We shape our city council, and afterwards our city council shapes us.
In May Portlanders will cast their first votes to reshape City Hall. With three open spots on
City Council, there’s a lot at stake. The Portland Parks Foundation wanted to provide a forum for Portlanders to learn our candidates’ views on parks, open space and urban design. With so many candidates, we needed a way to narrow the field, so we asked each candidate to submit responses to a series of questions. A jury of Parks Foundation and Portland Parks Board members scored the answers—with the candidate names hidden.
We invited the top eight scorers to participate in our e-forum on April 20, 2020. Watch a recording of the forum below. Thank you to the candidates for participating in both the Q&A and the e-forum.
Although we couldn’t include all of the candidates in the e-forum on April 20, we are able to provide their full responses to the series of questions we asked each of them.