public participation, advertising and social media outreach

1:11:32A crazy.

1:11:34I'm getting a lot of calls. Okay. A lack of opportunity for public

1:11:41participation.

1:11:44And the previous processes.

1:11:48Here. Everybody

1:11:49must be a comprehensive plan there has always been.

1:11:55Right.

1:12:01How can we create I got you.

1:12:08express their concerns and comment based on the documents easy Prior to Amending the document. Hell, so First job state. or community meetings if you you got some input from the public. But now you need to show the public what's in the dots. Okay, you heard you here's what's in it. And then they can say, okay, that meets my expectation or doesn't meet my expectation. So that there's an opportunity

1:12:38to participate. I realize in this forum, in this workshop. What would I have a third? Mike here's what's happening. Oh the best. But it seems like there should be some Follow up. Well out the public. To figure out. I do. You you You ask them their opinion, you heard their opinion, you say you've implemented in Yeah, comprehensive plan. And now you have to show them.

1:13:08Thank you. Absolutely right.

1:13:12And give them a chance to let them Feedback just whether or not they think you've done it or you haven't.

1:13:22Yeah. Oh So

1:13:27uh just uh do a little bit of recapping. We've had um thirteen workshops and open houses. during the course of this project. Um The initial workshops that we sent about the set about the county We're back in 2023, so about three years ago, we did the initial workshops where we did a lot of the idea generation and gathering from the public. all across the county and different different different uh communities. Um two years

1:13:57later We draft we had drafted all of the different chapters. Remember the original timeline of the comprehensive plan was to be complete by December of 2025. We had some We had a large storm. We had some interesting legislation from the legislature that followed that storm. And that required some retooling, which was which was the year that we just spent. And in the meantime, we also had the local planning agency workshops in addition to the Thirteen. uh public workshops and and open houses. But in the summer of

1:14:272025, we did go out back to the community with the open houses. uh to the same locations that we did the initial workshops. Um And we did it uh also during that time we we had done um Various focus groups. I think we had like nine different focus group sessions. Uh to go over Um ideation and concepts that were uh in our current comprehensive plan and what we wanted to see forward in the new one. Um Show

1:14:57All of that has happened. Uh We have had continuous dialogue with the public. Um With people in firing them all. Pascoal twenty fifty at different times. Uh we talked a little bit about that at the last meeting when we when we mentioned Some of the properties that wanted to be updated that weren't necessarily complex zoning properties. There's only like 15 instances of that. Um, but nevertheless, uh various stakeholders would would come into the department and speak to us about that. Um

1:15:29At this late stage of the project, uh, it took a lot of time to put together all of the ideas that had been talked about at the workshops at the open houses. From public inquiry through the surveys that were coming in through the website, various inquiries that were happening on a daily basis. the industry stakeholders of all the different chapters. It took a lot of time for us to end. I should note. With all. Missing a beat in terms of the study a cadence of planning

1:16:00projects that would come in. the coverage of plan amendments, the MPUDs, all the things that you see at the Planning Commission meetings. Um So uh We've posted all of this information on the website. We did not plan In full transparency, we did not plan uh another series of workshops to go out to the community. Since we've already c captured thousands of survey responses and a lot of input from the community. And at some point, even if we go out for another round of workshops,

1:16:30We're gonna have to take time to synthesize all of that again. And work it into the plan. So um Our all documents are available on Pasco2050.com and we are open to speaking to members of the public if they have questions about it. Um because we have that's what

1:16:49we've been doing. Chris was done RP. I'm trying to handle the problem. Can I foresee coming in the future? Because Some day up to this future. It's going to be time.

1:17:07a hearing in which we're going to be asked to recommend adoption.

1:17:13Okay.

1:17:16I could see that going on for Really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. If we have the listening. not that we have to we are we will be listening to public comment during that. on every one of these chapters.

1:17:34You know what I'm suggesting is you might want. It

1:17:38was something to be saying. Yeah, here's

1:17:43I'm

1:17:43just looking right in the room.

1:17:46I see one face in the room that didn't go to this workshop here, and this person was very attuned to what's going on in the county on a daily basis. I don't know how these meetings are advertised. A question that Hazelwood up in front of the Board of Commissioners the other day. And talk uh It shouldn't feel like anybody knows what's in this plan. I'm making the suggestion that maybe there should be some presentation of this plan. Just to show the public that

1:18:17It hurt you. We've listened to you and this is what we've done based on your input. Otherwise I could see this could be. Thing. Quite contentious. I could see a whole lot of people from the northeast rural area showing up here the day we're supposed to come in and Adopt all of this and then whatever other groups have issues with all these other chapters, you know, Gros is the kind of the thing that that this board would probably focus more on, you know, than than

1:18:49some of the others, but there are special

1:18:51interest groups all over the place that are gonna have issues with this and

1:18:58Just think that that could get out of hand real quick.

1:19:02Give it some thought.

1:19:06Thank you, Mr. Moody. I just want to chime in on the advertisement of these workshops. They are advertised through public release. And they are also on the um Vasco County calendar. Three weeks before. public release is when media and relations and the pretty much um uh True. A press release, press release, as far as they say, a press release, so it is to all the media channels. Or stations. Uh I know the Lakers. the

1:19:36um the nut slakers, all the publications are in the county. and the news channels. What did you think

1:19:45Brooks on the A's, which I can tell you has. Yeah, it's cool members that are following development. Press releases go to the media too. yeah stations and yeah newspaper

1:19:59and publication we don't live

1:20:00in a world right now you know we don't live live in the world that Mr. Bloody grew up in where we had three TV channels to watch. Okay. Now I have an infinite number of streams that I can watch and some and I don't mean to be insulting to take a newspaper, but Certain that the readership of those later news or whatever though Just go ahead.

1:20:27Yeah.

1:20:28I remember

1:20:29talking

1:20:29a while back about trying to improve our social media presence at the county level. Um

1:20:38C have the Updates on that or we It's something that's still in the works.

1:20:45No, it's there's not functioning. I mean I I would defer those comments to our media relations people within the public services branch because there's a whole team that's related to that. We can get an update from them in terms of the activity that they're working on. That's their responsibility. Also I would point to the um

1:21:06I forget their official name all the sudden. The media relations, the county wide media relations thing two, which All the B relations teams are Coordinated amongst each other. They could they'd be able to speak to that. I wouldn't be able to If I do a

1:21:20a good answer on that. Yeah, I forget where I was reading it, but I mean there's a very large percentage of people who get most of their current events in the news through social media as opposed to Traditional state, you know. Uh avenues of Media, T V and print news. uh papers and so forth. So Um yeah, I feel like we should Yeah, each each department within the county should probably have that social media presence when we have stuff like this going on. So it should be shareable. Yeah, uh People can see it, they can share it to those

1:21:50group pages. Yeah, right.

1:21:54I I understand there are some of those groups that are in politically motivated one-shot way with their

1:22:01for the informational. Well, we don't necessarily have to proactively share to those groups, at least if we put it on our own social media pages and people can link to it.

1:22:13That's that's something that's I I know we've discussed this a while ago at the Planning Commission meeting about trying it's uh open up more avenues for Social media. Within the county. So it's you know, whether that means a different page for each department. Yeah, like a development aspect. So page that some people can refer to and

1:22:36I didn't think it's a chance to do your own. Heard Nancy go up and ask the board of commissioners. We answered surveys and we said we wanted more wetland protection and we wanted more open space. And This would be your opportunity to go back and say, okay, so we heard you and in this section of the comp plan, we did this to promote that idea, this to promote that idea. And maybe a lot of the Concerns. calls

1:23:07for about concerns about this that I'm getting maybe they they would would go away.

1:23:12Yeah. Yeah.

1:23:19We are using the tools that we have in our toolbox right now. So We can definitely talk to media and relations or media relations communications. That's the name of the department for. better opportunities for Instagram, X, um, Facebook and the like. So

1:23:39What what are your thoughts on that, David? About um Finding the development and having its own social media channels.

1:23:46Well I

1:23:46I've

1:23:47given it a

1:23:47lot of

1:23:47thought.

1:23:57Give it a lot of four. Yeah. There's a balancing act. We've had extensive

1:24:04engagement with the community. We know that. Yeah, that really worked me. The shigar that are regulars, right? And I We're at a point where we have to look forward, we have deadlines, but I I was anticipating Discuss with my team actually holding some additional workshops. Just reviewing spider flyers for public having Like time meetings at all very similar to kind of what we have. Footprinted our initial opening engagement. So I want

1:24:34to do a repeat. And to do that, um Obviously English. The public doesn't repair the plans. My

1:24:42question.

1:24:44But if you see additional information, bring it back. Yeah, we could provide the summary. What the issues, concerns, and challenges are early. Okay.

1:24:58I respect. Um We'll do the same thing. And we'll annotate it,

1:25:03we'll

1:25:03argue that

1:25:04it's Is that okay? I don't I'm not look you know saying necessarily we should be trying to solicit uh people to Send information to us on on social media. because they have an unity through the process that we already have. I'm just saying more from just another avenue of us getting information out to the public.

1:25:24Well that that's what we do. I mean we're we're not asking them to uh send you letters and things. We're going out. Um, we're at the final stages. You know, it's the uh last mile of the marathon. Want you to see what we've come up with, how we've addressed the city. the concerns or the ideas that you had in the past. And the path forward would explain it because Obviously a lot of the questions coming in are just because people are not educated. And we

1:25:52it's our job to achieve it. Let me work in that story, John.

1:25:57That's exactly what it Mr. Modi's good is right. And

1:26:03gets at one I was I can see. better done through social media can through publications. I'm actually right for speaking. I was finding a note to myself

1:26:14to uh to address it. Just worship. Thanks. Gonna go a long way. Sure that

1:26:24Okay, now they've been. Yeah, you heard them on the front end. Okay. Now here's what we've done to Answer your concerns. Yeah.

1:26:36I'll check. Yeah, did we hit the mark? Yeah, these workshops are Long gating. We're actually Reducing it the process timeline. Because if we have planning commission hearings We have more uninformed people coming in. The meetings are gonna be long. We're gonna have to punt. This way we can go out and get the groundwork done of them. It helps the Board of County Commissioners.

1:27:01Well that's okay. Yeah, it's a good point.

1:27:06Yeah, obviously we can't be expected to respond

1:27:09to every comment on social media, but at the same time we'll be able to kind of get the flavor of what the concerns are. what the questions are and and then preemptively address a lot of that stuff. But I and I need a commitment from Ms.

1:27:21Hazelwood that's just gonna bring cookies to these workshops. That's the most important part. To bring at least one she said.

1:27:31Yeah, it's fair to provide channels. Yeah, one eight but I'll bring the Matsaball Sue.