Current and former PPS boards must be held accountable for NOT having a meaningful repair/replace budget. That is their job.

The PPS board and administration have a long history of FAILURE at maintaining PPS taxpayer assets. That's right. All those buildings and wires and pipes belong to us, the PPS taxpayer. Much like the Portland city council and its negligence of street maintenance the PPS allows infrastructure to deteriorate until a massive bond is required to fix the problem THEY allowed to develop unchecked.

It is almost certain that the PPS board will attempt another massive bond next November. That will be in direct conflict with the Portland city council's declaration of their so-called "housing crisis." Bonds raise property taxes. Raising property taxes is in direct conflict with making housing more affordable.

1 of 2