ORS 33.710 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH Case No. 20CV43973 ORS 33.710 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION TO: City of Portland, and All Electors, Freeholders, Taxpayers and Other Interested Persons. In the Matter of: Validation Proceeding to Determine the Legality of City of Portland’s expenditure of ratepayer funds to implement the Community Opportunities Enhancement Program, and related implementation actions and decision-making rubric, under the Portland City Charter. Pursuant to ORS 33.710 and 33.720, the above-described validation proceeding was initiated in Multnomah County Circuit Court to determine the legality of the City of Portland’s use of ratepayer funds to implement the City’s Community Opportunities Enhancement Program and related implementation actions and decision-making rubric under Portland City Charter Sections 2-104, 2-105, 9-102, and 11-101, among others. By Resolution No. 37331 on November 8, 2017, Portland City Council directed the City’s Office of Management and Finance and Office of Equity and Human Rights to develop the Community Opportunities and Enhancements Program to advance efforts to strengthen minorities and women in the workforce, as well as disadvantaged, minority-owned, women-owned and emerging small businesses (D/M/W/ESB) contractors and subcontractors, and support the workforce that will be working on current and future City construction projects. In that Resolution, Council directed the COEP to be funded through the collection of 1% of hard construction costs on each City public improvement construction project, including ratepayer-funded Water Bureau and Bureau of Environmental Services construction projects. The Community Opportunities Enhancement Program and its implementing Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and Prosper Portland were adopted by Ordinance No. 189834 on January 29, 2020. On March 11, 2020, Portland City Council passed Resolution No. 37482, directing the Portland City Attorney’s Office to commence a validation proceeding to confirm the legality of the expenditure of ratepayer funds to implement the Community Opportunities Enhancement Program and related implementation actions and decision-making rubrics under the Portland City Charter. The City seeks an expeditious judgment of the Court pursuant to ORS 33.710 and 33.720 declaring that (1) the City of Portland’s expenditure of ratepayer funds to implement the Community Opportunities Enhancement Program is authorized under the Portland City Charter; (2) using the decision-making rubric is a valid method to determine the proper expenditure of ratepayer funds to implement the Community Opportunities Enhancement Program; and (3) the framework set forth in the implementing Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and Prosper Portland for implementing the Community Opportunities Enhancement Program is valid under the Portland City Charter. The City further seeks any other relief that the Court deems just and equitable. The petition is available for review in the office of the Clerk of the Court or from the undersigned at the address shown below. Any interested person may, at any time before the expiration of the ten (10) day period after final publication of this Notice, appear and contest the validity of these proceedings or the legality, validity and effect of the legality of the City of Portland’s use of ratepayer funds to implement the City’s Community Opportunities Enhancement Program and related implementation actions and decision-making rubric under Portland City Charter by the filing of an answer to the Petition with the Trial Court Clerk, Multnomah County Courthouse, 1200 SW First Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97204, in the form required by law. If you need help in finding an attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at www.oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 (in the Portland metropolitan area) or toll-free elsewhere in Oregon at (800) 452-7636. Date of First publication: December 18, 2020. Additional publication dates: December 22, 2020 and December 29, 2020. Dated this 14th day of December, 2020. OFFICE OF PORTLAND CITY ATTORNEY By: Karen Moynahan, OSB No. 954942 karen.moynahan@portlandoregon.gov 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Room 430 Portland, OR 97204 Telephone: (503) 823-4047 Facsimile (503) 823-3089 Of Attorneys for City of Portland Published: December 18, 22 & 29, 2020. BT187128

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