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Portland Mayor-elect, Sam Adams, announced the make-up of the new city council Tuesday. As Kristian Foden-Vencil reports, he’s combining some existing bureaus and inventing new ones.

Adams appears ready to start his tenure with a bang. He’s asked each city bureau to come up with a baseline report by February, showing what it does and how to do it better.

He’s also assigned commissioners their new tasks. Adams himself will take the reins of the newly formed ‘Bureau of Sustainable Planning and Development,’ and says Portland intends to be on the cutting edge of both thinking, and doing, green.

Sam Adams: “It’s not that city government has been broken. It’s that we believe city government can do better with some organizational changes.”

Commissioner Randy Leonard, has been asked to come up with a way of consolidating all seven of the city’s permitting processes.

Amanda Fritz has to find a way to clean up Portland’s harbor – a superfund site.

Dan Saltzman leads the police and Nick Fish will oversee housing.