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11A THE REGIS <br /> e s: <br /> FOLLOW THE MONEY <br /> • <br /> Eugene voters approveda <br /> $25.3.3 million bondandmeasure <br /> sure in1 WO <br /> November 1998 to upgrade <br /> and expand the city's system <br /> of parks and open spaces.To like those <br /> date,about$19 million has vision scr <br /> been spent or allocated and re-enactm <br /> most of the projects are last know <br /> completed,under way or in every de' <br /> planning. has domie <br /> •Projects of citywide Police <br /> importance($11.75 million night eha <br /> total): the girls <br /> —Amazon Park baseball ents pleas <br /> fields:Plans being revised due for the a <br /> to fund-raising shortfall by Detective: <br /> South Eugene Babe Ruth. week for <br /> —Amazon Pool renovation: to contact <br /> Completed($4.4 million). ing a me <br /> —Bethel Community Park: girls'mob <br /> Multiphased development <br /> under way. <br /> —Skinner Butte Park: G`• i <br /> Planning and implementation w7 L <br /> under way for restoration of unces the <br /> native habitats,development <br /> of a city garden. \T Oji I <br /> —Youth sports parks at <br /> Churchill and Sheldon high T Centeno <br /> schools and Cal Young Middle meld,01 <br /> School.Completed($4 rhone: 79 <br /> million). ,Hours:8 <br /> —Alton Baker Park:Planning <br /> in progress for boat ramp y has been <br /> south of Cuthbert field since P <br /> Amphitheater. ne• <br /> —Delta Ponds:Grant it,Compassionaii <br /> application submitted to state <br /> Watershed Enhancementuninsured/u <br /> Board to help with city's share Sim <br /> of project to restore 140 acres <br /> of flood plain and riparian eduction for F <br /> habitat. <br /> •Upgrades to 20 youth <br /> sports fields($750,000 <br /> total):Irrigation and drainage <br /> improvements to increase (innplaying time—Completed at <br /> Roosevelt,Jefferson,Monroe <br /> and Spencer Butte middle ane) <br /> schools,and at Willakenzie, hru Au u <br /> Gilham,Willard/Eastside, g <br /> Washington,Danebo and <br /> Malabon elementary schools; <br /> one additional project planned ar <br /> at Jefferson. <br /> •Construction,expansion or r Len&32 <br /> renovation of small <br /> n eighborhood parks($3.43 <br /> million total): Four parks wea>t <br /> completed—Laurel Hill in P <br /> east Eugene,Shadow Wood in es, <br /> 0(southeast Eugene,Skyview in <br /> southwest Eugene and Irwin in <br /> Bethel;14 additional projects <br /> planned at Arrowhead, FOUNDATIONS �' <br /> wbrey,Brewer,Candlelight, �� SHOP 4,-,. rt.,- ,> i <br /> Frank Kinney,Friendly,Gilbert, E--. , t 1 - <br /> Lark,Marche Chase,Milton, <br /> ' t, <br /> Oakmont,Sterling Woods, , r <br /> Trainsong and Walnut Grove <br /> Habitat parks. �""" <br /> ■Land purchases for future <br /> parks($5.35 million total): H & . . .. . :. .. <br /> 12 sites totaling about 55 <br /> acres for eventual a T a <br /> development as small Extra Lean <br /> neighborhood parks;one site W. iJ <br /> of at least 40 acres for <br /> development pasaregional Ground Beef <br /> community park i the Santa <br /> Clara area. L <br /> ■Land purchases for T its I kind. Available in the Butcher Block <br /> expansion of Ridgeline Park • LF <br /> and trail system($3.72 5 lbs.ormmore ,.F <br /> acquin red <br /> u Prently to s g <br /> acquired or currently targeted Save Up To 1.10 lb., <br /> for acquisition are 106 acres in <br /> the upper Willow Creek <br /> drainage,a5acres ikdrthe O <br /> upper Amazon Creek drainage, Special <br /> 25 acres between Dillard Road <br /> and Lane Community College, O <br /> 45 acres between 30th Avenue <br /> and Moon Mountain,six acres <br /> along Willamette Street and 25 <br /> acres west of Chambers �' <br /> Street • 3 Day <br /> —The Register-Guard F F <br />