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<br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br /> <br />March 8, 2012 <br /> <br /> <br />City of Eugene <br /> 777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 <br /> (541) 682-5010 <br /> (541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> <br /> www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />CHALLENGE COURSE FACILITATOR TRAINING CLASS OFFERED <br />DRYWELL ELIMINATION PROGRAM BEGINS WITH SHIRLEY STREET/FERNDALE PARK PROJECT <br />JOIN A BIG READ CONVERSATION AT EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY <br />ENVISION EUGENE RECOMMENDATION AND COMMUNITY FORUMS <br />CITY OF EUGENE PARTNERS WITH THE RESOURCE INNOVATIONS GROUP <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br />Challenge Course Facilitator Training Class Offered <br />The City of Eugene Outdoor Program is offering a class at the Spencer Butte Challenge Course on group facilitation <br />techniques and technical skills needed to lead experiential education programs. The training provides an opportunity to <br />learn more about experiential learning, in which learning is derived from within and is a <br />direct result of participation in a process or exercise. <br /> <br />The techniques learned can be applied to a wide range of teaching settings. Individuals <br />who receive the training are eligible to be hired as Challenge Course facilitators. Being a <br />facilitator also gives an organization a price break on using the course. <br /> <br />The two-week class includes design, delivery and debrief of Challenge Course events, and <br />evening classroom instruction at the River House Community Center, 301 N. Adams <br />Street, on April 20, 24 and 26, and an all-day training at Spencer Butte Challenge Course <br />from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on April 14, 21-22, and 28-29. The cost is $250 which includes a <br />Challenge Course Manual. A student discount is available. <br /> <br />For more information, contact Robert Brack at 541-682-6324. <br /> <br />Drywell Elimination Program Begins with Shirley Street/Ferndale Park Project <br />Public Works has entered the design phase of its first project in a long-term capital improvement program to <br />decommission or retrofit more than 150 public drywells to comply with state and federal regulations that protect local <br />drinking water supplies. Drywells are stormwater management facilities that direct stormwater runoff from adjacent <br />areas into the ground, as opposed to directing it to a piped system or waterway. They historically have been used in <br />areas where there are not existing pipe networks or waterways to receive and convey stormwater, and where soils <br />allow surface water to infiltrate. <br /> <br />The Shirley Street area in Santa Clara will be the site of the first pilot project this <br />summer. The proposed Shirley Street area solution includes creating a piped storm <br />system that discharges into a swale within Ferndale Park. Public Works <br />Engineering and Public Works Parks and Open Space staff are working together to <br />notify property owners, present information to neighborhood groups and involve <br />neighbors in the Ferndale Park service area. A meeting with park neighbors is <br />scheduled later this month. <br /> <br />The drywell elimination program is an outcome of a long-term, basin master <br />planning effort that included collaboration between the City of Eugene and Lane County. City decommissioning <br />projects are funded by stormwater user fees and will not result in any direct costs to the affected neighborhoods, the <br />majority of which are in the River Road/Santa Clara and Willakenzie areas. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />March 8, 2012 <br />