Collaborative Process for Creating a Common Framework of Indicators for Community Planning, Decision Making and Reporting
What is a comprehensive way of describing a place–in a comprehensive way?
Part of the process of a common set of indicators is understanding the framework.
Really don't want a data monster where communities have to collect and understand.
What are carbon emissions from a region and what are the carbon offsets being done by communities so that communities can start making some really?
Weybridge VT–looking at older building, should older building be moved? If we move the building what should we be looking at, what should we understand as the impacts?
Benefits of local indicators formed and brought forth by local citizens.
How to merge with a consistent attributes of place that are measured?
How to collect data that understands transportation?
Community Indicators:
How–start with a set of principles, based upon Smart Growth–workshop have a list of proposed indicators listed under principles–give the list under principles–explain the rational behind the principles–things that can be measured on a community level-list grows in the workshop then people vote on their favorites. Problem is that people will then have to vote.
Point of indicators is to inform the planning and charrette team rather than informing the community as a whole.
Instead–how to use indicators as a way to measure and understand where the community is now? This needs to be reported out and transparent.
Perhaps one of the starting points is a database of indicators and where they are getting their data–framework that inspires and informs.
Needs to be a framework and area that is started.
Indicators both as content and in collaboration with process and content.
Tammie - How to use indicators on a visioning plan–the vision is the overall compass point of where community wants to go–indicators can be the coordinates to understand if we're on the right track or still drifting in the wrong direction–gives the ability to review on an annual basis and refresh the vision.
What is the framework–indicators–what are the pieces that go within a community plan quarterly one pager indicator report–measures on injury look also at local and how it fits into a regional perspective.
How to measure someone who cares?
Care about what? Children, Community, Environment?–relates back to place–government education, walking distance, biodiversity…
Tammie - How to have a set of 10-12 indicators spread from Econ to Social to Environment to Civic that communities could share from 200 to 200,00 people based upon data that is easy to find/share.
Smart Growth BC
Ideas of funding from the province be tied into a set of indicators–regions achieve some type of standardization–each region can administrate–federal or provincial responsibility to track those indicators.
Maureen - Common framework that those who start to participate–need both the passion and responsibility–for communities would need both the desire and responsibility to be a part of this.
Is regional general and then local takes special pieces.
Needs to be an educational level of what they do.
Common sets? State of New Hampshire starting to collect baseline data–measure walking distance from the center of town–how to measure from the center if not there?
Steven Ames - Need to have a vision of where you want to go and a plan of how to get there–Oregon statewide system yet often not making the connection to the indicators–benchmarks community vision for Hillsborough–often seems as a whole other effort that 100 benchmarks in Oregon.
Oregon is the best practice–Oregon Progress Report–even in a state that is well-positioned to do this.
Portland Multnomah Progress Report–has been tied to a visioning effort from the past.
Vision PDX is not yet done be the intent is to connect it to the existing benchmarks–if the vision shifts the indicators may not be shifting–visions different today from 10 years ago–how does local planning address plumbing issues context is shifting and Hillsborough the strategic action plan is the measurement tool–each lead partner is tracked–haven't transformed this into the overall health of the community.
Few communities are utilizing the full spectrum, Santa Monica CA has done this–first in 94 then an update in 2004–reviewed yet on a regular b asis reporting what was being done.
Cities Wyndham Victoria Australia have a system with community household panel vision, plan, goals, strategic context, household panel is a group of 100-200 people that have been selected to represent “empaneled” them to check in how the progress is going. Councils are reported to regularly–more generalizing, on-going sentiment that eyes are hoping–getting feedback and using this on public perceptions on how this is going Ask very specific questions about how the indicators are doing–report card for councils on how this is working.
What if this was issued online for a complete wisdom of crowds to compare and contrast with this empaneled group.
Victoria has a website with whole state of Victoria with measurements for a whole number of
How to measure someone who cares?
Action plan:
Smart Growth BC - Ideas of funding from the province be tied into a set of indicators–regions achieve some type of standardization–each region can administrate–federal or provincial responsibility to track those indicators: