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paid contractors for work along the Willamette River, where he did not feel comfortable sending volun- teers. Mr. Cooper asked Mr. Richardson what the process was for adopting an area of a park. Mr. Richardson said that volunteer coordinators would know. Usually, the adopting group had to be viable and sign a partnership agreement with the City. The adoption had to make sense to the POS Division. Mr. Burke said that adopting groups also had to commit to four to five work parties per year. ETF had been doing a lot,-but had been avoiding the area by Nearby Nature's Wildflower hollow because the wild- flowers were "spectacular" there and ETF did not want to cause any damage to them. November through January were the best times to work in that area. Ms. Mello thanked Mr. Burke for his work. 7. Nearby Nature update Ms. Stein noted that Nearby Nature was excited about working with ETF/Friends of Trees South. She did not believe ETF's work competed with the Northwest Youth Corps' work, and thought all of the work be- ing done was complementary to other work. She felt that there could never be too many people pulling ivy. She did not believe the Northwest Youth Corps had done much work in Alton Baker Park recently. The Nearby Nature, ETF and City of Eugene work had gotten rid of a lot of the ivy. This work would re- sult in easier maintenance in the future. Nearby Nature was looking forward to working with ETF to make the Autzen path corridor a showcase. Nearby Nature had not done as much with ivies and other invasive plants because of ETF's work, and had therefore been spending a lot of time on their "Learnscape" at the Park Host House. The Park Host, Erin Lamb, had learned a lot about volunteer coordination from ETF's model. She was training interns as crew leaders. She had sent one to a Friends of Trees training. Ms. Lamb had had 4 -6 interns over the last two months, who had been weeding, pruning, planting, composting and doing artwork. Every year, the Learn- scape evolved. A work party had recently worked on litter control. More were on the calendar. She re- ferred to Nearby Nature's website, where work parties were announced. In the Spring, 1,500 students would be in the park as part of the field trip program. Kalapuya Elder Esther Stutzman had spoken to guides. Twenty -eight people had been in the front room of the Alton Baker Park Host house to hear her speak. A Walk on the Wild Side had had over 100 attendees. A couple of lessons had been held in the Learn- scape, which had gotten media coverage. On June 11, hundreds of Boy Scouts would be participating in a work party. Nearby Nature was piloting a program called Green Start, which was a set of parenting work- shops at HeadStart about getting parents into nature with their children from the beginning of children's lives. The kiosk was reinstalled across Day Island Rd from it's former location. She asked that those who were interested in posting anything in the kiosk let her know. She thanked the City of Eugene for facilitat- ing the return of the kiosk. The Waterwise Garden was "coming along." There would be a grand opening for people involved in it at the end of July. It would be open to the public at the end of July. She was now the Director of Nearby Nature. She encouraged people to go to Track Town Pizza on Franklin Blvd on May 4. Fifty percent of profits that day would go to Nearby Nature Scholarship Funds. She distributed a flyer titled Track Town 6 WE MINUTES— Citizen Planning Committee for the April 21, 2011 Page 4 Whilamut Natural Area