The news that the City of Portland is cutting 90 jobs from the Bureau of Development Services because fee income isn't adequate to pay the cost of running the department is protective cover that the Council can use, if it chooses to, to reject the proposal to rename 39th Avenue, because in rejecting the proposal, the Council also rejects spending $150,000 of scarce cash (about equal to the cost of one mid-level employee, including fringes and PERS, for two years) for no tangible public benefit.
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