.2 & CB.2.1) W1 (L.8.1 & L.8.3) Requested Amount: $7,000

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project will allow the summer mobile playground, East Portland, to enhance its outreach efforts to our ethnic communities with the translation of additional languages for the publicity material. Our efforts in 2014 allowed the Mobile Playground East program to serve approximately1503 plus children, with an additional 1200 plus children served at sites that were mobile playground sites in 2012 and 2013, becoming PP&R staffed sites in 2014. The mobile playground is an interim solution to a fully staffed and programmed park site, with lunch services for the summer. This meets Action Plan Strategy A1 (EQ.1.4 and EQ.3.2): Set a goal that East Portland parks attain parity with the city in public facilities and capital spending. Last year we translated our outreach material into seven (7) languages. The bulk of the translation was for the Summer-Free-For-All flyer. For this summer (2015), the committee identified that translated materials in the form of brochures, flyers, posters, lawn signs and banners, as well as potentially another language or two, is needed to engage more of the ethnic communities and to be distributed in early May. This meets Action Plan Strategy F1 (CB.1.2 & CB.2.1): Engage ethnic communities in neighborhood activities; provide translation/language service to remove barriers and improve messaging and invitations. For 2015, we would like to translate the “hiring letter’ into all of the languages that we have translated as part of the outreach materials. Additionally, as a result of the group effort, PP&R has simplified the seasonal help application process from five pages to two so that young people are rated on abilities to handle situations and employ language skills other than English, rather than being required to have a degree in recreation. We have had language specific “hiring letters” translated into five languages. In 2014, there were 6 seasonal help hired from East Portland. These may also lead to living wage jobs and are part of EPAP strategy to minimize displacement. MUNICIPAL PARTNERS Portland Parks and Recreation will provide the organizational structure to do the graphics work for the brochures and the letters with official logos as well as the printing and general distribution of the final documents. PP&R will also hire and train seasonal help for the Summer-Free-For-All program. We will use the funds to provide additional translation of seasonal Parks and Recreation Bureau seasonal employment opportunities for our young people as well as outreach material on the summer program. Other municipal partners are the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, East Portland Neighborhood Office and the New Portlander program. Also, Multnomah County Library is partnering through its language specific story time program for Spanish and Russian story times before or after the playground activities. This meets Action Plan Strategy W1 (L.8.1 & L.8.3): Study library service need and expand services to meet the needs of underserved area of East Portland.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Latino Learning Community Centennial Community Association Russian Speaking Network Hazelwood Neighborhood Association Division Midway Alliance Pleasant Valley Neighborhood Association Rosewood Initiative Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association Human Solutions Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Impact Northwest the New Portlander Program Rose CDC The above list represents active community partners. These partners have representatives who are involved in the development of draft of the outreach materials, an initial review of translated documents, and actively promoting and distributing materials. BUDGET There are dollars budgeted for actual translation of documents. The cost for eight (8) languages for brochures, flyers, posters, lawn signs and banners will be more for the summer of 2015. The “hiring letter” is more expense to translate as it has complex text and must be culturally specific to at least five languages. Total translation dollars are budgeted at $5000. Committee members have asked that added emphasis be placed on getting the “hiring letter” out earlier. There will be additional graphics personnel needed and set up costs, with some languages requiring specialized fonts to be uploaded to PP&R’s system. This is budgeted at $500. The balance will be absorbed by PP&R. Committee volunteers will be developing and reviewing the outreach material, checking for technical correctness and cultural nuances that strictly translating words may not address. This would be, conservatively, an approximately $4500 in-kind donation In addition, committee volunteer will also do personal outreach, taking printed materials to places that serve members of their communities, including but not limited to churches, apartment buildings, local merchants and other service organizations. We have valued this effort at approximately $2000. Portland Parks and Recreation would pay for the cost of printing the brochures, the letters, all lawn signs, banners and other miscellaneous signage. In addition, they would do general distribution of materials to schools, libraries, county health clinics, community centers and other large service providers working in East Portland. The approximate value on this would be, conservatively, $12,250. Office of Neighborhood Involvement also contributes personnel time, meeting space and materials to support this effort. This is nominally valued at $2250 PROMOTION AND SPONSORSHIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Committee members will promote projects at summer events, including farmers’ markets and community fairs, neighborhood gatherings and multimedia outlets. There will be over 100,000 general summer-free-for-all brochures with the East Portland Action Plan and the Portland Parks and Recreation logos printed and distributed citywide.

