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<br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br /> <br />January 18, 2007 <br /> <br /> City of Eugene <br />777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br /> <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 <br /> (541) 682-5010 <br /> (541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />IN THIS WEEK’S EDITION <br />CITY OF EUGENE @ YOUR SERVICE <br />DIRECT ACCESS TO MEDICARE’S ELIGIBILITY RECORDS <br /> <br />COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN CULTURAL POLICY REVIEW <br />ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ‘TOYS FOR TOTS’ CAMPAIGN <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br />City of Eugene @ Your Service <br />The City of Eugene web site, www.eugene-or.gov, continues to grow to provide <br />new and enhanced services to the community. <br /> <br />In FY06, the site dished up over 3.5 million pages to over 1 million visitors from <br />Eugene to as far away as Nepal, Thailand and Afghanistan. $1.25 million dollars <br />worth of service transactions occurred on the site, saving the community many <br />hours and gallons of gas for patrons purchasing Hult Center tickets, registering for Recreation classes or <br />paying parking tickets. The popularity and functionality of submitting job applications online continued to <br />grow – nearly 80% of all job applications received in FY06 were submitted electronically. <br /> <br />New interactive maps added to the site helped residents and visitors understand land use, planning and <br />neighborhood issues. These mapping applications include Land Use Zoning, South Hills Habitat Study, <br />and the recently introduced “My Neighborhood Association” application that maps street addresses to <br />neighborhood boundaries. For more information about the City’s site traffic or usage statistics, contact <br />Kimberly McCrea at 682-5234. <br /> <br />Direct Access to Medicare’s Eligibility Records <br />Eugene’s Fire & EMS Ambulance Billing Office is always looking for innovative ways to improve work <br />efficiency. Recently, Medicare has started the process of giving providers access to Medicare’s eligibility <br />records through a new Medicare Eligibility System. This is an exciting opportunity for Eugene’s <br />Ambulance Billing Office. Approximately 46 percent of Eugene’s ambulance gross charges are Medicare <br />patients, and Medicare is one the largest payers following commercial insurance companies. <br /> <br />With increasing numbers of patients covered by Medicare, this will provide Eugene’s Fire & EMS <br />Ambulance Billing Office with an especially useful tool that will be used by all employees of the <br />Ambulance Billing Office on a daily basis and help boost employee productivity. For more information, <br />please contact Billing Supervisor Gail Draper at 682-7130. <br /> <br /> <br />Community Involved in Cultural Policy Review <br />Despite the inclement weather, more than 75 people attended the latest Cultural Policy Review (CPR) <br />public meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 16. To date, thousands of people have participated in the CPR, <br />including more than 2,500 who responded to the Eugene Cultural Census. At Tuesday night’s meeting, <br />consultant Alan Brown compared findings from the Eugene Cultural Census to national trends. <br />Generally, Brown said Eugene is not alone in experiencing long-term funding issues for arts and culture <br />and he said other communities have found solutions. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />January 18, 2007 <br />