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City offers online tours of buildings.


Byline: City Beat By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard

Relax. If your burning question has been how to cop a peek at Eugene's fire drill tower without actually visiting the site off the Chambers Connector in west Eugene, the city has taken care of you.

Likewise, those looking for Looking for

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 a vicarious vicarious /vi·car·i·ous/ (vi-kar´e-us)
1. acting in the place of another or of something else.

2. occurring at an abnormal site.


vi·car·i·ous
adj.
1.
 glimpse of the city's public works public works
pl.n.
Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public.

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 building or the Ascot Ballfield restrooms - or for that matter, the city's beautiful new downtown library or the Hult Center for the Performing Arts The Hult Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts facility in Eugene, Oregon, opened in 1982.

27 architectural firms competed for the opportunity to design the Center, but in the end the Eugene City Council awarded the contract to the New York firm of Hardy
.

In fact, photographs of 80 city-owned buildings - from City Hall to Eugene Skinner's cabin - can now be viewed on the city's Facility Management Division Web site.

Also available are pictures of 139 pieces of outdoor art in the area, from the Big Red sculpture in Washington-Jefferson Street Park to the fish benches in the Children's Courtyard of the new library.

And there are links to several written policies that help guide facility management.

The Web offerings - at www.ci.eugene.or.us/asd/facilities/index.htm - are intended to offer Eugene residents a look at the mission and responsibilities of the Facility Management Division. The division's programs include maintenance, repair, operations and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  for city buildings and other public assets.

Tax shelters?

Remember that property tax levy approved by city voters last fall to help pay for programs in Eugene's two school districts? Well, the spirit of cooperation flows the other way, too.

Students in a North Eugene High School North Eugene High School is a public high school of about 1,200 students in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located at 200 Silver Lane near the Santa Clara area of Eugene.[1] North Eugene's mascot is the Highlander.  construction program have completed the first of three garden sheds they are building for placement at three of the city's community garden sites.

The student-run North Eugene Manufacturing Company volunteered to replace at low cost the dilapidated and outsized out·size  
n.
1. An unusual size, especially a very large size.

2. A garment of unusual size.

adj. also out·sized
Unusually large, weighty, or extensive.

Adj. 1.
 sheds at the Whiteaker, River House and Mathews community gardens.

The new sheds will be 8 feet by 12 feet, with sliding doors and skids to make them moveable.

North Eugene Manufacturing Company is a 10-year-old operation, coordinated by metal shop teacher Don Kuehling and woodshop teacher John Piltz. It employs 25 students per year, offering minimum-wage earnings, and in the past has produced wooden furniture, metal fabrications and other items for area businesses.

Joe Mosley can be reached at 338-2384.
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Date:Apr 13, 2003
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