"I was also pleased to learn of the recent collaboration with the Kellogg foundation in development and foundation funding of this project."

"The highly respected Kellogg foundation donated $4 million to create a fund for Portland -- for hope meadows.  We'll have access to this funding."

October 25, 2006 Testimony - Rhonda Meadows, Chair - Portland Hope Meadows Corporation

"The Kellogg Foundation is paying for technical support and training" 
Portland Hope Meadows website, http://phmauction.org/

"The Kellogg Foundation has established a $4 million loan fund. This loan fund was NOT established for Portland Hope Meadows. To date, I don’t believe Portland Hope Meadows has put in an application."

"The Kellogg Foundation is not a funder of the Portland Hope Meadows project. We have not given a past or current grant/loan to Portland Hope Meadows."

1-17-08 Ted H. Chen - Program Director, Youth & Education - W. K. Kellogg Foundation - 269-969-2677 - thc@wkkf.org

Despite repeated requests to commissioner Dan Saltzman's office and the entire board of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation, no one would answer my request for public information regarding the authenticity of the Kellogg foundation's purported, indeed documented (see above) financial commitment to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation. However, when the Kellogg Foundation was asked about past or current financial commitments to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation they answered quickly and unequivocally with a resounding "NO."

The distortion, disrespect and disregard for process and the truth continues to envelope this ill conceived project. The Kellogg Foundation has no direct financial connection to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation. This is news.

The surplus city property known as the former John Ball School site was hijacked by Saltzman, Potter and Sten without due process in order to build more public housing in the Portsmouth neighborhood which everybody knows has the highest total number and the second highest percentage of public housing clients for any neighborhood in the state of Oregon. The arguably illegal transfer of this surplus property (distribution of surplus city property requires 4 votes) will eventually come under more public and legal review. Potter and Sten will soon be gone. None of the candidates for Adams' council seat support the discredited and abhorrent public policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing. (I have not yet interviewed candidates for Sten's seat. However, I expect their positions to be similar to Branam, Bissonnette, Fahey, Smith, Fritz and Lewis.) It is reasonable to expect that there will be a legal ruling and/or enough votes to undo the potential damage of Resolution 36449 in the not too distant future. Candidates Mike Fahey and Amanda Fritz have directly stated their opposition to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation plan. Opposition to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation project is inherent in a public policy of equitable distribution of public housing which is supported by candidates John Branam, Jeff Bissonnette and others. What one city council giveth another city council can taketh away. That's what elections in a democracy are all about.

Here is a list of funders claimed by the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation. If you know any of these folks please mention to them that there are serious issues of character, truthfulness and respect for the democratic process with regard to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and its board members. These funders may not yet realize that they are supporting the long discredited and abhorrent public policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing in direct violation of the public housing location policy published in the Bureau of Housing and Community Development's website:
A. Maximize housing choice, especially for low-income people who have traditionally been limited in the location of housing that they could afford;
B. Discourage the concentration of low- or no- income households in any one area of the city;
C. Encourage the creation of additional housing resources for low-income households integrated throughout the community.

These funders may not yet realize that they are advocating for the discredited and abhorrent policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing leading to income segregated ghettos of low income public housing clients. But they soon will.

Legend Homes - David Oringdulph - doringdulph@legendhomes.com
Walsh Construction - Bob Walsh - lconlee@walshconstructionco.com
Windermere Foundation - Christine Wood - foundation@windermere.com
Homer Williams - homer@wddcorp.com
Geary Foundation - Richard Geary - PO Box 34345 Seattle WA 98124
Smith Barney (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to identify contact)
Bank of America (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to identify contact)
Sauer Foundation - Colleen O'Keefe - colleen@scrfmn.org
Eli Morgan - 2030 Investors 1211 SW 5th Ave.#2250 Portland OR 97204
Pacific Corp. Investment - Kevin Lynch - 3020 NE 17th Ave. Portland OR 97212
Starbucks - Corporate Social Responsibility Dept. 2401 Utah Ave. S. Seattle WA 98134
Saltzman Family Foundation (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to identify contact)
Metro Metals - Steve Zusman - stevez@metrometalsnw.com
Philotochos Foundation - Father James - frjames@goholytrinity.org
Tonkon Torp - Robert E. Hirshon - bobh@tonkon.com
390 as yet unidentified individual donors (We'll get and publish their names and contact information in due course. The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman have refused to provide any contact information for any of these funders.)

