Inside Mayor Wheeler’s final Portland budget

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Inside Mayor Wheeler’s final Portland budget

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- This is the week Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's last annual budget gets put to the test. While COVID relief funding is going away, the Portland city budget sits around $1 billion more than in 2023. In this budget Wheeler takes a big swing at public safety as some bureaus, fully funding Portland Fire, Portland Police and Emergency Communications. But the Portland Clean Energy Fund could be the saving grace, filling gaps tha…