Brian Conley — Candidate for City Council, District 3
Endorsed: Full 350PDX Climate Justice Platform 2024 (Zenith, CEI Hub, Portland Harbor, PCEF, Shade Equity, No Freeway Widening, Building Emissions, Transit, Walking & Rolling, Climate Governance, and Divest from Fossil Fuels)
Candidate statement:
We have good programs and ideas already in place, but they aren’t managed and funded appropriately. Across Portland and Multnomah County, there’s a recurrent theme of insufficient staffing to manage programs. I’ve heard this from PCEF staff, reporting on Urban Forestry, and organizations implementing programs with JOHS funding.
My policy priorities regarding climate change will be to fund and staff programs that should be working but aren’t, due to failures of Commissioners like Rene Gonzalez, and to propose speeding up our ECAP, which after two years, hasn’t done a thing, thanks again to poor leadership and a lack of political will. The science of the climate crisis is settled, it’s time that our policies reflect that.
We need to expand our protected bike lanes, increase ridership on bus and Max, expand the urban canopy, continue electrifying our infrastructure and transitioning away from non-renewable sources, as well as revoke Zenith Energy’s permits and work with the county, state, and federal government to stabilize and eventually close the CEI Hub.
Will you ensure the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) remains climate-focused in line with what voters intended?
Yes
