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Metro serves more than 1.7 million people in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. The agency’s boundary encompasses Portland, Oregon and 23 other cities – from the Columbia River in the north to the bend of the Willamette River near Wilsonville, and from the foothills of the Coast Range near Forest Grove to the banks of the Sandy River at Troutdale.
As far back as the 1950s, Portland area leaders saw an unfilled need to provide regionwide planning and coordination to manage growth, infrastructure and development issues that cross jurisdictional boundaries. They also saw a need to protect farms and forests from urbanization and to provide services that are regional in nature. More than 30 years ago, Metro was created to fill that void, becoming the nation’s first directly elected regional government.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Metro is dedicated to shaping a better future for the greater Portland region. The work the people of Metro do every day benefits the lives of the people who live here, today and tomorrow. Metro services span parks and nature, land and transportation, garbage and recycling, and arts and events. That means Metro hires people from a wide variety of backgrounds for jobs ranging from park rangers and planners to cartographers, recycling specialists, accountants, theater ushers, administrative assistants and more.