A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
L.E. BASKOW / Portland Tribune
New Portland Mayor Sam Adams takes the oath of office from the Hon. Judge Jean Kerr Maurer before family, friends, colleagues and others Monday at Parkrose High School.
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Portland’s new Mayor Sam Adams promised Monday afternoon to be an activist leader during his inaugural speech at Parkrose High School.
“I will be willing to take risks and responsibility for any failures,” Adams told supporters who gathered for the public inauguration.
During his talk, Adams called Portland a “glorious and quirky” city that was poised to show the world how to live sustainably.
“We may be the greenest city in the country, but that’s not good enough,” he said. “We can be the greenest city in the world.”
Adams also admitted that “the worst recession in 60 years” would create challenges for his administration, but promised to work hard to create more family-wage jobs for Portlanders and make sure that all Portland children graduate from high school.
Adams also announced that Gov. Ted Kulongoski had proposed $80 million in bonds to create the Oregon Sustainability Institute near Portland State University. The new center will be in a block between Southwest Fourth and Fifth avenues and Harrison and Montgomery streets, which used to house the Harrison Court Apartments, the Jasmine Tree Restaurant and a PSU surface parking lot. It is now covered by construction trailers related to the Transit Mall renovation project.
PDC purchased the site occupied by the Jasmine Tree and the parking lot in 2003 for $3.64 million.
Several green-oriented businesses and nonprofit organizations are also interested in moving into the new building that will be constructed there.
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