Item B: Neighborhood Livability Working Group Report

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Neighborhood Livability Working Group Strategy 2003 Update 2011 Update Neighborhood Grants Pursue The City has had a neighborhood neighborhood grants for matching grant program since 2000. environmental improvements to the A $14,270 grant was provided for neighborhood. improvements to the West University Park in 2007. Neighborhood The UO organizes a number of annual service projects in the campus Cleanup/Community Day area neighborhoods including park Establish a neighborhood clean-up or adoption/cleanups, tree plantings, community day to encourage and litter pick up. community building and investment in the area. Resource Contact List Compile a Neighborhood Services produces a list of important contacts for City directory and frequently called residents, landlords and businesses to numbers list that is distributed to all inform parties of their rights and neighborhood associations. channels of recourse. The Office of the Dean of Students produces online and hard copy versions contact information. Provide Educational Information No progress to report. No progress to report. with Kegs Distribute pamphlets through beer distributors that describe rights and responsibilities as they pertain to hosting a party. Neighborhood Forum Hold a At the initiative of the South forum to gauge interest in forming a University Neighborhood neighborhood association and Association, a Livability Summit was engage more residents in the work hosted by the UO in March 2010 of the task force. involving a cross section of stakeholders concerned with the impacts to livability in the campus area neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Livability Working Group was formed in response to this forum. The Neighborhood Livability Working Group has included similar strategies to those identified in italics. 13 Page