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CPO 8 and Community Engagement Today

CPO 8 December 14, 2017

Countywide CPO Program

CPO 8 & County Demographics

• Title VI – Federal Civil Rights Act
• Existing Maps: Age, Race, Poverty,

Languages

• What’s Next

– Developing the first Washington County Limited English Assistance Plan – Civic Leadership and Capacity Building pilot project focusing on historically under-represented communities in the County

County Population

County Population

Community Engagement Program Goal

Provide opportunity to all Washington County community members to participate in decisions that may affect their lives.

Community Engagement Program

Where we (the program) started Where we are Where we’re going

Transition Planning Team Recommendations

Abbreviated

• Retain CPO program
• Create new committee to evaluate PI
• Create standards to acknowledge and engage communities
• f interest and identity
• Work with other jurisdictions
• Create a digital toolkit
• Determine best staffing model
• Options to respond to community questions

Transition Planning Team Recommendations

Abbreviated

• Retain CPO program – underway and ongoing
• Create new committee to evaluate PI
• Create standards to acknowledge and engage communities
• f interest and identity - underway
• Work with other jurisdictions - underway
• Create a digital toolkit - underway
• Determine best staffing model – completed
• Options to respond to community questions

CPO Program

5 10 15 20 25 30 CPO 1 CPO 3 CPO 4B CPO 4K CPO 4M CPO 6 CPO 7 CPO 8 CPO 10 CPO 12C CPO 13 CPO 15 2015 2016 2017

Attendance Averages – June 2017

CPO Program

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 YTD

(July - Oct)

CPO Meeting Attendance Totals

CPO Program

Committee for Community Involvement (CCI) created subcommittees to better address specific topics Staff supported 94 CPO meetings and 22 CCI/CCI Steering Committee meetings last fiscal year and is on track for similar support in the current year. Subscriptions are currently: 7,029 postal and 4,576 email

CPO Program

Transportation and Transportation Futures Study Land Use Ordinances, LUT Annual Work Plan Health, Emergency Preparedness, Livability Woodstove Replacements (and Air Quality) Schools

CPO Program

Communities of Interest & Identity

• Start with building capacity
• Pilot a first year program

Key goals:

• Enhance leadership skills within communities of

color

• Provide understandings of government

structures, rights to participate, and how to get involved

Communities of Interest & Identity

Leadership and Capacity-building Training

Washington County Community Engagement Program

&

Inter-jurisdictional Coordination

Digital Toolkit

County Department-wide Assessment of Social Media and Online Engagement Efforts

Data as of June, 2017

Digital Toolkit

Digital Toolkit

Project Basis Interest Basis On-going Basis

 MetroQuest  Accela  ESRI ArcGIS  Survey Monkey Social Pinpoint  Bang the Table  Place Speak  Healthy Democracy  West Side Voices Opt In Public Agenda Turning Technologies  Granicus - GovDelivery  Collective Innovation  Mobile Commons  NextDoor

Community Engagement Program

Community Engagement Program

Making safe spaces Public Involvement Plans – Providing support, scalability Language as a proxy

In Summary

We are in the process of creating a program to increase engagement capacity of our historically under represented communities. We’re over a year into the program and are addressing many of the Transition Team’s recommendations. We continue to support the CPO program as a valuable part of the County’s overall public involvement efforts. And we will continue our efforts to identify, select, and implement new tools to enhance community engagement. We remain on the lookout for best practices to support staff across the county in an effort to expand involvement.