BUILDING CAPACITY TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS

Community Review Follow-Up

Lorie Higgins, Willem Braak, Kathee Tifft & Shanna Hamilton

University of Idaho Extension Community Development

Spaces & Places•Farmers Markets•Community Design• Rapid

Response Design Team

•Community Gardens

Rural Business & Entrepreneurship•Entrepreneur Training• Open for Business

•Marketing• Customer

Relations• Consumer Surveys• E-Commerce

•Cultural Industries• Two Degrees NW:

Where Art Meets the Land

Human & Social Capital•Workforce• Living Wage Project

•Leadership• Training /

Community Reviews• Center for Comm.

Building to End Poverty

•Data Tools• Indicators• Community Driven

Economic Development

~ 20 faculty ~ 6 FTE

Rapid Response Design Team

UI Extension Faculty & Funding

+ Landscape Architecture + Bioregional Planning &

Community Design Grad Students

Follow-up in Horizons

Communities

Design plans for outdoor public

spaces, community beautification, and

the design or retrofitting of space

for public gardens and farmers markets

Steve Drown, UI Extension Education Specialist in Bioregional Planning and Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, srdrown@uidaho.edu

Create plans in a timely manner so that communities can proceed with efforts

to fund and implement projects -> private sector takes over from there

Albion: Main St. Master Plan and Regional Trail System

Shoshone: 5 Yr Master Plan for Lincoln County Fairgrounds

Heyburn: Landscape Design for 211 Interchange on I84

Eden/Hazelton: Master Plan for Wilson Reservoir Park

Menan: Exercise Trail for Midway Elementary, Park Plan for Main St., and Landscape & Parking Plan for Historic Town Hall

Roberts: Walking Trail and Park for Community Center

Ririe: Master Plan for Ririe Memorial Park

Two Degrees Northwest

Goal: Develop cultural industries in rural regions

Pilot region: 9 counties in NC Idaho and SE Washington ($2.1 economic multiplier)

Focus: Culinary, Arts, Heritage, Scenic/Recreational

Strategies: Asset Ident., Asset Development & Cooperative Mktg.

Business of Art Wrkshps Framing for Galleries* Photographing Art Packaging Images for

Juries E-Commerce Social Media Packaging & Labeling Booth Design Sales / Customer Service Going Wholesale Product Development (*local training capacity)

Artisan Trails

Coming soon: Website w/interactive guide, downloadable version, featured sites and itineraries, loop trails, mobile version of site and an App!

Cost: $25,000 - $30,000 total ($15K cash)Partners: Idaho Commission on the Arts,

City of Moscow, Kamiah Chamber, Moscow Food Co-op, Idaho Horizons, Clearwater Resource Conservation & Development Council

New Meadows Community Review Follow-Up

Began October 20116 workshops so far4 Extension faculty4 Action Teams20 – 25 core team

membersSteering CommitteeInitial Projects –

Quick Successes

Workshops

1. Futures Game2. Getting the Right

People to the Table3. Attributes of

Successful Communities & Asset Mapping

4. Community Vision & Action Teams

5. Steering Committee, Ground Rules & Identify Potential Projects

6. S.M.A.R.T Goals

Attributes of Successful Communities

Assets Mapped and Categorized

Created a Toolbox Using the Community Capitals Framework

1. Social2. Cultural3. Human4. Political5. Financial6. Built7. Natural

Asset Map Detail

From Assets to Vision…..

…to Action Teams…to Action

Just in Time Training

Leadership training will be incorporated into work sessions for the teams: 30 minutes at the beginning of a two hour session every month.

Teams meet between monthly meetings.

Valley and Adams County Extension Educators will continue to facilitate & coach and coordinate training sessions.

Discussion

More Info and Contacts

Next Steps in the Meadows Valley Willem Braak: wbraak@uidaho.edu Shanna Hamilton: shannas@uidaho.edu Mac Qualls: macqualls@gmail.com http://www.longvalleyblog.org/meadows-valley/ http://www.newmeadowsidaho.org

U of I Extension Community Development www.extension.uidaho.edu/communitydevelopment/ (coming

soon!)Two Degrees Northwest’s site featuring Artisan Trails

www.2dnw.org (revamp in progress) Lorie Higgins: higgins@uidaho.edu 208.885.9717 / 208.669.1480 http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/aers/ (Also RIP!)