Your government at work
The recent testy exchanges about the years that it takes for two Portland city bureaus to try to figure out how to work together on something -- it takes endless rounds of hassling over the wording of an "inter-agency agreement" -- are not much different from this run-in between the State of Oregon and Multnomah County.
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I was listening to Bill Moyer on NPR, and his discription of the public,government, and business interests as the lamb going out with two wolves trying to decide what is for dinner. It is so sad, to see public service devolve into which bureaucratic wolf strips the bones of the lamb.
Parks has some real challenges, in virtually the same circumstances as Randy, they were gifted $100,000/year by Columbia Sportswear, it was announced with great fanfare just before the November 2004 election. But it over a year later, spring of 2006 and July 2006 before parks could figure out the agreement to accept that generous gift to improve the Sellwood neighbohood park.
The PDC agreements like the one last year to shift $1 million in General Fund money to pay for the South Waterfront seem to zip right through and Amanda has to show up and question them.
Or the sale and regifting of Ball School, that agreement seemed to fly thought quite quickly as well.
Posted by Swimmer | March 16, 2007 7:34 AM
Swimmer, it was $54M of general fund money, not just $1M. But who's counting?
Posted by jim | March 16, 2007 9:35 AM