Puget Sound Partnership Action Agenda: Roadmap to Completion

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Puget Sound PartnershipAction Agenda Roadmap to
Completion
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Action Agenda Questions

• What is the current status of Puget Sound? What
  are the biggest threats to it?
• What is a healthy Puget Sound?
• What actions must we take to move from where we
  are today towards a healthy Puget Sound?
• Where should we start?

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What is the status of Puget Sound? What are the
biggest threats to it?

• Synthesis of existing sound-wide work
• Action areas review and add local perspective
• Iterative

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What is a healthy Puget Sound?

• Legislative definition
• Indicators of what we need to measure to show
  ecosystem health
• humans, natural system
• Quantification of indicators
• How much
• Policy-related benchmarks of how much as a
  target towards ultimate how much

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What actions do we need to take to move from
where we are today towards a healthy Puget Sound?

• Build on existing work and current actions
• Ecosystem wide perspective
• Local/action area perspective
• Inventory roles, responsibilities, and analyze
  what we do now (at a high level)
• Compare status and threats with current efforts
  to identify work to continue, add, or realign

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Inventory Work

• Inventory - all implementers (agency, private
  sector interests, non-governmental organizations)
• Purpose
• Baseline to discuss what work should continue, be
  added, be aligned
• Opportunity to highlight current good work
• Program funding information help inform costs
  need
• Tool for all to get a handle on what is happening
  in a geographic area on a certain topic
• Program level
• Due February 29
• Review - Action area workshops, Ecosystem
  Coordination Board

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Synthesize in Topic Forums

• Role Synthesize and build on prior work, vet
  and validate, input on big topics and across
  topics (knit together)
• Human health and well-being
• Species/food-web/biodiversity
• Water quality (toxics, nutrients, pathogens,
  stormwater - linked to habitat, water quantity)
• Water quantity (instream, non-instream)
• Land use/habitat (protection, restoration)
• Other topic forum/work groups
• Monitoring and Adaptive Management
• Accountability linked to monitoring
• Funding Strategy
• Climate change (synthesis to inform Topic Forums)
• Education (synthesis summary, prioritization
  based on Action Agenda direction )
• Research and modeling needs (synthesis summary,
  prioritization based on Action Agenda direction)

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Topic Forums

• Potential Key Tasks
• Describe and document current status (what do we
  know, biggest issues, what is happening now)
• Compare current status of what we do with
  ecosystem status and threats
• Describe what it will take to address the issues
  (continue, add, realign)
• Prioritization criteria

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Topic Forum Structure

• Small core synthesis working group organize
  existing information
• Large group of interests and experts review,
  validate, additional input on synthesized work

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Focused workshops

• Science questions and policy questions - not
  necessarily the same people
• Ecosystem Coordination Board review/discuss
• Science Panel review/discuss
• Defined products to forward action agenda
  discussion
• Ecosystem wide
• Action areas review, add local perspective,
  refine

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Where should we start?

• 1. Input and advise on criteria and actions
• Topic Forums
• Action areas
• Ecosystem Coordination Board
• 2. Leadership Council point of view

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Action Areas

• Focused workshop series
• Similar across region, tailored
• Pull people, interests together
• Review, add local perspective
• Status and threats, indicators, key topics, local
  priorities
• Team Leadership Council, Ecosystem Coordination
  Board, Partnership staff

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Action Agenda management Next steps

• Collecting inventory forms
• Building database
• Guidance and support to action area teams for
  Leadership Council, Ecosystem Board member, and
  liaison staff
• Communications and outreach working group
  meeting early February
• Action area workshop planning dates, purpose
  through Sept
• Topic forum chartering
• Web content development
• Leadership Council, Ecosystem Coordination Board,
  Science Panel meeting agenda topics focused on
  decision-making for action agenda

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Upcoming workshops

• Scientific peer review of status and threats in
  mid-February
• Topic forums begin
• Synthesize what we know Problems, solutions and
  programs
• Action area workshops in late February
• Status and threats Review, add local perspective
• Are all of the current efforts represented?
• What criteria should be used to establish
  priorities?

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Infrastructure

• Action Agenda strategic management team
• Partnership staff
• Key loaned staff
• Consultant team
• Outreach lead EnviroIssues
• Analytic and management lead ESA Adolfson
• Writing lead Ann Seiter
• Topic forum leads
• Comprehensive database to catalog inventories,
  track contacts and comments
• Sharepoint site for internal team communication
• Public calendar
• Action Agenda Center on Partnership website