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DATES OF VOTER - APPROVED BOND MEASURES <br />1908 <br />$140,000 <br />Bond to develop municipal water & light department <br />1914 <br />$93,340 <br />Bond to purchase Skinner Butte from Eugene Water Board <br />1920 <br />$10,000 <br />Bond for park improvements: car campgrounds in Skinner Butte Park along river <br />1927 <br />$.3 million <br />Bond for recreation programs: "Public Recreation and Playground Fund" <br />1938 <br />$.5 million <br />Bond to purchase Spencer Butte <br />1940 <br />$25,000 <br />Tax levy for Jefferson Pool construction <br />1940 <br />$40,000 <br />Bond for construction of Jefferson Pool <br />1944 <br />$ ? <br />3 year tax levy for long -range park acquisition & improvements <br />1946 <br />$.7 million <br />Tax levy for maintenance and supervision of recreation areas <br />1948 <br />$2 million <br />Tax levy for parks improvement <br />1951 <br />$1 million <br />10 -year tax levy for parks improvement, and purchase of Owen Rose Garden <br />1956 <br />$100,000 <br />Bond issue for construction of Amazon Pool <br />1961 <br />$150,000 <br />6 -year Tax levy for park development: Westmoreland and Sheldon Parks <br />1966 <br />$1.75 million <br />Serial levy for pool and community center construction and purchase <br />1972 <br />$1.1 million <br />Bond for park purchase (referred to in Morse Ranch information)- - <br />1976 <br />$100,000 <br />Highway Trust Funds used for Morse Ranch Park purchase <br />1976 <br />$5 million <br />Serial levy for park land and open space approval <br />1979 <br />Above levy converted by voter approval into Bond issue to accelerate park land acquisition <br />ARKS <br />ACQUISITION DATE <br />BOND AND TAX MEASURES RELATED TO PARKS, <br />BRIEF HISTORICAL DETAILS <br />DATE NAME ACREAGE INFORMATION <br />1856 Park Blocks (1.10 acres, 1991) <br />Eugene Skinner and Charnel Mulligan gave 80 acres to Lane County as site for first county court- <br />house.- Ever land .rused for buildings became the Park Blocks, deeded to the city i 1990. <br />1888 Shelton__- McMu r)he�r House A1_1__acxes,__ 991) <br />nsferre I to cit y�Lane County�Most elaborate example of Queen Anne Victorian style <br />of archit cture in Eugene. Deeded to the Lane County Historical Museum in 1975 by owner Dr. Eva X <br />Johnso -� <br />Portion of Skinner Butte deeded to public as a park by Skinner family. <br />1905 Home Rule charter adopted by city permitting the city to "purchase, hold and receive property for use <br />as city parks upon the recommendation of the library board." <br />1907 Hendricks (81.44 acres, 1991 ) / c! <br />A donatiorfy Thomas G. and Martha Hendric k5 e�f 47 acre initiated development of this park; an <br />additional 31 acres was purchased from Col. F. and Angie Smith for $3000. An elk and deer exhibit was <br />on the site from 1912 -1954. An observation tower, erected in 1936 in the southwest corner of the park, <br />no longer stands. <br />1951 Rhododendron gardens begun with donated plantings from the Eugene Rhododendron Society) <br />planted in tformer deer pensaea_ <br />