4 • The Southwest Portland Post
NEWS
Mayor’s budget preserves funds for
Southwest sidewalks and SUN schools
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Mayor Sam Adams’ budget, pub-
lished last month but still subject to
change at press time, was kind to
Southwest Portland in many ways.
It preserved about half the funding
for the Neighborhood Small Grants
Program, $8 million worth of new
sidewalk construction, and south-
west’s three SUN School programs.
However, despite heavy lobbying,
the budget does call for the closure
of Fulton Park Community Center.
For the Portland Office of Neigh-
borhood Involvement (ONI), the
budget includes $100,000 (half of last
year’s budget) for the citywide Small
Grants program, given by Southwest
Neighborhoods, Inc. (SWNI) and the
city’s six other neighborhood coali-
tions for special projects conceived by
neighborhood associations and other
grass roots groups.
SWNI’s share will drop from
$23,000 this fiscal year to $10,000.
“We’re really glad this program was
preserved,” SWNI Executive Director
Sylvia Bogert told The Post. “There’ll
be more competition for the funds,
but we’ll work with it.”
The ONI budget also included
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cost of living increases for Bogert
and other neighborhood personnel.
Adams’ budget also preserved $16
million, split between southwest and
East Portland, for the construction
of sidewalks where they do not cur-
rently exist.
“The mayor kept his promise,”
SWNI Transportation Committee
chair Roger Averbeck told The Post.
“Both coalitions really need this.” The
budget also restored funds for street
cleaning and maintenance, once on
the chopping block.
There is a chance southwest can
receive additional transportation
funding this year. The State of Oregon
has a $20 million program to enhance
bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
Portland can request a maximum of
four projects, and SWNI is lobbying
for the Southwest Barbur Demonstra-
tion Project, which would provide
$1 million worth of improvements
between 19 th and 26 th avenues.
“The City should be looking at
long-standing needs on major arte-
rials where there are major safety
concerns,” Averbeck said.
The Bureau of Parks will preserve
funding to continue SUN School pro-
grams at Jackson Middle School and
Robert Gray elementary school, once
considered in jeopardy. A third SUN
program at Markham School receives
funding from other sources.
June 2012
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Grand opening scheduled for
Gibbs Street pedestrian bridge
The grand opening celebration
for the new Gibbs Street pedestrian
bridge will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June
23.
The bridge extends from Southwest
Kelley Avenue to the South Water-
front, and is the first direct pedestrian
connection in decades between parts
of what was once a unified neighbor-
hood.
There will be speeches by Mayor
Sam Adams, among others, free rides
on the Oregon Health and Sciences
University aerial tram from 9:00 a.m.
to 12:00 noon, and several community
walks, according to project manager
Jean Seneschal Biggs.
SWNI officers re-elected
The Southwest Neighborhoods,
Inc. board of directors re-elected
their officers last month, all running
without opposition.
Those elected were Marianne
Fitzgerald of Ashcreek, president;
Ken Love of South Portland, first
vice-president; Sam Pearson of South
Burlingame, second vice-president;
Lynda Troutman of Marshall Park,
treasurer; and Lee Buhler of South
Portland, secretary.
The election stood in sharp contrast
to the previous year, when there was
sharp conflict for several of the officer
positions.
SWNI volunteers to be honored
Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
will hold a Volunteer Recognition
banquet at 7 p.m. June 19 at the
Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 S.W.
Capitol Hwy. The event will recog-
nize individuals put forth by par-
ticipating SWNI organizations and
bodies as outstanding volunteers.
A partial list of those to be honored,
available at press time, includes
Nancy Hand of Arnold Creek, Dan
Manville of Ashcreek, Steve Beining
of Far Southwest, Susan Egnor of
Homestead, Marty Hickey of Maple-
wood, John Delance of Marshall Park.
Additional honorees include Jim
Davis of South Portland, Mary-Cath-
erine McElroy Fuchs of SWNI’s Parks
Committee, Michael Reunert of the
Schools Committee, Sandy Morgan
of the Transportation Committee,
Dr. Bob and Dana Fischer of Public
Safety, and Lynda Troutman of the
SWNI Board.
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anytime you want.
Just click on
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www.SWPortlandPost.com
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