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DEC16061. P age y <br /> 2. Wethead Communication With Other Groups: <br /> Improve communication with elected officials, particularly new city manager and new city councilors. <br /> Improve communication with Nathanson, Torrey and Sorenson. <br /> Organize orientation for newly elected officials; Formalize communication more with elected officials; such <br /> as with regular updates. <br /> Improve ways of communicating and connecting with WET; improve understanding of wetheads' <br /> relationship to WET; reexamine WET's authority and their responsibilities. <br /> Improve TAC's function in implementation stage; how make TAC allies? Should their meeting be <br /> more structured? Should minutes be taken? <br /> Improve community outreach: Link activities to broader community; add community outreach as a <br /> work program item; organize outreach better. <br /> Strategize on way to deal with media miscommunications. <br /> Investigate an Information Resource matrix that could be tied in with Salem's Technology Transfer. <br /> Strategize ways to influence local governments; federal success should be basis for promoting <br /> program locally <br /> Decide if want to promote Willow Creek Refinement Plan update. <br /> Orient new PIC staff to WEW plan and mitigation bank. <br /> Put Lew Bowers on distribution list? <br /> 3. WORK PLANNING TOPICS: <br /> PLANNING <br /> Mechanism for tracking? All these efforts impact on WEW <br /> Re- examine past planning decisions? E.g., local permitting implications for approval order. Need to <br /> renegotiate approval order. Three things we said we would do (and haven't done yet): <br /> County adoption of setbacks <br /> Rezoning to NR district (lands acquired) <br /> Amending Metro Plan to show all sites as NR <br /> Question on Growth Mgmt Study - will they decide to expand UGB or not? <br /> NR Study part of stormwater study - 60 sites citywide that needed assessment - got about 20 sites ( ?) <br /> Neil wants to ID most important aspects of planning, address as unified front. Basin plans advisory - <br /> Basin Plan could include recommendations for updating refinement plan. <br /> Stream buffer - citywide, stream setbacks with teeth - priority <br /> Metro Plan amendments - 3 jurisdictions - application of NR - could wait a year. <br /> Local Permitting - need to look at soon, DSL /Corps process strategize play into this <br /> Strategic Planning (including WET /Wetheads relationship - High priority (more staff level) part of this - i.d. <br /> update Willow Creek Refinement Plan. <br /> Know priorities to take advantage of funding. <br /> Basin plan will provide lots of info on Willow Creek R.P.; Basin plan bases for developing development <br /> standards. <br /> Need good faith effort on setbacks outside city limits - May be better accomplished from stormwater <br /> platform. <br />