Week of 10/5/09 - 10/11/09

* Quarterly Meeting with Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler

*  Taped promo and interview for Portland Community Media

* Budget Funding Briefing with Sue Keil, Director of Portland Bureau of Transportation

* Portfolio Bureau Directors' Monthly Lunch

* Meeting with Gresham Mayor Bemis, Councilor Shirley Craddick and Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commissioner John Kilian

* Dinner with the Gresham City Council

* Gresham City Council Meeting - all of above in connection with my role as Commissioner in Charge of Cable Communications and Franchise Management, whose staff serve all of Multnomah County.  The Bureau of Emergency Communications does, too.

* City Council meetings Wednesday morning and afternoon

* Oregon Opportunity Network Banquet

* Women's Leadership Luncheon, PSU's New Leadership Oregon program

* Meeting with David Olson and Mary Beth Henry, Cable Communications and Franchise Management

* Meeting with Ann Beier, Director of the Office of Healthy Working Rivers

* Welcome speech and reading of Mayor Adams's Proclamation at 44th Annual American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) Conference

* Meeting with Sanford Inouye, Vice President of Government Affairs, Comcast Cable

* Sat along on the 911 operations floor with staff.  Fascinating and impressive!

* 7th Annual Ropin' Roses Dinner and Auction, Portland Rose Festival Foundation

* Basic Rights Oregon Annual Fundraising Dinner

Dinners at home: Monday