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About The Southwest Portland Post. (Portland, Oregon) 2007-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 2012)
March 2012 NEWS The Southwest Portland Post • 3 Park Bureau gives Fulton Park Community Center higher priority ganizations, and both seem receptive to the idea, Richards said. NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS By Lee Perlman The Southwest Portland Post According to spokesperson Eliza- beth Kennedy-Wong, Portland Parks and Recreation has made some revi- sions in a previous draft budget. The park bureau, like all City bu- reaus, had prepared draft budgets with cut levels of four, six and eight percent to meet expected budget shortfalls, as ordered by Mayor Sam Adams. An earlier budget called for the closure of the Fulton Park Commu- nity Center as a way to meet the four percent cut. Fulton Park’s closure is still on the table, but now only if a six percent cut is called for. The latest budget also rescinds an earlier call for closing operations of park “splash pads” and working water features. In their place, the bureau proposed to eliminate an administrative posi- tion and slash its printing budget by $100,000. Kennedy-Wong said she was unsure of the practical effect of this last cut. The earlier budget suggested trans- ferring 13 City-run SUN School recre- ation programs to Multnomah County, achieving a saving in administrative costs. The current budget suggests keeping the SUN Schools under City adminis- tration, but to eliminate three of them. The City has yet to decide which three to cut, Kennedy-Wong said. Markham Neighborhood Association may soon dissolve The Markham Neighborhood As- sociation may soon officially dissolve Pearson elected to serve neighborhood coalition Sam Pearson, who represents the South Burlingame Neighbor- hood Association on the Southwest Neigh- borhoods, Inc. board, was unanimously Fulton Park Community Center may be spared from elected as to be the proposed budget cuts by Portland Parks and Recreation. group’s second vice (Photo courtesy of Isabel Souza) president at their Janu- ary meeting. He suc- ceeds Sharon Keast, who resigned the their neighborhood as a community post to take a part-time staff position unit, spokespeople said last month. in the SWNI office. Neighborhood groups have gone inactive over the years due to a lack of committed volunteers to carry on the Southwest Candidates Fair work, and neighborhood boundaries set for April 10 have changed as smaller groups have seceded from larger ones or chosen to affiliate with an adjacent organization. Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. However, for a neighborhood group (SWNI) will hold a Candidates Fair the to say it is no longer an independent evening of April 10 at the Multnomah entity, while not a first, is highly un- Arts Center, 7688 S.W. Capitol Hwy. usual. SWNI is inviting all candidates for According to Markham board mem- City Council Position 1, which Randy ber Philip Richards, the neighborhood Leonard currently holds and is not association is currently inactive and running for re-election to, and Position unviable. “We are split by an impen- 4, currently held by Amanda Fritz. etrable barrier (Interstate 5), and by the boundaries of the Portland School District, with half of our children going to Markham and half to Stevenson,” Richards told The Post. Some, though not all, of those cur- rently active feel the territory should be split between the South Burlingame and West Portland Park neighborhood associations. 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The coalition of neighborhoods decided not to provide speaking time for Mayoral candidates because, with 18 in the race, they felt it would not be possible to be inclusive and also have a meaningful discus- sion. Multnomah Boulevard sewer line work continues The Portland Bureau of Environ- mental Services will continue install- ing new sewer lines on Southwest Multnomah Boulevard this month, working eastward between 25 th and 31 st avenues, according to BES spokes- person Stephen Sykes. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays the work will require restricting traffic to a single lane con- trolled by flaggers. Near Southwest 29 th Avenue, Sykes said, the work may interfere with ac- cess to adjacent commercial business- es; BES is seeking to find alternative parking for workers and customers. As the work is completed, the bureau will replace sidewalks damaged in the process. BES is also working on creating a new Fanno pump station near South- west 86 th Avenue. Although it will serve Portland, the station would be located in Washington County, and it is now undergoing land use review by that jurisdiction.