The agreement requires a 90-day wind down period before it is voided. A new mayor and an expanded 12-person City Council would be in place by then. The newly elected officials would have the chance to stop the wind down and keep the current agreement or to renegotiate it.

Multnomah County officials are responding to Portland City Council's move to possibly break its multi-million dollar contract with the county's joint office of homeless services.

It was supposed to be a routine update with no vote. A week after a joint meeting between Portland City Council and the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, the City Council met to outline the takeaways and progress in a recently adopted Homelessness Response Action Plan.

"We're not getting meaningful or measurable results, and I think the city has started to do a lot by itself because the county isn't holding up its end of the bargain."