Metro Committee for Citizen Involvement Retreat Notes

Tony Roma’s, 718 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland

April 21, 2004, 5 p.m.

Members Present:  Elizabeth Tucker (Chair), Norm Andreen, Dresden Skees Gregory, Kathy Henton, Dick Jones, Moji Momeni, Darren Pennington, Chris Roth, Ed Ruttledge, Kate Schiele, Scott Seibert, Don Warner, Skip White

Members Absent:  Jim Kimball

Also Present:    Lori Waldo, past member, J.C. Kizak, David Bikman, prospective members, Kate Marx, Director, Public Affairs and Government Relations, Cheryl Grant, Gina Whitehill-Baziuk, Office of Citizen Involvement

1)  Summit

 -how do you get regional pi standards

 -how do we network w/pi partners @ local level

2)  Best practices for c.i.

3)  Lead agency funding issues

4)  Hand outs

 -how do we get standing?

 -what does Metro do?

 -how to testify effectively

 -how to get involved?

5)  Committee selection process

6)  What kind of issues do people really care about? motivators?

 What are the motivators to get involved?

7)  How do we motivate people to get involved early on?

8)  What can be done to engage the state in improved citizen involvement?

9)  PSU center for p.i. – link

10)  (DB) Educating elected officials about c.i. standards, principles

11)  (DJ) Analytical tools used in discussing proposed actions with citizens be  complete, accurate

12)  (KS) Design proposal learning (workshop, open house) at scales that match the audience

(13)  (LW) Summit goal

 elevate citizens to design a process; clear slate with how to define what you want

 to accomplish

(ER) Summit goal: Citizens have an awareness of Metro’s role in the region and how it impacts neighborhoods, at the neighborhood scale.

(DSG) Network: MCCI create the webbing w/other jurisdictions/citizens before a proposed action from Metro occurs:

MCCI peers w/other citizens

(DP) Take perspective of the citizen – processes need to be readily available

(MM) Connecting with the affected communities (county level) not to push an agenda but to convene the conversation. “Big Picture”

Better defining MCCI member roles in the community.

(DJ) Assist citizens in developing tools to create a successful public involvement process for an issue, knowledge of process, range of solutions so people don’t end defeated.

(NA) Reaching out beyond the Metro boundary, triage (DP)

“Community Stepping Stone”

•  Networked w/have access respected intel/influential decision makers

•  elected officials

•  citizens

•  gov’t staff

•  non-gov’t “key” people

•  organizations already org.

Empowered to act

•  System tools

to motivate involvement

•  Develop standards of public inv. that are recognized by all the local jueisdictions (look at fed. transit rules as a place to start)

•  Stepping stone to next level

Summit

What are the

•  constraints

•  opportunities

MCCI

 *cross regional