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Katz Outlines Budget Process Reforms
State Rep. Vera Katz, a candidate
for mayor o f Portland, on Tuesday
outlined her proposals for improving
the budget process fo r the city o f Port
land.
“ 1 am committed to providing the
taxpayers o f this city the highest pos
sible value for each tax dollar collected
and spent,” Katz told members o f the
c ity ’ s Budget Advisory Coordinating
Committee.
“ I want a city government that
keeps a tight rein on spending through
an open budget process that reflects a
mazimum amount o f citizen involve
ment.
‘ ‘ I want a city budget that is w ell-
planned, well-managed, prioritized,
accountable, and more easily under
stood by the people,” she said. “ I f we
can com m it ourselves to make changes
in how we deliver services, then we can
do more for less. That should be our
greatest goal.”
Katz, a former three term Speaker
o f the Oregon House, served for ten
years on the Legislature’s Ways and
Means committee, which is respon
sible for determining the entire state
budget each biennium. She was co-
chair o f that committee for two terms in
1977-78 and 1983-84. She also co-
chaired the Legislative interim, fo r six
years.
The Budget Advisory Coordinat
ing Committee serves as independent
citizen auditors o f the city budget cre
ated by the Portland city council.
Katz proposed these improvements
to the budget process:
1. The city council m ust strengthen
its budget process by setting formal
city-w ide goals, objectives and p rio ri
ties.
2. The city council’ s and bureau’ s
goals and objectives must be measur
able.
3. Bureau budgets and programs
funded by “ ther funds” (fees, gas tax,
etc.) must receive the same scrutiny as
bureaus funded with property lax reve
nues.
4. The city auditor should provide
its citizens w ith an annual report card
on how w ell their government is doing.
5. The budget process must incor
porate a m odified zero-based budget
process to identify what impact w ill be
felt i f city services were funded at 85%,
to 110%, o f budget.
6. contingency plans for revenue
shortfalls or “ windfalls” should be build
into the regular budget prosess.
7. A financial plan for rate struc
tures should be adopted by the council
prior to adoption o f any rale increases.
8. Citizen imput must be assured
throughout this process.
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W ell, lets have a few more photos
from the album o f memories. The de
scent from that so-called “ Black Bour-
geoise: status to the land o f housing
projects, bad plumbing and bad charac
ters was not the traumatic experience
for me that one m ight think. For one
thing I have always had a sense o f
adventure and the w orld view o f an
observer; and through it all have been a
people person, enjoying the best o f
humans whether black, brown, white
grey or grizzle. I view the others as
anomalies.
One fascinating aspect o f the socio
economic structure o f the times (de
pression years o f 1934-1939) was the
presence o f hundreds o f enterprising
vendors on the streets. A ll were known
as the “ M A N . ’ ’ Propelling a collection
o f the most innovative and colorful
small vehicles you can imagine, w ith
their wares heated or cooled w ith kero
sene burners o f chipped ice, these huck
sters ranged the ghetto w ith their exotic
cries and sales pitches. Picture today’ s
carts on Portland’ s downtown mall and
then add rythm and soul.
There was the hottamale man, the
peanut man, the shrimp man, the Bar-
B-Q man, the yam man, the popcorn
man, the popsickle man - and the hot
dogs, crawfish, cat fish, skins you name
it. And then there were the heavy duty
push carts that should have had a horse
pulling them rather than the muscular
black men who fed their families deliv
ering bushel baskets o f coal and fifty
pound blocks o f ice. And have never
had an audio experience like the blues-
based cry o f the S K IN M A N o f yester
year: “ SK IN M A A N , Skin maan! Get
yo good skins and cracklins heah, you
a ll.” A converted baby buggy was the
vehicle o f choice (They often caught
fire).
Home life for me during these times
was m ainly a matter o f not being at
home i f it could be avoided. M y mother
had never recovered emotionally or
center is dramatic. Placing our restau
rant on the southwest corner, next to a
quality service organization like Nord
strom, was a natural fo r us.”
The new restaurant general man
ager is Guy Bailey, a long-time man
ager w ith Pacific Coast Restaurants,
Inc. “ The new mall is beautiful,”
said Bailey, “ That’ s why it ’ s fittin g
to include a quality restaurant like
ours.”
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signed and taught at Portland State U ni
versity, I was able to tell the students
(who included teachers, industry and
social program people) that at the age o f
19 I could operate - and often repair -
over thrity type o f technical and indus
trial equipment: A ir compressors, back
hoe, grinders, fork lift, burners, food
canners, welders, punch press, and oth
ers, many o f which required a fair level
o f math for calibration as w ell as good
reading skills where manuals and sche
matics were required. I thing the estab
lishment is fin ally accepting my early
model for what today’ s curriculum must
be.
As indicated earlier, a ll o f us teen
agers had the educational pre-requisites
in many cities. Employment opportuni
ties were enhanced, I admit, by the fact
that child labor laws were not enforced
too w ell in the case o f black kids, and
insurance companies evidently took the
attitude that their parents w ouldn’ t get
very far suing for injury or wrongful
death o f their child. For me it was an
adventure working in the foundries, on
the docks, and railroads, d riving a truck-
load o f coal from the Illin o is mine to St.
Louis, apprentice leather cutter, and so
on.
Over the past several years I have
detailed other early socioeconomic a c -.
tivities in this column. In the heart o f the
ghetto there were huge SQUARE BLOCK
BUSINESS COM PLEXES where both
the property and the enterprises were
owned by blacks. In St. Louis a classic
example was the “ Poro B uildings,” a
group o f commerical firm s founded and
administered by the famous Madame
C.E. W alker. As w ith her bases in other
major cities, there was a factory fo r
manufacturing hair care products, cos
metics and realted appliances. There was
a beauty school, business school, restau
rants, ice cream parlors, a movie theatre
and meeting halls. Nearby were neat
apartments and a hotel w ith first class
amenities. Conclusion next week.
