The most recent meetings with a summary, newest first. Each links to its full record.
A new event parking rate for the Lloyd Event District passed 12-0 as an emergency ordinance, so it takes effect immediately for the Rose Quarter event season. Councilors Kanal and Ryan added an amendment after a business on N Flint Avenue reported losing about 70% of its revenue, partly due to confusing signs.
No votes were taken on proposed changes to the rules governing how City Council operates. Councilors spent the session reviewing dozens of amendments to City Code 3.02, the chapter covering council organization and procedure.
Immigration detentions in Oregon are up about 50% over last year even as they have become less visible, according to Brenda Alvarado, the city's first Immigrant Affairs Lead. In the first eight months of 2026, more than 700 people were detained, compared with 462 in the same period of 2025.
Two amendments to the Central City zoning package passed, and the package is now headed for a final vote in November. The first, a technical fix to ground-floor residential standards and a greenway map, passed unanimously.
Portland and Multnomah County officials are heading into the 2027 state legislative session trying to protect state money for shelter, rent assistance and homelessness prevention. Much of that money was approved as one-time funding and will expire unless lawmakers act.
People with concealed handgun licenses can no longer carry guns into City Hall, the Portland Building or the 1900 Building after Council passed the ordinance 12-0. Only police, security and other public safety officers will be allowed to carry in those buildings.
The board voted to publicly release the Police Accountability Commission's recommendations for its bylaws, following its legal counsel's advice. The meeting also marked the arrival of OCPA's new executive director, Mac.
Two small city-owned parcels at the east end of the Foster-Woodstock couplet, about two blocks east of I-205 in District 1, are headed to the full City Council for sale. The committee voted 5-0 to recommend the sale.
Portland property owners and renters may soon be able to paint their own driveway clearances, the yellow markings that keep cars from parking too close to a driveway. The committee voted 4-0 to send the ordinance to the full council with a recommendation to pass.
Mack Muir has been hired as director of the Office of Community-based Police Accountability, with a tentative start date of Monday the 26th. Board members called the hire a long-awaited milestone after a lengthy hiring process.
Council Operations staff can now receive merit raises above the 2% limit that applies to other non-represented city employees, after the council approved a budget amendment 9-1. The change, sponsored by Council President Dunphy, applies only to this fiscal year.
Portland agreed to join the State of Oregon and Multnomah County in a new Oregon Arena Joint Authority, the body that would oversee a possible renovation of the Rose Quarter arena. The vote was 8-4, with Councilors Green, Kanal, Koyama Lane and Morillo opposed, and all three city appointees were accepted unanimously.
Three new commissioners for Home Forward, the county's public housing authority, are headed to the full council after nearly two hours of questioning. The nominees are Thomas Kemper, a longtime affordable housing developer; Brian Harvey, a Home Forward resident and tenant organizer, for the board's resident seat; and Uriah Edmonds, Gresham's pick.
A proposal to turn Portland Street Response into its own bureau, called 'Portland CARES,' was presented to councilors. The bureau would sit alongside the Gun Violence Reduction Strategy and the Office of Violence Prevention, as an equal branch with police and fire.
A proposal to phase out on-site fossil fuel emissions from Portland's large commercial and apartment buildings by 2050 drew more than 40 testifiers, with no vote taken. The Climate and Health Standards would apply to buildings 20,000 square feet and larger.
A three-year, $430,000 extension of FPDR's contract with CGI, the firm that maintains the fund's aging disability and retirement benefits database, was put on hold so trustees could get clearer contract language. Resolution 571 would extend the contract through October 2029 and raise its total cap to $1.245 million.
Eight permanently affordable townhomes at Northeast Alberta and Mallory, priced at $299,000 and set to finish in early November, have no qualified buyers. The Alberta Alive Condominiums are a community land trust project with Proud Ground, Community Development Partners, and Arrive.
Portland Public Schools offered new, legally enforceable hours for neighbors to use the Ida B. Wells High School track, tennis courts, softball field and multi-use field.
The fall budget adjustment package is headed to the full council. The FY 2026-27 supplemental budget was referred unanimously after two amendments.
Ryan Rizer is the new vice chair of the group that oversees the Portland Police Bureau's Focused Intervention Team (FIT), the unit focused on gun violence. The election followed a prior member stepping down for personal reasons, with Aurelio moving into the chair role.
