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EU� — G� I Public Works <br /> Maintenance <br /> 1820 Roosevelt Boulevard <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97402 <br /> (503) 687 -5220 <br /> October 29, 1993 <br /> Brian Churchill <br /> 1610 East 43rd Avenue <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97405 <br /> Dear Brian Churchill: <br /> Attached is a letter describing the basis` on which the city will value <br /> volunteer labor on the Shadow Wood Park project. I hope it will help you in <br /> your grant effort. <br /> We are now at the point of needing to have not only the detailed development <br /> plans, but the detailed maintenance plans as well. Before making available <br /> any funding, everyone involved needs to understand the magnitude of the impact <br /> on the Systems Development Fund, and the maintenance functions that may need <br /> to provided, whether such maintenance be by design or of an emergency nature. <br /> The plans need to be reviewed by the Park Maintenance section to insure that <br /> materials, quality, locations for installation, etc., meet our development <br /> standards. <br /> In the early planning meetings I spoke with you about the city's inability to <br /> provide maintenance levels above what is currently applied, which is a rough <br /> mowing approximately three times per year. The types of improvements the city <br /> would approve include: <br /> - grading for safer and better play <br /> - concrete paved areas and paths <br /> - picnic tables, benches, and play apparatus that is safe, durable <br /> and does not require regular maintenance <br /> - bark or wood chip paths <br /> Turf, plantings, irrigation and lighting that mean regular operating costs are <br /> items the city would permit if the means to fund and maintain them is created. <br /> Water for irrigation of turf and plantings is an example of an ongoing cost <br /> that would need to be covered. The repairs to the improvements cited above <br /> are ones that the city can cover since the need for such work is infrequent. <br /> The options discussed to date for covering the neighborhood maintenance <br /> responsibility include the neighbors collectively hiring city staff to mow, <br /> or contracting with a private landscape maintenance vendor, and forming a <br /> local improvement district to guarantee the funding mechanism. The final <br /> maintenance mechanism could include a volunteer component as long as it was <br /> backed up with plan that would become active in the absense of such efforts. <br />