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| Goals |
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Visibility / "Bully Pulpit" / "Thought Leader": |
| 1. |
Increase visibility and recognition for
APA as an organization and its members. |
| 2. |
Support and strengthen local sections. |
| 3. |
Maintain response levels to state
legislation and increase influence in
initiating legislation. |
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Education / Training: |
| 1. |
Provide training for APA members and
encourage members to achieve AICP. |
| 2. |
Provide educational opportunities on
planning for planning students, elected
officials and the general public. |
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Oganization Building/Increase Revenue: |
| 1. |
Encourage links to National APA
and other professional organizations |
| 2. |
Increase the Chapter's income base
to reduce reliance on volunteers for
operations |
| 3. |
Respond to current events affecting
planning and increase APA's role as a
thought leader |
| 4. |
Expand number of state APA members |
| 5. |
Ensure communication with the membership
and provide opportunities for feedback on
Board activities. |
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| General Objectives |
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| 1. |
Support mandatory continuing education for
planners - goal #2 |
| 2. |
Program more and smaller gatherings so
more people can attend - goal #2 |
| 3. |
Foster increased citizen involvement in planning
activities - goal #3 |
| 4. |
Continue/increase relationship between APA
and PAW - goal #4 |
| 5. |
Make APA's voice as strong as AWC and
WACS - goal #6 |
| 6. |
Maintain strength of legislative Committee
(4) - goal #8 |
| 7. |
Develop new sources of revenue and profit
centers for better financial stability - goal #5 |
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Basic Actions Chapter Is Already Doing and
Should Do |
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| 1. |
Encourage APA members on speaking
engagements to mention APA |
| 2. |
Membership |
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A. |
Promote the availability of
"chapter only" memberships, especially for
other allied disciplines and neighborhood
groups |
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B. |
Encourage students to participate
in APA activities |
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C. |
Broaden APA membership through outreach
to include other fields involved in community
development (engineers, city administrators, etc.) |
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D. |
Provide "free trial" copy of
newsletters for other organizations and include applications
for chapter memberships |
| 3. |
Professional Development |
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A. |
Identify AICP credit levels
on all program announcements |
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B. |
Identify continuing education
credits for training provided by other organizations |
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C. |
Assist local sections in providing
local continuing education training so that
AICP credits can be obtained locally |
| 4. |
Continuing Education |
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A. |
Send flyers on events to mailing
lists from other professional organizations |
| 5. |
State Conference |
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A. |
Coordinate conference tracks with
other organizations, such as historic preservation,
transportation, etc |
| 6. |
General |
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A. |
Hold a joint APA/PAW Board meeting
to discuss ways to link the two organizations |
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| New Actions Under Board Direction |
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| 1. |
President |
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A. |
Define ways to use Estep Gray & Associates
more effectively |
| 2. |
Vice President |
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A. |
Develop a relationship with the press -
make an appointment with key press members
to get acquainted |
| 3. |
Secretary |
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A. |
Increase connections to the Planning
Director's conference and coordinate with them on
the Planner's Roundtable |
| 4. |
Continuing Education |
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A. |
Provide education to political
candidates and elected officials on planner's
activities and the planning process |
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B. |
Coordinate with other organizations
(AIA, etc.) on continuing education programs |
| 5. |
Legislative |
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A. |
Develop a seminar or guidelines for members
on when it is OK to advocate legislation |
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B. |
Publicize legislative activities |
| 6. |
Chapter Historian |
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A. |
Develop a history of the Chapter |
| 7. |
Webpage |
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A. |
Use Chapter web site to inform members
on training opportunities provided by other organizations
or agencies |
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B. |
Provide web page links with other organizations |
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C. |
Use Chapter website to announce continuing
education opportunities from other organizations |
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| Focus Areas for Action in 2002 |
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| 1. |
FOCUS: Visibility/"Thought
Leader"- Jill Sterrett, Mark Personius,
& Mary Lynn Evans |
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A. |
Develop white
papers on topics related to proposed
legislation |
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B. |
Hold a "Planner's Roundtable" on major
issues (such as GMA at 10 years) leading to a white paper
for publication |
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C. |
Establish follow-up forums to educate APA
members on "white paper" topics developed by
the Round Table |
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D. |
Develop Chapter positions on issues to be
released to press |
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E. |
Post5 "white paper" on APA web page |
| 2. |
FOCUS: Changes in State
Conference and Training - Deborah Monkberg |
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A. |
Provide training for members on organizational
and management skills (personnel, budgeting, etc.) |
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B. |
Provide a workshop for planners
on working with the press |
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C. |
Offer more continuing education seminars/classes |
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D. |
Educate planners and planning departments
in management techniques |
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E. |
Continue support for the Planning Law
Conference (planned for 15 to 18 month schedule) |
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F. |
Re-institute the auction at the State conference |
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| Actions For Sections To Undertake |
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| 1. |
Send letters to elected officials and Planning
Directors on suggested APA speakers |
| 2. |
Market Brown Bag presentations to other organizations,
such as Fire Marshals, City Managers, etc |
| 3. |
Use speakers at planning "Brown Bag" presentations to
present to other organization or to
Planning Commissioners |
| 4. |
Provide presentation on APA at student
orientation at EWU, Western WA, and UW. |
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| Desired Actions Which Need An
Individual Or Group Champion To Undertake |
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| 1. |
Coordinate with EDC of Snohomish County on their
"good development" tour |
| 2. |
Establish a State APA Speaker's Bureau |
| 3. |
Provide outreach program on planning for
local elementary and high schools |
| 4. |
Coordinate with Bellevue Community College's
program on non-traditional roles for women to
talk about planning careers |
| 5. |
Develop training sessions for pay from other groups,
such as developers, builders on topics such as mediation
of natural resource issues, public powers & eminent domain |
| 6. |
Provide programs addressing current events affecting
planning and establish links to other organizations,
and possible workshop, on Homeless issues. |
| 7. |
Sponsorship Committee (New) |
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A. |
Increase outside agency
support of the Annual State conference |
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B. |
Promote sponsorships of events by private firms |
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C. |
Research ideas from other APA chapters to
identify income producing programs |
Washington Chapter of the American Planning Association
