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2C: \Documents and Settings \cewmjrm \Local Settings \Temporary Internet Files \OLKE8 \JMStrawPollExercise Apri107.xls <br />TOPIC <br />PRIORITY <br />STAFF <br />STRATEGIC ISSUE - 10 -YEAR <br />CATEGORY <br />POINTS <br />Redefine services the program (Urban Forestry) provides to fit within the confines of the <br />Program Services <br />resources (better defined) available. Emphasize the most important service delivery <br />(Workload and <br />Foerstler <br />priorities. <br />Prioritization <br />Improve communication with elected officials. I may be naive, but I can't help but think that <br />if we had better communication with the City Council, they would have a better <br />Education about Job <br />understanding of the issues that effect our service delivery, and therefore be better <br />Duties and <br />advocates for our work. The current standard avenue for communication is through <br />Procedures <br />communications (such as an AIS or a Council Memo) or in the formal setting of a City <br />Council Meeting. I believe that more informal meetings that fostered dialogue would not <br />Weiss <br />only result in a better informed Council, but in better relations between Council and Staff. <br />The birth of email has created an increasing demand for up -to -date information, larger <br />numbers of people who need to be "in the loop," a possible new addiction to communicating, <br />Time Management <br />and a never ending list of "stuff' that needs to be read, responded to, forwarded, saved for <br />and <br />I <br />future, deleted, then redeleted from the deleted. In this new world there seems to be an <br />Overcommunication <br />exponential increase in the number of committees (and meetings), less time to really think <br />things through, and more and more time spent managing an endless number of emails. <br />Darnell <br />Our ability to influence private land as it relates to recreation and natural resource <br />management is not well developed with private partners, limiting our success at acquisition <br />and limiting our ability to be creative when planning recreation and habitat management. <br />Private Partnerships <br />We would benefit from improved partnerships with private property owners through <br />Taylor <br />expanded influence over recreation access and natural resource management. <br />Extending our service requests to the public. What I mean is having a service request that <br />the public can fill out online via internet. The online service request would ask all the <br />Public Service <br />pertinent information; we could review before submitting to the service request program <br />Request System <br />referenced above. This would save us time as we receive a lot of emails that do not include <br />all the pertinent information and we would not need to re -enter information that the public <br />LeGat <br />already typed via email. <br />