A federal judge ordered federal officers at the ICE building in Portland to greatly restrict their use of tear gas until a lawsuit over the crowd control munitions is settled.
Don’t forget: we’re helping to remove Ring kit sponsors. Bring your stuff to the Axe and Rose before the preseason match #BAONPDX
This 27 pay period lookback baloney is the reason why PPB is likely to have its largest retirement group ever in May 2026.
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Your lookback period may be 12 months or 365-366 days, depending on whether you are a represented or nonrepresented employee at retirement or vested termination, and the timing of your retirement. Nonrepresented employees are only eligible for a 365 day lookback period, or 366 days in a leap year. Members who belong to the Portland Police Association, Portland Police Commanding Officers Association, or Portland Fire Fighters Association at retirement or vested termination will receive whichever lookback is higher, 12 months or 365-366 days. Council amended the City Charter to make both options available to these members following successful wage grievances filed by those associations. Usually, a 365-366 day lookback produces higher final pay. This is because in a typical 12-month period you will receive 26 paychecks. Since those paychecks include wages for only 364 days (14 days in each biweekly pay period times 26), a lookback period that includes an additional one or two days of pay will be higher than a lookback period that includes only 12 months. However, the City’s biweekly pay structure occasionally produces a 12-month period that includes 27 paychecks (because 365 does not divide evenly by 14). During these intermittent periods, a lookback period that includes 12 months will produce higher final pay than a lookback period that includes 365-366 days. Bottom left of the page: 15 Bottom right of the page: FPDR Plan Summary, Updated August 2018
One more thing.
Here's a description of the ridiculous 27 pay period lookback loophole.
"Council amended the City Charter to make both options available to these members following successful wage grievances filed by those associations."
This is from page 15 of the 2018 FPDR Plan Summary document.
Here's where you can find FPDR Reports and Budget Documents.
Happy FPDR Friday!
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In 2018, 9.5% of their property taxes went to FPDR.
In 2025, 10.8% of their property taxes went to FPDR.
That's ... a lot. Most of those dollars go directly to retired sworn police officers and fire fighters.
It's a pay-as-you-go pension system.
It's indefensible.
ACCOUNT NO: R207687 201 2018-19 CURRENT TAX BY DISTRICT: 2018-19 TAX (Before Discount) $11,234.21 EAST MULT SOIL & WATER CD-EDU 1.91 PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE 110.35 PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL 2,056.89 PORTLAND SD LOC SCHOOL 882.31 MULTNOMAH ESD 180.54 EDUCATION TAXES: $3,232.00 CITY OF PORTLAND 1,803.94 CITY OF PORTLAND CHILD LOC OPT 178.50 EAST MULT SOIL & WATER CD-GOV 38.79 METRO LOCAL OPTION 42.56 PORTLAND FIRE/POLICE PENSION 1,066.70 URBAN RENEWAL - PORTLAND 97.67 PORT OF PORTLAND 27.84 METRO 38.31 MULTNOMAH COUNTY 1,710.92 MULT CO HIST SOCIETY LOC OPT 22.17 URBAN RENEWAL PORTLAND 1,133.14 MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY 472.94 TRI-MET TRANSPORTATION 0.00 GENERAL GOVERNMENT TAXES: $6,633.48 CITY OF PORTLAND BONDS 117.05 METRO BONDS 111.64 PORTLAND COMM COLLEGE BONDS 159.57 PORTLAND SCHOOL DIST BONDS 980.47 MULTNOMAH COUNTY 0.00 BONDS AND MISC TAXES: $1,368.73 2018-19 TAX (Before Discount) $11,234.21 Red box around the FPDR line where the dollar amount is $1,066.70.
ACCOUNT NO: R207687 201 2025-26 CURRENT TAX BY DISTRICT: 2025-26 TAX (Before Discount) $14,692.24 MULTNOMAH ESD 242.92 PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE 150.28 PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2,802.47 PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOC OPT 1,085.09 EDUCATION TOTAL: $4,280.76 CITY OF PORTLAND 2,428.58 CITY OF PORTLAND LOC OPT 655.74 EAST MULT SOIL & WATER CD-GOV 53.60 METRO 51.36 METRO LOC OPT 52.35 MULT CO HIST SOCIETY LOC OPT 27.26 MULTNOMAH COUNTY 2,304.31 MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY 647.34 PORT OF PORTLAND 37.30 PORTLAND FIRE/POLICE PENSION 1,585.15 URBAN RENEWAL - PORTLAND 323.23 GENERAL GOVERNMENT TOTAL: $8,166.22 CITY OF PORTLAND BONDS 211.57 METRO BONDS 204.80 MULTNOMAH COUNTY BONDS 302.73 PORTLAND COMM COLLEGE BONDS 188.55 PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS BONDS 1,330.30 UFSWQD - BONDS 7.31 BONDS AND MISC TOTAL: $2,245.26 2025-26 TAX (Before Discount) $14,692.24 Red box around the FPDR line where the dollar amount is $1,585.15.
