Portland officials bungled the rollout of Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposed budget late Monday afternoon by publicly releasing erroneous financial figures, a city spokesperson confirmed to The Oregonian/OregonLive on Tuesday morning.
“Late yesterday, we discovered a handful of unexpected glitches occurred,” said spokesperson Alison Perkins, explaining that the problem arose as staff transferred information from city budget software to a document released to the media.
It’s the second year in a row that the Portland mayor’s office has sent out incorrect information about its budget plan.
The mayor’s staff sent out the summary of the mayor’s budget proposal at 4:37 p.m. Monday, along with a statement from Wilson. The mayor’s staff declined to take any questions about the proposal on Monday.
On Tuesday morning, Perkins said the errors “were being corrected overnight, and we will post an updated PDF as soon as it can be produced today.”
The response came after The Oregonian/OregonLive asked to verify whether the figure budget officials provided for the coming fiscal year’s discretionary revenue — reported initially as $803.7 million — was accurate.
It wasn’t. Instead, the correct figure is $742.5 million, Perkins said.
Although Perkins indicated there was more than one bad piece of information sent out by the mayor’s office Monday, no one immediately answered questions about which other figures were incorrect.
City officials had previously told news organizations that they would not answer questions about the budget until Tuesday afternoon.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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