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Appendix B

Appendix B presents process improvements generated during the WSDOT working session. The improvements are listed below in order of votes, from highest to lowest.

1. Additional resources for planning, scoping and community engagement. (10 votes)
   1. Planning: Additional staff and IT resources
   2. Scoping: Visualization tools and more funding
   3. Community Engagement: Scenario planning
2. Community engagement: planners need to be involved, initiate. “Be in touch with community” (9 votes)
   1. Project doesn’t have money or sufficient staffing
3. Increase planning capacity to support project development (5 votes)
4. Fix legislative disconnects (run arounds) (5 votes)
5. Provide generic list of Performance Measures (4 votes)
6. More approvals at region level (4 votes)
7. Allow for legislative intent in project solicitation (2 votes)
8. Reduce paperwork (2 votes)
9. Take the legislature out of the selection process (2 votes)
   1. Briefings
   2. Educate legislators (all elected)
10. Major policy changes (e.g., D.M. Nov 15) need to have more emphasis on the planning and organization of training (1 vote)
11. Define better change management process (1 vote)
12. Electronic signatures (1 vote)
13. Clean, overall performance framework needed (1 vote)
14. Minimize inconsistencies between regions (1 vote)
15. Better handoff of info from planning to design (1 vote)
16. Get better, current data (1 vote)
17. Better planning – proactive (1 vote)
18. Revisit required documentation dependent on type or size of project (1 vote)
19. Connecting PEL/Environmental documentation/IJR (1 vote)
20. Devote more resources to scoping (1 vote)
21. Additional regional approval authority (WSDOT regions) (1 vote)
22. Additional region input on programming priorities (1 vote)
23. Expand P1 program to provide for spot safety and other low cost context solutions (1 vote)

The process improvements below were generated during the breakout, but received no votes.

• Educate public on processes
• Separate “Pre-Design” phase
• Early environmental/documentation “phase”
• Trusting/value planning process no checklists
• More influence to prioritize
• Clearly identify who is prioritizing and scoping projects
• Better communication: better planning and design