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= EUGENE Public Works <br /> Administration Division <br /> City of Eugene <br /> MEMORANDUM 858 Pearl Street <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br /> (541) 687 -5262 <br /> (541) 683 -6826 FAX <br /> Date: October 29, 1996 <br /> To: Scobert Park Advisory Committee <br /> From: Christine Andersen, Public Works Director <br /> Dave Whitlow, Public Safety Director <br /> Subject: Overview of Committee Charge <br /> Thank you for your willingness to participate in this community effort to provide direction on <br /> the future of Scobert Park. We appreciate the commitment you are making to serve on the <br /> Scobert Park Advisory Committee, and we pledge that your ideas and visions for the park will <br /> receive full and fair consideration. <br /> As the group begins its work, it may be useful to review the goals established when the <br /> Citizen Involvement Committee reviewed the formation of this committee: <br /> • Provide a park that is safe for community members. <br /> • Provide a park that is useful for community members. <br /> As you explore these goals, you are likely to find both opportunities and challenges. You will <br /> have opportunities to review a number of park- related topics, including: desired park usage (for <br /> example, passive recreation vs active recreational activities); park lighting levels; park hours; <br /> types and levels of landscaping; appropriate levels of thinning for the existing landscaping; <br /> recreational strategies for increased park use by the general community; and community policing <br /> strategies to increase safety in the park for the public. <br /> In general, the committee is encouraged to make recommendations with an emphasis on short- <br /> term strategies that reasonably can be implemented by the City. It will also be necessary to <br /> consider fiscal or legal constraints, and we encourage you to be realistic as well as creative in <br /> crafting your recommendations. This may present challenges: reconciling options for new park <br /> uses with the historic character of the park; fitting the group's vision for Scobert Park within the <br /> relatively small boundaries of this neighborhood "pocket park "; finding strategies that appeal to <br /> the broad range of people who use and care for the park; and limiting the group's review to areas <br /> that are within the scope of this committee. <br /> (more) <br />