Job Details
Volunteer (Non-Paid) Position - East Portland Community Leadership Committees
2025-04-29 CITY OF PORTLAND, OR all cities,OR
Description:
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:
* 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:
To Qualify
All Committee members must live, work, worship, volunteer, have children enrolled in school, or have been displaced from within the boundary of the TIF district for which they are applying. Committee members are expected to represent and advance the interests of community members vulnerable to displacement from within the relevant TIF district boundary, including current and future generations, rather than their own personal or organizational interests.
Desired Attributes
Committee members should have a range of experience and knowledge to inform development and implementation of the TIF District Action Plan, drawing from life experiences, community connections and leadership, education, and professional experience.
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.
The Committee's composition should reflect the socio-economic, gender, racial, ethnic, cultural, and geographic diversity of the TIF district community. Committee membership should specifically include TIF district residents and community members who represent Priority Communities.
Terms and Time Commitment
The Committees will consist of thirteen (13) positions each. For the inaugural Committees, the Prosper Portland Board will nominate, or delegate to the Executive Director of Prosper Portland the ability to nominate seven (7) members for initial 3-year terms. The City Administrator's Office will nominate six (6) members for initial 2-year terms. City Council will confirm all Committee Members.
The term lengths for subsequent recruitments will be defined in the Committee by-laws. Committee members can be reappointed, serving no longer than a maximum of eight (8) years.
Up to and including the creation of the first Action Plan, the Committees will plan to meet at least monthly. After the initial Action Plan is adopted by City Council, the Committees will plan to meet at least once every 3 months on a regular date established by the Committees and the City. Additional meetings may also be scheduled as determined by the Committee Co-Chairs and the City.
We Remove Barriers
Please let us know if there are barriers to your participation. We anticipate the work of this Committee to occur in a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-lingual environment. Stipends or honoraria may be offered, and translation/interpretation, food and childcare will be provided.
Volunteer Ethics
Those who serve on this advisory body are considered to be public officials, which means that you must serve fairly and ethically. We will provide training on this once you are appointed. Part of following Oregon's government ethics laws means you must tell the group when you or a relative may financially benefit (or avoid fees) by your recommendations. This is called a "conflict of interest." If you tell us about potential conflicts of interest that does not necessarily mean you cannot serve. We appreciate your inclusion of possible conflicts of interest on the form included with the application.
The Recruitment Process
APPLY HERE:
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, ...@portlandoregon.gov; Kathryn Hartinger (she/her) at Prosper Portland, ...@prosperportland.us; or Paula Byrd (she/her), the community-based project liaison, at ...@rosewoodinitiative.org.
Voluntary and Confidential Demographic Information
The City is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. It uses the demographic information provided to help ensure that advisory body appointments represent a broad cross-section of community. Your information will not be used during the recruitment or the selection process. State and federal law prohibit use of this information to discriminate against you. The City will treat this information as confidential to the fullest extent allowed by law. Questions about this may be sent to ...@Portlandoregon.gov.
General Questions
For general questions about the City of Portland's Advisory Bodies program, the recruitment process, or other upcoming advisory body opportunities, please email ...@Portlandoregon.gov.
We Encourage You to Apply
For more information about East Portland TIF district planning, please visit our website.
City of Portland volunteers are unpaid; therefore, employment benefits are not available.
Salary : $0.00 Annually
Location : 97220, OR
Job Type: Volunteer
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: V2025-00426
Bureau: Office of Community & Civic Life
Opening Date: 04/23/2025
Closing Date: 5/26/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
The Position
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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.
To Qualify
All Committee members must live, work, worship, volunteer, have children enrolled in school, or have been displaced from within the boundary of the TIF district for which they are applying. Committee members are expected to represent and advance the interests of community members vulnerable to displacement from within the relevant TIF district boundary, including current and future generations, rather than their own personal or organizational interests.
Desired Attributes
Committee members should have a range of experience and knowledge to inform development and implementation of the TIF District Action Plan, drawing from life experiences, community connections and leadership, education, and professional experience.
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.
The Committee's composition should reflect the socio-economic, gender, racial, ethnic, cultural, and geographic diversity of the TIF district community. Committee membership should specifically include TIF district residents and community members who represent Priority Communities.
Terms and Time Commitment
The Committees will consist of thirteen (13) positions each. For the inaugural Committees, the Prosper Portland Board will nominate, or delegate to the Executive Director of Prosper Portland the ability to nominate seven (7) members for initial 3-year terms. The City Administrator's Office will nominate six (6) members for initial 2-year terms. City Council will confirm all Committee Members.
The term lengths for subsequent recruitments will be defined in the Committee by-laws. Committee members can be reappointed, serving no longer than a maximum of eight (8) years.
Up to and including the creation of the first Action Plan, the Committees will plan to meet at least monthly. After the initial Action Plan is adopted by City Council, the Committees will plan to meet at least once every 3 months on a regular date established by the Committees and the City. Additional meetings may also be scheduled as determined by the Committee Co-Chairs and the City.
We Remove Barriers
Please let us know if there are barriers to your participation. We anticipate the work of this Committee to occur in a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-lingual environment. Stipends or honoraria may be offered, and translation/interpretation, food and childcare will be provided.
Volunteer Ethics
Those who serve on this advisory body are considered to be public officials, which means that you must serve fairly and ethically. We will provide training on this once you are appointed. Part of following Oregon's government ethics laws means you must tell the group when you or a relative may financially benefit (or avoid fees) by your recommendations. This is called a "conflict of interest." If you tell us about potential conflicts of interest that does not necessarily mean you cannot serve. We appreciate your inclusion of possible conflicts of interest on the form included with the application.
The Recruitment Process
APPLY HERE:
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, ...@portlandoregon.gov; Kathryn Hartinger (she/her) at Prosper Portland, ...@prosperportland.us; or Paula Byrd (she/her), the community-based project liaison, at ...@rosewoodinitiative.org.
Voluntary and Confidential Demographic Information
The City is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. It uses the demographic information provided to help ensure that advisory body appointments represent a broad cross-section of community. Your information will not be used during the recruitment or the selection process. State and federal law prohibit use of this information to discriminate against you. The City will treat this information as confidential to the fullest extent allowed by law. Questions about this may be sent to ...@Portlandoregon.gov.
General Questions
For general questions about the City of Portland's Advisory Bodies program, the recruitment process, or other upcoming advisory body opportunities, please email ...@Portlandoregon.gov.
We Encourage You to Apply
For more information about East Portland TIF district planning, please visit our website.
City of Portland volunteers are unpaid; therefore, employment benefits are not available.