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Yes, 62.45% (79,420 votes)
No, 37.55% (47,752 votes)
127,172 total votes
Measure 26-193 Bond to Improve Health and Safety
in Portland Public Schools
Yes, 65.95% (78,635 votes)
No, 34.05% (40,602 votes)
119,237 total votes
Portland School Director, Zone 4
Rita Moore, 57.47% (54,221 votes)
Jamila Singleton Munson, 41.55% (39,201 votes)
Write-in, 0.99% (930 votes)
94,352 total votes
Portland School Director, Zone 5
Scott Bailey, 62.39% (57,218 votes)
Virginia La Forte, 25.93% (23,785 votes)
Traci Flitcraft, 10.75% (9,863 votes)
Write-in, 0.93% (849 votes)
91,715 total votes
Portland School Director, Zone 6
Julia Brim-Edwards, 66.97% (62,699 votes)
Trisha D. Parks, 15.95% (14,929 votes)
Joseph L. Simonis, 8.43% (7,895 votes)
David Morrison, 3.04% (2,849 votes)
Ed Bos, 2.58% (2,418 votes)
Zach Babb, 2.18% (2,039 votes)
Write-in, 0.84% (790 votes)
93,619 total votes
Portland Community College Director, Zone 4
Jim Harper, 96.98% (16,431 votes)
Write-in, 3.02% (512 votes)
16,943 total votes
Portland Community College Director, Zone 5
Valdez Bravo, 61.85% (6,112 votes)
David Squire, 24.03% (2,375 votes)
Moses Ross, 13.18% (1,302 votes)
Write-in, 0.94% (93 votes)
9,882 total votes
Multnomah Education Service District Director,
Position 2 At Large:
Helen Ying, 48.1% of vote (54,654 votes)
Kristin S. Cornuelle, 35.53% of vote (40,371 votes)
John Sweeney, 15.23% of vote (17,302 votes)
Write-in, 1.14% (1,301 votes)
113,628 votes cast
Multnomah ESD Director, Position 1, Zone 5 At
Large
Susie Jones, 65.36% (8,232 votes)
Abigail Howatt, 33.02% (4,159 votes)
Write-in, 1.61% (203 votes)
12,594 votes cast
Multnomah ESD Director, Position 3, Zone 2
Mary Botkin, 89.76% (24,134 votes)
Joe Hanson, 8.85% (2,379 votes)
Write-in, 1.39% (374 votes)
26,887 votes cast
Mulntomah ESD Director, Position 4, Zone 4
Jessica Arzate, 42.90% (5,695 votes)
Jodi Ballard-Beach, 33.08% (4,392 votes)
Francisco (Frank) Acosta, 22% (2,947 votes)
Write-in, 1.82% (242 votes)
Rahmat Shoureshi Named President of PSU
The Portland State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Monday to appoint Rahmat Shoureshi — currently New York
Institute of Technology’s interim president and provost — to become PSU’s ninth president. Shoureshi, Ph.D., will succeed PSU President
Wim Wiewel, Ph.D., who will step down after serving Portland State for nine years to become a faculty member of the university’s
College of Urban and Public Affairs. Shoureshi will begin his tenure at PSU on Aug. 14. Shoureshi joined NYIT in 2011 as its provost and
vice president for academic affairs. In January 2017, he was appointed its interim president. The university has three campuses in the
U.S., four global campuses, two medical schools and joint degree programs in eight countries.
Prosper
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executive director, Kimberly Bra-
nam, told The Skanner. “To pros-
per means to flourish and thrive,
so it felt like what we were striv-
ing for.”
Prosper Portland is also the
name of a failed Portland Police
Bureau anti-homelessness cam-
paign from 2014. Branam said
she’s confident that any associa-
tion with the short-lived police
initiative won’t linger for long.
This is also not the agency’s
first name change. It was initial-
ly called the Department of De-
velopment and Civic Promotion,
before becoming the Portland De-
velopment Commission in 1958.
