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FDOT | EMO | Focus on Community Workshop

Environmental Management Office
Marjorie Bixby, Office Manager

Focus on Community Best Practices in Transportation 2004 More than 170 people, representing FDOT, MPOs, local governments, state agencies, and consulting firms attended this two-day workshop in Orlando, February 17-18, 2004, sponsored by FDOT and MPOAC. Speakers showcased activities which demonstrated community outreach, the gathering of community information, and the evaluation of results. The biographies and presentations of all the speakers are linked below. For more information about Focus on Community, contact Rusty Ennemoser or George Ballo.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 [printable agenda] [workshop attendees] [SCE Whitepaper]
7:00 am - 8:00 am	Registration/Coffee
	Morning Moderator: George Ballo, FDOT Sociocultural Effects Administrator
8:00 am - 9:00 am	Welcome & Introductions George Ballo, FDOT Sociocultural Effects Administrator
	Opening Remarks
	Daisy Lynum, Orlando City Commissioner & METROPLAN ORLANDO Board Member [bio] Leroy Irwin, FDOT CEMO Manager
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Why Do We Evaluate Sociocultural Effects? Brenda Kragh, Social Science Analyst, FHWA [bio] [ppt] [handout]
9:30 am - 11:00 am	Collecting Community Information in the Planning Stage: Where Do You Begin? Elizabeth Rockwell, Miami-Dade MPO [bio] [ppt] Augie Fragala, AICP, Powell, Fragala & Associates, Inc. [bio] [ppt] Phil Matson, Indian River County MPO [bio] [ppt]
11:00 am - 11:15 am	Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm	Technology Approaches to Collecting Community Information Moderator: Pete McGilvray, FDOT CEMO Alexis Thomas, University of Florida GeoPlan Center [bio] [ppt] Frank Kalpakis, URS [bio] [ppt] Beth Alden, Hillsborough County Planning Commission [bio] [ppt] Jill Stanford, Space Imaging Solutions, Inc. [bio] [ppt]
12:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch (on your own)
	Afternoon Moderator: Kathy Neill, Intergovernmental Programs, FDOT
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Who Is Your Public? Using the Community Database to Determine Stakeholders Anne Morris, PBS&J [bio] [ppt] Louise Fragala, Powell, Fragala & Associates [bio] [ppt]
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Using Public Involvement Techniques to Collect Community Information Steve Braun, District Four [bio] [ppt] Beth Alden, Hillsborough County Planning Commission [bio] [ppt1] [ppt 2] Nancy Model, Northwest Florida Regional Planning Council [bio] [ppt]
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Reception/Cash Bar

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 [printable agenda] [workshop attendees] [SCE Whitepaper]
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Registration/Coffee
	Morning Moderator: LeeAnn Jacobs, Transportation Planner, FHWA
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Building a Partnership: A Joint Approach to Developing a Community Database [ppt one powerpoint for entire session] Susan Sadighi, District Five [bio] Muffet Robinson, METROPLAN ORLANDO [bio] Alexis Thomas, University of Florida GeoPlan Center [bio] Mark Sievers, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council [bio]
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Addressing Community Impacts: How Do You Make Decisions Based on Community Information? Gwen Pipkin, District One [bio] [ppt] Ryan Kordek, Polk County TPO [bio] [ppt] Gina Busscher, District Two [bio] [ppt]
12:00 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
	Afternoon Moderator: Rusty Ennemoser, FDOT State Public Involvement Coordinator
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Transportation Design for Livable Communities: Implementing Your Findings at the Project Level Leigh Lane, Center for Transportation and the Environment, NCSU [bio] [ppt] Elaine Illes, IPI Consulting [bio] [ppt] [movie] Scott Peterson, District Four [bio] [ppt]
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm -5:00 pm	How Do You Know When You�ve Done a Good Job? Developing Performance Measures for Evaluating Your Efforts Hugh Pascoe, Hernando County MPO [bio] [ppt] Kama Dobbs, Brevard County MPO [bio] [ppt] Beverly Ward, CUTR [bio] [ppt]

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