If I had a dollar for every time I cried in Council Chambers, I'd have an embarrassing number of dollars.

You know what they say:
"Live every day as though it's your last (stand)" 🥰

2. I think the cost of duplicating services would be a major disincentive. I'm not sure where we'd even site a new Animal Services in Portland and a rump county wouldn't have money for a jail, courthouse, and new county seat.

Two big obstacles in my mind:
1. I imagine Washington & Columbia counties would annex the northwestern part of MultCo, but Gresham et al feels to big to annex to Clackamas / Hood River, and too small to run as a separate county.

Two out of three Animal Enrichment positions saved in the Chair's proposed budget. That's a huge improvement, although you can hear me argue on May 14 that funding all three positions would be cooler.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever cried into a Whopper at 10 PM because you haven't eaten for 15 hours? Me neither.

lol. I've had so many 8 AM - 10 PM days this spring that I've apparently lost 13 pounds? 😂

Clavicular is wrong. All the cool kids are cortisolmaxxing.

I assume "Adopting Interstitial Graphics & Theme Music" would have to go to Committee of the Whole.

I know the City is moving away from individual department branding, but... if I petitioned for this to be their official logo?

CBPA: Community Board for Police Accountability

OCPA: Office of Community-based Police Accountability

Their response the second time was, "Sure, we can do that too."

Listening to Motus give a second presentation to CBPA on their recruiting process for the OCPA Director. Twice now they've proposed a process that is in violation of City Code. The first time was probably the City's omission, but I'm troubled by their lack of attention to process.

They talk about this in The Ministry For the Future and I haven't really been able to stop thinking about it since I read that book.

I think we should change it to another, more confusing number.

If I had the energy to testify on this, I would've raised the point that it's currently very easy for government staff to use the specter of serial communications laws to discourage advisory bodies from learning anything about their remit. (Allegedly.)

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Panic has a super cool story - and they used Enterprise Zone incentives in their expansion!

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Kinda shocking that (despite an eight figure budget and almost a year to prepare) CPBA is the one of the only city advisory bodies that doesn't have the technical capacity to do a public meeting online.

If you want to PRR staff timecards, you surely know how to do that. You can pick that battle if you want. But if we want to insist that the only we can get anywhere is by being as confrontational as humanly possible to people who are notionally in the same camp as us, then I quit.

I believe I have a moral obligation to advocate for animal quality of life, so I will. If things are as bad as you say, cutting funding certainly isn't going to make that BETTER, right? If you don't want people to donate to MCAS, you have a right to say that.

I'm gonna be honest: I've had a pretty bad mental health week and I realized there wasn't anything to be gained by arguing with someone who's coming in hot at me on the internet. You accusations are troubling, but they are in no way actionable from the limited access that I have to this process.

I've reviewed almost a dozen officer involved shootings/in-custody deaths and one thing that has always stood out to me is that only one of them was unhoused. So many people in crisis are just nominally housed - couch surfing, living in trailers, etc. None of them show on a PIT count.

Is this a recent complaint, or are you referring to the conditions that led to a large scale overhaul and leadership change a few years ago?

Constraints this year require many bureaus to contemplate cutting down to minimum legally required services. Department of Community Services has identified this as their number one priority for restoration, but it's still going to be a thing to worry about until May.

We're having a hard time fitting paw prints on the union card.

Also: did you know that you can donate directly to the Animal Shelter and specify where the money goes? They don't specifically have an enrichment donation, but donating can help animals get adopted more quickly!

www.multcopets.org/donate/one-t...

Yup! Somewhat reluctantly, but we only had a few returning members this year. I'm going to see if they'll let me play "The Dog Days Are Over" as walk-on music... really trying to drive the point home. 😂😭

Nice! Remind me to elbow-bump you on May 14th (my hands will be full of photos of sad, sad shelter dogs).

Constraints this year require many bureaus to contemplate cutting down to minimum legally required services. Department of Community Services has identified this as their number one priority for restoration, but it's still going to be a thing to worry about until May.

This includes staff to play with the animals, but also... *checks notes* basically all toys and blankets, as well.