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Directed Field Experience Portfolio
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| Beacon Rock, Columbia River Gorge - Photo by Peter Marbach |
Pieter C. Kleymeer
Columbia River Gorge Commission [Web site]
White Salmon, WA,
WA
USA
Summer
2007
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The Columbia River Gorge Commission was established in 1987 to develop and implement policies and programs that protect and enhance the scenic, natural, cultural and recreational resources of the Gorge, while encouraging growth within existing urban areas of the Gorge and allowing development outside urban areas consistent with resource protection.
Project Objectives
- Analyze and summarize community information gathered through individual or group meetings. This deliverable will be based on information from meetings conducted by the intern and staff to uncover public opinion and observation of Commission policy-making as well as environmental and economic measurements related to policy decisions.
- Create a community engagement plan of action to develop a set of shared policy performance indicators that are used to evaluate and direct Commission decisions vis a vis the Scenic Act and the Management Plan.
- Devise or use a methodology that will be utilized for the indicators project in determining and weighting indicators, using reliable sources, and discussing assumptions.
- Develop an initial array of indicators that could be used as a basis for conversation with Commissioners, staff, and stakeholders in prioritizing work for the next 18 months.
- Develop a basic work plan for staff, Commissioners, and stakeholders to achieve the first set of indicators by July of 2008.
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Learning Objectives
- Understand critical factors of performance measurement of public policy and apply those to a current policy issue.
- Learn best practices for engaging a polarized community in public policy decisions and for measuring the performance of those decisions.
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Project Outcomes
The project is currently preparing for its first set of technical advisory team meetings to establish an initial set of indicators measuring the status of and change in the health of the Columbia River Gorge.
Also, towards the end of this month the Gorge Commission will bring a large, diverse group of interested community members together to discuss the public's view of the future of the Columbia River Gorge. This event will kick off a community advisory team that will help vet the indicators developed by the technical team.
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