(Portland, OR)  --  The City of Portland expanded the Portland Street Response program with one-time money from the American Rescue Plan Act.  Now, that money is running out and the program faces budget cuts.  At a meeting Wednesday night, several community members spoke in support of the mental health crisis teams that are sent to calls instead of police.  The program costs nearly 12-million-dollars and half of that funding will run out.  The program is under the Portland Fire Bureau, which faces an additional three-million-dollars in budget cuts.  One suggestion was to move the program from the Fire Bureau to the Community Safety Division.  More hearings are scheduled.