Here is a list of Portland Hope Meadows Corporation board members. If you know any of these folks please mention to them that there are serious issues of character, truthfulness and respect for the democratic process with regard to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and its board members. Some of these board members may not yet realize that they are supporting the long discredited and abhorrent public policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing in direct violation of the public housing location policy published in the Bureau of Housing and Community Development's website.
A. Maximize housing choice, especially for low-income people who have traditionally been limited in the location of housing that they could afford;
B. Discourage the concentration of low- or no- income households in any one area of the city;
C. Encourage the creation of additional housing resources for low-income households integrated throughout the community.

Some of these board members may not yet realize that they are advocating for the discredited and abhorrent policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing leading to income segregated ghettos of low income public housing clients.

Rhonda Meadows (Chair) - President - HR Solutions - rhondameadowshr@hotmail.com
Thomas Brooke - Lawyer - Venture Solutions - thomas.brooke@hklaw.com (?)
Amanda Davenport - Central Banking Group - Morgan Financial - adavenport@morfi.com
Andrea Edelson - Outside Sales - State Industrial Products - customerservice@stateindustrial.com
Bobbye Finkelstein - Communications - Graphic Arts (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to provide contact information)
Alicia Fuchs - Judge - Multnomah County Circuit Court - alicia.fuchs@ojd.state.or.us
Carolyn Graf - Assistant Manager - Department of Human Services - carolyn.graf@state.or.us
Michael Harper - Agent - State Farm Insurance - michael.harper.cuik@statefarm.com
Heather Killough - Community Member(Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to provide contact information)
Leah King - Vice President - Fidelity National Title - leah.king@fnf.com
Joan Liapes - Retired Principal - Portland Public Schools
Jo Anne Long - Senior V.P. - The Regence Group - aehult@regence.com
Lisa Mackenzie - Principle - The Mackenzie Group - lisam@mackenzie-marketing.com
Misty Menashe - Community Member (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman refuse to provide contact information)
Jaime Pavel - Principle - PavelComm - info@pavelcomm.com
Julie Peterson - Manager - Group One Lending - jpeterson@grouponelending.com
Barry Pilip - President - Real Estate Development - bpilip@aol.com
Madeline Rose - Agent - Windemere - rosem@windermere.com
Kelly Taylor - Sales Analysis & Forecasting Manager Controller - Columbia Distributing - kellytaylor@columbia-dist.com
Laurie Whittemore - Agent - Windermere - LFWhitt@windermere.com
(The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and Commissioner Dan Saltzman have refused to provide any contact information for any of these board members.)

The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation has violated the first and most basic requirement of a non-profit tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation. "Focus of organization's purpose must be to benefit the community or society as a whole." You cannot make the argument that advocating for the discredited and abhorrent policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing leading to income segregated ghettos of low income public housing clients is a "benefit" to the "community" otherwise known as the Portsmouth neighborhood and North Portland.


Richard Ellmyer
Community activist leading the campaign to stop all potentially new public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) in the Portsmouth neighborhood, especially the following:
1. Hacienda CDC public housing project on N. Newell Street
2. The recently decommissioned Sharff Army Reserve Center
3. The former John Ball School site
4. The recently closed Clarendon School site
Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watchers commentary - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County. To Subscribe: HAP-Watchers-on@goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 30% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.