State-mandated zoning code updates for middle housing moved to a final vote next week, but not before councilors debated how much shared outdoor space cottage clusters should be required to have. The ordinance brings Portland's zoning code in line with state laws passed in 2025 and 2026 and must take effect January 1.
Portland's new police oversight board now has a working plan for writing its bylaws. A volunteer fact-finding team compared bylaws from oversight boards in other cities with what Portland's charter and Title 35 already require, and identified 32 possible sections.
A former water tower site in East Portland is headed to the full City Council for transfer to Habitat for Humanity after a unanimous 5-0 committee vote. The two parcels off 127th Avenue, just south of East Burnside, were declared surplus by the Water Bureau in 2020 and moved to the Housing Bureau in 2024.
Parking near the Moda Center is set to get more expensive for event-goers. The committee voted 5-0 to recommend raising the event rate from $5.40 to $8 per hour on the most crowded blocks of the Eliot neighborhood's Zone V permit area.
A proposal to stop charging Portland's business license tax to about 18,000 small businesses, paid for by a higher surtax on large corporations with big CEO-to-worker pay gaps, got its first hearing. Councilors Green and Morillo are sponsoring the 'Fair Share Tax,' with co-sponsors Koyama Lane, Avalos and Dunphy.
Two amendments were added to Portland's proposal to shrink fuel storage at the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub in Northwest Portland by 2036. The first, Councilor Novick's, passed 8-4 after the meeting paused for live rewording.
Changes to Portland's secondhand dealers rules are headed to the full City Council after a 4-0 committee vote, with Councilor Smith absent. The ordinance drops the separate 'occasional dealer' fee category, because Revenue staff said those permits take as much work as full permits.
Chair Olivia Avalos laid groundwork for her proposed Climate and Health Standards, which she will bring for a committee vote on October 20. The policy would require about 1,200 multifamily buildings 20,000 square feet and larger to report energy use each year, joining more than 1,000 commercial buildings that already do.
Portland moved closer to new rules for the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub, the fuel tank district in Northwest Portland that faces serious earthquake risk. On a 12-0 vote, the council adopted an amendment package to the zoning and Comprehensive Plan ordinance.
Portland now has a Psychedelic Health and Safety Code. The ordinance, which adds Chapter 14.140 to City Code, passed on second reading 10-0, with Councilors Dunphy and Ryan absent.
Portland's draft priorities for the 2027 state and federal legislative sessions got their first full review, with councilors largely urging a tighter focus and more emphasis on behavioral health.
Portland's Office of Community and Civic Life, the city's hub for public engagement, shrank from 50-some staff to fewer than ten over five budget years. As of July, only four of those positions were filled, and the office went through three interim or acting directors.
Four city ordinances updating fees and rules for regulated businesses are headed to the full City Council with recommendations to pass. They cover payday lenders, private pay-and-park and non-pay parking lots, and social games, and one repeals the city's amusement devices, games and machines code.
A proposal to cut fuel storage capacity at Portland's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub by 20% by 2036 drew about 60 people to testify at its first public hearing. Most asked the council to go further.
Zenith Energy's Portland oil terminal franchise will transfer to a new owner after Mayor Keith Wilson broke a 6-6 council tie with a yes vote. The transfer to Escue Springer Holdings, owned by I Squared, had failed last week.
Portland's chief financial officer laid out 44 possible actions to pull the city out of what he described as an ongoing financial crisis. He warned that the city will likely still be in crisis mode while building the FY 2027-28 budget.
Trustees approved an extra $33,660 for consultant Insight Global to finish documenting how FPDR's disability and pension processes work, the first phase of replacing the bureau's retirement and disability database. The contract total rises to $139,740, and the work is extended one month to January 30.
A proposed ban on surveillance pricing, where retailers set prices for individual shoppers based on their personal data, is headed to the full City Council after a 4-1 committee vote. The ordinance from Councilor Eric Zimmerman would also limit retail price increases to once per calendar day.
A new contracting approach for the Montgomery Park Streetcar Extension is headed to the full City Council with a unanimous committee recommendation. Under the construction manager/general contractor method, the builder joins the project during design rather than after bidding on finished plans.
Two ordinances that would reduce fuel storage risk at Portland's Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub moved toward a final vote, with a City Council hearing set for September 24.