Willamette Week: Key Questions About the Only Measure on Portlanders’ Ballots Won’t Be Answered Until After the Election

Portland voters will see only one city measure on their ballots this fall. Measure 26-267, if approved, would create a participatory budgeting program that gives Portlanders discretion over how to spend an amount equivalent to 2% of the city’s general fund (roughly $16 million) every year.

But voters won’t know the answers to key questions about how the program would work until after it passes—including how the $16 million would be funded, how project ideas would be vetted and honed, how residents would vote on projects, and even who could vote on projects.

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