Miller v. City of Portland

The majority adopts a definition of “required duties,” as that term is used in the Portland City Charter, that is *425neither compelled by the ordinary meaning of those words nor likely consistent with the intent of the voters when they adopted that portion of the charter in 1948 or amended it in 1989. The result is a narrow and rigid construction of the “city constitution,” see Portland Police Assn. v. Civil Service Board, 292 Or 433, 440, 639 P2d 619 (1982) — an interpretation that prevents the city from reasonably administering the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund in a way that…