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for their Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan (SNAP). SNAPs are an opportunity for a neighborhood to take a <br />proactive, comprehensive look at their neighborhood’s needs and create a plan to help address these needs. <br />SNAPs can cover a wide-range of topics including traffic management, housing/homelessness, natural resources, <br />community building, land use, historic preservation, parks, public safety, and economic development. For more <br />information on the SNAP program go to www.eugene-or.gov/nap. <br />For more information about the Eugene Neighborhood Survey project, to get the survey in an alternative format or <br />to arrange to take it orally, please contact Neighborhood Planner Lorna Flormo at lorna.r.flormoe@ci.eugene.or.us <br />or 682-5670. <br /> <br />Cooperative Paving Exercise Produces a Win-Win-Win Outcome <br />A cooperative training experience this week yielded benefits to public works crews from Eugene and Springfield <br />and to residents in a north Eugene neighborhood. <br /> <br />Crews from the Eugene and Springfield public <br />works maintenance divisions teamed up to apply a <br />thin overlay to an unimproved section of Country <br />Club Road between Willagillespie Road and Sand <br />Avenue. It was an opportunity for crews from both <br />cities to improve working relationships, cross-train <br />on various types of equipment and paving repair <br />techniques, and learn how to more effectively share <br />resources. <br /> <br />“It’s smart business and a good example of <br />innovation between our two cities,” says Stacey <br />Kintigh, maintenance supervisor for Springfield <br />Public Works. “And we are able to share <br />information as well as equipment,” adds Damon <br />Joyner, street maintenance supervisor for Eugene <br />Public Works. “What we learn from each other will <br />allow us to make the best use of limited resources <br />Chad Mickelson from Eugene operates the paving machine as Pat Davis from <br />and produce more uniform street repairs throughout <br />Springfield tests the paving depth. <br />the metro area.” <br /> <br />For residents along the pot-holed section of Country Club Road, the exercise meant a one-inch-thick “maintenance <br />overlay” of asphalt paving. Springfield provided its paving machine, which is better equipped to handle this size of <br />project than Eugene’s antiquated paver. Both agencies brought crews, trucks and other equipment to support the <br />full-scale paving operation. Eugene paid for the 130 tons of asphalt, and also reimbursed Springfield for equipment <br />and personnel costs because it was a Eugene street that was being repaired. <br /> <br />For more information, contact Eric Johnson, surface operations manager for Eugene Public Works at 682-4904. <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />September 10, 2009 <br />