Tag: Mayor Hales

  • Emerson School Mom To Mayor Hales

    The following email and photograph was sent to Mayor Hales by a concerned Emerson School parent on Sept 1st. Mayor Hales, It was a grim scene outside Emerson Elementary today for the first day of school. See photo for a sampling. By 9:30am the surrounding North Park Blocks were full of debris, off-leash dogs, marijuana smoke, nudity,…

  • KATU-TV: Park Safety Concerns Heard by Mayor Hales

    By Emily Sinovic, KATU News Reports Sept 1, 2015 PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Charlie Hales met on Tuesday with a group of community leaders and concerned North Park Blocks neighbors who gathered to address concerns for safety and livability in the city’s historic park. The mayor’s office called today’s meeting more of a “listening session.”   

  • Mayor Hales – What’s the Plan?

    After ignoring the summer’s invasion of traveling gangs into the North Park Block, the city surrounded one park block (between Burnside and Couch) with barbwire-topped chainlink fencing to cordon off the block from all public use. Not surprisingly the gangs moved across the street to the playground block in front of the Emerson school. The…

  • Meeting with Mayor Hales – Aug 18, 2015

    Michelle Cardinal the CEO and Co-Founder of R2C Group (and North Park Blocks neighbor) met with Mayor yesterday to bring his attention to our criminal vagrant problem.  She presented this slide deck at the meeting. Crime and Safety the North Park Blocks – Portland Oregon from NPBlocks Here are Michelle’s  notes from the meeting: The meeting with…

  • It’s About Behavior, Not Homelessness

    Last week an intern was walking to their office on the North Park Blocks. On NW Flanders (a few doors west of the park) they encountered this couple. Mayor Hales and members of Portland City Council don’t get it. Let’s simplify the situation for them – we don’t know the housing status of this couple,…