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July 6, 2016
Diversity Pledge in County Projects
OAME meets
with county chair
Multnomah County Chair Deb-
orah Kafoury shared some of the
steps being taken to empower mi-
nority business owners in county
construction projects when she met
with a large group of Portland area
business owners, entrepreneurs and
contractors at the Oregon Associa-
tion of Minority Entrepreneurs.
Kafoury shared her admiration
for the OAME organization as
well as the intentional work that
the county is doing for minority
contracting through the Sellwood
Bridge Project, the new Central
Courthouse, the Gladys McCoy
Health Department Headquarters
and other county capital projects,
during OAME’s June 24 “Coffee
Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury speaks at the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepre-
and Issues session.
When the Sellwood Bridge Proj- neur’s “Coffee and Issues” event as OAME Founder and Chair Sam Brooks (right) and Multnomah
ect wraps up this fall, the county’s County Purchasing Manager Brian Smith look on.
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Week Review
No Charges in Clinton Email
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday
that the FBI does not rec-
ommend criminal charges
against Hillary Clinton for
use of a private email serv-
er while conducting busi-
ness as Secretary of State.
The Clinton camp rejoiced in the decision,
leaving a bitter Donald Trump, her oppo-
nent in the presidential election, to start the
hastag “#RiggedSystem” on Twitter.
Transgender Ban Lifted
The Pentagon announced Thursday that it
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the roles women, homosexual and bisexual
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longer be discharged for that reason.
Affordable Housing Vote
The Portland City Council voted unani-
mously Thursday to refer a historic afford-
able housing bond measure to the Nov. 8
ballot. If approved by voters, the measure
would raise $258 million from property
taxes to build or acquire 1,300 affordable
housing units in Portland, housing about
2,900 people each year.
New Police Chief Accused
Word broke on Thursday that newly ap-
pointed Police Chief Mike Marshman
had assaulted his former stepson during
an argument in 2006.
Marshman was never
charged and down-
played the seriousness
of any injury in the in-
cident, but pledged to
make the police report
public along with his
entire personnel file, this week.
general contractor will be on track
to meet the goal of awarding 20
percent of the subcontracts to mi-
nority, women, and emerging small
business contractors, Kafoury said.
She said the county is also tak-
ing steps toward a labor agree-
ment on the Central Courthouse
Project to make sure it takes into
account community values and in-
creases opportunity for minority,
women and emerging small busi-
ness firms.
The county wants a workforce
on all public projects that “reflect
the diversity of our community,”
she said.
Kaufory also discussed the
county’s efforts to decrease home-
lessness, highlighting the forma-
tion of a Joint Office of Homeless-
ness between Multnomah County
and the City of Portland and $47
million in new resources for af-
fordable housing, new shelter beds
and homeless services.
Shootings Disrupt Bridges
Both the Morrison and Hawthorne bridges
were closed early Friday morning as police
were in search of a man involved in multi-
ple shootings and a kidnapping. The initial
incident near Southeast 41st and Woodward
left a woman wounded. The male suspect,
Anthony Stone, 43, has a significant and vi-
olent criminal history on the East Coast and
is still at large, police said.
Teenager Shot at Transit Center
A 15-year-old boy was shot during an al-
tercation at the Gateway Transit Center in
northeast Portland. Police responded to re-
ports of gunfire around 10 p.m. on June 29
but were unable to locate any suspects. The
victim is expected to survive.
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