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anyone else,” Taylor said.
Quinney has also put a time limit
on negotiations. Quinney said he
wants to start construction soon in or
der to have the apartments complet
ed by next fall.
“We are running tight now as it is,”
Quinney said. “I feel pretty strongly
that you have to get it up in the fall or
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wait another year.” Quinney said that
he would need to start construction
by December to be finished in time.
Quinney is currently in negotiatons
with the city on specifics of the deal
and is expected to decide whether to
accept within the next few weeks.
He said that if the land swap does
n’t work out, he will simply rebuild
on his current property.
The land swap has gotten
support from West University
residents, who want a park back in
their neighborhood.
“I would very much like to have a
park in West University — the most
densely populated neighborhood in
Eugene and the only one, to my
knowledge, without a park,” West
University Neighbors board member
Deborah Healey said in a letter to the
city. “This proposal seems like a good
way to get there.”
There are concerns that illicit be
havior at the park could resurface.
“There was a lot of drug dealing,”
Eugene Police Officer Dale Dawson
said of the previous park. “A lot of
partying, breaking of park rules. ”
Dawson thinks the park could
work in its new configuration, but it
will take a big effort from the commu
nity to keep it safe, one students may
not be willing to make.
“It depends on the level of activity
of the people around it,” Dawson
said. “You’re trying to encourage peo
ple who are part-time residents to
work on a permanent problem. ”
Quinney would pay the city
$30,000 for the approximately 2,600
square feet he will gain in the swap.
The city plans on using the money to
install irrigated turf in the park but
has no plans for beyond that.
“We don’t have funding for any
thing at that site,” Robin Hostick of
the City of Eugene Parks Department
said. The city hopes to have the park
opened within two years of the com
pletion of Quinney’s project.
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purchase 50-cent tickets and use
them to play carnival-like games at
participating club booths outside
the EMU.
To pay for expenses, many groups
ask the Student Senate for incidental
fees, but the Senate always asks the
groups whether they have done
fundraising on their own, Watson
said. This will show whether they
have made an effort to raise money
on their own, he said.
Dirty Ducks Rugby Club Coordina
tor Kara Winek said her club will
have a kissing booth that sells kisses
for one ticket. The women’s rugby
club hopes to raise money for new
uniforms and traveling expenses.
The UO Fencing Club will have an
area set up for bouts where visitors
can use sabers to pop balloons at
tached to their opponents. Club Co
ordinator Joseph Leary said his club
has many new members and it needs
money to cover the cost of equip
ment, traveling and tournament
entry fees.
The United States Student Associ
ation, which advocates nationally for
University students and other college
students in the country, will be rais
ing money towards lobbying in
Washington, D.C. by letting students
throw darts at balloons for prizes,
ASUO Legislative Associate and elect
ed USSA Director Ashley Rees said.
Watson said he hopes this year’s
event will yield the ASUO a profit of
more than $10,000 from vendor
space rentals. The money it earns will
go to club programs and grants
throughout the year. Non-profit or
ganizations only reimburse the ASUO
for the booth costs, and vendors pay
the ASUO $75 to rent the space and
booth for all three days.
Vendors have complained about
bicyclists in the past, and The Depart
ment of Public Safety will issue a $20
fine to anyone riding his or her bike
inside the barricades this year. There
have already been several serious ac
cidents involving bikes on campus
during the last few months, Wats
on said.
There will be eight composting sta
tions and vendors have been instruct
ed to limit their disposable supplies
to materials that can be recycled
or composted.
“We want to make it a zero-waste
production,” Watson — who in addi
tion to being ASUO marketing direc
tor is an environmental studies
major — said.
The ASUO is still looking for vol
unteers to provide security and to
watch the composting sites to make
sure fair-goers use them properly,
Watson said.
This year, there will be 41 more
vendors than in the Spring Street Fair,
some of them offering handmade
products from all over the country
and world.
“One lady goes to Peru and buys
homemade wares from her tribe,”
Watson said. There will be imports
from Thailand, a metal sculptor from
Cortez, Colorado, fairy wings from
Washington and lots of food as well.
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