Truckee Meadows Tomorrow 2001 Speakers Bureau Presentation

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Linking Community Government Performance
Community Indicators Consortium
Conference December 2, 2005
www.quality-of-life.org
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What is TMT?

• Community-based nonprofit
• Membership volunteer-driven (citizens
  organizations)
• Serve Truckee Meadows -- Reno/ Sparks/Washoe
  County region in NW Nevada

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TMT history

• Regional planners failed to embrace measurable
  indicators in 1993
• TMT independently asked What maters most? to
  4,000 stakeholders
• Track/report 66?30 QOL indicators
• Engage citizens for improvements Accentuate the
  Positive

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TMT indicator areas

• Economic vitality
• Health wellness
• Education lifelong learning
• Land use infrastructure
• Natural environment
• Public safety welfare

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How TMT works

• Community change agent
• Grassroots approach to identify, measure report
  QOL indicators
• Advocate improvement through partnership, citizen
  engagement measurable collaborative involvement

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First level engagement

• Adopt an Indicator
• Grassroots actions to promote improvement
  stewardship one indicator at a time
• Resolve community issues through awareness
  personal actions
• Free open to anyone -- kids to corporations

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Higher level engagement

• Quality of Life Compacts
• Formal, voluntary collaborative/outreach
  agreements between organizations
• Target indicators for improvement id actions,
  resources expected outcomes
• Deliverable reporting within timeframe
• Capacity building to address community issues
  with accountable results stewardship

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Natural resources compact

• Washoe County Government (2001-02)
• Air quality -- 50 ? alternative fuel vehicles
• Waste reduction -- 29 recycling rate
• Energy conservation -- 14 ? cost savings
• Water conservation -- 10-15 ? irrigation
• Public education -- mentor compacts

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Open space compact

• Consortium nonprofits, Nevada Land Conservancy,
  Sierra Pacific Power Girl Scouts (2001-02)
• Community-wide cleanups -- Swan Lake nature study
  area Keystone Canyon
• Educational stewardship -- bird wildlife tours,
  plant/animal habitats, trail etiquette

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Parental involvement compact

• Washoe County School District Washoe Education
  Association (2003-05)
• Parental Involvement Council established by Board
  of Trustees
• Coordinate activities
• Implement Parental Involvement Strategic Plan
• First cooperative model recognized by NEA

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Community-wide indicators compact

• United Way funded partners (2003-05)
• Linked funding to how communities benefit thru
  agency programs
• Id outcomes -- benefits to people/community as a
  result of agency programming
• Linked indicators -- measures for progress toward
  outcome achievement
• Funded UW partner agencies id indicators affected
  through the 1 million annually

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Voter turnout compact

• Washoe County Registrar of Voters Library
  system, Nevada Museum of Art New Voters Project
  (2004 future elections)
• gt2,000 early voters 9/04 primary (goal 500)
• 33,025 early voters 11/04 general (155? over
  2000 election)
• gt10,600 citizens voted early at library polling
  stations (goal 2,000)

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Affordable housing reality
12 ?
Family income ? 1.7 same period
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Affordable housing reality

• Share of Homes Affordable
• for Median Income
• Washoe County
• 2002 70.8
• ? 41.1
• 2005 (Q1) ? 30.9

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Affordable housing compact

• Charles Schwab Bank partners (2004 ?)
• ? Washoe Co. housing grants funds
• ? affordable housing units
• ? affordable homeownership opportunities
• Database housing resources needs
• Build capacity with CBOs developers
• Reno Housing Authoritys Hillboro Place 13 best
  affordable housing projects nationally

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Performance beyond compacts

• Government performance via TMT
• Local entities all adopt QOLIs
• Washoe County used QOLIs 2005 Community Report
  to set strategic goals performance indicators
• County growth mgt task force using QOLIs
  helping TMT update indicators

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Performance beyond compacts

• Community performance via TMT
• TMT steering partner for targeted economic
  development to the region, including QOL impacts
• TMT invited to steer the Regional Planning Update
  in 2006 to measure sustainable QOL

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TMT links indicators ? results

• Link indicators to QOL, economic investment, jobs
  public revenues
• Build public awareness of indicators
• Perceptual surveys on qualitative QOLIs
• Community well-being reports
• Celebrate measurable results at events
• Engage community as adopters, advocates
  accountable partners

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TMT links indicators ? results

• Quality of life compacts
• Build capacity for sustainable physical social
  needs
• Measurable collaborative involvement
• Stewardship for future performance
• Collaborative, grassroots approach to community
  performance one indicator at a time

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Karen Hruby, PhD TMT Executive Director 775-323-15
18 info_at_quality-of-life.org karenhruby_at_sbcglobal
.net
www.quality-of-life.org