Portland Loo
When Portland commissioned the design of the loos, it retained the intellectual property rights to the design, and would receive a royalty from the manufacturer, for each loo it sold. Press reports described this arrangement as a source of funds, for the city.
However, in 2014, a citizen group sued the city, asserting the city had spent over $600,000 to promote the loos, without proper authorization. As a consequence the design was sold to Madden, the manufacturer.
Chloe Eudaly
Chloe Eudaly (born 1969/70) is a politician and former bookstore owner from the U.S. state of Oregon. Before being elected to Portland's City Council in 2016, Eudaly was known as a renters rights activist and founder of Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center.