Community Engagement Platform

Provide an online public engagement platform for local and regional plans and projects; platform is to gather community input from diverse residents on a range of regional and local planning projects including comprehensive plans, transportation plans, land use plans, and other similar projects.
- An outward-facing tool that enables us to engage residents through:
- Surveys and polls
- Map-based tools that enable users to mark geographic areas of opportunity and concern.
- On-line meetings
- Virtual forums or message boards that allow residents to post and discuss ideas.
- The ability to aggregate collected data to make charts, graphs, maps, and other data visualizations to include in presentations.
- Live polling
- Formal public comment period
- Newsletters and other communication media
- An inward-focused tool that enables staff to:
- Track citizen participation over time
- Host on-line meetings
- Share the tool with consultants, as needed.
- Own the data collected.
- Communicate with participants in various ways and at various times.
- Implementation and Onboarding The consultant will:
• Facilitate a kickoff meeting to scope system use and establish training schedule;
• Conduct administrative training #1 for ARC’s public engagement professionals and consultants;
• Import contact list and social media connections, as needed;
• Construct/build out tailored templates for multi-disciplinary use of platform; and
• Conduct administrative training #2 on data management and reporting.