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 before the pay period closes, send an email to your supervisor and timekeeper with all the information you would normally enter.
What is fill in your timesheet?
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 or Brandon Zero/the Public Information Officer?
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?
The birth or adoption of a child, or you or a loved one experiencing a serious illness or surviving a personal safety incident, are all reasons to do this.
What is take paid leave?
Need to expand your skills? This free-to-you database has online trainings on thousands of topics.
What is LinkedIn Learning?
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)?
If you move, head to this online portal to update your address. (P.S. If you can’t update online, reach out to your timekeeper and they will help you with a change of address form to send to WB Payroll.)
What is Employee Self Service (ESS)?
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?
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?
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 to members of the public. It also includes guidance on accessibility for employees, including how to request an accommodation.
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?
The Strategy Integration and Policy (SIP) team is working on this plan to coordinate investments in infrastructure and improvement projects between all bureaus in the Public Works Service Area.
What is the Unified Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Plan?
This team coordinates strategic efforts across the bureau and it is developing the bureau's affordability strategy and performance and knowledge management systems.
What is the Strategy Integration and Policy (SIP) team?
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?