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‘I can win this’
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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
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97216, 97217, 97218, 97220,
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“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
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