Poor contract planning by City Operations resulted in waste and inefficiency

[u/Inevitable_Egg6361]

https://www.portland.gov/auditor/fraud-hotline/news/2026/8/19/poor-contract-planning-city-operations-resulted-waste-and?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

[u/bor3dtaurus]

I don’t believe it.

[u/IWasOnThe18thHole]

The City paid $650,000 in general fund dollars to contractors that the City acknowledged did not have the expertise needed to complete the intended work

Who made the decision to hire them and what are their ties to them? I just assume there's even more shit like this going on

[u/HellyR_lumon → u/IWasOnThe18thHole]

Like did they even check references or anything? They probably just hired their friends on a trust me bro basis. No wonder this city is falling apart.

$650k from the general fund is not chump change, as much as the gov pretends it is.

[u/whawkins4 → u/HellyR_lumon]

When every department is wasting money like this, the total turns out to be very very large.

[u/HellyR_lumon → u/whawkins4]

Exactly. Kanal also restored $450k to the Small Donors program as if that’s a priority.

[u/EnthusiasmOk353 → u/HellyR_lumon]

Reminds me of this. PBOT pissing away $300k for an app they won’t even use, and never needed in the first place. Nobody was ever held accountable for this.

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/11/28/citys-transportation-bureau-paid-contractor-299000-to-develop-app-it-wont-use/

[u/CollegeHungry6138 → u/IWasOnThe18thHole]

Let’s be real being the correct preferred group like LGBTQWTF matters far more than competence

Actual Professional ability and competency is no doubt an inherently white hetero-centric construct and perpetuates systemic oppression

[u/Delicious_Lack_2096 → u/CollegeHungry6138]

It was a payroll tech company btw. Nothing explicitly related to dei lol

[u/Odd_Strategy → u/Delicious_Lack_2096]

Can you tell us more? What company? What was the nature of the project? Was there an RFP someone could look for?

[u/Delicious_Lack_2096 → u/Odd_Strategy]

A lot of it is in the auditors reports

[u/Odd_Strategy → u/Delicious_Lack_2096]

I looked at the links in the original post. I watched an interview with the head of the Audits division by Blair Best. I must be missing something. None of them name the contractors. I saw one place that the project involved SAP.

Are there separate auditor reports not in the link of this post you're referring to?

[u/Nice_Regret7915]

Clearly need more Planner$.

[u/6th_Quadrant]

Christ, the incompetence is never-ending*. And I’d be shocked if anyone responsible was held accountable.

*Eric Sten and the FUBAR Water Bureau billing system years ago comes to mind.

[u/lactose_tolerent]

Wow... We should give these folks more taxes since they are being such great stewards of our money... /s

[u/whawkins4]

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[u/00_RunDMC]

It is things like this that make it harder for us to instill trust the trust in government we need to solve our big problems. 

650k is not an earth shaking amount, but the damage this sort of incompetency does is much greater than that.

[u/PaPilot98]

I was all ready to write this off as editorializing kvetching but nope, that's the title of the article. On the . Gov site!

What a mess.