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Home Forward CEO Resigns

After disclosures about her extensive travel on the taxpayer dime amid turmoil at Portland’s housing authority, Ivory Mathews has resigned. She will receive a severance payment from Home Forward that includes six months’ pay ($171,424.80) as well as up to $50,000 in services to help her find a new job. Willamette Week’s Sophie Peel joined the podcast to talk about her reporting. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

• Related: There are calls for the Home Forward board to resign as well. [Willamette Week]

City Council Approves Street Utility Fee

After years of controversy over how to improve Portland streets, City Council voted (9-to-3) for a transportation utility fee, which goes into effect in January. Only Councilors Dan Ryan, Loretta Smith, and Eric Zimmerman voted against it. [Portland Mercury]

• How it’ll work: Typical single-family homes will have a $12 monthly charge on utility bills, while most apartments or condo units will pay $8.40. Businesses are expected to pay a fee amounting to 4.3% of their utility bill. [KGW]

Portland Fire Starts Playing

Portland now has a professional women’s basketball team. And they play for the first time on their home court at the Moda Center this Sunday — a pre-season game against the Los Angeles Sparks. Tickets are still available. [WNBA]

Last week’s scavenger hunt was for a mural on a private fence.

“This is on the side of the corner house at SE 29th & Pine St!” wrote reader Danielle S. “It's in a little cul-de-sac near Ken's Artisan Pizza.”

“I walk by there all the time and think it’s such a cute hidden gem,” wrote reader Mary T.

A shoutout to those two readers as well as Philip H., for identifying the spot.

This week’s scavenger hunt is from reader (and regular scavenger hunt contributor) Stephan Vertal:

Do you know this mural?

Please click here to submit the location — and, for unofficial bonus points, anything you know about it.

If you’re new to the newsletter, there’s a scavenger hunt every Friday. In next week’s newsletter, I’ll reveal the answer and shout out the first 10 readers who respond correctly.

📸 Want to submit a photo? Please email me a snapshot of somewhere in the Portland metro area, and we’ll consider it for an upcoming “Where Is It?” segment!