Remember yesterday, when we said a PBOT draft document indicates Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick will propose a $11.56 per month street fee? It’s still too early to say whether that will indeed be the number. Hales and Novick will formally unveil their proposal at 9 am. But here are some shots of the document we were talking about to give you a sense—or maybe an exact picture—of what’s coming.

Of note in this draft: Even though it doesn’t suggest a $12 fee—and would generate something like $13 million less a year than the $12 formula PBOT had talked about—it hews to the same spending ratio: 53 percent for street maintenance, 44 percent to safety initiatives, 3 percent for other stuff. Under the $8 per month ratio PBOT had also come up with, safety improvements got a smaller piece of the pie.

We’ll update when we know more.

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5 replies on “Is This the New “Street Fee” Proposal?”

  2. So 53% of the “street maintenance fee” will be used for street maintenance.

    This reads more like a “replace the entire transportation budget with a fee so we can spend the general fund to put a bird on more stupid Portlandia bullshit fee.”

    Note to Hales and Novick: EVERYONE hates this.

  5. Based on an email reply sent to my neighbor I understand Saltzman will vote against, wanting this fee to go up for public vote.

    Also safety improvements were always part of the deal so I’m fine with a large chunk going somewhere besides ‘maintenance’.

    That said, it’s a gawdawful idea and needs to die a swift, ignominious death.

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