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Strategic Plan identifies several strategies, including designation of a new ADA coordinator and creation of an <br />accessibility coordination plan to help ensure City operations and services are designed so that all people have <br />equal opportunity to access and benefit from City programs and services regardless of ability. <br /> <br />As a first step, Shawna Adams has been assigned as project coordinator and interim ADA Coordinator. Shawna is <br />a planner in the Planning and Development Department, temporarily on loan to the Equity and Human Rights <br />team, part of the City Manager’s Office. Her primary tasks will be to assess how the City coordinates compliance <br />with the ADA, identify best practices and options for ADA coordination, and present findings and recommendations <br />to the Human Rights Commission Accessibility Committee, internal Equity and Human Rights Board and City <br /> <br />executive team, later this fall. <br />For more information about the project or to provide feedback, please contact Shawna Adams at 682-2653 or <br />shawna.l.adams@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />Free Symphony Performance Pleases Audience and Fulfills Outreach Goal <br />Five thousand people turned out to hear the Eugene Symphony’s first free outdoor summer concert, Eugene <br />Symphony in the Park, at Cuthbert Amphitheater on Saturday, July 18. The orchestra was in top form and music <br />. <br />director Danail Rachev, along with soprano soloist Elizabeth Racheva, charmed the capacity crowd Maestro <br />Rachev led the orchestra in a program that featured 12 selections ranging from light classical to pops and jazz. <br />The evening culminated with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with cannon fire. <br /> <br />In keeping with the Eugene Symphony’s mission of <br />“enriching lives through the power of music,” the free <br />summer concert aimed to expand the scope and capacity <br />of the symphony’s annual outreach programs that currently <br />serve more than 17,000 children, adults, and families each <br />year. <br /> <br />The Eugene Symphony, City of Eugene, and Kesey <br />Enterprises Incorporated (the Cuthbert managing <br />company), all share a goal to increase cultural <br />opportunities - particularly among underserved audiences - <br />with barrier-free access to high-caliber music <br />performances, and promoting engagement in the area’s <br />cultural resources among audiences of all ages, <br />backgrounds and means. <br /> <br /> <br />The symphony plans to make Eugene Symphony in the Park an annual community concert. The photo was taken <br />by Steve Smith of Imagine Graphics. For more information, contact Laura Niles at 682-2697. <br /> <br />The Inside Scoop: Get the Most from Library Card <br />By popular demand, the Eugene Public Library will hold a new hands-on computer class. “The Inside Scoop: Your <br />Library Catalog & Card” will debut on Thursday, August 6, at 6:00 p.m. at the Downtown Library. <br /> <br />Library staff will teach powerful tricks to help participants get <br />the most out of the catalog and their library cards. Topics will <br />include how to: <br />- Find the right item in the catalog, fast; <br />- Get email notices about new library items related to a <br />particular author or subject; <br />- Place a hold for a specified volume in a series of books or <br />TV episodes; <br />- Suspend requests temporarily, without losing one’s place in <br />line; <br />- Keep a reading history, and <br />- Pay fines online. <br /> <br />The class will cover many other tips to save time and get <br />better results. A Eugene Public Library card and password, <br />and experience using keyboard and mouse, are required. The class is free, but due to limited space, pre- <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />July 30, 2009 <br />