Its sole purpose was to serve as
the city’s urban renewal and rede-
velopment agency, which includ-
ed “slum clearance,” as noted in
its original charter amendment
resolution.
Less ‘renewal,’ more equity
While some Portlanders might
be side-eying the timing of the
rebrand – Prosper Portland has
its plate full with a $220 million
budget for ongoing renewal strat-
egies in targeted neighborhoods,
along with the possible redevel-
opment of the 13.4-acre lot of the
Pearl District post office – the
agency has worked to change its
public image for years.
Halfway through its five-year
“
brand to align with your actions,
and we have been changing our
actions for the last 10 years – to-
ward being more focused on
equity, inclusion and economic
growth, for all Portlanders, and
particularly those that have been
Prosper Portland wanted to embrace
a name that was more reflective of its
current work – less urban renewal and
more equity-building
strategic plan, released in 2015,
Prosper Portland wanted to em-
brace a name that was more re-
flective of its current work – less
urban renewal and more equi-
ty-building.
Through a 2007 effort by for-
mer Mayor Tom Potter, the city
council now holds tighter reins
over the agency, acting as its bud-
get committee. Today, Prosper
Portland says it’s a fundamental-
ly different agency since its in-
ception in 1958.
“It’s really important for your
historically underserved,” said
Branam.
To help shape its new identity,
the agency worked with a con-
sulting firm to survey its stake-
holders, along with an analytics
company to carry out polling and
focus groups with communities
of color.
Its new homepage is teeming
with images that promote diversi-
ty, while offering stats on Prosper
Portland’s efforts towards equity.
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the party. You have folks that are more
moderate, folks that are more leftist -- or
some that might be considered more in-
dependent. I think you have less of that
at the national level, where everyone
moves towards the center. A lot of peo-
ple have the same background – they
might be attorneys, analysts – coming
from very similar perspectives. I think
here, at the county level, you have more
diversity in thought.
TSN: How does being the first Black
vice chairwoman of the Multnomah
County Democrats shape your role?
RD: There’s no way I can step out of
my skin, so I’m always viewing every-
thing through a lens of equity. That’s
everywhere I go, in my work life and in
my private life. So definitely I’m think-
ing about those things. For example,
Multnomah County and the Democrat-
ic Party of Oregon have worked togeth-
er on caucuses; so they have groups of
organizations around a particular area
they’d like to pay attention to. There is
a Black Caucus, there’s an LGBTQ Cau-
cus. And one of the things I don’t see,
that I’d like to have a chat about, is a
social justice caucus. I see that as being
“
There are hundreds
of people coming
through the door
each month now,
asking, what can
I do?
a very necessary thing, so I’ll be speak-
ing with anyone who will give me their
ear on that conversation.
TSK: What is the Democratic Party,
on the county level, in most need of
right now?
RD: First of all, let me say that I think
there are some things that are going
right. And I don’t think that having
different voices in the room, saying dif-
ferent things is problematic. All of that
together is what is going to move us for-
ward. I don’t think that we need to have
a lock-step movement with a particular
candidate with a particular ideology. I
think if we’ve had any challenges in the
past, that has been it.
Also, I’d like to be more inclusive of
folks that haven’t had a place at the ta-
ble. That goes for African Americans,
Latinos, Asian Americans, and Pacific
Islanders. I’d also like to see more vet-
erans in our fold, and more labor orga-
nization participation. So that’s really
my focus. And my role – the role that is
written down in our bylaws – is to ed-
ucate our precinct committee persons
(PCPs), which are the voting members
at Multnomah County’s grassroots lev-
el. But I realize that the public needs
some of the same tools that the PCPs
have.
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PHOTO BY MELANIE SEVCENKO
Dixon
PHOTO COURTESY OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Election
Rachelle Dixon, pictured here in front of The
Skanner building, is the vice chair of the
Multnomah County Democrats