Visioning 2026 Blog
Climate Change Due to CO2 Emmissions?
An excellent climate change video discussion (8 mins.) by John Coleman, Founder of the Weather Channel, on the fallacy of CO2 model indicating global warming. He describes that the solar sunspot cycles have a direct impact on our earth's weather temperatures not CO2 emmissions.
http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81175327.html
Norfolk Historical Preservation Community Action Committee
The first meeting of "Preserve Norfolk", a historical preservation community action committee, visited the Karl Stefan Memorial Airport Terminal and listened and discussed the Historical Preservation 101 presentation by a Nebraska Historical Society officer originally from Norfolk. Please refer the following presentation (PDF formatted).
http://www.visioning2026.com/docs/Introduction to Preservation 101 - PP2003 version.pdf
http://www.norfolkairportservices.com/
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KOFK/NORFOLK_AIRPORT_SVCS
The meeting was originally announced in the Norfolk Daily News Article, Preserving historic properties goal of new group, 1/8/2010, written by Cheryl Schmeckpeper, a board member of the Nebraska Historical Society.
The next meeting is scheduled for February 14, 2010, at the McMill Building, the former Norfolk Post Office, with a tour starting at 1:30 PM and a presentation at 3 PM.
NorthFork Visioning Sessions
NorthFork Riverwalk Development Project hosted the Visioning Sessions on April 16th and facilitated by HDR Engineering Inc.
HDR's Visioning Session slide presentation is available without the SWOT Analysis results.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threat Analysis is a good method to collect community input in small groups and then build consensus between the different participants. Each group had 4 sheets of butcher paper that they included ideas on the 4 different areas relative to the project. Each group shared with the facilitator those ideas which were consolidated. Then the individuals where given 4 sets of color dots (3 each) to correspond to the 4 areas and then asked to vote on the idea they felt was the most important. An individual could put on three dots on one ideas if they felt strongly about it.
I think the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis that we went through with HDR as the facilitator for the riverwalk master plan was very beneficial. The only thing I would like to add to the participatory process is one more parallel process, I would call it Future Trends Impact (FTI). This additional process gives the facilitator an opportunity to share with the community the future trends that could have an impact on the effort and then allow the participants to add their own trends and then have the group vote on for consensus. For example, how will our aging demographics impact our park and rec master plan, fuel and transportation costs, growing obesity in our youth, life-long learning opportunities, our continued multi-generational extended family culture, further collaboration with other public entities (e.g., schools), etc.