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energy conservation, a draft green building policy, a summary of the Downtown City Space Plan for City offices, and the <br /> latest Facility Condition Report. For more information, or to provide suggestions on improving this site, please contact <br /> Glen Svendsen, Division Manager, at 682-5008, or by email at glenJ.svendsen@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> crth Eugene High School Students Building Community Garden Sheds <br /> Students from North Eugene Manufacturing Company (NEMCO), a student-run <br /> enterprise at North Eugene High School, have recently completed the first of i <br /> three garden sheds for the City's Community Gardens Program. The North ,' '' <br /> Eugene High School students are getting valuable, hands-on construction and i,. } <br /> business experience as they design and build three, 8'x 12'garden sheds with <br /> sliding doors and a skid to make them easy to move. The sheds will replace, at '_ ' <br /> low-cost, the dilapidated garden sheds that were no longer large enough to <br /> accommodate the needs of the resident gardeners at Whiteaker, River House <br /> and Mathews community gardens. <br /> Community Gardens Coordinator Chris Girard is enthusiastic about this cooperative venture between the Parks and <br /> Open Space Division and a local area high school program. "We feel that this project not only gives young people the <br /> opportunity to build valuable job skills but benefits Eugene's parks and open space system and the rest of the community <br /> as well." <br /> NEMCO has been in operation for 10 years and is co-coordinated by metalshop teacher Don Kuehling and woodshop <br /> teacher John Piltz. The enterprise employs 25 students a year, producing wooden furniture and other wooden and metal <br /> fabrications for area businesses. Students receive minimum wage earnings. Girard plans to utilize this local source of <br /> manufacturing as the community gardens program grows. Since the Parks and Open Space Division assumed <br /> management of the program last July,the program is in the process of planning two more community garden sites,with <br /> an addition of 50 garden plots. <br /> 'egistration for community garden plots began in March. A limited number of plots are available at Whiteaker and <br /> --Mathews community gardens. Please call 682-4800 to reserve a plot. For more information about Eugene's Community <br /> Gardens, call Coordinator Chris Girard at 682-4845. For more information about NEMCO, call 687-3273 or 687-4591. <br /> THIS WEEK <br /> Spring Recess: March 13 -April 8 <br /> NEXT WEEK <br /> 04107 M Noon G Pape Housing Policy Board McNutt Room Springfield '" <br /> 04/08 T 12:15pm BT LRAPA Board Meeting LRAPA Mtg. Rm., <br /> 04/08 T 3:00pm JT, NN Public Safety Coordinating Council Lane MichaelCo. Mental <br /> ogers Health Bldg.,h "" <br /> 04/08 T 5:00pm DK Human Rights Comm. Special Mtg. McNutt Room '"` <br /> 04/08 T 5:15pm NN,SM,BB Planning Commission + 3 Les Lyle Atrium/Slot 1aF Roo Cont.oRm. PW <br /> m <br /> 04/09 W 4:15pm SM,DK,GP IGR Committee y <br /> 04/09 W 6:00pm All Joint PH w/Lane County Comm. Council Chamber <br /> (Dinner for Mayor/Council McNutt Room at 5:00 p.m. before Public Hearing) <br /> 04/09 W 7:00pm NN Mayor's Parks&Open Space Comm. Laurelwood Golf Course *. <br /> 04/10 Th 11:30am JT,BB Metropolitan Police Committee LTD <br /> 04/10 Th 3:00pm JT,NN Tentative- PSCC Juvenile Justice Center <br /> 04/10 Th 4:00pm DK West University Task Force Central Presbyterian, Parlor Rm. ** <br /> 04/10 Th 5:30pm BB, JS Police Commission McNutt Room <br /> 04/10 Th 5:30pm BT McKenzie Watershed Council TBA ** <br /> PAGE 2 <br /> EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE <br /> 2 <br /> April 5,2003 <br />