PA Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Kickoff & Listening Session
Although registration for this event is closed, your input is valuable and requested. The Department has a 35-day open public comment period starting June 3- July 7, 2017. Please consider providing your written comments to the Department at http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol47/47-22/936.html.
You are invited to attend Pennsylvania’s Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) Kickoff and Listening Session.
Details, background information and registration links can be found below. Please note that your active participation is needed to make this kickoff session a success! You are strongly encouraged to thoroughly review the agenda, all materials and Open Space information and participant questions to prepare for this session. The Draft Agenda and Introduction to Open Space are below. Additional information will be emailed to registered attendees the week prior to the meeting.
Registration deadline is Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
Pennsylvania Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Kickoff and Listening Session
June 5, 2017
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
DRAFT Agenda – Note that times and details are subject to change
Meeting Objectives:
-
Exploring how Pennsylvania’s Phase III WIP will be developed this time, including how this phase is different, and how participants may be involved
-
Ensuring that everyone who has needs, concerns and ideas gets to provide input about those needs, concerns and ideas
-
Making that input the most useful for the steering committee and workgroups that will be writing the Phase III WIP.
9:00 Room open, refreshments
9:30 Welcome and Introduction to Pennsylvania Phase III WIP Planning
-
PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Patrick McDonnell
-
PA Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding
-
PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Dunn
-
The WIP Planning Process Nicki Kasi, DEP
10:15 Opening the Space Frank Dukes and Tanya Denckla Cobb, IEN (Facilitators)
There will be three sessions in which you can introduce your own topic or participate in discussions led by others, following this key general question:
-
What initiatives and collaborations in these sectors would help us plan for the Phase III WIP for Pennsylvania?
o Urban and Stormwater
o Wastewater
o Agriculture
o Forestry
o Funding
o Local Planning/Area Goals
10:45 Begin Open Space Session One
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
11:30 Begin Open Space Session Two
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
12:30 Lunch
1:15 Open Space III
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
2:15 Break and Review Work of Breakout Groups
2:45 Closing Plenary
-
What did you learn?
-
What will you do differently because of what you learned?
3:15 Closing – Comments from Secretaries
An Introduction to Open Space for Participants in the Pennsylvania Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) Kickoff
prepared by Frank Dukes and Tanya Denckla Cobb, Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN)
Open Space is a tool for planning that is based on the premise that people will take responsibility to pursue and follow-through what they are passionate about. Open Space is creative, dynamic and high energy. It ensures that all of the issues most important to the group are heard and that those issues will each be addressed by those participants most qualified and most capable of getting something done on each of them.
At the Kickoff and Listening Session, participants will build their own agenda of parallel working sessions around the central strategic theme for the meeting:
-
What initiatives and collaborations in these sectors would help us achieve the goals of the Phase III WIP for Pennsylvania?
o Urban and Stormwater
o Wastewater
o Agriculture
o Forestry
o Funding
o Local Planning/Area Goals
Open Space is essentially a number of parallel, self-managed work sessions – each discussing a specific project, priority or issue; each led by the individual who proposed the topic; and each attended by anybody else in the group who shares an interest in that particular subject.
How will this work? You may choose to lead a work session, yourself, on a topic that you deem worthy of your time and energy. Or you may choose to attend a handful of work sessions led by others. Or you may float around, spreading ideas and enthusiasm between groups. Unless you’ve experienced Open Space, the process may appear unstructured, but in reality, a structure will develop that will perfectly support the people and work at hand. Full details on the logistics will be explained as we get started. Bring trust, enthusiasm and an open mind, and you will undoubtedly be surprised at how satisfying you find the results.
In order to get the most possible out of the Open Space process, we invite you to take time before the Forum to think about what you consider questions, needs, concerns and ideas to develop Pennsylvania’s Phase III WIP for the Chesapeake Bay.
Please ask yourself these questions to prepare for the Kickoff and Listening Session on June 5:
-
What key element needs to be included for this effort to be a success? What burning issues MUST be addressed in the WIP for me to agree the plan would be implementable?
-
What can I, my organization and my sector contribute individually and collectively?
-
Aside from today, what other ways can the Phase III WIP Steering Committee ensure that when asked you can say “Yes, I have been heard.”
-
When 2025 arrives, what measurable outcome do I want to see us achieve that would make me agree that this effort was a success?
-
Is there a particular initiative, action, partnership, training that I am passionate about and would like to make happen?
-
Is there an issue I feel is critical for the group to discuss?
-
Are there possibilities for continuing and enhancing current projects or initiatives?
Since the most viable ideas will be those backed by people who wish to implement them, and because even seemingly far-fetched concepts can lead to something doable, consider where you would like to focus your energy and come prepared to share and discuss ideas, and, if you’d like, to lead a work session!
