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Schedule and Oversight and Public Libraries. The remaining chapters were authored by experts in <br />capital project planning and evaluation from local governments of all sizes. <br />This book is designed to provide finance officers with information to help them participate in all stages of <br />capital plans and ensure capital project investments align with long-term service goals, objectives and <br />strategies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section discusses considerations associated <br />with most capital project types, including public participation; cost estimation and budgeting; projects <br />oversight; common funding sources; and the potential for public/private cooperation on projects. <br />Section II of the book provides a short description of 12 important capital project types and basic <br />information to assist with the needs assessment. Project types include: Emergency Communication <br />Systems; Fire/EMS Stations; Correctional Facilities and Jails; Roads; Water and Wastewater Systems; <br />Administrative Facilities; Technology Investments; Solid Waste Facilities; Schools; Public Libraries; Parks <br />and Recreation Facilities; and Convention Centers and Meeting Facilities.For more information, contact <br />Finance Director Dee Ann Raile, at 682-5041. <br />South Ridgeline Habitat Study Proposal to be Presented at Public Workshops <br />The Planning and Development Department is hosting two public workshops to present the draft <br />conservation proposal developed by the South Ridgeline Habitat Study(SRHS) Community Task Group. <br />The first workshop will be held on January 16, 2008, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., in the Bascom-Tykeson <br />Room of the Downtown Library. The second workshop will be held on January 23, 2008, from 6:00 – <br />7:30 p.m., at Peterson Barn, 870 Berntzen Road. The workshops will provide a chance for community <br />members to learn about the study and the task group’s conservation proposal, and to provide feedback <br />on the proposal. <br />The nine-member task group worked collaboratively with the City to develop criteria for identifying priority <br />habitat sites for conservation and to identify what type of conservation measures should be applied. The <br />task group spent three months reviewing public input collected at six facilitated community meetings, <br />reviewing the SRHS inventory and assessment report and discussing trade-offs, costs and benefits of <br />various approaches before making its proposal. The conservation proposal identifies three different <br />levels (called “tiers” in the proposal) of habitat conservation priorities, and identifies conservation <br />measures to be applied to each. The City then worked with the group to create maps depicting the three <br />conservation priority tiers. <br />The SRHS conservation proposal and revised maps are now available on the project website at: <br />www.EugeneNR.org. For more information about the conservation proposal or the SRHS Community <br />Task Group, please contact Neil Björklund, at 682-5507 or via email at neil.h.bjorklund@ci.eugene.or.us <br />Outreach to Begin on New Delta Ponds Elevated Path and Bridge Project <br />Preliminary design is <br />underway on a new <br />elevated Delta Ponds <br />path that includes a <br />pedestrian/bicycle bridge <br />across the Delta <br />Highway. Public <br />outreach on the project <br />is scheduled to begin <br />this month. <br />The estimated $4.8 <br />million project, including a 300-foot-long bridge and approximately 600 feet of elevated pathway <br />connecting Goodpasture Island Road to Robin Hood Avenue, is expected to begin construction in 2010 <br />using federal and local funds. Congressman Peter DeFazio was instrumental in getting almost $2.9 <br />million through the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users <br />(SAFETEA-LU) in 2005. The City also received a federal transportation enhancement grant of $1 million. <br />The remaining local share will come from City transportation SDCs. <br />Information is being provided to a variety of stakeholders, including Lane County officials who have an <br />interest in this project because the bridge crosses Delta Highway, neighbors, cyclists, and other <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />January 18, 2008 <br />