You missed it
It was an all-day retreat of the repackaged Portland "planning and sustainability commission." Too precious. Streetcar Smith, a Gerding Edlen type, a former Cesar Chavez Boulevard agitator, Lee Pearlman lurking in the shadows watching for a petition to deface, a bunch of city bureau face cards racking up their PERS, a lunchtime keynote from Mayor Creepy (who urges everybody a couple of times to be "holistic"), a touchy-feely "What is sustainability to me?" session, and a day full of "Holds a passion in her life through work," "It’s about the lens and how you look at projects," " a fundamental belief is that everything is connected to and is about the future"... you get the picture.
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Comments (9)
That is the first bureau the next mayor has to cut. Watch those idiots scramble for another job. Maybe they will have to move out of town. Good riddance.
Posted by John Benton | October 15, 2010 2:01 PM
Like asking the deck chairs to rearrange the iceberg.
Posted by Mister Tee | October 15, 2010 4:01 PM
Sustainability seems to be one of those subjects where the more words the speaker uses, the less he's saying.
Posted by Snards | October 15, 2010 4:21 PM
Another mutual mental masturbation session. They can't wait to tell each other how smart they are and how stupid everyone outside the room is.
Posted by Steve | October 15, 2010 6:19 PM
Steve is right. I could only read part of that and realized I could save a lot of therapy money and go to one of those groups. What a load of crap.
"Hi my name is dman and when I plan on being sustainable I have to touch myself..."
"But I know it will get better. I'm so happy I'm here..."
Posted by dman | October 15, 2010 6:32 PM
Some liquified Sh-T-filled water balloons and a launcher (basically a giant sling-shot) might be in order....
We had fun with that (water-filled balloons mind you) and a launcher from dorm roofs at L & C nailing kids heading to templeton at dinner.
Never knew what hit 'em.
Events like that bring out my misanthropic side....
Posted by Mike H | October 15, 2010 7:13 PM
Is it sustainable for taxpayers to pay for a lot of people who at the end of the day talk a lot, dream a lot, eat a lot...but don't actually do anything?
The "Bureau of Sustainability" shouldn't be about the environment. It should be a tiny bureau with just a couple employees, whose job is to review each employee, project, bureau, to ensure fiscal sustainability.
If the employee, project or bureau can pay for itself (that can include general property tax revenue) than it stays.
If the employee, project or bureau can't pay for itself, then it is terminated. That means when the federal grant to pay for a project expires, the project expires too. When the property tax abatement kicks in and prevents something from being funded, then that something gets terminated until the revenue rolls in.
Posted by Erik H. | October 15, 2010 10:56 PM
No, I didn't miss it a bit. Not at all.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 16, 2010 8:09 AM
When I think of "sustainable," I think of producing something (ie, vegetables) in a manner that doesn't damage the resources (such as nutrients in the soil). I wish the City would think about Sustainable Funding in that same way--paying for things in a manner that doesn't damage my wallet!
Posted by Michelle | October 16, 2010 8:57 AM