[wsmac] Fwd: Ped Forum Questions
- From: John Brooking <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wsmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Dudley <edudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:36:48 -0400
WSMAC,
Patrick from DOT has some answers to our questions. Big answers, from my
point of view, are (1) Yes on flyers from them, (2) not so much on
publicity. I'm hopeful that Eric will tell us that the City is planning
quite a bit of publicity. (Hint, hint.)
- John
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adams, Patrick <Patrick.Adams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 1:07 PM
Subject: Ped Forum Questions
To: Jim Tasse <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darcy Whittemore <darcy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Brunell, Duane" <
Duane.Brunell@xxxxxxxxx>, Samantha Herr <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "
johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx" <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>, "Lane, Meg E" <
Meg.E.Lane@xxxxxxxxx>, "Thompson, Tricia" <Tricia.Thompson@xxxxxxxxx>,
"Moreau, Susan" <Susan.Moreau@xxxxxxxxx>
Here are my thoughts about their questions (and yours). I also got an
email from John last night, so I’ve also included him on this reply.
Hopefully … these all make sense. Please feel free Duane to expand
upon/correct any of my responses below.
*Questions from Westbrook:*
1. What is the official name of the event?
*Westbrook Community Safety Forum*
2. Can you share the agenda with us?
*Yes, but I would keep it very generic. Unfortunately, until we have the
PowerPoint finalized, there is a likelihood that the agenda may change.
Instead, I’d encourage that we instead share a list of bullet point
objectives for the forum. That would give us the greatest flexibility in
how the content is delivered.*
3. Will you be providing us with flyers? Electronic, printed? If
printed, we suggest you drop them off at the library for us to pick up for
distribution. Electronic would also be good to have
*We are currently in the process of designing the Flyer Template that we
will use with all the forums throughout the state so that we have that
consistent look, feel, and content. We had originally hoped to have those
completed today, but competing priorities will push the targeted delivery
back a few days. My plans right now are to get the final printed copies
of the flyer mailed out to Westbrook by the first part of next week. Based
upon our internal conversations this morning, I believe that we’re planning
to deliver 25 of the 11” x 17” ledger size versions of the flyer plus an
addition 50 that are letter sized. Our plan is for these to be full color,
and personalized specifically for the Westbrook Forum. At this point, we
haven’t made a final decision if these will be printed on paper or card
stock. Once complete, I don’t foresee any reason why we couldn’t send
along an electronic version as well*
4. What promotion are you planning?
*On this end, we are also planning to put together some memes and other
content that would be appropriate to distribute through web and Facebook
pages. We are also hoping to get an information page active here at DOT
that we can refer people to so they can get more information. I’m
uncertain whether that will be “fully” functional by the Forum, but we’re
hoping to make it happen. Beyond this, we haven’t yet finalized what other
outreach efforts we’ll undertake for this forum. I also don’t know what
BCM has planned.*
5. Can one of you be available to chat with WLOB radio host Ray
Richardson, possibly with a WSMAC committee member? His suggested date is Thu
4/27, 8 AM, or if not, some other day that week?
*I am mostly comfortable saying that MaineDOT can have someone available
for this interview, but as of this afternoon, I don’t know who that will
be. I do know that I’m not available that morning because I have an early
morning meeting in Eastport that day so I’m likely to be driving through
the “wilds of eastern Maine” on my way to Eastport. I will do what I can
to lock someone in and I’ll get back to you with specifics as soon as they
are available.*
*BCM’s Questions*
3. In addition to the 11x17 poster, we feel that a 8x11 pdf that is
forwardable/printable by folks using standard paper size is also needed.
*As I mentioned above, based upon a conversation earlier this morning, we
have adjusted and are planning to produce 25 of the ledger size flyers and
50 of the letter sized flyers for each community. If we need more, just
let me know and we can turn those around pretty quickly.*
4. RE: The powerpoint--Sam is working on creating the clicker questions
using Turning Point. We hope to have that wrapped up by the middle of next
week. We've had some fires to put out, so I haven't been able to do that
work personally, which is why there has been some delay.
