General Budget Process Overview

The City of Portland develops an annual budget. That means, every year, every bureau works with their Commissioner’s Office to develop a Requested Budget that is submitted to the City Budget Office and the Mayor. Then, the Mayor develops his Proposed Budget for the entire City of Portland and works with City Council, all bureaus and the community to finalize the budget. City Council formally adopts the budget in June.

Portland Parks & Recreation begins its budget process in October, eight months before the budget is adopted. The Parks budget process goes from October through February when we submit our Requested Budget to the City Budget Office. Then, a process led by City Council begins.  

Parks uses several points of information to develop our Requested Budget. These include:

• Mayoral Guidance
• Commissioner input
• Staff input from managers, technicians, line, and program staff
• Budget Advisory Committee – the full Parks Board and invited labor representatives, community members and representatives from culturally-specific community-based organizations.

Budget Advisory Committee Meetings

BAC meetings are open to the public.
Click here for BAC meeting materials. 

Budget Advisory Committee Members

Portland Parks & Recreation Board Members

• Paul Agrimis
• Mike Elliott
• Patricia Frobes
• Jim Owens
• Paddy Tillett
• Bonnie Gee Yosick
• Erin Zollenkopft

Community Organizations

• Jeremy Robbins
• Andre Middleton
• Chris Rempel
• JR Lily
• Joe McFerrin
• Ramone Gumina
• Zeke Overby
• Jenny Lee
• Randy Gragg
• Megan Van de Mark 

Labor Representatives

• Yoko Silk, PTE17
• Sadie Atwell, Labors Local 483 – Recreation
• Peter Zoltanski, PCL