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Allan Classen's avatar

PLEASE CC Northrupshelter@gmail.com on emails to PEMO@portlandoregon.gov ;

shelterservices@portlandoregon.gov and 311@portlandoregon.gov . If you call Salvation

Army or 311 send a summary email to Northrupshelter@gmail.com .

1. Salvation Army (Shelter Operator 8pm-6am) 971-230-5350. Call to report issues

relate to immediate and surrounding area of shelter; issues regarding shelter

participants (early queuing, tents, trash needles etc.). CC

Norhtrupshelter@gmail.com with summary of call

2. Priority response to community reports of significant trash or hazardous

materials: To initiate a response, please email PEMO@portlandoregon.gov with

specific details, location, and a photo if possible. CC Northrupshelter@gmail.com.

3. Priority response to community reports of campsites: To initiate a response,

please submit a 311@portlandoregon.gov with specific details, photo and location

CC shelterservices@portlandoregon.gov. CC Northrupshelter@gmail.com

Additional Shelter Support

• PBOT Services: Street Sweeping/Cleaning will occur once a week around the

shelter.

• Sidewalk Washing: Will occur multiple times a week around the shelter, can scale

dependent on need.

• Trash Cleanup: Trash will be cleaned up daily around the shelter as well as the

entire Pearl District neighborhood. Cleaning teams will be on rose-branded

bicycles.

• Shelter Hours: 8pm – 6am. Individuals will be asked to limit queuing until 1 hour

before shelter opening (7pm).

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Jan Newton's avatar

This article should include the specific contact information for reporting problems. The city has become a relatively unresponsive bureaucracy; what exactly is the best way to report an issue with the shelter?

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JM Johnson's avatar

And I have some swamp land in Florida.....

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JW's avatar

Weird, if the city can do all this why weren’t they already doing it? The Pearl has been neglected for years now as far as clean-up efforts (volunteers do that or residents pay out of pocket for NWCC, etc). We’ve been asking them to clean up the 405 area as well. Why not do all these things BEFORE they open the shelter to enter into more of a good faith agreement with the neighborhood? I think we all know why.

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