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BUILDING CAPACITY TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS
Community Review Follow-Up
Lorie Higgins, Willem Braak, Kathee Tifft & Shanna Hamilton
University of Idaho Extension Community Development
Spaces & Places•Farmers Markets•Community Design• Rapid
Response Design Team
•Community Gardens
Rural Business & Entrepreneurship•Entrepreneur Training• Open for Business
•Marketing• Customer
Relations• Consumer Surveys• E-Commerce
•Cultural Industries• Two Degrees NW:
Where Art Meets the Land
Human & Social Capital•Workforce• Living Wage Project
•Leadership• Training /
Community Reviews• Center for Comm.
Building to End Poverty
•Data Tools• Indicators• Community Driven
Economic Development
~ 20 faculty ~ 6 FTE
Rapid Response Design Team
UI Extension Faculty & Funding
+ Landscape Architecture + Bioregional Planning &
Community Design Grad Students
Follow-up in Horizons
Communities
Design plans for outdoor public
spaces, community beautification, and
the design or retrofitting of space
for public gardens and farmers markets
Steve Drown, UI Extension Education Specialist in Bioregional Planning and Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, [email protected]
Create plans in a timely manner so that communities can proceed with efforts
to fund and implement projects -> private sector takes over from thereAlbion: Main St. Master Plan and Regional Trail
System Shoshone: 5 Yr Master Plan for Lincoln County
Fairgrounds Heyburn: Landscape Design for 211 Interchange on
I84 Eden/Hazelton: Master Plan for Wilson Reservoir
Park Menan: Exercise Trail for Midway Elementary, Park
Plan for Main St., and Landscape & Parking Plan for Historic Town Hall
Roberts: Walking Trail and Park for Community Center
Ririe: Master Plan for Ririe Memorial Park
Two Degrees Northwest
Goal: Develop cultural industries in rural regions
Pilot region: 9 counties in NC Idaho and SE Washington ($2.1 economic multiplier)
Focus: Culinary, Arts, Heritage, Scenic/Recreational
Strategies: Asset Ident., Asset Development & Cooperative Mktg.
Business of Art Wrkshps Framing for Galleries* Photographing Art Packaging Images for
Juries E-Commerce Social Media Packaging & Labeling Booth Design Sales / Customer Service Going Wholesale Product Development (*local training capacity)
Artisan Trails
Coming soon: Website w/interactive guide, downloadable version, featured sites and itineraries, loop trails, mobile version of site and an App!
Cost: $25,000 - $30,000 total ($15K cash)Partners: Idaho Commission on the Arts,
City of Moscow, Kamiah Chamber, Moscow Food Co-op, Idaho Horizons, Clearwater Resource Conservation & Development Council
New Meadows Community Review Follow-Up
Began October 20116 workshops so far4 Extension faculty4 Action Teams20 – 25 core team
membersSteering CommitteeInitial Projects –
Quick Successes
Workshops
1. Futures Game2. Getting the Right
People to the Table3. Attributes of
Successful Communities & Asset Mapping
4. Community Vision & Action Teams
5. Steering Committee, Ground Rules & Identify Potential Projects
6. S.M.A.R.T Goals
Attributes of Successful Communities
Assets Mapped and Categorized
Created a Toolbox Using the Community Capitals Framework
1. Social2. Cultural3. Human4. Political5. Financial6. Built7. Natural
Asset Map Detail
From Assets to Vision…..
…to Action Teams…to Action
Just in Time Training
Leadership training will be incorporated into work sessions for the teams: 30 minutes at the beginning of a two hour session every month.
Teams meet between monthly meetings.
Valley and Adams County Extension Educators will continue to facilitate & coach and coordinate training sessions.
Discussion
More Info and Contacts
Next Steps in the Meadows Valley Willem Braak: [email protected] Shanna Hamilton: [email protected] Mac Qualls: [email protected] http://www.longvalleyblog.org/meadows-valley/ http://www.newmeadowsidaho.org
U of I Extension Community Development www.extension.uidaho.edu/communitydevelopment/ (coming soon!)
Two Degrees Northwest’s site featuring Artisan Trails www.2dnw.org (revamp in progress) Lorie Higgins: [email protected] 208.885.9717 / 208.669.1480 http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/aers/ (Also RIP!)
