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Page 14 August 29, 2018 ‘I can win this’ C LASSIFIED /B IDS C ontinued from f ront Water Treatment Operator I Salary $26.29 - $28.90 Hourly Volunteer Services Coordinator, Closing 9/3/2018 11:59 PM Pacific Time full-time, Portland’5 Centers The Water Treatment Operator for the Arts, $43,299.00 - I position is in the Operations $60,618.00 annually. Deadline Group of the Portland Water date: September 05, 2018 Bureau. This position assists’ in operating and maintaining the City’s potable water treatment facilities and systems associated with the Bull Run Supply. These responsibilities must be carried out in compliance with federal, state and local requirements. In addition, the Water Treatment Operator I position assists in operating and maintaining the infrastructure that enables raw water to be diverted as part of meeting obligations under the Bull Run Water Supply Habitat Conservation Plan and assists in completing inspections and col- lecting samples associated with meeting the requirements of the Bull Run Treatment Variance. Metro runs the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland Expo Center and Portland’5 Centers 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. These opportunities are open to First Opportunity Target Area (FOTA) residents: This area includes the following zip codes located primarily in N, NE and a small portion of Visit oregonmetro.gov/jobs for SE Portland: 97024, 97030, current openings and a link to 97203, 97211, 97212, 97213, our online hiring center. 97216, 97217, 97218, 97220, Metro is an Affirmative Action / 97227, 97230, 97233, 97236, Equal Opportunity Employer and 97266, whose total annual income was less than $47,000 for a household of up to two individuals or less than $65,000 for a household of three or more. Visit oregonmetro.gov/FOTA for the complete job announcement and a link to our online hiring center or visit our lobby kiosk at Metro, 600 NE Grand Ave, To view the full job announcement Portland. and apply, visit: https://www. Metro is an Affirmative Action / governmentjobs.com/careers/ Equal Opportunity Employer por tlandor/jobs/2180010/ water-treatment-operator-i?key- words=Water%20Treatment%20 Operator%20I&pagetype=jobOp- portunitiesJobs Platinum Fade Salon Hair Stylist Wanted Call Sherman Jackson 503 284-2989 5010 NE 9th Unit A Portland, Or 97211 Advertise with diversity in The Portland Observer Call 503-288-0033 or email ads@portlandobserver.com Subscribe ! 503-288-0033 SUB BIDS REQUESTED Fill Out & Send To: Portland International Airport (PDX) Parking Additions and Consolidated Rental Car Facility (PACR) Exit Toll Plaza and P2 Mods (Bid Package 8 and 9 Rebid Scopes) JE Dunn Construction invites written and sealed Bids from qualified Trade Partners to provide construction services for the Exit Toll Plaza and P2 Mods (Bid Package 8 and 9 Rebid Scopes) on the PACR Project. Bids due 2:00pm PST August 31, 2018 A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be located at the Port of Portland HQ, 7000 NE Airport Way, St Helens Room B , on August 22, 2018 at 10AM for answering questions regarding the Scopes of Work on the Project. A complete copy of the Bidding Documents can be obtained by emailing Stacey Flint at stacey.flint@jedunn.com. Proposals may also be delivered by email to Stacey Flint. Any Bid received after the specified date and time will not be considered. Attn: Subscriptions, PO Box 3137, Portland OR 97208 $45.00 for 3 months $80.00 for 6 mo. $125.00 for 1 year (please include check with this subscription form) C ontinued on P age 15 L egaL N otices Name: Telephone: Address: 424 NW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97209 | (503) 978-0800 JE Dunn Construction reserves the right to select the best value response, negotiate with multiple bidders, or reject all responses. This is an Equal Opportunity and encourages Minority, Woman, Veteran, and Emerging Small Business participation. as twice the number of people can be expected to cast ballots as com- pared to primary elections. “It’s much more grass roots. It’s totally different,” Smith said. “I get a shot at winning this.” Top issues Smith hopes to champion at City Hall are afford- able housing and homelessness, addressing a lack of representa- tion in often-neglected East Port- land communities, and workforce development. The distress from not having a home is personal for Smith. She understands the plight that people living on the street often face by recalling her own life decades ago when she was briefly homeless, couch-surfing as a single mom. “I’m really sensitive to that,” she said, remembering some of hardships from her own past like when a kind-hearted gas attended gave her $5 of fuel because she asked for a mere 86 cents of gas- oline, all she could afford at the time. Smith said personal experienc- es ground the actions she has tak- en as an elected official to support more public dollars dedicated to homeless services, expanding per- manent housing and more shelter beds. “I know that at any point in your life you can be in a vulner- able situation. You know, I had a college degree. So that doesn’t shield you from having some of these challenges,” she said. ”We need to rework our priorities and put housing for women and fam- ilies first and to make sure that they’re not on the street.” Smith supports the idea of con- verting the abandoned Wapato jail in north Portland to a homeless shelter, an idea Hardesty attacked last spring. The never used facility doesn’t have individual cells, but dor- mers, Smith said, also describing positive resources for medical and dental offices in the lower floors, a space to play basketball, 22 acres of outdoor area, and televisions. Smith said her bold plan for increasing housing affordabili- ty supports the revision of a tax incentive to encourage the con- version of existing multi-units into low-income housing and re- furbishing defunct properties for mixed-use units that include af- fordable and market-rate housing close to transportation. She proposes a 5-year pilot proj- ect that would provide tax abate- ment for owners of multi-family buildings, with five or more units, if they set aside 20 percent of the building for low income people (families that make 60 percent of the area median family income). Another plan would convert some 900 and more un-used prop- erties across the city, often along bus and MAX lines that have long remained undeveloped by their owners. Called brownfield sites, these are sites whose redevelopment prospects are complex due to the presence of ground contaminants that must be disposed of, like the residues left from abandoned car washes and auto repair shops. Owners of these parcels often don’t want to pay the money to get them cleaned up, Smith said. In exchange for assistance in cleanup costs, Smith said owners would have to agree to build hous- ing at all income levels, including for low income. Such sites could be funded from regional govern- ment Metro’s transit oriented de- velopment funds, she added. Smith also wants to create in- centives for more businesses to be headquartered in struggling east or email subscriptions@ portlandobserver.com Need to publish a court document or notice? Need an affidavit of publication quickly and efficiently? Please fax or e-mail your notice for a free price quote! Fax: 503-288-0015 e-mail: classifieds@portlandobserver.com The Portland Observer