Beaverton Oregon Important Phone Numbers

Beaverton Oregon Important Phone Numbers
Here is a list of frequently called phone numbers for the City of Beaverton, Oregon. It also includes Washington County, State of Oregon, and US Government Contacts.

ANIMAL INFORMATION
Oregon Humane Society
503-285-7722 http://www.Oregonhumane.org

Washington County Animal Services
503-846—7041 http://www.co.washington.or.us/HHS/animalservices

CRISIS HOTLINES
Beaverton Multi-Service Center
833455-9090 http://www.oregon.gov/dhs

Domestic Violence Resource Center – Crisis Line
503-469-8620 (24 hours) http://www.dvrc-or.org

Oregon SafeNet
800-723-3638 http:://www.oregonsafenet.org

Oregon Poison Center
800-222-1222 http://www.ohsu.edu/poison

Sexual Assault Resource Center
503-640-5311 (24 hours) http://www.sacoregon.org

State Office of Child Services
503—681—6917 http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/children

Washington County Mental Health Services
503-846-4528 http://www.co.wushington.or.us/HHS/MentalHealth

ECONOMIC RESOURCES
Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce
503-644-0123 http://www.beaverton.org

City of Beaverton Community and Economic Development Offices
503-526-2493 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/cdd

Westside Economic Alliance
503-968-3100 http://www.westside-alliunce.org

EMERGENCY AND COMMUNITY INFO
Police/Fire/Medical
911

Help Referral – Community Assistance
211 http://www.zoneinfo.org

Road & Travel Info – Oregon Department of Transportation
511 http://www.tripcheck.com

EMPLOYMENT
Worksource Oregon — Beaverton/Hillsboro
503-526-2700 http://www.worksourceoregon.org

Workforce Alliance PCC/ Washington County
971722-2713 http://www.workforceallianceonline.org

GENERAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
Beaverton Community Center
503-526-2565 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/facilities.aspx

Beaverton Library
503-644-2197 http://www.beavertonlibrary.org

Better Business Bureau
503-212-3022 http://www.alaskaoregonwesternwashington.bbb.org

City of Beaverton Neighborhood Assoc.
503-526-2243 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/neighborhoods

Department of Environmental Quality
800-452-4011 http://www.oregon.gov/DEQ

Department of Motor Vehicles
503-299-9999 http://www.oregongov/odot/dmv

Disability, Aging, & Veteran Services
503-846-3060 http://www.co.washington.or.us/hhs/davs

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
503-221-1054 http://www.emoregon.org

Elsie Stuhr Senior Center
503-629-6342 http://www.thprd.org/fudlities/stuhr

METRO Recycling Hotline
503-234-3000 http://www.oregonmetro.gov/recycling

Social Security Administration
800-772-1213 http://www.ssa.gov

TriMet (Public Transportation)
503-238-RIDE (7433) http://www.trimet.org

Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District
503-645-6433 http://www.thprd.org

United States Postal Service
800-275-8777 http://www.usps.com

GOVERNMENT
City of Beaverton
4755 Southwest Griffith Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-526-2222 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov

Denny Doyle, Mayor
503-526-2497 mayormail@beavertonoregon.gov

Beaverton City Councilors
Cate Arnold, Council
President – Position 4
503-526-2508

Ian King — Position 1
503-526-2345

Betty Bode — Position 2
503-526-2347

Mark Fagin Position 3
503-526-2343

Marc San Soucie Position 5
503-526-2370

WASHINGTON COUNTY
155 North First Avenue, Suite 300
Hillsboro, OR 97124-3072
General Information: 503-846-8611
Administrative Office: 503-846-8685
http://www.co.washington.or.us

Washington County Board of Commissioners
Andy Duyck, Chair – At-Large
Dick Schouten — District 1
Greg Malinowski, Vice
Chair – District 2
Roy Rogers – District;
Bob Terry — District 4
Commission Main: 503-846-8681 http://www.co.washfngton.or.us/BOC

Metro Regional Government
600 NE Grand Avenue Portland, OR 97232—2736
Main: 503-797-1700 http://www.bluebook.state.or.us/