P.S.
Here is evidence of my requests for public information:

From:   Richard Ellmyer
Subject: Saltzman's Office Failing To Provide Essential PUBLIC Data
Date: January 8, 2008 2:44:54 PM PST
To:   scallahan@ci.portland.or.us
Cc:   rhondameadowshr@hotmail.com, bfinn@ci.portland.or.us, samadams@ci.portland.or.us, nf@meyerwyse.com, aehult@regence.com, interested@macsolve.com, rleonard@ci.portland.or.us, info@portlandersforjeff.com, jsbranam@gmail.com, mfahey@discovergreeley.com, amandafritzrn@aol.com, info@charleslewis.com, info@citizensmith.us, howard@calsk8.com, dsaltzman@ci.portland.or.us, rep.tinakotek@state.or.us, WKKF@wkkf.org, sdozono@azumano.com

Hi Shannon:
If you have provided me with all the contact information you have then you don't have enough. The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation has been demonstrably unwilling to provide ANY information to me regarding contact information for board members and funders. This is a PUBLIC project involving PUBLIC land and PUBLIC money. Contact information for Portland Hope Meadows 501(c)(3) Corporation board members and funders MUST be available to every member of the Portland city council, candidates for Portland City council - including Brendan Finn and Nick Fish et. al. - and every voter and taxpayer in the city of Portland, including me.

The Portland city auditors office and the other members of the Portland city council expect that commissioner Saltzman's office will provide them with all of the relevant information regarding the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and its funders as this process moves along. It is very difficult for any interested party to contact a funder such as the gigantic Bank of America, to discuss their PUBLIC involvement with the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation without specific contact information. The same is true of these other very large institutions.

The issue of the arguably illegal disposal of surplus city property, the former John Ball School site, is still on the table. With any luck it will be reversed when a new mayor and members of the Portland city council take office. It has been my long stated mission, to lead the citizen effort to stop the transfer of this public property to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation for the purpose of adding more public housing to my already overloaded Portsmouth neighborhood and North Portland. Any and all official behavior on the part of commissioner Saltzman's office to inhibit or prohibit the distribution of necessary PUBLIC information to me and others seeking this data is unethical, unwise, unacceptable and possibly unlawful.

In addition, the Kellogg Foundation does NOT appear on the Portland Hope Meadows web site as a funder nor does it appear as a contributor on the list you sent me. At the time of the city council vote the Kellogg Foundation was the major contributor. Have they withdrawn their support? If not, why wasn't the Kellogg Foundation listed as a contributor on the official list you sent me? This is important information.

If the only office with an official connection to the disposal of surplus city property, the former John Ball School site, doesn't have complete contact information for EVERY board member and EVERY funder (All 400 plus) of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation then it better get it and publish it soon.


Richard Ellmyer
Community activist leading the campaign to stop all potentially new public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) in the Portsmouth neighborhood, especially the following:
1. Hacienda CDC public housing project on N. Newell Street
2. The recently decommissioned Sharff Army Reserve Center
3. The former John Ball School site
4. The recently closed Clarendon School site
Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watchers commentary - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County. To Subscribe: HAP-Watchers-on@goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 30% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.


On Jan 8, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Callahan, Shannon wrote:
Mr. Ellmyer -
 
I have already provided you with all the information I have.  
 
Shannon Callahan
Office of Commissioner Saltzman
Phone: 503.823.4151
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ellmyer [mailto:ellmyer@macsolve.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:30 PM
To: Shannon Callahan; Rhonda Meadows
Cc: Brendan Finn
Subject: [Email allowed by Allow List] Funders Contact Information
 
Hi Folks:
Shannon provided me with the names of funders but I need more specific contact information for the following:
Smith Barney
Bank of America
Starbucks
Saltzman Family Foundation
Philotochos Foundation
 
Please send me whatever contact information you have available.
 
Thank you.
 
Richard Ellmyer
Community activist leading the campaign to stop all potentially new public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) in the Portsmouth neighborhood, especially the following:
1. Hacienda CDC public housing project on N. Newell Street
2. The recently decommissioned Sharff Army Reserve Center
3. The former John Ball School site
4. The recently closed Clarendon School site
Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watchers commentary - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County. To Subscribe: HAP-Watchers-on@goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 30% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.