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Multnomah County is set to pay a marketing agency nearly a quarter-million dollars to collect feedback on the county’s ...
A draft contract shows the company will conduct focus groups and surveys on the universal preschool program and its ...
The county joins 60 local governments challenging federal mandates that threaten $126 million in funding for housing, health ...
Multnomah County is the latest local government to join a lawsuit over federal grant conditions tied to controversial Trump-era mandates.
After a budget session that brought “painful tradeoffs,” Multnomah County is shutting down its Passport Program amid budget constraints.
Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is floating a 22% cut to the county’s homeless services programs in the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Elected leaders across the Portland region and state are fuming after Multnomah County announced a $104 million budget shortfall in its homeless services department ...
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved an additional $28.6 million to largely fund rent assistance to prevent homelessness for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ...
The population of Multnomah County, the dense urban core of the Portland metro, rose a hair last year, even as it remained lower than in 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Multnomah County’s ...
Multnomah County Auditor Jennifer McGuirk found no evidence of mismanagement in the county's budget process, but did find that it's unnecessarily opaque.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners plans to vote Thursday on a resolution to take $15 million in unspent money from Metro’s supportive housing services tax and pass it along to the city ...
Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program, which aims to create 12,000 subsidized preschool slots by 2030, was by last fall struggling to meet the goals it laid out for Portland voters in 2020.