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. They have had conversa-
tions with the leadership of both or-
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SWNI will also hear from supporters
and opponents of Measure 26-125 on
local library funding. 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.