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C LASSIFIED /B IDS
SUB BID REQUEST
Tri-Met Washington Park Station Improvements
Portland, Oregon
Bids Dues: 1/12/2017 @ 2:00 PM
Bid Documents: email braunea@hswc.com for link
Howard S. Wright
1455 NW Irving Street, Suite 400
Portland, OR 97209
Contact: Aaron Braun 503-220-0895
Metro runs the Oregon Zoo, Director
of
Operations,
Oregon Convention Center, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts ,
Portland Expo Center and
Portland’5 Center for the Arts
and provides services that
cross city limits and county
lines including land use and
transportation planning, parks
and nature programs, and
garbage and recycling systems.
$78,905.00 - $118,358.00
annually. Deadline: 1/3/2017
These opportunities are open
to First Opportunity Target
Area (FOTA) residents: This
area includes the following
Photo by C hrista M C i ntyre /t he P ortland o bserver
zip codes located primarily in
The building housing McCoy Academy at 3802 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd has been sold to
N, NE and a small portion of
Visit oregonmetro.gov/jobs for SE Portland: 97024, 97030, developers and the non-profit private high school serving underserved students in Portland for more
current openings and a link to 97203, 97211, 97212, 97213, than a generation is facing closure.
our online hiring center.
97216, 97217, 97218, 97220,
97227, 97230, 97233, 97236,
Metro is an Affirmative Action /
and 97266, whose total annual
Equal Opportunity Employer
income was less than $47,000
Clark College is currently for a household of up to two
sociation would like to save the donations and fundraisers. 400
C ontinued FroM F ront
accepting applications for a full- individuals or less than $65,000
building from the wrecking crew, students have graduated from the
time Associate Vice President of for a household of three or more.
McCoy operates under an um- but it’s not very likely they can school since 1988, kids who oth-
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This Visit oregonmetro.gov/FOTA for brella organization called Oregon stop another giant box of condo- erwise would have not earned a
position reports to the college the complete job announcement Outreach and has other branches miniums as a replacement, adding high school diploma.
President, serves as a member and a link to our online hiring in Molalla, Scappoose, Vernonia to the explosion of other develop-
McCoy’s founder and exec-
of the Executive Cabinet, and center or visit our lobby kiosk and Rainier. But, the Portland site ments in gentrifying Portland.
utive director remains commit-
serves as the liaison between at Metro, 600 NE Grand Ave, is special to the students, neigh-
TVA Architects which has de- ted to the students in her charge.
the college and the community Portland.
signed
a number of new proper- She has aligned her entire life to
bors and the black community.
to support the College’s Social
ties
in
the
area, including the King helping kids that society has giv-
A longtime sanctuary from
Metro is an Affirmative Action /
Equity Plan.
The salary is
Street
Lofts,
MLK West and a new en up on, a dedication that has
gang violence and one of the first
Equal Opportunity Employer
$89,883 annually. Closing date:
development
at Northeast 13th Av- earned Becky Black a Breakfast
drug free zone in Portland, Mc-
1/30/17. For complete position
enue
and
Alberta
Street, is in the of Champions Educational Award
Coy Academy started off as the
description, requirements and
planning
stages
for
constructing a 5 from the Portland Red Cross; an
Advertise with diversity
first charter school in Portland in
to apply, access our website
story,
89
unit
complex
with parking. A.F. Gray Award for Achievement
response to the city’s first gang-re-
in
at www.clark.edu/jobs. Clark
Mary
Garofalo
from
Everett from Warner Pacific College; a
lated shooting at Columbia Villa.
College Human Resources, 1933 The Portland Observer The academy has one of the lon- Custom Homes, which is over- Virtue of Generosity Award from
Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver,
gest histories of serving children seeing the development, said incarcerated students at the Hill-
Call 503-288-0033
WA 98663 (360) 992-2105. AA/
in Portland who face economic, each unit will be priced at mar- crest Youth Facility; a 972nd
email ads@portlandobserver.com
EO employer.
employment and social hurdles by ket rate, supporting a demand Point of Light award from Pres-
giving them access to an accred- for multi-family housing options ident George H.W. Bush; and a
Lewis Hines Award for Services
ited academic program, mental within the city’s core.
McCoy
has
faced
its
own
chal-
to Children in a honor she shared
egaL
otices
health services, drug and alcohol
lenges
over
the
years.
It
was
the
with former First Lady Hillary
counseling and resources towards
first
alternative
school
in
Port-
Rodham Clinton. Last year, she
planning for college.
land
before
it
was
granted
a
char-
was presented the Mayor’s Spirit
Many McCoy graduates are the
ter,
and
barely
more
than
a
year
of Portland award.
first in their family to get a high
later
the
first
to
have
its
charter
On the current fundraising to
school diploma. Most of them go
revoked.
A
City
Club
of
Portland
save
the school, Black told the
onto community college, Portland
report
from
2002
notes:
“While
Portland
Observer, “Right now
State University or join the mili-
the
Portland
School
District
we’re
trying
to raise enough mon-
tary.
maintains
a
public
position
of
co-
ey
to
keep
alive
what we have. The
“What’s beautiful about our
operation
and
support
for
charter
ideal
would
be
to have enough
program is we work in such a
schools,
charter
school
advocates
money
to
bring
in
all the students
small setting with the students for
Need to publish a court document or notice? Need an affidavit of multiple hours a day. We get to re- charge that the district actively who are calling us, knocking on
publication quickly and efficiently? Please fax or e-mail your notice ally know the student. We get to works behind the scenes to chal- the door and wanting to come in.”
for a free price quote!
McCoy Academy has set up a
know what’s going on in their life lenge efforts to establish charter
schools
in
Portland.”
donation
button on their website
and at home,” said Katie Carpen-
Fax: 503-288-0015
Despite
all
the
odds,
McCoy
to
make
contributions.
Visit ore-
ter, McCoy’s director of program
e-mail:
has
kept
its
doors
open
by
the
gen-
gonoutreach.org/our-schools/mc-
development and educator.
classifieds@portlandobserver.com
The King Neighborhood As- erosity of the community through coy-academy/
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