Here are the 2018 and 2025 property tax bills for the Family Medical Group site, which you can find on the Multnomah County Property Tax site.
Since the shuttering of Family Medical Group by UnitedHealth Group is in the news, I'll use that address's property tax data.
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Fun fact!
You can see the Multnomah County property tax for any property here.
For properties in Portland, there will be a line with the label PORTLAND FIRE/POLICE PENSION. That's FPDR.
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Another reminder that 100% of PPB's PERS contributions come from FPDR.
Remember, sworn officers and fire employees who started in 2007 or later are enrolled in PERS for their retirement benefits, not FPDR.
FPDR's pension is only for those who started prior to 2007.
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Here is the Public Safety Service Area revenues portion of the presentation where we learn that "interagency revenue comes largely from Fire and Police Disability and Retirement, reimbursing the bureaus for applicable costs."
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FPDR was mentioned in the March 3, 2026 Budget Work Session on Public Safety and Community & Economic Development.
FPDR gets its money directly from a dedicated tax levy, not the general fund. Some money then flows directly from FPDR to PPB and Fire for PERS contributions.
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Today is day 53 of collective bargaining between the City of Portland and the Portland Police Association (PPA).
Still no listening sessions.
Still no idea what the city is seeing in these negotiations.
However!
It's also FPDR Friday!
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'The Death of a Portland Clinic' UnitedHealth does it again. Yes, we're dying; but look what we've done for the shareholders.
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I could post a lot on the Work Session on how to use the unspent Housing Bureau dollars, but I want to state a guiding principle:
I am working towards a Portland where you can afford to live in the neighborhood you want, and where you move only if you want to.
Everything follows from that.
As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran and the conflict spreads throughout the region, we speak with two former U.S. government officials with experience in Middle East policy under presidents Obama and Biden.
Drones in Santa Fe. Folks might want to read “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” as you make your choices about whether to continue the program.
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For incarcerated people, #books are power are hope. #Bookbans are acts of oppression. Challenging them requires understanding them.
3/18. 1p EST. 👇🏽
@themarshallproject.org hosts a virtual event teaching you how to investigate book bans.
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?
Great article from Taylor! One thing that doesn't get mentioned is what the natural variability of the number of people in those brackets is due to stock sales. At those income levels that's a non negligible source of income that has a lot of variability to it. Ditto for the total amount collected.
The county has limited data about who’s paying its Preschool for All tax, which only went into effect in 2021. Still, some seized on a 14% dip in high-income filers between 2021 and ‘22 to suggest the tax drove wealthy ppl away. New data complicates that narrative.
Such a great idea to have IPAs and PIAs! That could never get confusing!
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Statement of Organization for Political Action Committee Committee Information Name: Community Safety Coalition ID: 22185 Acronym: PAC Type: Miscellaneous Filing Effective From: 10/16/2025 to present Filing Type: Amendment Address: 3321 SE 20th Avenue Portland, OR 97202 Campaign Phone: Treasurer Information Name: Jef A Green Mailing Address: P.O. Box 42307 Portland, OR 97242 Work Phone: Home Phone: Fax: (503)295-1851 Email Address: j.green@c-esystems.com There are links at the bottom for more information about the organization.
Here's the Community Safety Coalition page on ORESTAR.
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Transaction Information (Original) Transaction ID : 5432632 Transaction Date : 10/31/2025 Transaction Type : Contribution Due Date : 12/01/2025 11:59:00 PM Transaction Sub Type : Cash Contribution Filed Date : 11/11/2025 02:11:38 PM Payment Method : Check : Amount : $25,000.00 Aggregate : $25,000.00 Interest Rate : Repayment Schedule : Description : Exam Letter Date : 11/20/2025 Agent : Process Status : Complete Payer of Personal Expenditure : Purpose : Address Book Information Address Book Type : Business Entity Name : Portland Police Association Address : PO Box 11314 Portland OR 97211 Occupation : Employer Name : Occupation Letter Date : Other Information Associations : In-Kind/Independent Expenditures : CoSigner Obligations : There is a red box around $25,000.00 next to the Aggregate label.
Here is the $25,000 contribution from the Portland Police Association (PPA) to the Political Action Committee (PAC) named Community Safety Coalition.
This is from ORESTAR.
Anyone can create an account and find this stuff.
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And back to @taylorgriggs.bsky.social again for the final word (for now).
I had forgotten about the $25,000 that the Portland Police Association (PPA) chipped in to fund this thing.
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Thread: In my latest, I reflect on the war with #Iran. I begin by examining the war’s early human cost, explore the uncertain succession process in Tehran after Khamenei's death, & discuss why the Islamic Republic may be more durable than many assume. guardeddomains.substack.com/p/after-kham... 1/6
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
Following up on the 8/6/2020 protest case that the City of Portland "won" on summary judgment.
Judge Simon decided that Officer Craig Lehman was entitled to qualified immunity.
Residents of Portland have shelled out $173,095 (so far) to pay for his defense.
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