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City Council Approves $5.5B Budget

(Portland, OR)  --  The Portland City Council is giving its approval to a five-point-five-billion-dollar budget.  Council members voted four-to-one yesterday to pass Mayor Ted Wheeler's budget, which includes nearly two-point-five-million dollars for affordable housing development and 900-thousand dollars in marijuana tax money to assist residents dealing with prior pot-related law violations.  The council voted down a pair of budget amendments from City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty.  The amendments would have eliminated the Portland Police Bureau's Gun Violence Reduction Team and enacted a pay freeze for higher-wage city workers in order to prevent layoffs for 35 parks employees.

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