Context Sensitive Solutions Technical Assistance: Washington State Department of Transportation
Appendix C
Appendix C presents the process improvements from Appendix B, aggregated into six overarching issues and desires.
- Better scope definition and community engagement early in the process
- Additional resources for planning, scoping and community engagement (10 votes)
- Planning: Additional staff and IT resources
- Scoping: Visualization tools and more funding
- Community Engagement: Scenario planning
- Community engagement: planners need to be involved, initiate Be in touch with community (9 votes)
- Project doesn’t have money or sufficient staffing
- Increase planning capacity to support project development (5 votes)
- Better handoff of info from planning to design (1 vote)
- Get better, current data (1 vote)
- Better planning – proactive (1 vote)
- Connecting PEL/Environmental documentation/IJR (1 vote)
- Devote more resources to scoping (1 vote)
- Better alignment between state legislature involvement with WSDOT projects and the realities of delivering transportation projects
- Allow for legislative intent in project solicitation (2 votes)
- Fix legislative disconnects (run arounds) (5 votes)
- Take the legislature out of the selection process (2 votes)
- Briefings
- Educate legislators (all elected)
- Consistency from region to region and balance of decision making between headquarters and the regions
- More approvals at region level (4 votes)
- Minimize inconsistencies between regions (1 vote)
- Additional regional approval authority (WSDOT regions) (1 vote)
- Additional region input on programming priorities (1 vote)
- Develop better Performance Metrics and a process for how to use them
- Provide generic list of Performance Measures (4 votes)
- Clean, overall performance framework needed (1 vote)
- Facilitating and tracking flow of a project through delivery
- Reduce paperwork (2 votes)
- Define better change management process (1 vote)
- Electronic signatures (1 vote)
- Revisit required documentation dependent on type or size of project (1 vote)
- Ensuring that policy gets into the trenches
- Major policy changes (e.g., D.M. Nov 15), need to have more emphasis on the planning and organization of training (1 vote)