From Representative Chip Shields:

Directly Impacting North/Northeast Portland:
$3.2 million restored to Oregon Project Independence funding to help seniors, including those served by the Urban League. (HB 5054-A)

$150,000 to The Skanner Foundation for continuation funding for the neighborhood multi-media training center in North Portland. (HB 5054-A)

Over $1 million for funding civil rights enforcement in the Oregon Department of Justice and Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Restored all cuts to funding for Multnomah County gang services ($772,937) and added another $800,000 for gang services in East Multnomah County. (HB 5054-A)

Funding for Project Clean Slate in the Oregon Department of Justice budget.

$1.5 million commitment from the Governor's office for Justice Assistance Grants to fund offender re-entry one-stop centers in Portland, Eugene and Klamath Falls.

Over $100 million to expand Head Start at places like Albina Head Start.

Continued funding of the PCC Skill Center on the PCC Cascade Campus.
$8.9 million to help abused kids through programs like Cares Northwest.

Indirectly Impacting North/Northeast Portland

$300,00 restored for cognitive-behavioral therapy provided by Volunteers of America for offender re-entry . (HB 5054-A) .

$700,000 from the Governor's office to restore drug court funding in the Criminal Justice Commission budget through Justice Assistance Grants.

$250,000 restored to domestic violence services in the Department of Justice budget ensuring that there will be no cuts to these important services.

11 positions were restored in the forensics division of the Oregon State Police for crime investigations.

$530,000 for assistance to returning veterans, including funds for those poisoned by the negligence of KBR at a water treatment plant in Basra, Iraq. (HB 5054-A and HB 3480)

$625,000 for the Oregon Historical Society, $500,000 for the Portland Art Museum, $125,000 for OPB and $1 million for Legal Aid. (HB 5054-A)

Restored almost $84 million in the drug treatment and community-mental health budgets in the Department of Human Services. (SB 5529-A)

Rep. Shields co-chaired the Public Safety Subcommittee of Ways and Means for the second consecutive session, but he gave the credit for funding these projects to Senator Margaret Carter, the senate's chief budget writer.

"Sen. Carter worked in a very low-key manner to make this tough budget cycle work for North and Northeast Portlanders. None of these projects would have happened without her drive, skill and leadership," said Rep. Shields.

For more information on state budget funding, call Rep. Shields' office at 503-986-1443 or on the web at www.leg.state.or.us/shieldsc

Posted on June 30, 2009

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