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DocuSign Envelope ID:09FB8A3C-9304-40E2-8033-A5FF7CBA6067 <br /> • Serve as communication conduit, ensuring appropriate information about <br /> sewer implementation is shared with all neighbors in the Historic Rogers <br /> Road neighborhood and municipal partners through multiple <br /> communication forums established during first period of contract, <br /> including but not limited to door-to-door conversations, community <br /> newspapers, and small group gatherings. <br /> • Follow up with individual households once OWASA releases the initial <br /> "30%" plan that requires specific feedback on the design and easement <br /> feedback. This will likely include an additional public review meeting to <br /> ensure broader stakeholders have a chance to review the initial design. <br /> • Synthesize feedback from outreach efforts to help ensure the most <br /> appropriate adjustments and options are chosen given both neighborhood <br /> feedback and realities and engineering proposals and realities <br /> • Once the "60%" plan is released by OWASA, we will assist the partners <br /> (neighbors, OWASA, Orange County) on sewer easement <br /> communication/acquisition,helping expedite the process as much as <br /> possible by connecting OWASA/Orange County more effectively with <br /> neighbors and ensuring the big picture work is shared with all parties. <br /> This will include working closely with neighborhood leadership and <br /> Orange County staff to set up a second round of communication with all <br /> landowners/residents directly impacted by the sewer project. <br /> • Provide feedback on the sewer implementation process at relevant <br /> municipal meetings given outreach efforts to help movement forward in a <br /> full and expedited manner (as much as possible given realities and <br /> challenges of engineering work) <br /> Concentration 2: Community-First Planning' <br /> The Jackson Center's experience is primarily in community planning and <br /> strategy work. Each municipal partner has expressed different concerns about <br /> the pressures of development and the need for community guidance as <br /> development proposals arrive and planning decisions begin to be made. Chapel <br /> Hill Council Members expressed this concern when the council voted to expand <br /> the ETJ and development proposals began arriving for large tracts of land on the <br /> ' We have utilized a model of community-first planning in our work in <br /> Northside.This model is built on an intensive set of communication and organizing tools that bring neighbors and other <br /> stakeholders into active and honest planning discussions with the tensions and possibilities of change.Our model engages <br /> the strengths and struggles of history first and continually.Creative communication strategies are a central part of our <br /> work:we find ways to reach people the ways they best receive contact.We develop clear"gives and gets"strategy <br /> framework.We believe that discussing the benefits and challenges openly is the best way for communities to mobilize for <br /> movement forward <br />