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<br /> <br /> <br />City of Eugene <br />125 East 8 Avenue, 2 Floor <br />thnd <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5010 <br />(541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> <br />www.eugene-or.gov <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br />January 28, 2016 <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />EUGENE ENGINEER AWARDED INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY VISION ZERO <br />COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS SEEK TO BUILD UNITY IN COMMUNITY <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br /> <br />Eugene Engineer Awarded International Fellowship to Study Vision Zero <br />Matt Rodrigues, who assumes acting-in-capacity Eugene Traffic Engineer duties on February 1, was awarded the American <br />Public Works Association’s Jennings Randolph International Fellowship to study implementation of Vision Zero. The <br />award, one of only two to be handed out in 2016, reimburses Rodrigues $2,000 for his international <br />public works study tour set for September. <br /> <br />Rodrigues will attend and present at the Swedish Association of Municipal Engineers Annual <br />Conference in Sweden and perform a study tour relating to Sweden’s implementation of the Vision <br />Zero Initiative. The initiative aims to eliminate transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries. <br /> <br />While overseas, Rodrigues will also travel to nearby Denmark, where he will learn about Denmark’s <br />Road Safety Action Plan. It’s similar in goals and successes to Sweden’s Vision Zero Initiative. The <br />trip will give Rodrigues a first-person perspective and valuable insight into how other countries are <br />implementing life-saving techniques and how they may translate to Eugene. <br />For more information, contact Principal Civil Engineer Matt Rodrigues at 541-682-6036 or <br />matt.j.rodrigues@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />Community Conversations Seek to Build Unity in Community <br />The room felt full of energy as over 85 people from all over the community joined together to discuss the Complexity of <br />Culture and Identity on the evening of Jan. 14 at the first session of Community Conversations. The evening opened with a <br />showing of the TEDtalk, “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie (Click <br />here to watch it.) Adichie paints a picture of the ways that stereotypes negatively <br />impact communities through the stories people tell about each other. When the lights <br />came up, small groups participated in facilitated discussions - reflecting on the video <br />and thinking of ways they can make the community stronger by interrupting single <br />stories in Eugene. <br /> <br />At one point a participant stood up stating, “We can only address these single stories if <br />we truly know our history.” This was a great moment to share that the next Community <br />Conversation scheduled for Feb. 11 will be titled, “Oregon’s Cracked Foundations: Our <br />History of Racial Exclusion.” <br /> <br />Three additional conversations are planned and will take place in the Eugene Water & <br />Electric Board’s (EWEB) Community Room (500 East 4 Avenue) at 5:30 p.m. on the <br />th <br />second Thursdays of March, April and May. A light meal will be provided along with <br />child care and translation or interpretive services upon request. With leadership from <br />the Eugene-Springfield NAACP, the Community Conversations initiative is a <br />partnership with City of Eugene, 4J and Bethel school districts, EWEB, League of United <br />Latin American CitizensLULAC) and Lane County with the goal of building unity in the community through shared <br /> ( <br />understanding and meaningful dialogue. <br /> <br /> <br />For more information, please contact Jennifer Lleras Van Der Haeghen, Human Rights and Neighborhood Involvement, at <br />541-682-5619 or Jennifer.E.VanDerHaeghen@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />January 28, 2016 <br />