Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling said he will propose ambitious changes to city elections, asking for public funding for local campaigns and new lobbyist disclosure rules during a Monday night address. Portland would likely be the first municipality in Maine to install a so-called Clean Election fund and demand its elected officials disclose meetings with lobbyists and other influencers if it does so. Strimling is entering the final year of his four-year term and is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the City address Monday evening. Since the annual speech was established seven years ago with the restoration of the publicly elected mayor position, it has served as a platform for the mayor to launch new initiatives in a community that’s often a bellwether for the rest of the state. [Portland was the first with ranked-choice voting, legal pot and higher wages.

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