The West University Neighbors will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at
Central Presbyterian Church at
the corner of 15th Avenue and Patterson Street to discuss, among other things, the removal of trees in
the neighborhood, the need to reopen the neighborhood park and
the recent passing of enforceable housing standards by the Eugene City Council.
Newly elected board members Adam Walsh, Kellyn Gross and
Don Goldman met with chairman Drix Rixmann, board secretary Deborah Healy and Eugene Neighborhood Liaison Steve Norris Wednesday night to verse themselves
in the association’s rules and
proceedings and set the agenda for
tonight’s meeting.
Board members Steve Jarvis, Chris Parsons, Craig Laupheimer and Ayal Alves could not attend.
“You’re now making a change from ‘you and I’ to a ‘them,’” Rixmann told the new board members. “You’re a ‘them’ now.”
Norris told the board members that neighborhood associations have the ability to be powerful forces in city politics.
“Neighborhood associations are not just a place to air grievances,” Norris said. “You can really get a lot accomplished.”
Walsh said it is crucial to the
association’s success that students get involved.
If more students get involved, “we can have one of the more powerful associations in the city,” Walsh said.

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