2025 East Portland Community Leadership Committees Application

2025 East Portland Community Leadership Committees Application

In October 2024, after a year-long community-led exploration process, Portland City Council voted to approve the establishment of three new Tax Increment Finance (“TIF”) districts in East Portland:

82nd Avenue Area
Sumner-Parkrose-Argay-Columbia Corridor (SPACC)
East 205

These TIF districts will help address the urgent need to stabilize existing businesses and residents while supporting inclusive economic growth for current and future generations.

Each TIF district will have a dedicated Community Leadership Committee (the “CLC” or the “Committee”), consisting of community members with lived and professional experience, as well as connection to a specific district. The CLC will work with Prosper Portland and Portland Housing Bureau staff to guide implementation of the TIF Plan.

While each of the three TIF districts is unique, we will approach our work in alignment with these core goals:

Prevent the displacement of vulnerable people, communities, businesses and community-based institutions from the TIF district.
Ensure that current residents benefit from investments and neighborhood change, and that opportunities for housing and economic prosperity activities will be preserved and expanded for future generations.
Preserve existing opportunities for affordable housing and economic prosperity activities.
Support and promote the development of new affordable housing that creates opportunity for Priority Communities rather than leading to their displacement from their homes and neighborhoods.
Create new opportunities for vulnerable people and communities, especially Priority Communities* to live, work and thrive in the TIF district, including those previously displaced.
Advance equitable development and provide economic and employment opportunities that offer stability and growth.
Ensure that Priority Communities and residents are empowered to play lead roles in influencing and shaping the decisions about investments and policies that affect them and their communities.
Support safe, accessible, and comfortable transportation systems appropriate to each District’s needs.
Spur innovation of environmental, climate justice, and resilience initiatives in TIF projects.
Support inclusive collaboration and partnership amongst community members, local businesses, and jurisdictional partners.

* Priority Communities refers to the intended beneficiaries of the three TIF District Plans, people systemically vulnerable to exclusion due to gentrification and displacement, including: African American and Black persons; Indigenous and Native American persons; persons of color; immigrants and refugees of any legal status; manufactured dwelling residents; renters; low-income people; persons with disabilities; and houseless people.

For more information on the three TIF District Plans and boundaries, visit the project website.

Purpose and roles of the Community Leadership Committees:

The Committee’s purpose is to advise City staff, the Directors of Prosper Portland and the Portland Housing Bureau, the Portland City Council and the Prosper Portland Board of Commissioners on the implementation of the TIF District Plans by providing essential guidance, public recommendations, and oversight of the City’s development and implementation of the TIF District Action Plans.

The Committees will work with City staff, leadership, and other partners in a model of co-creation. Co-creation includes design of the rules and structures of the Committee, shared leadership, collaborative idea generation, and equitable participation in discussion. It requires sharing a deep understanding and respect for each other’s positions, power and expertise as proposals and guidance are being developed. Co-creation relies on transparency, technical support, and open communication among all parties.

Committee activities include:

Approximately every five years, the Committees and City Staff will collaborate to create recommended Action Plans, which will guide TIF district investments for the subsequent 5-year period. The inaugural Committees for which we are currently recruiting will develop the first TIF Action Plans for each of the new East Portland TIF district.
Through co-creation, the Committees and the City will collaborate on recommended program offerings for the TIF district, making recommendations on existing programs and potential new programs. The Committees may also review and provide guidance on funding solicitations.
The Committees will provide oversight of implementation of the TIF District Plans, including making an annual report to City Council.

Applications are due by 11:59pm on Monday, May 26, 2025.

Application Information and Materials

To talk with someone about this opportunity or to receive assistance completing the application, please contact Raul Preciado Mendez (he/they) at the Portland Housing Bureau, Raul.PreciadoMendez@portlandoregon.gov; Kathryn Hartinger (she/her) at Prosper Portland, hartingerk@prosperportland.us; or Paula Byrd (she/her), the community-based project liaison, at paula@rosewoodinitiative.org.

