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2007 <br />Progress Priority Action Related Neighborhood Services <br />Indicator Ranking Item # Action Item Title (abbreviated) Update Highlights Assessment Recommendations <br /> 19 B1 Enhance communications ?? <br /> The NEI process continues to be an excellent venue for enhancing Partner with neighborhood associations <br />City-neighborhood communication by bringing together neighborhood to host online surveys. <br />? <br />leaders and representatives. <br /> Streamline production/distribution of <br />? <br /> Neighborhood Services is making a concerted effort to coordinate neighborhood newsletters. <br />? <br />sharing of information from other programs of the City with <br /> Establish a neighborhood liaison <br />neighborhoods. One example is the web-based weekly leader packet. <br />program. <br />Each week, staff gathers information from the City’s Public Information <br />? <br /> Establish community partnership <br />Team and notifies all NAs via email, with a link to the packet. <br />program. <br />Examples of the information available include Council, board and <br />commission agendas and meeting notices, neighborhood <br />newsletters/postcards, media releases, and opportunities for <br />participation and involvement. The Neighborly News, a City news <br />digest, is an important component of the packet and provides <br />information in an easy to read, organized format. <br />? <br /> See Highlights under Action Item #6. <br /> 20 2 Public Involvement tools should ?? <br /> The Equity and Human Rights Board's Communication/Engagement Re-evaluate and enhance the City’s <br />engage more people <br />Resource Group is tasked with facilitating implementation of Goal 5 of existing values and operating principles <br />the Diversity and Equity Strategic Plan (DESP): Communicate and to improve public involvement processes. <br />? <br />engage openly, respectfully and effectively with the community. The <br /> Coordinate minority outreach with <br />group is addressing action items that will assess the effectiveness of <br />partners including Equity & Human Rights <br />the City's public engagement processes and structure and develop <br />staff and Human Rights Commission. <br />City-wide guidelines on culturally competent public outreach. <br /> 21 9 Divide the larger neighborhood ?? <br /> Neighborhood Services Assessment recommended to review/consider Review/consider revising City’s policy on <br />associations into smaller ones <br />revising the City’s guidelines regulating the size of neighborhood regulating the size of neighborhood <br />associations. Currently, six neighborhood associations s exceed the associations. <br />adopted guidelines for neighborhood size (approximately 5,000 <br />households, max.) adopted in 2000. Neighborhood Services staff has <br />entered into informal discussions with neighborhood leaders on the <br />challenges of addressing this issue. A more formal process involving <br />the NLC, the largest neighborhoods and relevant City Councilors will <br />begin in 2010. <br /> 22 B3 Change existing structure ?? <br /> Although the consultant recommended formal recognition of the NLC, Formally recognize the NLC <br />(establish Neighborhood <br />? <br />the implementation team modified this recommendation to focus on <br /> Review/consider updating the <br />Commission, formal recognition of <br />clarifying the role of the NLC in relation to neighborhood associations, <br />neighborhood organization recognition <br />NLC, etc.) <br />the community and the City organization, which may include formal <br />policy. <br />recognition by the City Council. Neighborhood Services is working <br />with the current NLC Co-chairs to draft a memo that will help clarify <br /> <br />the composition, role and relationship of the NLC to the City. <br />6 <br />Implementation underway Action initiated No significant action to date Page <br /> <br />