Portland Selects Central Parking / Roy Jay Venture to Operate Garages

Portland Selects Central Parking / Roy Jay Venture to Operate Garages Portland, OR        December 3, 2010 After nearly a half year of back and forth the City of Portland evaluation committee has selected Central Parking and a j oint venture partner headed by Portland business entrepreneur, Roy Jay to operate the multi year, multi million dollar Smart Park garages in the City of Roses. Earlier this year, Mayor Sam Adams ordered the original process to be terminated due to what a few respondents claimed was technical flaws in the evaluation process of the RFP.  The loudest voices at the table complaining...

Roy Jay Helps Pass Resolution For $20M Court House

Roy Jays Efforts Helps Pass Resolution To Build New $20 Million Court House In East County Portland, OR – October 31, 2010 The issue had been talked about, tossed around like a ping pong ball for over three decades. It was pronounced dead several times and then revived depending on who was in political office. The need for a new court house in East Multnomah County, Oregon was all but a fading memory until a group of citizens, law enforcement officials and a very influential businessman in Portland, Oregon took the football and ran with it. Teamwork at its best,...

Minority oversight resolution approved

December 16, 2009 Nathalie Weinstein Portland city council today unanimously approved a resolution requiring the inclusion of at least one minority evaluator on all panels that review and award city contracts not based on low bids. “This is going to be a long process,” said Roy Jay, president of the Alliance of Minority Chambers of Commerce, the organization charged with vetting potential candidates to sit on the panels. “I don’t expect this to go into effect until mid-April to late May. But I already have half a dozen people today tell me they are willing and ready to serve. This...

Roy Jay elected V.P. of Former Street of Dreams Homeowners Association

October 10, 2009 Portland Oregon business entrepreneur, Roy Jay was elected Vice President of the Altamont Homeowners Association at the annual meeting held in Clackamas County last September. Altamont is one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in the Portland, Oregon and has been the site of three previous Street of Dreams housing expositions. Jay becomes the first African American ever elected to the board.  The Association governs all rules, policies financials involving over 1000 residences in the Happy Valley neighborhood.  Altamont is a mix of affordable housing, executive apartments to multimillion dollar homes. Jay resides in one of the homes...

AACC helps Native American Chamber

NO STRINGS ATTACHED .. . AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER REACHES OUT TO FINANCIALLY EMPOWER NATIVE AMERICAN CHAMBER In keeping with the slogan of ‘Inclusive, Not Exclusive’ the African American Chamber made a surprise announcement on Wednesday as Chamber President, Roy Jay delivered a keynote speech at the noon luncheon of the Native American Chamber. The theme was ‘It’s not just about Us .. It’s About All of us’.  At the end of the 45 minute speech in Northeast Portland Jay surprised everyone by asking Native American Chamber President, Herb Fricke to stand up and accept a check in the amount of...

Mr. Portland

ULNW Cover Story – August 2009 Roy JayProject Clean Slate By Lora-Ellen McKinney, Ph.D. There is no getting around the fact that Roy Jay is excited about the work that he does. There is a good reason why. Most of us don’t think much about our identification documents. We show them when we need to. We tease other people about their ugly pictures and lie that ours are gorgeous. The media have increasingly shared stories about people whose identities have been stolen. There is, however, a large group of people who are off of most of our identity radars. But...