Planning Committee

Hismen Hinnu
Meeting Notes
July 3, 2003

Announcements

• SACDC part of housing training program through DTI
• SACDC part of LISC Commercial District Improvement Network
• Lao Family had youth conference last Friday. Ninety to 100 youth showed up. Multiple themes
• Land Trust—has an MoU with city. Hired consultant. Putting together RFQ for nonprofits

Updates

Housing

• Moving forward with IURD report to map potential sites for housing development and interviewing developers to see criteria for doing development in LSA. Report done in fall

23rd Avenue

• Urban Ecology working on report
• PolicyLink has technical assistance contract with AECF. Will talk to us at next meeting
• Meetings about staff person to implement various collaborative projects. Idea is that group presents recommendations on how position could be staffed. Options first go to 23rd Avenue and housing work groups for comments. Then goes to planning committee for approval
• Street tree planting has begun

Newspaper

• June issue is out. But not distributed to LSA members yet. Next issue in August. Introduced youth section. Working with Tamara Sturch’s students at Roosevelt. Deadline for August = third Friday of July. Getting ready to do another community outreach effort to recruit residents

MCMOI

• July 13 MCMOI film festival. Will highlight projects underway. Question: How to match media pipeline with collaborative goals
• ESAA and Native American Health are producing two 30-second spots on race as part of Race Matters. Black Dot did series of discussions to plan spot. Will do thirty-second spot and use in other venues
• September Sunday salon will premiere youth spots. Will also have Matters of Race producer there
• Don would like article for newspaper
• Had a preliminary discussion on re-entry to begin planning around re-entry series
• If planning committee members can’t attend July 13 event, should set aside time at a planning meeting to show films to group and figure out how to integrate into work

FES

• Group has rough work plan
• Three-part action plan
  • Listening campaign
  • Survey
  • Provider summit
• Will result in larger summit in late fall with residents, providers, policy people talking to each other
• Created survey working group
• Will develop a timeline and share with planning committee—plan to involve larger collaborative

Cross-Site Survey

• Don concerned that communication hasn’t occurred and decision being made without consultation
• Karen available to work on text of brochure
• Jennie needs to know timeline re recruitment

Casey Update

• Just completed midyear review. Four sections to report:
  1. Describe process for results work and timeline around developing baselines and targets
  2. Describe results and indicators already underway. Fred will bring report to August meeting
  3. Core capacities
  4. Different aspects of initiative infrastructure, LLP, diarist, communication
• Open comment

Targets & Baselines

• Expectation that work would be concluded by end of year
  • Look at indicators
  • Are they measurable
  • Getting baseline data
  • Developing targets
• Look at city, region, county as target “close-the-gap strategy.” How to get school performance in LSA up to par with city, county, or region
• Phase Two celebration now has become Making Connections reception opportunity to present outcomes to broader community

Core Capacities

1. Broadly shared vision anchored by results and vision for children and families
2. Growing constituency of residents engaged
3. Within and across sector strategies
4. Public systems and service providers modify work
5. Develop and sustain strong data and info systems
6. Sites have necessary infrastructure to sustain neighborhood transformation process

Revised Outcomes

• Do people have ideas about how to present outcomes
  • Could do some interesting graphic depiction of outcomes
  • Need to think about depicting outcomes in different ways for different audiences
• Need to decide when we revisit priorities and how we revise list
• AECF outcomes not likely to change over ten years. How LSA priorities to work should be flexible. Need periodic review and adjustment. Hope it’s all fluid and we can adapt to changing circumstances
• Will need to set aside time to discuss staffing structures