ANGELITA’S PRIORITIES

PUBLIC SAFETY

    • Made Portland Street Response a permanent part of the city's safety system

    • Sent mental health crisis calls to trained responders instead of police – over 15,000 crisis calls last year, no police needed 94% of the time

    • Saved Portland's mobile crisis medical team (CHAT) from budget cuts and paid $1 million towards reviewing police programs

    • Created ongoing funding for the Office of Violence Prevention

    • Cut police overtime spending so money goes where it's needed most

    • Moved over $2 million to hire more unarmed crisis responders

    • Held ICE accountable for using tear gas & pushed a rule requiring ICE agents to show their face and ID

    • Expand Portland Street Response 24 hours a day, every day of the year

    • Unite Portland's crisis-response and violence-prevention programs into one coordinated team

    • Send trained responders to the places where crisis calls happen most, before police show up

    • Block companies (Flock/Axon) from spying on Portlanders without permission

    • Audit police programs every year — no funding for what doesn't work.

    • Implementation and rule making for the the city’s first Data Privacy Office to protect Portlanders from federal overreach.

HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS

    • Banned the AI tool landlords used to raise your rent

    • Made it faster to build new homes. 

    • Funded emergency rent help so families stay in their homes

    • Passed $17 million fund so the city can buy buildings and keep rents low forever

    • Pushed for investigations into shelter contractors 

    • Stop AI from being used to set prices on commercial stores and impacted small businesses

    • Audit homelessness contractors and programs so tax dollars actually reach the people who need help

    • Buy buildings so the city can keep rents low for people who live there

    • Provide oversight over third party shelter contractors so vulnerable Portlanders are safe and respected.

    • Build more housing that working families can actually afford

    • Keep paying for emergency rent help so families don’t lose their homes

    • Brought back real budget checks so every city department gets watched and held accountable

    • Made budget papers easy for regular people to read

    • Hosted public budget meetings across District 3

    • Demanded an open, honest process(no secret deals) on the MODA Center project

    • Show you every dollar the city spends and where it goes

    • Share city records and contracts by default so you don't have to fight to see how money is spent

    • Make the city answer your public records requests on time

    • Hold city government to the same standards we expect from local businesses

Better Governance

    • Backed Portland's goal of zero traffic deaths & secured new funding for potholes and streetlights with a small fee on Uber and Lyft

    • Prioritized safety fixes on the most dangerous streets, like Powell Blvd and Cesar Chavez

    • Championed safer bike lanes and sidewalks, like on Sandy Blvd & partnered with other local governments to keep public transit funded

    • Fix the roads that cause the most crashes and injuries

    • Build more safe bike lanes and accessible sidewalks

    • Defend and expand public transit funding

    • Show Portlanders how their trash and sewer systems work and why good government makes daily life easier

    • Fix the basics in every neighborhood - clean water, working sewers, paved streets

TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

    • Wrote Portland’s sanctuary city status into city law

    • Created the city’s first Data Privacy Office

    • Made landlords pay a fee if they lease buildings to ICE detention

    • Fought for a law that requires federal agents to show their face and ID

    • Put rules in place for the new Data Privacy Office

    • Push the state to pass a stronger privacy laws that protect all Oregonians

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

    • Fought off attacks on Portland's Clean Energy Fund and kept it working for climate projects

    • Won steady money for parks, so we don't have to keep asking taxpayers for more

    • Stood up to big polluters at the CEI Hub and the Zenith oil terminal 

    • Exposed problems at a city-funded homeless shelter contractor and pushed for accountability

    • Got air monitors near the ICE facility to track tear gas and pollution

    • Planted more trees in the neighborhoods without shade

    • Protect the Portland Clean Energy Fund from attempts to raid it for other uses that aren’t climate

    • Stop Zenith from selling to private equity until they prove it’s safe and clean

    • Get our city ready for hotter days, smoky skies, big storms, and earthquakes

    • Plant more trees in every neighborhood, focusing first on those without shade

    • Protect frontline neighborhoods first, since they're hit hardest by pollution and climate change

    • Stop new data centers

CLIMATE, PARKS, and Our City’s Future

FOr Additional Information On Policy Achievements Visit Councilor Morillo’s City Council Page

https://www.portland.gov/council/districts/3/angelita-morillo