*Cool. The sooner we can get it the better. We still need Meg and Trish
to have time to review the content, wording, and graphics. Part of this is
to ensure consistency with Department formats, but also for consistency and
appropriateness within the presentation itself. That needs to be done
before we share the presentation with Senior Management for their review
and approval. To be honest, I don’t know how long that might take, so I
was hoping to give them as much flexibility as possible.*
Does all that help? Have I missed anything.
*Patrick D. Adams*
Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager
MaineDOT - Multimodal Planning Division
16 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0016
Direct Line: (207) 624-3311
Cell Phone: (207) 592-0873
Office: (207) 624-3300
Fax: (207) 624-3099
Web: *http://www.maine.gov/mdot/bikeped/*
<http://www.maine.gov/mdot/bikeped/>
*From:* Jim Tasse [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:58 AM
*To:* Adams, Patrick
*Cc:* Darcy Whittemore; Brunell, Duane; Samantha Herr
*Subject:* Re: FW: PedestrianForumInvite2017ver2.docx
Hi Patrick et al:
Thanks for keeping this moving!
1. I've attached a doc with some alternative text to consider/add.
2. We've also heard from Westbrook with some questions about the marketing
of their forum:
If you could let know the answers to these question that came out of
today's meeting *by the end of this week* (Fri 4/14), that would be ideal.
Thank you!!
1. What is the official name of the event?
2. Can you share the agenda with us?
3. Will you be providing us with flyers? Electronic, printed? If
printed, we suggest you drop them off at the library for us to pick up for
distribution. Electronic would also be good to have.
4. What promotion are you planning?
5. Can one of you be available to chat with WLOB radio host Ray
Richardson, possibly with a WSMAC committee member? His suggested date is Thu
4/27, 8 AM, or if not, some other day that week?
3. In addition to the 11x17 poster, we feel that a 8x11 pdf that is
forwardable/printable by folks using standard paper size is also needed.
4. RE: The powerpoint--Sam is working on creating the clicker questions
using Turning Point. We hope to have that wrapped up by the middle of next
week. We've had some fires to put out, so I haven't been able to do that
work personally, which is why there has been some delay.
Good to see you at the Smart Corridor meeting last night--the
mapping/commenting phase was very similar to what we intend to do with the
pedestrian safety forums.
Talk soon
Jim
--
*James C. Tassé*
*Assistant Executive Director*
*Bicycle Coalition of Maine*
*Director*
*Maine** Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program*
*A Partnership of the Maine Department of Transportation*
*and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine*
*Executive Board *
*Greater Portland Chapter*
*New England Mountain Bike Association*
PO Box 15272
Portland, ME 04112
207-623-4511 <(207)%20623-4511> Office
207-956-6535 <(207)%20956-6535> Direct
jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Adams, Patrick <Patrick.Adams@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This came from Duane’s doodling and was mostly to get ideas down on
paper. Do you have any additional bullet points or key concepts you think
we should include on the posters – keeping in mind that we are trying to
not get too wordy.
Also … Where do we stand on the PowerPoint. In addition to needing time
for Meg’s shop to review, we also need time to have it reviewed by senior
management. Trisha also thought that if she had a copy of the PowerPoint,
it might help give her some additional ideas about content for the
community flyers.
They are working on the content, layout and design today. I did just find
out earlier this morning that they are aiming to get the final printing
copies out in the mail and to the folks in Westbrook by sometime
(hopefully) early next week.
*Patrick D. Adams*
Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager
MaineDOT - Multimodal Planning Division
16 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0016
Direct Line: (207) 624-3311
Cell Phone: (207) 592-0873
Office: (207) 624-3300
Fax: (207) 624-3099
Web: *http://www.maine.gov/mdot/bikeped/*
<http://www.maine.gov/mdot/bikeped/>
*From:* Brunell, Duane
*Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:32 AM
*To:* Adams, Patrick
*Subject:* PedestrianForumInvite2017ver2.docx
Here you go…
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