Bend paid its equity director $86K to resign after he’d already quit. Here’s what happened

By Kathryn Styer Martínez (OPB) and Emily Cureton Cook (OPB)

BEND, Ore. Oct. 31, 2025 1 p.m.

Top city officials and the former equity director have starkly different views of Andrés Portela III’s time with the city.