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October 18, 2023
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tion on an all-female, ma-
jority-minority board. Her
achievement inspired hope
and possibility, emphasizing
that everyone should be in-
vited to the table and heard
as society shifts toward more
progressive structures.
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Corps
Center Director Tom Pillar
concluded that the day had
successfully engaged and en-
couraged students currently in
the program to think about the
bigger picture, “We hope this
inspired our newest students
to commit to their dreams,
work though their challenges,
and realize they have the po-
tential to achieve great things
in their lives.”
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training programs, health care,
meals, housing, and career
support to low-income youth
aged 16-24 to help prepare
them for a brighter future. The
goal is to assist these students
in finding stable employment,
housing, and community to en-
sure that they succeed despite
existing income inequalities.
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dent government representa-
tives and alums made moving
speeches to encourage their
peers to continue through the
program, saying that it was a
worthwhile and life-changing
opportunity. “I was houseless
and living in my car in Sep-
tember of 2022,” said current
Springdale student govern-
ment president Sierra Town-
ley. “Now I have a community
of friends and the training I
need for a brighter future. You
can be at a low point in your
life and still be able to achieve
great things.”
During the graduation cer-
emony, students who had
completed the program were
recognized for their hard
work and effort in meeting
the Job Corps requirements,
with many students receiving
an additional award for Ex-
ceptional Student Achieve-
ment. Multnomah County
Commissioner Lori Stegman
gave a commencement speech
detailing her struggle to ob-
tain an education and break
through the hierarchical pow-
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tergovernmental agreement with
the Multnomah County District
Attorney’s office that dates back
to February 1998. Since then, we
have contracted with the DA’s
office for the services of a single
deputy district attorney to work
with us to hold people responsi-
ble for crimes on our system. In
August of this year, TriMet ex-
panded that agreement with the
DA’s office. In doing so, we now
have a second deputy DA, Megan
Irinaga, working on misdemean-
or and minor felony cases for
TriMet while Samuels, who has
worked with TriMet since No-
vember 2022, focuses on major
and minor felonies.
TriMet’s expanded agreement
with the Multnomah County
DA’s office also now provides for
up to two investigators to assist
the deputy DAs in compiling in-
formation on TriMet-related cas-
es. This essentially creates a unit
of district attorney personnel as-
signed to TriMet that will have a
strong understanding of TriMet’s
mission to provide transit service
that is safe, convenient, reliable,
accessible and welcoming to all.
“TriMet is dedicated to the
safety of our riders and employ-
ees, and our partnership with
the Multnomah County District
Attorney’s office enhances our
daily security efforts,” TriMet
Executive Director of Safety and
Security Andrew Wilson said.
“TriMet’s security staff and our
Transit Police Division partners
work together with the DA per-
sonnel assigned to TriMet to keep
criminals off our transit system.”
“The new prosecutorial re-
sources will help streamline and
speed up investigations,” Mult-
nomah County Sheriff Nicole
Morrisey O’Donnell said, “while
simultaneously freeing up Transit
Police officers to focus more time
in the community and helping to
prevent future crimes.”
“TriMet safety is critical to our
community, and my office’s part-
nership with TriMet supports our
united goal of public safety—on
our city’s transit system and in
the wider community,” Mult-
nomah County District Attorney
Mike Schmidt said. “These new
resources, combined with our
longstanding partnership, will
help us prioritize the safety of our
public transit system and all those
who work to keep us moving.”
TriMet’s current agreement with
Multnomah County is effective
through June 30, 2025 at a cost
of $2,080,119. Expanding our
agreement with the Multnomah
County DA’s office is just one of
the ways TriMet is working to in-
crease safety and security.