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PROJECT BUDGET

ITEM REQUESTED FUNDS

LEVERAGED FUNDS AND/OR ADDITIONAL GRANTS

DONATED SERVICES & TIME Defined As $

PERSONNEL - (graphics & hiring orientation) 1,000.00 1,000.00 750.00 TRANSLATION OF SFFA FLYERS 3,500.00 500.00 2,000.00 HIRING LETTERS TRANSLATION 1,000.00 0.00 2,000.00 TRANSLATION & PRINTING OF POSTERS A-FRAME SIGNS/BANNERS 500.00 500.00 500.00

DISTRIBUTION 0.00 4,500.00 2,000.00 PRINT RUN FOR SFFA (NEWSPRINT) 0.00 6,750.00 0.00 PERMITTING & FEES 0.00 0.00 0.00 PARTICIPANT SUPPORT - ONI (EPNO& New Portlander) 0.00 2,250.00 0.00 PROJECT MATERIALS - Mobile PG Materials 500.00 0.00 0.00 CAPITAL PROJECT EXPENSE 0.00 0.00 0.00

CONTINGENCY 500.00 0.00 0.00

SUBTOTAL 7,000.00 15,500.00 7,250.00

Grand Total 7,000.00 15,500.00 7,250.00

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EPAP Planning & Sustainability REPORT 1/28/15

I SERVE YOU ON PSC. I WAS JUST INVITED BY MAYOR HALES TO CONTINUE. ALSO TECHNICAL ADVISORY. PSC MOSTLY INVOLVED IN REDESIGNING PORTLAND'S 20 YEAR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. PEOPLE MADE COMMENTS USING THE MAP APP. YOU CAN STILL MAKE COMMENTS UNTIL MARCH 13 to the PSC. THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS AND MOST CAME ABOUT ISSUES IN SE PORTLAND BUT SECOND MOST ISSUES WERE IN N AND NE PORTLAND. 1. COMP PLAN/ TSP INPUT---LOOK FOR MEETING DATES AND GIVE YOUR INPUT--THANKS GO TO DAVID HAMPSTEN FOR HIS TIRELESS WORK ON TSP PROJECTS. THE PSC GETS THOSE LISTS AND HAS TO DEAL WITH US. 2. COMP PLAN/ZONING CHANGES...BEGAN WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE LIST OF ZONE CHANGES DISCUSSION WHICH IS HUGE. A HUGE ISSUE IS FINDING WAYS TO USE THE CITY'S TOOLS TO ELIMINATE INVOLUNTARY DISPLACEMENT/ ANTI GENTRIFICATION TOOLS TO KEEP EAST PORTLAND FROM MAKING MUCH NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS BUT RISKING DISPLACEMENT DUE TO RENTS BEING INCREASED. THERE IS NO RENT CONTROL HERE. EXAMPLES: WE HAD LOTS OF TESTIMONY FROM 82ND AVENUE FOR SPLIT ZONING OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE PROPERTIES THEY ALSO USE FOR COMMERCIAL AND WANT TO KEEP DOING THAT. TTHEY EARN THEIR LIVING THIS WAY. DONT WANT CHANGES PROPOSED. 3. KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!! THERE IS NOT THAT MUCH INTEREST IN EAST PORTLAND IN CITY QUADRANT DEVELOPMENT

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PLANS SO THEY HAVE TO KEEP HEARING FROM YOU. EPAP IS THE ONLY PLAN THE CITY IS INVOLVED IN AND THAT IS ALWAYS A FIGHT. LUCKILY THE PSC DOES SUPPORT EPAP. THE CHAIR ANDRE BAUGH AND SEVERAL MEMBERS ARE CHAMPIONS FOR EQUITY. THEY WILL NOT BACK DOWN AND WILL NOT LET IT GO. THEY ARE COMMITTED TO ACTIVELY ADVOCATING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACROSS EVERY AREA OF THE CITY THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED IN THE FUTURE. THE NEW IRISH MOSS IN PSD IS A GREAT EXAMPLE. LOTS OF DISCUSSION ABOUT DEVELOPER INCENTIVES AND BONUSES FOR MEETING THE DIFFERENT NEEDS OF THE CITY WHILE FOLLOWING CLOSELY THE PORTLAND PLAN'S GOALS ABOUT HEALTHY CONNECTED NEIGHBORHOODS FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY INCREASED LIVABILITY. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF DISCUSSION REGARDING COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENTS AND IF THEY DONT HEAR FROM YOU, THE CITY WILL MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING WHAT THE TRUE BENEFITS ARE FOR YOUR COMMUNITIES. SHOW UP. SPEAK UP. WRITE IN.

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Municipal Partnership Project Playlet Script

Instructions (lore):

1. When was the last time you got to decide to spend $78,250 on your community?

2. The Municipal Partnership Project applications were sent with the East Portland Action Plan reminder email on January 21st, for your one-week pre-meeting review of documents/materials that will need your action at today’s meeting.

3. Each MPP applicant will be given 10 minutes to present their project today, including answering questions.

4. As reviewers, you are expected to actively listen to the presentations, ask questions for clarification, and score the project according to the Criteria sheets on white paper in your packets. Criteria means the things you as EPAP have agreed you will consider when deciding which projects to fund.

5. EPAP Fiscal Year 2014 – 15 Strategic Priorities are one of the criteria considerations. We introduced that document at the beginning of the meeting and you will find the list on the dark blue sheet that was right after your agenda document.

6. The Criteria sheets are for your information, they will not be collected. At the end of the meeting, those of you who have signed EPAP Participating Agreements form and have been regularly attending the general EPAP meeting will be given $78,250 in play money to spend on the projects you think most deserve EPAP’s support. You can NOT give any project more than they requested.

7. Those who have not regularly attended the general EPAP meeting, or signed a Participating Agreement form are encouraged to actively listen to the presentations and fill-out the Criteria forms, but will not be given money to spend at the end of the meeting.