Transportation Funding Workbook
Thank you for taking part in this valuable discussion on the future of transportation in Santa Cruz County. Your participation will help ensure success for the Task Force's charge of engaging the community in an effort to develop a package of local transportation projects and funding that has a wide basis of support throughout Santa Cruz County.
You can become a part of this exciting process immediately by planning to attend the Workshops, getting background on transportation issues in the TFTF Participation Guide, and participating in this Workbook, which is available both in print and online. The accompanying Participation Guide is intended to be a resource for you to gather background information to provide informed feedback. Please use and share this resource.
The closing date for Workbook entries is Sunday, June 18, 2006, after which a report will be generated and published.
Procedure:
- Check out background information on local transportation planning issues at Participation Guide
- Complete the online workbook within three hours (We encourage you to use the "Print" option on the final page of the workbook to preserve a copy of your responses)
- View public responses to all the questions in the workbook
Workbook Instructions:
The Workbook contains a series of questions. Feel free to answer any or all of them (There are no required responses). In completing the workbook please note:
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Use as much of the answer blocks as needed, though your answers will be limited to approximately 300 words (Entries beyond this limit may not be displayed to the public)
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Concise responses are more easily understood
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Your answers will be forwarded to the SCCRTC and posted on-line so that other members of the TFTF and community can read about your concerns and proposed solutions
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Your identity and contact information will not be posted or shared
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You will have a maximum of three hours to complete the entire process. Please be aware that, if you exceed this time limit, your work will be lost.
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While a wide range of points of view is encouraged, we reserve the right not to post language that is inappropriate for a community forum.
Guidelines:
To maximize the effectiveness of this workbook process, please honor these guidelines:
1. Good Faith
It is critically important that each and every person participating in the TFTF process be there in good faith. This means that while advocacy, strong points of view, values and principles are all respected, each and every person deserves to have their point of view, values, and principles respected as well. Secondly, good faith participation means that you will be there to help identify problems and solve them.
2. Civility
Ours is a community with many points of view, and people with passion about their points of view. We encourage passion and strength of conviction, but it must be presented in a civil and constructive manner. It is expected that people will participate orally and in writing, exhibiting the highest standards of civil discourse.
3. Principled Compromise vs. Compromising Principles
No one will ever be asked to compromise their principles at any point in this process; but, everyone is being asked now to acknowledge that we are all working toward a principled compromise. In other words, no one will be asked to accept something that violates their core values; while, at the same time, every one is being asked to listen and understand other points of view and needs in the community, and actively seek common ground.
Before you begin your written responses to the questions that follow, please register by entering your name and email address. Also note that no supplementary information will be emailed to you unless you indicate your interest (on the final page) in receiving such correspondence, and that neither your identity nor your email address will be displayed with your responses. Thank you for your participation.
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If you are unable to complete the online workbook you may print the English Version