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The Springfield Public Library is located within city hall. [31] The city hall itself is home to a seal of the city of Springfield, created out of unusual items from the city's sewer system. [32] [33] The seal and its creator, Russell Ziolkowski, were featured on The Tonight Show and On the Road with Charles Kuralt. [32]
Faced with decreasing government revenues due to a recession in the local economy, voters approved a three-year local income tax (Measure 26–48) [17] on May 20, 2003, to prevent further cuts in schools, police protection, and social services. [18] Multnomah County was one of the few local governments in Oregon to approve such a tax increase.
Metro is responsible for overseeing the Portland region's solid waste system, general planning of land use and transportation, maintaining certain regional parks and natural areas, and operating the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and the Portland Expo Center. It also distributes money from two voter ...
The other 10 commission members voiced support for a 1-cent tax, which would increase the overall city sales tax rate by 1/4-cent and increase city revenues by about $15 million, not including the ...
A citizen commission will consider a possible replacement for the 3/4-cent police-fire pension sales tax, which could appear on November ballots.
Map of the United States with Oregon highlighted Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it is the 27th-most populous state, with 4,237,256 inhabitants, and ranked 10th by land area, spanning 95,988 square miles (248,610 km 2) of land. Oregon is divided into 36 counties and contains 241 incorporated cities. Approximately 71 percent of ...
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Thurston is a neighborhood in the eastern part of Springfield, Oregon, United States on Oregon Route 126. Before being annexed by Springfield, [citation needed] it was formerly an unincorporated community with its own post office. [1] [2] The earliest land claims in the Thurston area by white settlers were in 1851. [3]