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It took over Glendoveer Golf Course, regional parks, pioneer cemeteries and the Expo Center from Multnomah County in 1994, [5] and the City of Portland transferred management of its performing arts venues in 1989. [6] In 2020, Metro placed a measure on the May ballot intended to raise $250 million for homeless services.
East County is a region of Multnomah County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is generally defined as being the entirety of Multnomah County east of Portland . [ 3 ]
Multnomah County / m ʌ l t ˈ n oʊ m ə / is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. [1] Multnomah County is part of the Portland metropolitan area. The state's smallest and most populous county, [2] its county seat, Portland, is the state's most populous city. [3] Map of ...
The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) is a transit agency that serves most of the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area.Created in 1969 by the Oregon legislature, the district replaced five private bus companies that operated in the three counties: Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas.
The Willamette University School of Medicine, OHSU's earliest predecessor, was founded in the 1860s in Salem, and was relocated to Portland in the 1870s. [11] In 1915, Willamette University and the University of Oregon merged their medical programs to form the University of Oregon Medical School, and in 1919 the school moved to its present location on Marquam Hill in Southwest Portland.
Clean Water Services is a special service district that serves as a separately managed and financed public utility. The Washington County Commissioners serve as the board of directors for Clean Water Services. [3] As a wastewater utility, Clean Water Services cleans more than 60 million US gallons (230,000 m 3) of wastewater a day. The ...
Multnomah is a neighborhood in the southwest section of Portland, Oregon, centered on the Multnomah Village business district. The community developed in the 1910s around a depot of the Oregon Electric Railway of the same name. It was annexed by the city of Portland on November 7, 1950. [2]
The Multnomah people, a Chinookan people who lived in the area of modern Portland, Oregon, United States Multnomah, the middle Chinookan dialect of the Multnomah people; Places, vessels, and institutions whose name is derived from the name of the tribe. Multnomah (sternwheeler), a steamboat that ran on the Columbia River and Puget Sound