Portland residents react to moving funds from police to parks and recreation

Some Portland residents are not happy with Wednesday night’s City Council decision to reduce funding for parks. Although city councilors worked to pass an amendment to soften the blow by adding money to the fund by virtue of reducing some of the increased money earmarked for police, and the creation of a golf fee, funding for parks is still going to be cut by millions of dollars.

Here’s the breakdown: Mayor Wilson’s budget proposal cut roughly ten million dollars from Portland Parks and Recreation. Wednesday night, city councilors voted to give them back two million dollars by taking it from Portland Police. Still, Parks and Rec. is facing massive cuts.

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