Editing Lake Oswego, Oregon (section)

==City government==
[[File:New Lake Oswego City Hall from NE in 2023.jpg|thumb|left|The new city hall opened in 2021.]]
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The city has a council–manager form of government, which vests policy-making authority in an elected, volunteer city council. The council consists of a mayor and six councilors, all of whom are elected at-large and serve four-year terms.<ref name="LakeOswegoCity">{{cite web|title=Lake Oswego City Council website|url=https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/citycouncil/about-us|access-date=June 1, 2020}}</ref>

Day-to-day operations are handled by an appointed, professional city manager. Almost all of the city's employees, which include part-time staff amounting to about 342 full-time equivalents,<ref name="LakeOswegoBudget">{{cite web|title=Lake Oswego City 2019–2021 Budget|url=https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/sites/default/files/fileattachments/Online_Adopted_Budget_%28segments_combined%29_BN21.pdf|access-date=June 1, 2020}}</ref> report to the city manager. This includes the police chief, fire chief, one assistant city manager, and the community development director. The biggest groups are:
*Police and fire departments, consisting of about 50 people each,
*Library, parks, and recreation departments, consisting of about 70 people total
*About 80 people throughout the engineering, planning, and maintenance departments

Ground was broken in 2019 on construction of a new [[city hall]] that would also house the city's police department and the Arts Council of Lake Oswego, on a site adjacent to the existing facility.<ref name="breaks ground new city hall">{{cite news|last=Malee|first=Patrick|title=Digging in: Lake Oswego breaks ground on new City Hall|url=https://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/435585-346361-digging-in-lake-oswego-breaks-ground-on-new-city-hall|access-date=June 19, 2021|newspaper=[[Lake Oswego Review]]|date=August 9, 2019}}</ref> Located at A Avenue and Third Street, the new city hall opened to the public in April 2021.<ref name="new city hall">{{cite news|last=Howell|first=Clara|title=New Lake Oswego City Hall boasts welcoming, open environment|url=https://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/504293-403619-new-lake-oswego-city-hall-boasts-welcoming-open-environment|access-date=June 19, 2021|newspaper=[[Lake Oswego Review]]|date=April 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409153311/https://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/504293-403619-new-lake-oswego-city-hall-boasts-welcoming-open-environment|archive-date=April 9, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Neighorhood associations===
Neighborhood associations play a formal role for citizen involvement in the city government's [[land-use planning]] and other activities. A neighborhood association's role is governed by state and city law. As of December 2024, there are  25 formally recognized neighborhood associations. include: Birdshill, Blue Heron ¤ Bryant, Evergreen, First Addition and Forest Hills, Forest Highlands, Glenmorrie, Hallinan Heights, Holly Orchard, Lake Forest, [[Lake Grove, Oregon|Lake Grove]], [[Lakewood, Oregon|Lakewood]], Mary's Landing, McVey-South Shore, Mountain Park, North-Shire-County Club District, Old Town, Palisades, Rosewood, Skylands, Uplands, Waluga, Westlake, and Westridge.<ref>"Planning: Neighborhood Associations". City of Lake Oswego website.  Retrieved September 3, 2013</ref>