Stop Portland City Council from Ignoring Neighborhood Associations

I am ardent supporter of neighborhood associations. I am concerned with the dictatorial strong arming that Chloe Eudaly has wielded during her term. Ignoring citizens and bullying everyone who disagrees with her. She is like Trump and must be stopped.

6 years ago Featured

Neighborhood Associations play an important role in communicating specific needs/issues/problems/opinions of the neighborhood, including my association in Overlook. It is arrogant of city council to think about not having them part of the civic process.

Please leave our neighborhood associations alone. They are working well.

This whole process has been a mess. Eudaly refuses to engage with taxpayers that question her or her ideas. I am asking that you please listen to the taxpayers in this area and start this whole process all over again with a Commissioner that will listen to All taxpayers.

I oppose the changing of neighborhood alliances.

Neighborhood Associations are vital to keeping up neighborhoods. Those within them care the most for the neighborhood they live in. Minutes are also necessary for transparent meetings.

Apartment buildings should have parking. Parking should be enforced.

I know there have been problems with neighborhood associations, but this is not the solution!

Neighborhood association meetings, committees and boards are open to all residents. If any residents experience roadblocks to participating, there needs to be a way for them to have these roadblocks redressed. Getting rid of the most democratic system we have in this country is not the way to do that.

Neighborhood associations are important!

Portland’s Neighborhood Associations are a valuable part of our city, a driver of civic engagement and community building. They should be strengthened, not weakened.

Our voices should be listened to.

Neighborhood Associations are the lifeblood of our city and a part of the fabric of Portland.

It seems the neighborhood structure is being gutted for a vague promise of greater inclusion. Why can’t we work to make the existing neighborhood associations more inclusive? It’s false to simply insist that they can’t represent everyone. This is a misguided effort led by the buzzword of inclusion with nothing concrete.

Thank you for this opportunity to show support for our neighborhood associations.

If the Office of Civic Life and Commissioner Eudaly really cared about giving all Portlanders a voice, they would advocate strongly for district representation instead of dismantling one of the few avenues available for civic engagement. Ironically, the whole process has been done without transparency, accountability and public engagement, the very thing that this bureau is supposed to represent.

I live in the Cully neighborhood. Our neighborhood association works for the good of all community members, not just homeowners. NA meetings are conducted with Spanish interpretation, newsletters are printed in English and Spanish, and the NA works with various diverse organizations to promote diversity and equity in our community. If other NAs do not possess these values and characteristics, than the NAs should be encouraged and trained to evolve in this way. NAs are a vital way for the residents of Portland to work with their city government. Cutting them off would be undemocratic.

this is the best intersection of local needs and city government!

If you ignore neighborhood associations, then we need more representatives. Perhaps an Alderman structure that consists of more than the small number of representatives currently (6 is it?).

Strengthen neighborhood associations. Mindlessly destroying the existing structure makes no managerial sense.