The Results Are In: Listening to City Employees
A vital part of the multi-year Portland Engagement Project is listening to the City employees who are already engaging with Portlanders every day. They are the Portlanders most familiar with the City’s current approach to civic engagement.
We invited every City employee to participate. Over four months, we conducted 45 listening sessions and deployed a city-wide survey. An incredible list of over 571 actionable ideas for change were generated in this process.
The ideas are synthesized here. We’ve categorized the ideas into themes, accompanied by subthemes and recurring comments.
These ideas can serve as a strong starting point for the next PEP phase: listening to all Portlanders. Together with the other parts of the Project, these ideas will support the creation of a community engagement plan and roadmap that works for all Portlanders, today and tomorrow.
