[EQAB-list] Concerns about process

[Fred L Stephens]

I have not worked on the forum input list this week due to lack of 
time.The strategies need work. That ideas or strategies that are 
being compared in our exercise of pair-wise comparisons need work.

1. This list is developed from one public forum and has little input 
from EQAB itself - nor from staff. Many useful and constructive ideas 
are not in the list. Examples: Not one citizen mentioned such useful 
items as installing LED lights, regulating wood heater emissions, etc.

2. We worked as fast as we could last week to collapse the input 
however we did not spend enough time wording the strategies. I 
assumed we would work on that as a group.

3. We did not as a group consider if some strategies needed to be 
moved to other categories. For example, maybe we should have moved 
"reduce other emissions" to government regulations.

4. We should review our mission statement again. We did that on one 
night. That was too fast. There is nothing in the mission statement 
limiting ourselves to missions within our domain of control and 
influence. Therefore, our criteria used for comparisons has no rating 
for how accessible a strategy is to local government or local 
community. How do we limit our goals through this process to what we 
as a local community can accomplish?

I am afraid EQAB may have gone to the other extreme of going too 
fast. Haste makes waste. We need to look down the road a little and 
see if the process is really going to get us what we need and want. 
We are working hard. That is not enough. We need to be smart about 
this. The pair-wise comparisons are a nice tool. But are we using it 
constructively? Is this getting us where we need to go?



Fred L Stephens
email: freds7 at dancingcreek.com