Watch the video of the meeting with Portland City Council District 4 Candidates
WHEN: Thursday, June 6th, 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
WHERE: Boedecker Cellars
2621 NW 30th Ave, Portland, OR 97210
WHAT: NIBA Board Elections - 14 Portland City Council District 4 Candidates
GUEST SPEAKER: Portland City Council Candidates for District 4: Michael DiNapoli, Eli Arnold, Bob Weinstein, Ben Hufford, Michael Trimble, Jeremy Beausoleil Smith, Mitchell Green, Soren Underdahl, Sarah Silkie, Tony Morse, Eric Zimmerman, Lisa Freeman, Chad Lykins, and Moses Ross.
Lunch will be provided, we ask that you RSVP if you plan to attend.
We will meet at Boedecker Cellara
10:30 AM - NIBA Board Official Elections
11:30 AM - Portland City Council District 4 Candidates presentation
Please RSVP here so we can get an accurate head count.
If your NIBA membership is current and up to date, you will not be turned away.
Olivia Clark
Also, members can get more information on my website: OliviaforPortland.com
Olivia Clark has experience working at local, state, and regional governments with an outstanding record of success. She served three Salem Mayors, formed a regional nonprofit that continues to build affordable housing, was Governor John Kitzhaber’s liaison to Oregon cities and counties in his first two terms, and brought together the financing for Oregon’s light rail system as well as the iconic Tillicum bridge. She was Chairman of the Board for the Oregon Providence Health System, and served on the SOLV board and many other organizations. She has a Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon. More information can be found at OliviaforPortland.com
Ben Hufford
For more information about Ben please visit , ben4portland.com, including a brief resume on the About Ben page. Also visit the website for my architecture practice, designdepartmentpdx.com.
Bob Weinstein
My website is: https://www.bobforportland.com/
Much of my bio information is on the “About Bob” page.Michael Trimble
Michael Trimble has had very unique life experiences. All of this based on the fact that Michael was born without arms in Russia as a result of the negative environmental impact from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in 1986. He endured violence, oppression, homophobic abuse and neglect at the hands of his extremist American adopted family, so he utilized the State’s social services to help him find liberation and support. His resilience was emboldened as a child because he rejected extremist views including forced homosexual conversion therapy.
Michael is a take-action type of person. In the Fall of 2021, he was the first person to file for candidacy in the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial race. The impetus for his leap of faith was that he was deeply disappointed in civic leadership. He even felt betrayed by political leadership during the unfolding of the global pandemic. Michael stepped up, spoke out and built a grassroots movement going on-air to television, radio spotlights, interviews with community-based organizations, and debated on stage with Oregon’s finest democratic candidates for governorship. Fantastically, Michael finished 4th place out of 19 democratic primary candidates! Now, he needs your vote to secure a seat in Metro Portland’s new government charter, as District 4 City County Commissioner.
Now, Portland - District 4 - is Michael’s DEFINITE forever home. He lives most happily in the famed Goose Hollow neighborhood where he shares a quaint studio rental (that is ADA compliant!) with his 20 year old soon to be 21 years old cat and 3 year old cat, Tiger and Tuxedo. A purrrrrfect trio!
He is able to hop on his adaptive bicycle from his central apartment building and easily get around Portland Metro. You may have seen him biking on the Springwater Corridor Trail. It’s his favorite route, which is in District 4, incidentally. Michael is experienced, engaged, and ready to go to implement rent control city wide; make biking safer all while expanding cycling infrastructure; lower property taxes for small businesses while making homeownership for first time buyers much more economical; and implement mandated rehabilitation for the drug addicts camping out in tents on our streets to make Portland not just safe but walk friendly again.
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Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Beausoleil Smith is a candidate for Portland City Council in District 4. He is a downtown renter, husband, parent, and project manager at Portland State University in the Capital Projects & Construction Department. He is focused on striking the careful balance between building the most robust Social Safety Net in our nation and being a good steward of the Portland taxpayer dollar.
Members can check out my website at: https://jeremy4pdx.com/
Soren Underdahl
My primary goal is to ensure our reformed city government builds a better Portland for all Portlanders by surpassing our past success, not just returning to it. As a project manager by trade, with experience in Health Care, Social Care, Education, Community Organizing, and Technology, I will ensure we get things done, and create a new precedent for progress under the new charter. I will treat the ongoing crises with the urgency they require, and commit to collaborating, but also holding accountable the other stakeholders in our region to achieving measurable outcomes. I am 31, and am optimistic that we have an opportunity to forge a future in this city where we will be proud to raise our children.
Eli Arnold
Eli Arnold is a father of four, a former military officer, and a current police officer in downtown Portland. His first hand experience dealing with homelessness, crime, and the city's failure to respond drove him to run for city council. Eli believes that our recovery as a city depends on reinstating order, ending street homelessness, and becoming a better partner to business.
Lisa Freeman
Lisa has 15 years of public service, 10 of those years supporting government transitions in some of the world’s toughest spots like Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, and Bosnia. She also has the local experience Portland needs, having worked in public safety for the City since 2022 on gun violence prevention and modernizing our first responder system to make sure the right responder gets to calls that don’t need a gun, fire truck, or ambulance. She believes in the charter reforms voters passed and wants to help make sure the transition to our new form of government is successful. She loves living in SW Portland with her family and has the values and expertise to take District 4 forward.
Website link here: www.lisaforportland.com
Michael DiNapoli
Sarah Silkie
Mitchell Green