The Portland City Council will consider using general fund money to repay the Water Bureau’s expenses being challenged in a ratepayer lawsuit.
The Portland City Council will consider using general fund money to repay the Water Bureau’s expenses being challenged in a ratepayer lawsuit.
Those behind the suit say no one from the city contacted them before filing the resolution to reimburse the bureau for approximately $1.6 million spent to refurbish a headquarters building for the Portland Rose Festival and to enforce the city’s renewable fuel standards.
The resolution would also spend nearly $1.9 million from the general fund on future Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup costs — an expense that has been totally paid by the Bureau of Environmental Services so far.
Read more at The Portland Tribune.
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