Below are the results of the questionnaire that the Advisory Group members filled out over the last two weeks. It is in PDF form and shows just the answers, no detailed analysis. The group will discuss at the September 30th meeting.
Questionnaire Results 9.30

Advisory Group Mtg Jan 13
Above is the agenda for the final Advisory Group meeting on January 13th. Draft material will be posted here next week.

I want to first summarize the assumptions I left the meeting with and then update the group on the status.
The questionnaire results seem to say that overwhelmingly people would like more interaction with the website, and then from the discussion, it narrowed down the focus to specifically people want more interaction with the boards and [...]

Below are draft versions of the Goals and Policies and also the Implementation Actions pages that will be included in the final Citizen Participation Plan. Please make comments on this site if you have them. The full draft plan will be posted here in a few weeks.
Draft Goals and Policies 12.1.09
Draft Implementation Actions 12.16.09

Below is the first draft of the Citizen Participation Plan and Action Plan. This draft was discussed at the final Citizen Advisory Committee meeting on January 13th and suggestions were given to staff for the next draft. Staff is intending this plan to be completed by around the first of February to be posted for [...]

Existing Communication Efforts:

City Website
Email/List-serves
Social Networking Sites
Ch. 10
City Reporter
Other Newsletters/Mailings
Phone Messages
Citizen Surveys         
Neighborhood Events
Town Halls/Public Meetings
Boards/Commissions
Public Notice (mailed, posted, published)
Citations (and information about)
Task Forces/Steering Committees

Citizens Academy

 
 
Ways to Improve Existing Efforts:

Expand and streamline/simplify City Website

Increase content in newsletter/Use utility billing as increased tool
Use Survey Monkey to increase survey usage
Pool city-wide email addresses/citizen contact info for task forces/steering committees/working [...]

Below is language cobbled together from a few different cities into a format that made sense.  What’s listed below is just to get a sense of how the larger goals and policies might be structured in our plan.  Obviously, we will want more direct actions based on some of the things we know we want to [...]

 
The Advisory Group Meeting for November 11, 2009 is posted below.
Advisory Group Meeting Agenda Nov 11
 
Staff has drawn up a draft few goals/objectives for discussion at the meeting. Following this meeting, staff will take the direction of the group to continue to refine the major principles, plan the December 9th public meeting and work on [...]