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o:o increase transparency in how complaints are handled and how dispositions are arrived at to build credibility and trust in the complaint system o:o identify organizational improvements to enhance the quality of police services to the public o:o avoid pitfalls encountered in other communities when implementing civilian review The oversight model will be refined following further discussion with stakeholders and community input, and then presented to the City Council on July 25. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the commission's draft civilian oversight recommendations at two public forums in June. The first forum, co-sponsored by the Whiteaker Community Council, is scheduled for Wednesday, June 1, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Whiteaker Community Center at the corner of Clark and North Jackson streets. The second public forum will be held Thursday, June 30, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Hilyard Community Center, 2580 Hilyard Street. For a more in-depth description of the draft oversight model and other recommendations on the complaint process, please visit www.ci.eu.qene.or, us/policecomm.index.htm. Downtown Flower Power Seventy-six beautiful hanging flower baskets are being installed this week on light poles throughout downtown. This summer beautification program is made possible through a public-private partnership. The Facility Division's mall staff installed brackets on the poles, purchased the hanging baskets and will maintain them as they grow over the summer. Funding for both the acquisition and maintenance is through a partnership between Downtown Eugene Inc., some individual downtown property owners, and urban renewal funds. The new flowers complement 146 exiting downtown flower pots that are also provided and maintained through public-private cooperation. For more information, please contact Richie Weinman, Planning and Development Department at 682-5533 or Richie.d.weinman@ci.eugene.or. us. International Teens Spend Sunny Afternoon Workinq at Tandy Turn Park On Saturday afternoon, May 21,60 teenagers representing Oregon and 17 different countries descended on Tandy Turn Park and helped parks staff weed and spread mulch on the landscaped beds in the park. All the youth involved in the showcase service project which was organized for the 100-year celebration and District Rotary Conference held in Eugene last weekend, are part of the Rotary Youth Exchange program. The program gives young people from the United States the opportunity to spend a year in another country living with a host family and studying and learning about their culture, while young people from other countries come to the United States to experience American culture. At Saturday's project, there were youth from around Oregon who will be going to other countries in August as well as students from Russia, Turkey, Sweden, Thailand, and Chile and other countries who have been in the United States since last August. Tom Utt, local Rotary member and lead worker for the City's irrigation crew, was impressed with the amount of work these students accomplished and how they worked together to accomplish this feat. "Though this was a new experience for most of the international students, generally all the students got down to the hard physical labor of weeding, raking, shoveling, and hauling," he says. "One student from the Czech Republic was so intent on impressing the girls that he abandoned his arm sling, grabbed the EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 May 26, 2005