10/21/10 - City Council Newsletter

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Interventions, and Reporting and Analysis. The City's Health & Fitness Program includes on-site fitness facilities, fitness classes, health and wellness workshops, health risk appraisals, biometric health screenings, smoking cessation programs, and employee flu clinics. For more information, contact Health & Fitness Director Steve Auferoth, Risk Services/Central Services Department, at 541-682-5610. Eugene Airport Runway Paving Project Earns ‘Project of the Year’ Recognition A $9.5 million project to repave the main runway at the Eugene Airport this summer has been named “project of the year” by the Oregon Chapter of the American Public Works Association (AWPA). The association announced the award October 14 at its fall conference in Pendleton. The project to overhaul and modernize the airport’s 8,000-foot main ‐ runway was the largest project ever handled “inhouse” by the Public Works Department, with more than half-a-million dollars in design and construction services. The project included more than 60,000 tons of asphalt and over $2 million worth of electrical upgrades. The project also met a number of sustainability objectives. To prepare the existing runway surface for paving, nearly 90 percent of it was rotomilled. The contractor, Wildish Construction, used a portion of the millings to construct an onsite employee parking lot for this project. The vast majority of the millings, approximately 14,000 tons, were reclaimed for use in recycled asphalt pavement. This behind-the- scenes sustainable practice conserved hundreds of tons of asphalt oil, and reduced aggregate mining pound-for-pound. Additionally, the electrical upgrade included a second circuit and new fixtures that allow the Eugene Airport to illuminate the centerline solely to the north or solely to the south. When this option is exercised, half the energy previously needed is conserved. Finally, the project included installing a remote weather information system that transmits weather and pavement conditions to a receiver in the airfield offices, resulting in fuel savings by reducing the number of ground-vehicle operations needed to observe the conditions in person. In presenting the award, APWA officials noted that an incredible amount of work was completed in less than a month under adverse weather conditions and that not a single flight was canceled due to construction. For more information, contact City Engineer Mark Schoening at 541-682-5243. Envision Eugene Open House/Map Room Next Week How and where should Eugene grow over the next 20 years? The next Envision Eugene general public event will show how public input is , shaping the answer to this question on ThursdayOctober 28, from 4:00- 7:00 p.m., in the Bascom-Tykeson Room of the Downtown Eugene Public Library. Over the summer, staff has been analyzing different methods of planning for growth, using public input, Community Resource Group input, and technical analysis. Everyone is invited to come downtown to see and hear about findings and themes that are helping form a draft plan for how and where Eugene should grow. Participants will be able to learn more about key elements of the plan at stations that focus on mixed-use redevelopment along transit corridors, planning for the next generation of jobs in the community, and strengthening neighborhoods while planning for new ones. Maps and reports produced by the Community Resource Group, art created by Eugene 6th graders, and visualizations of what the future community could look like will also be on display. In addition to next week’s public event, there are on-line opportunities to learn more about Envision Eugene and provide input including:  New information and materials on the Envision Eugene website at www.EnvisionEugene.org;  ‐ A selfguided tour of close-in transit corridors, neighborhood hot spots and neighborhood edges – including an interactive map which allows the viewer to add comments and thoughts; and EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 October 21, 2010