The 10-2 vote, passed as an emergency ordinance, authorizes the $4.6 million spending package to be drawn from contingency dollars in the city’s general fund rather than from the City Administrator’s Office as had been initially submitted by Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney.

Mayor Keith Wilson has called for 700 managers and supervisors to make a full-time return to their worksites in downtown Portland by April 2025, as part of a strategy to end unsheltered homelessness and make Portland a safe,

PORTLAND, Ore. — City of Portland managers and supervisors will be required to return to in-person work full-time beginning in April.

The move comes after an earlier return-to-office proposal floated by Wilson received pushback, prompting him to backtrack on that plan.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson will require supervisors and managers to return full-time to city offices this spring. In an announcement Tuesday, Wilson said starting in April, all supervisory and managerial employees will have to work in-person at their job sites,

New Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is using his first weeks in office to mandate all city government managers and supervisors to return to in-person work full-time starting in April. The change will affect roughly 700 employees who have been working remotely or hybrid.

The City of Portland is set to require all managers and supervisors to return to their worksites full-time starting in April.