"Simply put, we want to ensure to our taxpayers that we are good stewards of their funds," Ryan said during the Aug. 28 Council meeting. "This is basic housekeeping and fundamental accountability."
The new grant management policy, adopted by City Council on Sept. 4, will require all city grants to go through a centralized online portal, expected to go live next summer.
From 2018 to 2023, the city of Portland doled out more than $52 million in general fund grants... in the 2018-19 fiscal year, the city distributed about $6.4 million in general fund grants.
But even with so much of the city's money going out to nonprofit contractors, Portland never had a centralized process for measuring the effectiveness or outcomes from the millions in taxpayer money it distributes.
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