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<br /> <br />City of Eugene <br />125 East 8 Avenue, 2 Floor <br />thnd <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5010 <br />(541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> <br />www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br />August 1, 2013 <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />EUGENE ROAD WORK IN FULL SWING <br />“REDWING” CONCERT AT EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY <br />CELEBRATION MARKS DEDICATION OF CREEKSIDE PARK <br />A SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR SAFETY TOWN <br />SURPRISING BENEFIT OF RECREATION: IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN! <br />BRILLIANT AND RESILIENT: CELEBRATING THE POWER OF DISABLED WOMEN ACTIVISTS <br />HULT CENTER TROUPES TAKE SHOW ON THE ROAD <br />CITY CELEBRATES OPENING OF INNOVATIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br /> <br />Eugene Road Work in Full Swing <br />The signs are everywhere: road work ahead. The Public Works Department and its contractors have hit full stride on this <br />year’s extensive list of street repair projects, with some contractors even working on Saturdays to get the work done. The <br />next phase of a project to repair 18 <br />th <br />Avenue from Chambers to Washington <br />streets will close the intersection of 18 <br />th <br />Avenue and Jefferson Street for <br />approximately 10 days starting Saturday. <br /> <br />Knife River Corporation, working under <br />contract to Eugene Public Works, is well <br />along on its project to rebuild 18 Avenue <br />th <br />from the Westmoreland Bridge to <br />Washington Street. Polk Street, which was <br />closed as part of the first phase of the <br />project, is scheduled to be reopened this <br />week. <br /> <br />A number of projects are in the downtown area. By the end of this week, Broadway will have curbs and base paving from <br />Washington to Lincoln. That leaves two more blocks to go: Monroe to Madison and Madison to Jefferson. Also by the end of <br />this week, 10 Avenue will have base paving on one block: Jefferson to Washington. That leaves four blocks to go from <br />th <br />Washington to Olive Street. These four blocks are completed two at a time, so fewer side streets are cut off at the same <br />time. On Olive Street between 10 and 11 avenues, two out of three phases will be done by the end of the week. This one <br />thth <br />block takes longer because it is being constructed in concrete due to the bus loads there. The concrete work is scheduled <br />for completion before the Eugene Celebration. <br /> <br />On the project to fix 5 Avenue, Blair Boulevard and Van Buren Street, most of the work is done on the west end of 5, and <br />thth <br />on Wednesday, July 31, the focus of construction shifted to the block of 5 between Oak and Pearl streets. Two sections of <br />th <br />Blair, including the intersection of Blair and 2 Avenue, also remain to be done. Project staff continues to work closely with <br />nd <br />the many businesses in the project area, trying to accommodate their needs as much as possible. <br /> <br />On the west end of town, a project to install a bypass sewer line in Barger Drive between Terry Street and West Irwin Way <br />began this week. It’s likely that the project – which requires digging a 16-foot-deep trench down the street, will require <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />August 1, 2013 <br />