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financially from the disintegration o f
the family and for five years our domciles
could be described as a decending stair
way o f three-room flats, ranging from
steam-heated apartments in the accept
able westend downward to the gang-
infested eastside where white landlords
never showed, and seldom repaired
(goons were employed to collect rents).
There was no lottery then but my mother
expressed hope entemal at the neigh
borhood bookie. I can s till name most
o f the horse tracks in the country:
Belmont, Santa Anita, Fairmont Park,
Hialeah, C hurchill Downs, etc.
M y interaction w ith neighborhood
kids from families o f dim inishing eco
nomic resource (m ostly intact) was
favorable, adventurous and a learning
experience. A note for today is that
despite the economics drove both stu
dent and unlettered parent to seek and
attain the very same educational levels
I described last week for the black
middle-class. In later years I met many
o f them who had succeed in every walk
o f life that discrim ination did not bar
the way - even those Physicians, law
yers, teachers, accountants, scientists,
career c iv il service, etc. And all con
gratulated our fathers and mothers for
making it possible (and neighbors).
Perhaps it is easier to understand,
now, why my approach to education
concentrates so heavily on K through
M iddle School, and on what remains o f
the Junior High. This is going to be
terribly important again since the eco
nomic turn down is here fo r the long
term - and that it is not possible fo r a
lot o f m iddle class kids to go to college,
let alone the poor. Nevertheless, year
two thousand require the same skills in
math science as A frican American stu
dents were acheiving over fifty years
ago BEFORE graduation from high
school.
Again, let us look in our photo
album o f memories for some related
facts. In the Urban Studies Class I de
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New Stanford’s Restaurant Goes In Next To Nordstrom
Center location is 6,876 square feet and
has a seating capacity o f 160 in the
dining room, 90 in the lounge, and an
additional 60 seats on the outdoor patio.
The restaurant features a large
selection o f hearty open-flame broiled
entrees that are low to moderately priced.
“ We are delighted to jo in the other
stores at Llo yd Center,” said Bob Far
re ll, chairman o f Pacific Coast Restau
rants, Inc. “ The revitalization o f this
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Nostalgia: Don’t Leave Home Without It,
Part 3
Lloyd Center Revitalization Continues
Stanford’ s Restaurant and Bar has
been added to the newly revitalized
L lo yd Center Shopping M a ll at the
comer o f N E 9th and Multnomah adja
cent to the new Nordstrom. The new
restaurant completes the redevelopment
o f the southwest comer entrance o f the
M all.
b u ilt by Pacific Coast Restaurants,
Inc., and designed after the popular
Stanford’s in Lake Oswego, the Lloyd
Burt
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Congress has approved a $4.37
m illio n grant for economic develop
ment in inner North/Northcast Port
land, U.S. Representative Les AuCoin
announced recently at a news confer
ence in Northeast Portland. The Port
land Development Commission re
quested the funds last spring fo r sup
port o f three uniquely related programs
that combine housing, economic de
velopment and social strategics to revi
talize the inner city.
The grant was proposed to Con
gress by Sen. M ark H atfield to be im
plemented over a thrcc-ycar project fo r
business development loans, a job train
ing loan fund and a technical assistance
program. PDC w ill adminstcr the funds
for a ll aspects o f the projccL
Business Development Loon Fund
♦ Allocation: approximately 60%
♦ Developed to provide incentive
to attract job-generating business ex
pansion and recruitm ent in the N /N E
area.
♦ Provides low-interest loans to
business that intend to provide perma
nent, “ fam ily wage” jobs and/or im
prove key N /N E properties.
♦ Based on PDC inventory o f area
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that identified 138 building on the mar
ket in N /N E Enterprise Zone and 66
additional building sites representing
120 acres o f vacant land.
♦ A llow s fo r 30-50 loans ranging
from $30,000 - $250,000 at five points
below prime interest rate fo r terms up to
seven years; loans w ill involve at least
30% private participation in most c ir
cumstances.
♦ Requires business receiving funds
to enter in First Source Agreement with
PDC’s JobNct program.
Job Training Loan Fund
♦ Allocation: approximately 30%
♦ Designed to enhance existing job
training programs which provide com
pany or industry specific training pro
grams for N /N E residents.
♦ Earmarked fo r business who lo
cate or expand in N/NE Enterprise Zone.
♦ Forgives pro rated portion o f
businesses loan for each resident o f En
terprise Zone hired, trained and retained
for at least six months as a regular, fu ll
time employee.
♦ Funds revolve into new loans for
other business, providing substantial
community benefits.
♦ A llow s for 25 loans o f $60,000 at
five percent below prime interest rate
fo r fiv e year term.
“ ‘ ♦ Anticipated $3,000 training cost
per trainee, fund to cover 500 total jobs’.
Technical Assistance Program
♦ Allocation: approximately 10%.
♦ V ita l component designed to sup;
port the N /N E economic development
strategy; insures loan origination and
company viab ility.
♦ Provides the following:
Business plan development
Loan packaging assistance
Identification o f co-lenders and
equity partners
M arket feasibility studies
Identification o f public and private
business incentives
Assistance with state and local regu
latory issues
Referral to other state and federal
programs including SBA, M B D A .E D A
and H U D
♦ Provides case management m oni
toring and assistance to all businesses.
PDC is the C ity ’ s agency for urban re
newal, housing and economic develop
ment. Funds for the Home Repair Loan *
Program are federally funded by the
Bureau o f Community Development
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