Metro Council
http://www.oregonmetro.gov/council
Tom Hughes — Metro Council President — 503-797-4889
Shirley Craddick — District 1 – 503-797-4547
Carlotta Collette — District 2 – 503-797-1337
Craig Dirksen District 3 – 503-797-1549
Kathryn Harrington – District 4 – 503-797-1553
Sam Chase District 5 – 503-797-4552
Bob Stacey — District 6 – 503-797-1546

STATE GOVERNMENT
http://www.oregon.gov

Oregon State Governor
Governorjohn Kitzhaber 503—378-4532
http://www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/index.aspx

Oregon State Representatives
http://www.Ieg.state.or.us/hhouse

Representative Tobias Read (D)
Beaverton — District: 27 503-936-4427 http://www.leg.stater.or.us/read

Representative Jeff Barker (D)
Aloha District: 28 503-986-1428
http://www.leg.stater.or.us/barker

Representative Chris Harker (D)
Beaverton — District: 34 503-626-8140
http://www.leg.stater.or.us/harker

Oregon State Senators
http://www.leg.state.or.us/senate

Senator Mark Hass (D)
Beaverton — District: 14 503-936-4714
http://www.leg.stater.or.us/hass

Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D)
NW Portland & Beaverton — District: 17 503-936-1717
http://www.leg.stater.or.us/steinerhayward

US GOVERNMENT
US House Representative
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D), OR lst District
503—326 —2901 http://www.bonumici.house.gov

US Senators
Senator Ron Wyden (D)
503-326-7525 http://www.wyden.senate.gov

Senator Jeff Merkley (D)
503-325-3386 http://www.merkley.senate.gov

PUBLIC SAFETY
Beaverton Police
Non—Emergency: 503-629-0111
Main: 503-526-2260 http://www.beavertonpolice.org

City of Beaverton Municipal Court
503-526-2290 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/court

Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue
503-549-3577 http://www.tvfr.com

Washington County Sheriff
Sherriff Pat Garrett
Non—Emergency: 503-629-0111
Main: 503-846-2700
http://www.co.washington.or.us/sheriff

UTILITIES
Beaverton Garbage and Recycling
503-526-2665 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/recycling

City of Beaverton Utilities
503-526-2257 http://www.beavertonoregon.gov

Clean Water Services
503-681-3600 http://www.cleanwaterservices.org

Comcast
800/266-2278 http://www.Comcast.com

Frontier
800-921-8101 http://www.Frontier.com

Metro Garbage and Recycling
503-234-3000 http://www.oregonmetro.gov/garbage

NW Natural Residential
800—422—4012 http://www.nwnatural.com

Portland General Electric
800-542-8818 http://www.portlandgeneral.com

Tualatin/Valley Water District
503-642-1511 http://www.tvwd.org

VISITORS ASSOCIATlONS
Washington County Visitors Association
503-644-5555 http://www.oregonswashingtoncounty.org

“What was your biggest challenge?”

“What was your biggest challenge?”

Just now coming up on the one year mark of being unemployed, and having gone to about a dozen different interviews now, one of the most common questions I hear is “What was your biggest challenge?” or “Describe a time when you had a particularly difficult challenge and how you resolved it.”

In order as I think of them:

  • Apple and it’s lack of Enterprise support
  • Node locked software on a machine that just died, it out of warranty and the company refuses to return support phone calls or emails.
  • The user who doesn’t understand that going to certain web sites pretty much automatically means the machine is getting a virus.
  • Being asked to deploy non-existent machines to user who were hired only a few hours earlier and are scheduled to start the next day.
  • Explaining what “Corporate Standard Software” means, and why I can’t simply give you a license number so that you can install at home “to learn”
  • Complaints about machine slowness and weird problems to find that the uptime is 45 days.
  • User who upon being told “Those computers are too old, you will not be happy with them when I’m done,” buys new computers (from someone else,) the next day and then expects them to be installed for free after I’ve already done all the work.
  • Users who do not contact their IT support at all when there is a problem, then go home for the day because they “can not get any work done.”
  • Being expected to install a 15 computer network within 8 hours, never having done so ever before (it’s harder then it sounds)
  • Users who expect something done their way when it’s technically impossible.
  • The above, but when it’s illegal or unethical
  • Explaining to your direct supervisor why you REALLY don’t want to see the Midget Porn Website they found
  • Yeah. All of those.