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== Government ==
=== Municipal Government ===
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The [http://www.portlandoregon.gov/25999 government of the City of Portland] consists of an elected City Council which consists of the Mayor, four Commissioners, and an auditor. Each of these officials is elected city-wide for a four-year term. The Commissioners, who are elected city-wide, oversee portfolios, termed [http://www.portlandoregon.gov/article/25147 bureaus], which can consist of City departments and programs, assigned to them by the Mayor. As of this writing, '''the next Portland municipal election is scheduled for May 15, 2018.'''
Additionally, Portland is organized into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods_of_Portland,_Oregon 95 officially recognized neighborhoods]. These neighborhoods and the city government as linked via [https://www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/ Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement] and the (volunteer) City-funded neighborhood associations of each of the neighborhoods.
The neighborhood associations are further collected into seven geographically-grouped district coalitions (with two exceptions, Healy Heights and Lloyd District) through which the City's funding flows:
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*[http://cnncoalition.org/ Central Northeast Neighbors, Inc. (CNN)]
*[http://www.eastportland.org/ East Portland Neighborhood Office (EPNO)]
*[http://www.seuplift.org/ Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program (SE Uplift)]
=== Regional Government ===
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