Portland Councilor Dan Ryan on Friday said he will vote against a city-backed ballot measure that would significantly increase money collected from property owners to maintain existing parks and recreation services.

Ryan is the only member of the 12-person City Council who has come out against the levy.

“I love our parks, but this levy asks Portlanders to pay for inefficiencies the bureau hasn’t fixed,” announced Ryan, who served as parks commissioner under Portland’s old form of government. “The Parks Bureau can and should generate more of its own revenue instead of relying again on taxpayers.”

Measure 26-260 would raise Portland’s current parks levy by 75%, from 80 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value annually to $1.40, a move that city officials say is necessary just to su

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