So with that, we just wanted to share how we’re approaching public participation, particularly after we’ve been doing this IAP2 training and really clarifying, I think, how we can talk about it. We’re not making a promise that their input will result in revisions at that stage with the decision making. People will be able to come and express their concerns in the normal public comment forum, but we’re not going to respond to their feedback again, which is why we say we’re consulting with them. The last big milestone, which is decision-making for MovingAhead, that’s where the consult level is. We published our alternatives analysis in the fall and started a process that required us to do actually a couple of involve -type activities. Staff were back in the office doing a lot more technical work, but we were still out in the community doing a lot of information sharing. We started with what the community wanted. And we took it back to the engineers and the planning team and we made that a reality. We started out wanting to talk with the community about potential investments on five different corridors, in Eugene specifically, and we said, well, we should really let the community design those corridors, and we let people build what they think the roadway should look like. Andrew Martin (Transit Planner): MovingAhead is a really good example because we’ve done a lot of different types of public participation. There’s no real specific example of LTD of empower level of participation. The promise to the public is that we will implement what you decide. Jeramy Card: The goal of empower is to place the decision-making power in the hands of the public. The public doesn’t have a lot of input to give on that. We decide where the buses go, how we can operate them safely. IAP2 believes that providing information is the foundation for public participation, and some of the examples from LTD on, the informed level of engagement are things like sending out snow and ice communication. The promise to the public is that we will keep you informed. The goal is to provide information to the public to help them understand the problem or project at hand. Jeramy Card: Inform is the first level of participation. It’s all about the quality of that engagement, how you’re conducting it and staying true to that promise to the public, with each of those levels. Each level has a variety of tools to interact with the public and getting input. Moving higher on the level of engagement does not mean more meetings or more flyers or talking to more people. The higher the level of engagement, the more decision-making power you’re giving to the public. As you move to the right along the matrix, the level of public participation, or the level of impact that the public has on the decision, increases. And each one has a promise to the public and makes it clear how you’re going to engage the public and what you were going to do with their feedback. Each level has a specific goal for public participation. These levels are inform, consult, involve, collaborate, and empower. It guides the decision-making bodies to determine what level of public participation is going to be used for a given project or process. so IAP2 has a spectrum of public involvement. Jeramy Card (Associate Service Planner): The IAP2 is the international association for public participation. And in addition you may have heard reference to the International Association of Public Participation or IAP2, and as we’ve looked in it into it, we are going to be using the IAP2 framework as a foundation for the development of our public engagement plans moving forward. That goal has been in place for several decades and has driven a lot of the public involvement that you see in particular from Eugene, Springfield, Lane County, but also, to be consistent with what they do, we are looking at that. And the number one goal is to develop a citizen involvement program that ensures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. Thomas Schwetz (Director of Planning and Development): The State of Oregon has really strong land use planning goals. LTD staff presented a public engagement framework at the Nov.
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