Full Name*

Date of Birth*

Home Address*

Email Address*

Primary Phone*

Alternative Phone

Additional Questions

Name of the advisory body you are applying to serve on:*

(you may apply for more than one body, but you may only serve on one)

82nd Avenue Area TIF District Community Leadership Committee

Sumner-Parkrose-Argay-Columbia Corridor (SPACC) TIF District Community Leadership Committee

East of 205 TIF District Community Leadership Committee

If you selected 82nd Avenue Area TIF District Community Leadership Committee, do you currently live, work, go to school, worship and/or have been displaced from a district for which you are applying? (Please mark an “x” in front of all sentences that apply below, so we can know the variety of ways you are involved in each area you are applying for.)*

Select or enter value

If you selected Sumner-Parkrose-Argay-Columbia Corridor (SPACC) TIF District Community Leadership Committee, do you currently live, work, go to school, worship and/or have been displaced from a district for which you are applying? (Please mark an “x” in front of all sentences that apply below, so we can know the variety of ways you are involved in each area you are applying for.)*

Select or enter value

If you selected East of 205 TIF District Community Leadership Committee, do you currently live, work, go to school, worship and/or have been displaced from a district for which you are applying? (Please mark an “x” in front of all sentences that apply below, so we can know the variety of ways you are involved in each area you are applying for.)*

Select or enter value

Do you understand that this is a volunteer (non-paid, non-employment) position?*

Yes

Are you able to prepare for meetings on your own time? And can you commit to regularly attend and participate in meetings and for the duration of the service term?*

Yes

In which neighborhood do you currently reside?*

If unsure, use an address to look up your neighborhood

Conflict of Interest Questions

Are you or is a relative of yours associated with a business, as defined by ORS 244.020 (2)(3), that is related to the subject matter to be considered by this advisory body? If yes, please explain. If no, enter "N/A," which stands for "not applicable."*

Do you or a relative have connections to businesses that could result in a financial benefit of more than $500 annually as noted in ORS 244.020 (2)(3)? If yes, please explain. If no, enter "N/A."*

Even if you or a relative's connection to a business does not rise to the financial thresholds contained in ORS 244.020 (2)(3), the City would like to know of any relationship to a business that could benefit financially from the outcome of the matter to be considered by this advisory body. Please list those connections here. If no, enter "N/A."*

Do you or do any relative of yours have a professional affiliation with the City of Portland, either as a staff member or through a contract? Please list their name, their position, the bureau/department they are affiliated with, the contract, and your relationship to that individual. If no, enter "N/A."*

By signing and/or typing my name below, I affirm I can commit to participate fully in the work of the advisory body I'm applying for. All information contained herein is true to the best of my knowledge, and I understand that any misstatement of fact or misrepresentation of credentials may result in this application being disqualified from further consideration. I affirm that all information contained in this form is true to the best of my knowledge. If at any time following the submission of this form I become aware of any actual or potential conflicts of interest or if the information provided becomes inaccurate or incomplete, promptly notify the staff contact for the City advisory body. Misstatement of fact or misrepresentation of information may result in your application being disqualified, or future dismissal from the advisory body.*

Application Questions

To apply, please first review information about the advisory body for which you’re applying, as well as the position description, applicant qualifications and expectations, and selection process here. Click on your language at the top of the website to view the recruitment that has been translated.

Please answer the following universal questions. No more than 250 words per question.

What excites you about the possibility of serving on this advisory body?*

Describe your relevant skills, knowledge, and lived experience as well as any volunteer, work, and/or educational experience that would serve the advisory body's ability to meet its mission.*

Knowledge and/or experience in the following areas will be particularly helpful for the work of the Committee: affordable housing development, management, and preservation; health and housing; real estate development; banking and/or access to capital; environmental sustainability; small business; workforce development; community engagement; cultural institutions; community organizing and advocacy; housing stabilization; or education and training.

This list is not exhaustive, and no applicant is expected to have knowledge in all of these areas.

Please describe your commitment to working in partnership with the City and community to achieve equitable outcomes that are driven by community-identified needs and priorities. Why is collaboration important for this work?*

Please describe your experience working in community, diverse groups, or public bodies. Provide an example of a time you contributed to a healthy and productive group conversation in a collaborative, multicultural and/or multilingual setting.*

Given East Portland’s concentration of Priority Communities*, how do you see TIF investments supporting stabilization and inclusive growth? TIF can fund things like housing, small business, economic development and community-serving public infrastructure.*

Scenario: A fellow committee member takes up a lot of meeting time advocating only for the issues in their own community or individual concerns, insisting that their needs take priority over all others. How can you best respond to this situation to help resolve conflicting priorities and find common ground? What might you suggest as a path forward for the committee?*

We Remove Barriers

Please let us know if there are barriers to your participation that we can help eliminate. Examples include bus/parking passes and food at meetings when in-person gatherings return, childcare, or stipends. While we may not have these options on all advisory bodies, the Advisory Bodies Program is interested in planning and budgeting in the future based on needs expressed here.

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