The other subscribers to vision2020 should know that we have been talking
(in the old fashioned, primitive, face to face manner) about using this
listserver to prioritize the list of goals.
Last year, after the "laundry list" of goals was produced by the city staff
(senior staff I presume?) and Council, that list was broken down into four
lists:
1.) Programs
2.) Projects
3.) Policies
4.) Reduce or Eliminate
And then the entries in those lists were separately prioritized by the City
Council. The method of ranking was that each Council member got to vote a
10 for her most important goal, 9 for the next most important, 8 for the
next... The total "score" for each goal was then the sum of the votes of
the council members.
The process of the division into four lists seems kind of arbitrary. Is a
"project" something that has a definite ending date? A program is
something more ongoing? A policy is then what?
I'll bet you want to know what the goals of 1994 were. OK, in order of
priority they were:
1.) Programs
1. Multi-Year Capital Improvements Plan
2. Transportation Plan
3. Urban Forestry Program
4. Volume Based Billing
5. Dedicated Parking Fund
2.) Projects
1. Linear Park Plan
2. Improve Arterials
3. Traffic Signals
4. Upgrade Play Fields and Parks
3.) Policies & Ordinances
1. Water Issues
2. Subdivision Standards Review
3. Policy on Bikes Downtown
4. Discretionary Fund Allocation
5. Index Property Tax to CPI
6. Revise the Personnel Manual
7. Erosion Control Ordinance
4.) Reduce or Eliminate
1. Increase Private Contracting
2. Street Financing/Franchise Fee
3. Hiring Freeze Approval Process
4. Salary Study
5. Televised Council Meetings
Kinda criptic isn't it? They had something in mind, I'm sure.
Anyhow, back to our listserver group. Maybe we could do a prioritization
of the list that Pam has presented. But, the 10, 9, 8, 7.... voting scheme
is pretty complicated. Plus, who is going to break it up into Projects,
Policies, Programs and Reduce? More importantly, who is going to do the
scoring?
So, we settled on a simpler plan. I will mail around the whole big list
again. Everyone can vote for three goals with the virtual sticky dot, the
astirisk *. Mail your answer back to pcei@moscow.com (for private voting)
or to vision2020@moscow.com (for public voting).
Does that sound fair?
Thanks
Fritz
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute "Increasing citizen involvement
P O Box 8596; 112 West 4th St; Suite #1 in decisions that affect our
Moscow ID 83843-1096 region's environment."
Phone (208)882-1444 Fax (208)882-8029
e-mail pcei@moscow.com
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