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Together to
SUB BIDS REQUESTED
PDX TCORE – Terminal Core Redevelopment
Portland, OR
Bid Package: #2
Trade Partners
(Includes: Excavation/Site Utilities, Demolition, Expansion Joints,
Fire Suppression, Metal Panels)
Pre-Bid Meeting: June 14th 10:00am
Bids Due:
July 2nd 2:00pm
Bid Documents: www.hoffmancorp.com/subcontractors
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.
Visit oregonmetro.gov/jobs for
current openings and a link to
our online hiring center.
222 SW Columbia Street, Suite 300
Portland, OR 97201
Phone (503) 221-8811
BIDS@hoffmancorp.com
Hoffman Skanska LLC is an equal opportunity employer and requests
sub-bids from all interested firms including disadvantaged, minority,
women, disabled veterans and emerging small business enterprises
OR CCB#186536
Metro is an Affirmative Action /
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lead Electrician, full-time , Oregon
SUB BIDS REQUESTED
Convention Center, $41.04 -
$42.98 hourly. Deadline date:
June 17, 2019
Portland International Airport (PDX) Parking
Additions and Consolidated Rental Car Facility (PACR)
Bid Package 11
Production Supervisor, full-time ,
Portland’5 Centers for the Arts,
$54,879 - $79,574 annually.
Deadline date: June 21, 2019
JE Dunn Construction invites written Bids from qualified Trade Partners
to provide construction services for the following scopes of work on the
PACR project:
• Masonry
• Fireproofing
• Miscellaneous Metals
• Glazing
• Expansion Joints
• Glass Canopies
• Below-Grade Waterproofing
• Drywall & Framing
• Traffic Coating
• P3 Garage Paint
• Roofing
• Fire Sprinklers
• Metal Panels
Utility Lead – Swing Shift or
Day Shift, full-time, Portland’5
Centers for the Arts, $22.10 -
$23.13 hourly. Deadline date:
June 20, 2019
Bidding Documents may be viewed and/or obtained electronically
on SmartBidNet through a Bid Invitation issued by the Contractor. To
be issued a Bid Invitation, contact Robert Means at: Robert.Means@
jedunn.com. Bidding Documents may also be viewed at the locations
listed in Plan Rooms section below.
Use the Bid Proposal Form in Section 00 41 23 and include other bid
information (scope breakdowns, narratives, etc.) for reference. Bids will
be received by the Contractor Attn: Robert Means, 424 NW 14th Ave,
Portland, OR 97209. Bids may also be delivered by email to
Robert.Means@jedunn.com
Bids due 2:00pm PST June 21, 2019
Any Bid received after the specified date and time will not be considered.
A non-mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be located at The Port of
Portland Headquarters, located at 7200 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR
97218 in the Multnomah Conference Room on Wednesday, May 29th,
2019 at 1:00pm for the purpose of answering any questions from
prospective Bidders. Attendance is strongly encouraged. No other Pre-
Bid Conference will be held.
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
SE Portland: 97024, 97030,
97203, 97211, 97212, 97213,
97216, 97217, 97218, 97220,
97227, 97230, 97233, 97236,
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,
Portland.
Metro is an Affirmative Action /
Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
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The Portland Observer
Fight for Our Rights
Celebrate Pride,
mindfully
J ill r iCharDSon
Happy
Pride
month! It’s June so
it’s time to bust out
the rainbows and…
actually, I have a lot of conflicted
feelings about it.
Supposedly, Pride is when
we all come together to cele-
brate queerness in all forms. Yet,
we non-straights are not all the
same, and many of us hold var-
ious overlapping identities (like
trans women who are also lesbi-
ans, or queer people who are also
people of color).
While there’s greater political
power in pooling together in uni-
ty to fight for all of our rights, it’s
difficult to negotiate unity within
such a heterogeneous group.
Within the LGBTQ+ commu-
nity (an acronym that gets longer
as more communities make their
presence known), we’re not all
on the same journey. As a wom-
an attracted to other women, and
fully at home in my assigned
gender, my journey looks a lot
different from folks who’ve had
to fight to have their very exis-
tence acknowledged.
Transgender people are fight-
ing for inclusion and acceptance
in a gender they weren’t as-
signed at birth. Non-binary peo-
ple are working to live outside
the gender binary in a world that
wants to give everyone only two
options.
Bisexual and pansexual peo-
ple (who are attracted to oth-
ers of all genders and orienta-
tions) have different challenges.
They’re often invisible, because
people think they’re straight if
they date someone of the oppo-
site sex or gay if they date some-
one of the same sex.
I support all these people
while recognizing that their jour-
by
ney has been different from my
own. Our need to come together
despite our differences
arises from our marginal-
ization in a world domi-
nated by heterosexual cis-
gender people.
Cisgender straight peo-
ple grow up never needing
to figure out that they’re straight,
never needing to figure out what
gender they are, never needing to
come out to anyone, and never
risking rejection or marginaliza-
tion for being straight.
The world they live in reflects
— and was constructed to reflect
— their own internal reality. Mov-
ies, books, music, laws, language,
and every part of the world around
them says that a person assigned
female at birth will grow up as a
woman and fall in love with a man.
For those of us for whom that
isn’t true, we gain strength in
numbers when we band together.
However, within the queer com-
munity, some groups are margin-
alized more than others, and other
parts of our identity do not fade
away.
The dominance of men over
other genders, cisgender people
over trans and non-binary people,
white people over people of color,
able-bodied people over disabled
people, and rich and middle class
people over the working class and
poor continues even within the
LGBTQ+ community.
Our challenge, when we come
together to fight for our rights, is
to remain sensitive to our other
differences, and to avoid perpet-
uating the further marginalization
of those who are not white, cis-
gender, able-bodied, middle class
gay men within the broader queer
community.
OtherWords columnist Jill
Richardson is pursuing a PhD
in sociology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in
San Diego. Distributed by Other-
Words.org.
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