Michelle Parkins Email & Phone Number

All things support and management to fulfill the Public Space Team’s (PST) mission is to provide structured support for responding to the community needs and asks around homelessness in the community. This mission will be successful by doing this with cohesiveness, to perform with patience, compassion, and empathy safely and efficiently, provide clean public spaces with the safety and welfare of the community as our primary focus. Support for the unhoused leads to improved outcomes for the individual and the community. PST’s mission is driven by various federal, start, and local requirements including park rules.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Support and oversee stormwater maintenance activities in the public right-of-way such as homelessness, street sweeping, debris and vegetation management, storm response and other related activities.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Coordinate volunteer opportunities for maintaining trails, removing invasive plants, care for community gardens, spruce up playgrounds, plant natives, interact directly with park guests as a tour guide or docent – and so much more. Coordinate volunteer options for going out, getting dirty and giving back are as interesting as you are. Join our outstanding team of volunteers and staff coordinators. Learn new skills, meet awesome people, and improve the quality-of-life in Eugene.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Interpretation of City of Eugene Vegetation Code Requirements and notifying the party responsible to mitigate the violation to keep the community safeUrban Forestry Plan Review; love our TREESISA Certified Arborist, Municipal Specialist and Tree Risk Assessor

Eugene, Oregon

Assist in building relationships and connections between military veterans and the adaptive recreation opprutunities provided by the City of Eugene's Adaptivie Recreation Department. Services are designed to promote and maintain health and well-being, enhance quality of life, strengthen support networks and recognize individual desires to remain active, productive and independent.

Various Locations Around Eugene/Springfield, Or

Design, Maintenance, Installation of garden settings in home/work environments

Design residential landscape designs including: planting plans, hard and soft-­‐scapes.Complete landscape maintenance requests and needs for residential and businesses clients, including, pruning, mowing, edging, leaf removal, pond cleaning, and plant installation

Reviewed, interpreted and delineated construction documents for landscape installation including details of rain gardens, irrigation, large rocks (1000+lbs), trees and other plants for installation at University of Oregon’s Lewis Integrated ScienceBuildingResearch and provided plant substitutions as needed

Eugene, Oregon

Master's Thesis in Landscape Architecture: "Soft Touch For A Silent Voice -- Creating Outdoor Healing Environments for Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)"

Eugene, Oregon Area

Assist the full time crewmembers with maintaining the developed parks’ landscapedareas, turf, irrigation systems, sports fields, create and plant annual and perennialplant designs.• Examples of duties include: plant installation, weeding, fertilizing, mowing, edging,blowing, fertilizing, aerating, sprinkler adjustments and minor repairs, sports fields’layout and marking, garbage and litter patrol. Assist with collection of leaves in thefall for use on private and city properties for compositing.• Equipment used: Toro 4000 mower, Steiner mower (deck or blower attached), and John Deer tractors with attachments: aerators, slicers and fertilizers spreader. Otherequipment: edger, backpack blowers, weed eaters, power pruner’s and1‐ton lefttrucks

• Granted a Secret Clearance from the Department of Defense• Contributed to the safe navigation of the USS Abraham Lincoln• Spotted, identified and tracked friend and enemy aircraft, ships and submarines using Global Positioning Systems, charts and graphs• Assistant for Divisional Training of 100 personnel • Organized and maintained personnel files for 180 sailors• Coordinated daily updating and filing of various military reports• Performed operation, maintenance and cleanliness of the Mk-7 Mod 3 arresting gear (used to land aircraft) and associated equipment.• Supervised and Trained compliance of Navy Safety Regulations• Assisted in the supervision and enforcement of safety regulations for a division of 500 personnel

Mla, Landscape Architecture

B.S., Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences