Here is the digital version of Gina's Phone Survey and Community Group Survey Comparison - please take a look at it. Thanks for all of the work you put into this Gina!
Thanks to all who participated in
our last EHAT meeting of the year last week! We had a great discussion about
survey results and next steps for the environmental health assessment
process.
To briefly fill everyone in, the
environmental health assessment process will continue into 2008 through a CARE
grant from the US EPA. Kat Hall, Environmental Health Program Director at The
Lands Council khall@landscouncil.org or 209-2403,
will facilitate this process, with help from Program Assistant, Nicole Powell npowell@landscouncil.org or
209-2404. If you have ideas, questions or concerns about how the process will
move forward on our top two priorities: lead and built environment, please
contact them. I will be turning over all your contact information to
them.
I’ve attached the Dec. 12th meeting
notes. For those of you who were unable to attend, you will be
receiving a copy of the evaluation form in the mail in the next few days.
PLEASE fill it out and mail it back to the Regional Health District. Your
feedback is valuable!
I will be emailing out a draft final
report by Wednesday of this week. If you would like to provide feedback, please
feel free to email me. This report will be shipped out to Lyndia Tye at the
Health District by Friday and she will pass it on to DOH, which provided funding
for this first year of our process.
Thanks to everyone for all their
hard work this year. I will miss seeing you every month!
Amber
Thanks to all who participated in
our meeting last week, the meetings notes are in an attachment to this post. We got through a lot of material, better understood
Spokane
County’s environmental
health issues, and prioritized those issues and activities that we thought
should continue to be worked on in 2008.
In a nutshell, this is where we
landed:
After hearing extensive reports on
over 9 issues and multiple possible activities, the group decided to select the
main areas (issues) we want to put time and energy into and worry about
activities later.
Thus, each EHAT member was given two
red dots and asked to vote for two of the issues on the board. The five issues
(plus one activity) were those ranked medium to high priority. Here is how the
voting worked out:
Other activity (advocate for CO
Detectors) – 1 vote; Built Environment – 9 votes; outdoor air quality – 1 vote;
mold – 1 vote; dioxins (no votes); lead – 8 votes;
Thus, you can see that the majority
of dots fell under the “lead” and “built environment” categories -- these will
be the areas to focus on in the upcoming year. However, please note that nothing
from the board falls off! The prioritization process and final report give us a
better understanding of where the community can focus energy using the CARE
grant in the next two years.
We confirmed our LAST meeting date for
Wednesday, Dec. 12th from 12noon-1:30pm at the Downtown Spokane Public Library,
Room 1A (street level on Main
St.). Plan on allowing yourself an extra
5-10 min for parking either in the library garage or next door at Riverpark
Square.
Please plan on attending this last
meeting of the EHAT. Agenda items will include an evaluation of our process,
feedback on the draft report, a discussion about all the survey data that Gina
has analyzed, & brainstorming of next steps for
2008.
Thanks to everyone for all their
hard work this year!
EHAT Meeting on Nov. 28th will be held at West Central Community Center from 11:30am to 1:30pm