Rainy day fund
This is the amount of money it costs to reach out to any member of the Business Services group and ask a question or get support.
What is zero dollars?
This team can provide information regarding mystery deductions or payments on your paystub.
What is WB Payroll?
This award shared in the Monday Message recognizes outstanding employees through stories submitted by their peers.
What are the BRIDGE Awards?
This multiday immersive program takes employees from forest to faucet.
What is SOAKED?
This Water Bureau internal website is your one-stop shop for all bureau-wide news and resources.
What is the Water Cooler?
If you forget to do this, send an email to your supervisor and timekeeper with all the information you would normally enter in your timesheet.
What is fill in your timesheet by the deadline?
During an emergency response, this team can advise you on how to talk to the public and give people vital information.
What is the Comms team?
Go online to visit this magical place filled with memes, Water facts, and amazing stories (often featuring employees) about what the Water Bureau is up to.
What is the Portland Water Bureau social media?
This team is always ready to hear your ideas for how to make Water an even better place to work.
What is the Employee Experience and Development team?
Visit this webpage or ask these folks to request graphic design assistance, submit your writing for communications review, submit to the Monday Message, and more.
What is the Communications Tools page/the Comms team?
PROTEC-17 employees can reach out to this team once per fiscal year to convert unused sick leave to vacation leave!
What is WB Payroll?
Struggling to write a letter to a customer or a blog post? Never fear: These word nerds can help you write plainly and catch typos.
Who is Sarah Ross and Michele/Communications Review/the Comms team?
This weekly bureau-wide newsletter invites any Water Bureau staff member to share stories about their work for the rest of the bureau to read.
What is the Monday Message?
This group of employees works to create connections across the bureau and throws a fun party every year.
What is TAP (The Ambassador Program)?
This free-to-you database has online trainings on thousands of topics.
What is LinkedIn Learning?
The City will fully reimburse you for participating in this civic duty—all you need to do is forward documentation to your timekeeper.
What is jury duty?
Contact this person if you need to learn how to provide disability access services (like adding captioning to a video) or language access services (like getting documents translated).
Who is the Accessibility Analyst, Joanne Johnson?
You can call this person if someone from the media wants to talk to you about the awesome work you do for the Water Bureau.
Who is the Public Information Officer (PIO) Brandon Zero?
This set of policies tells employees how the bureau provides disability accessibility and language accessibility in our community.
What are the Water Bureau Accessibility Policies?
This virtual platform can help you integrate census data with Water Bureau projects to make sure we’re not burdening vulnerable populations.
What is the Equity Data Toolkit?
All Water Bureau staff can apply for this fund to support efforts to expand language access, disability access, and community engagement.
What is the Access and Community Engagement Fund?
This person will coach you on how to answer questions in a media interview.
Who is Brandon Zero/the Public Information Officer?
Head here to find the bureau’s PowerPoint template, writing style guide, official letterhead, and other resources that will help you shine as a professional superstar.
What is the Communications Tools page on the Water Cooler?
Water Bureau staff can attend or view the recordings of this series of Teams meetings to learn about different teams, projects, and topics they’re interested in.
What is the Watering Hole Share and Learn?
This written statement is required on all public-facing communications, including employee email signatures, to demonstrate compliance with ADA Title II and Civil Rights.
What is the civil rights and meaningful access statement?