Portland, Oregon, Measure 26-251, City Management of Recreational Areas, Sewers, and Stormwater Amendment (November 2024)
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Portland Measure 26-251 was on the ballot as a referral in Portland on November 5, 2024. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported amending the Portland City Charter to define certain terms related to the city's authority to manage recreational and natural areas, sewers, and stormwater. |
A "no" vote opposed amending the Portland City Charter to define certain terms related to the city's authority to manage recreational and natural areas, sewers, and stormwater. |
A simple majority was required for the approval of Measure 26-251.
Election results
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259,367 | 87.93% | ||
| No | 35,604 | 12.07% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Measure 26-251 was as follows:
| “ | Shall Charter be amended to update City authority regarding recreational and natural areas (defined), sewers and stormwaters? | ” |
Ballot summary
The ballot summary for this measure was:
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Charter Commission proposed measure to update City authority, last amended in 1966, to manage recreational and natural areas, sewers and stormwaters. If measure passes: • Charter Section 12-101, describing parks management, would add “recreational and natural areas” as defined term to mean parks, playgrounds, forests, wetlands and human-built, natural facilities. Remaining language would be streamlined. • A section would be added to City’s specific powers in Charter Section 2-105(a) clarifying that City may perform sewer, stormwater management – including protecting, restoring, remediating, altering, improving, expanding, filling, grading, or managing flow –in channels, riparian areas, floodplains, waterfronts, lakes, ponds, wetlands, other waters, natural systems, constructed equivalents. • Charter Section 11-301 would be amended to clarify that storm drainage may use natural systems, constructed equivalents. • Charter Section 11-302 would be amended to streamline language, last updated in 1970, related to service charges deposited into Sewage Disposal Fund. Charter will continue to require Council to spend Fund only on uses “reasonably related” to sewage, stormwater conveyance, disposal and purification. Other provisions. City Budget Office determined measure has no direct financial impact. | ” |
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Portland.
How to cast a vote
- See also: Voting in Oregon
See below to learn more about current voter registration rules, identification requirements, and poll times in Oregon.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oregon Secretary of State, “Voting in Oregon,” accessed April 20, 2023
- ↑ Deschutes County Oregon, “Voting in Oregon FAQ,” accessed April 20, 2023
- ↑ Oregon.gov, "Public Elections Calendar, November 2024," accessed January 9, 2024
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Oregon Secretary of State, "Oregon Online Voter Registration," accessed April 20, 2023
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Oregon Voter Registration Card," accessed November 2, 2024
- ↑ Under federal law, the national mail voter registration application (a version of which is in use in all states with voter registration systems) requires applicants to indicate that they are U.S. citizens in order to complete an application to vote in state or federal elections, but does not require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the application "may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to prevent duplicate voter registrations and permit State officials both to determine the eligibility of the applicant to vote and to administer the voting process."
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