It must be the fact that the Parks Department has run out of 100 year old terrorist trees to chop down and needs to wait for the 98 year old trees to mature.

That is welcome news.

Though I am curious that Jelly is making announcements about it. Jelly is NOT the Commissioner for Parks. Char-LIE is. The Mayor took over all the bureau portfolios.

Has Char-LIE promised Jelly something that he hasn't announced? Or has Jelly already lobbied the other council members to NOT vote to place a Parks bond issue on he ballo this year.

More closed door manouvering in the open, transparent government of PDX.

Is this a world class city or what....?

So we get one more year before our taxes are jacked again. I'm now a blanket "no" on anything that will raise my property taxes.

I even support many of these things like parks or schools, but there is at least one tax increasing measure on every ballot now. Unlike the frog, I can tell when I'm being slowly boiled to death.

Mr. Fish set up an uproar in Westmoreland
in 2012 when he supported a homeless camping fantasy that involved putting porta-potties and homeless car campers outside a warm, well-appointed, underused church. The neighbors defeated the plan, and the church finally promised an indoor spot for the homeless lady (as suggested by the neighbors).

The camping fantasy was Fish's plan, but in a moment of apparent cowardice he bailed at the last minute on the public meeting, leaving his staff members to deal with the
large crowd.

Fish's stupid plan woke me up to the fact that there is something amiss in Portland.
Fish stands in the way of measurable progress and rational strategies on
housing for the vulnerable. Anyone who runs against Fish will get support from Westmoreland- that's for sure.

Mamacita, the same feelings towards Fish from SW Portland neighborhoods applies to his treatment of the Fulton Park Community Center.

There is a long list of Fish's missteps regarding Parks and Affordable Housing. Add things like SoloPower, the ICE Jail in SoWhat. His voting even outside of his Bureaus has not been good-no backbone like a sturgeon-all in support of SamRandy. Many of us had hopes for Fish, not now.

Mamacita,
Same feelings towards Fish from the water-watchers.
The fact that he easily went along with giving his votes to SamRand for the millions for PWB projects, $135 million just for the Powell Butte project and believe me there are millions more. . . and then have to close the Fulton Park Community Center is outrageous. It isn't only the money for PWB projects although that and the debt in itself is reason to never let this person be reelected, it is the betrayal for not being a good steward of our pristine water.
I might not being a good steward of our parks either.

I meant ...I might add he is not being a good steward of our parks either.

Regarding Fish, back in August / September 2011 he came up with a phony ploy to fund some badly needed sreet improvemens on SW Barbur between SW 26h and SW Capiol Hill Road with "savings" (yeah) from other PBO projects which ploy gave the Legend, and the SAM RANDS cover to screw residential SW on road improvements with Metro Regional Flexible funds, and allow PBOT to use almost $ 2 million of those funds for the start of the bike rental program. Only Fritz opposed that raid.

Residential SW's Barbur safety request was the only one not funded in that go round.

here are lots of folks in lots of areas of the ciy who have much for which to remember Jelly.

Both Jelly and Commissioner Fish read this blog regularly. It will be fun to see if Jelly has the cojones to show up here. I'm betting he doesn't.

Considering all that Fish has done to anger people, what really takes the cake is that he lectures in council about showing respect to them at the slightest little indication that the public is expressing themselves, such as a modest hand clapping about something.