Pre-Referendum
Pre-Referendum Planning/Community Engagement
Leading communities and school districts to prioritize facility needs, identify and analyze multiple options, and convey the information to the public with successful results. Planning is focused on listening, involving, supporting, reinforcing and educating your community.
Community Engagement
It’s a process… not an event
Facility Assessment – to document and establish a master plan and starting point for the project.
- User Friendly
- Graphic in Nature with diagrams and photos
- Clear and concise
- Living documents to be reviewed, updated and validated as time passes
- Present to community
Strategic Facilities Planning
- Develop short and long-term options to create a master plan
- Plans are conceptual in nature to allow key stakeholder involvement in their development
- Establish District or Community wide facilities goals
Community Task Force to Define Scope and Options - based on needs and assessment
- Committees to drive the process
- Develop and prioritize needs
- Review budget limitations
- Review concepts
- Help develop survey
- Making recommendations to governing board
Community Engagement & Survey
- Help make informed decisions
- Builds ownership amount stakeholders and community which leads to support of an ultimate solution.
Evaluate & communicate the results
- Evaluate results from the survey and how to share those with the community.
- Communicate through the board meeting with a presentation, post on website, develop an action plan or a news release to share findings and plans for moving forward.
Referendum Campaign
- Intensive and purposeful communication plan
- A team to share information
- A team to develop voter strategy
- A team to reach local businesses and community members
- A team to reach local school based voters (parents, staff, etc.)
Example referendum fact sheets
