- (8) Improved communication
- (5) Spearhead the Middle
Fork Trail project-one of the last opportunities to develop a local trail while preserving/restoring a
pristine natural area
- (5) Get Asbury and Peosta
into the Comprehensive Plan
- (4)
- (3) We have an opportunity
to study economic benefit of trails, especially the Middle Fork Trail
Project.
- (3) We can become the
- (2) Promote benefits of
TSTV membership
- (2) Reframe TSTV in a
broader context—economic engine, fitness, green/sustainability
- (2) Find ripe, low-hanging
(easy) visible projects to get our name out there
- (2) Extend trail system to
S side of
- (2) Align with Safe Routes
to Schools
- (1) Align with the County
Health Plan’s focus on obesity, which emphasizes nutrition and physical
activity
- (1) Need to regularly
review progress on the Plan
- (1) We have an opportunity
to more actively and visibly support the Plan
- (1) We have an opportunity
to engage more members and interest by promoting the TSTV role in
completing the Bee Branch part of the Trail Plan
- (1) Reengage the
- (1)
- (1) Attend Smart Growth
public hearings
- (1) Develop an annual
signature fund/friendraising event (annual film festival?)
- (1) Untapped community
support
Art suggested the following:
Next steps:
Review this information with all board members, especially
for the benefit of those not at the earlier session.
Focus on the Top Opportunity list:
- Is anything really important missing?
- Do any of these overlap? (i.e., one is a subset of the other) If so, combine them without losing the essence of either one. (Caution: the tendency is to “glump” items into a broad, abstract goal. Better to have a list of discrete goals.)
- Some of these will translate into strategies for the care and feeding of the organization; others are strategies for actually accomplishing the mission of the organization, the TSTV “deliverable”. Maintain a balance.
- Do any of these need to be done in sequence (a true necessity, like needing to dig the basement before the concrete forms are set and before the concrete truck arrives—not just a desired, subjective preference.)
- Which of these will leverage others of these?
- Getting too long? Whittle it down a bit. What doesn’t seem as important now as it did earlier? What are we still doing that we really don’t have to anymore?
- State each one into a statement that includes an action word, something that’s measurable or at least you’ll know whether or not it’s completed. Words like “promote” or “support” aren’t good enough. Sometimes this level of detail needs to come in multiple action steps to accomplish a “support” or “promote” goal.
Then take each item, assign it a person, committee, or task
force, and also assign it a completion year, selected from the three-year
planning horizon. Try to even the work
up over three years.
My thinking is that we do need to address communication this year. But we also need to clarify our thinking and create vision and mission statements, as well as a short list of values, and then communicate these to our members. Based on comments made by Candace, we also need to form a Bike to Work Week Committee so that we distribute the work to more people. Please let me know what you think!
Thanks for setting this up Tony.
ReplyDeleteI was looking over the opportunities, and I think we could take a couple of actions that would potentially achieve multiple goals. For instance, we have listed opporunities as 1) go for low hanging fruit, 2) align ourselves with safe routes to school, 3) align ourselves with the County Health plan. I would imagine there has to be at least one overlap between the safe routes to school, the county health plan, and TSTV's plan. I suggest we look for overlaps, and reach out to them to try and implement (i.e. putting in bike infrastructure at a school, or along a common path to a school).