There are number of independently elected officers who are in charge of running the government of Multnomah County. The Board of County Commissioners consists of four Board members elected from geographic districts of the county and the County Chair, who is elected by a county-wide vote. The Chair exercises executive authority, with the approval of the other four Board members, over all county departments under his or her control.
The Board of County Commissioners establishes budget policy and approves budgets for all county government, whether or not under direct administrative control of the Chair.
Three additional county departments are headed by independently elected officials, the County Auditor, the District Attorney, and the Sheriff. These officials have authority for the administration of their agencies which is independent of the Board of County Commissioners and the Chair.
Administrative - The Mayor and Commissioners also serve as administrators of City departments, individually overseeing bureaus and carrying out policies approved by the Council. The Mayor determines department and bureau assignments, which do not necessarily correspond to departmental titles. For example, the Commissioner of Public Works may not necessarily have any of the public works bureaus in their portfolio. Quasi-Judicial - Council members also act in a quasi-judicial capacity when hearing land-use and other types of appeals.
All City Elected Officials are elected at large on a non-partisan basis and serve four-year terms. Elections are staggered, with the Mayor and Commissioners in position 1 and position 4 elected one year and the Auditor and Commissioners in position 2 and position 3 elected two years later.
There were no incumbents in this race. Democratic incumbent John Kitzhaber won re-election on November 4, He defeated Kevin L. Mannix and Tom Cox in the general election. Additionally, the governor serves on the State Land Board which is tasked with managing state-owned lands to "obtain the greatest benefit for the people of Oregon, consistent with resource conservation and sound land management. Note: Ballotpedia's state executive officials project researches state official websites for information that describes the divisions if any exist of a state executive office.
That information for the Governor of Oregon has not yet been added. After extensive research we were unable to identify any relevant information on state official websites. The state operates on a biennial budget cycle. The sequence of key events in the budget process is as follows: [41].
Oregon is one of 44 states in which the governor has line item veto authority. The governor is constitutionally required to submit a balanced budget proposal. Likewise, the legislature is required to pass a balanced budget.
See statutes: Chapter , Section of the Oklahoma Statutes. There have been 38 gubernatorial administrations and 37 governors of Oregon since Of the 37 officeholders, 20 were Republican, 16 were Democratic, and one was an Independent. There have been five governors in the state's history who resigned prior to the conclusion of their terms. The most recent case of John Kitzhaber , who resigned due to an ethics and criminal investigation concerning conflicts of interest related to his fiancee and advisor Cylvia Hayes , was the first gubernatorial resignation in Oregon since The following table details these governors and their reasons for leaving office: [51].
During every year from there were Democratic governors in office for Oregon. Oregon is one of seven states that were run by a Democratic governor for more than 80 percent of the years between Oregon was under a Democratic trifecta for the final year of the study.
Across the country, there were years of Democratic governors Over the course of the year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan. At the outset of the study period , 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied.
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of Oregon , the Oregon State Senate and the Oregon House of Representatives from to The chart below depicts the partisanship of the Oregon state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied.
For the SQLI, the states were ranked from , with 1 being the best and 50 the worst. Oregon had Democratic trifectas from and again in The state's lowest SQLI ranking, finishing 39th, occurred in Its highest ranking, finishing 18th, occurred in Both occurred when the government was divided.
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I am announcing today that I will resign as Governor of the State of Oregon. The cheif [sic] executive power of the State, shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for the term of four years; and no person shall be eligible to such office more than Eight, in any period of twelve years.
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