Links for Additional Information
Learn more about Pennsylvania’s work and progress on restoring the health of local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed at:
EPA Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL):
https://www.epa.gov/chesapeake-bay-tmdl
For those who would like to learn more about Open Space, visit:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace
Or view the following video about Open Space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_jhcvCYBbg
Accommodations
Individual Sleeping Room accommodations can be made at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg. No sleeping room block has been reserved for this event, but attendees can make their own reservations.
Radisson Hotel Harrisburg
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Ph: 717.763.7117
Parking is FREE.
Although registration for this event is closed, your input is valuable and requested. The Department has a 35-day open public comment period starting June 3- July 7, 2017. Please consider providing your written comments to the Department at http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol47/47-22/936.html.
You are invited to attend Pennsylvania’s Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) Kickoff and Listening Session.
Details, background information and registration links can be found below. Please note that your active participation is needed to make this kickoff session a success! You are strongly encouraged to thoroughly review the agenda, all materials and Open Space information and participant questions to prepare for this session. The Draft Agenda and Introduction to Open Space are below. Additional information will be emailed to registered attendees the week prior to the meeting.
Registration deadline is Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
Pennsylvania Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Kickoff and Listening Session
June 5, 2017
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
DRAFT Agenda – Note that times and details are subject to change
Meeting Objectives:
-
Exploring how Pennsylvania’s Phase III WIP will be developed this time, including how this phase is different, and how participants may be involved
-
Ensuring that everyone who has needs, concerns and ideas gets to provide input about those needs, concerns and ideas
-
Making that input the most useful for the steering committee and workgroups that will be writing the Phase III WIP.
9:00 Room open, refreshments
9:30 Welcome and Introduction to Pennsylvania Phase III WIP Planning
-
PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Patrick McDonnell
-
PA Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding
-
PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Dunn
-
The WIP Planning Process Nicki Kasi, DEP
10:15 Opening the Space Frank Dukes and Tanya Denckla Cobb, IEN (Facilitators)
There will be three sessions in which you can introduce your own topic or participate in discussions led by others, following this key general question:
-
What initiatives and collaborations in these sectors would help us plan for the Phase III WIP for Pennsylvania?
o Urban and Stormwater
o Wastewater
o Agriculture
o Forestry
o Funding
o Local Planning/Area Goals
10:45 Begin Open Space Session One
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
11:30 Begin Open Space Session Two
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
12:30 Lunch
1:15 Open Space III
This breakout group time will allow you to participate in sessions that are of most interest to you and to your organization.
2:15 Break and Review Work of Breakout Groups
2:45 Closing Plenary
-
What did you learn?
-
What will you do differently because of what you learned?
3:15 Closing – Comments from Secretaries
An Introduction to Open Space for Participants in the Pennsylvania Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) Kickoff
prepared by Frank Dukes and Tanya Denckla Cobb, Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN)
Open Space is a tool for planning that is based on the premise that people will take responsibility to pursue and follow-through what they are passionate about. Open Space is creative, dynamic and high energy. It ensures that all of the issues most important to the group are heard and that those issues will each be addressed by those participants most qualified and most capable of getting something done on each of them.
At the Kickoff and Listening Session, participants will build their own agenda of parallel working sessions around the central strategic theme for the meeting:
-
What initiatives and collaborations in these sectors would help us achieve the goals of the Phase III WIP for Pennsylvania?
o Urban and Stormwater
o Wastewater
o Agriculture
o Forestry
o Funding
o Local Planning/Area Goals
Open Space is essentially a number of parallel, self-managed work sessions – each discussing a specific project, priority or issue; each led by the individual who proposed the topic; and each attended by anybody else in the group who shares an interest in that particular subject.
How will this work? You may choose to lead a work session, yourself, on a topic that you deem worthy of your time and energy. Or you may choose to attend a handful of work sessions led by others. Or you may float around, spreading ideas and enthusiasm between groups. Unless you’ve experienced Open Space, the process may appear unstructured, but in reality, a structure will develop that will perfectly support the people and work at hand. Full details on the logistics will be explained as we get started. Bring trust, enthusiasm and an open mind, and you will undoubtedly be surprised at how satisfying you find the results.
In order to get the most possible out of the Open Space process, we invite you to take time before the Forum to think about what you consider questions, needs, concerns and ideas to develop Pennsylvania’s Phase III WIP for the Chesapeake Bay.
Please ask yourself these questions to prepare for the Kickoff and Listening Session on June 5:
-
What key element needs to be included for this effort to be a success? What burning issues MUST be addressed in the WIP for me to agree the plan would be implementable?
-
What can I, my organization and my sector contribute individually and collectively?
-
Aside from today, what other ways can the Phase III WIP Steering Committee ensure that when asked you can say “Yes, I have been heard.”
-
When 2025 arrives, what measurable outcome do I want to see us achieve that would make me agree that this effort was a success?
-
Is there a particular initiative, action, partnership, training that I am passionate about and would like to make happen?
-
Is there an issue I feel is critical for the group to discuss?
-
Are there possibilities for continuing and enhancing current projects or initiatives?
Since the most viable ideas will be those backed by people who wish to implement them, and because even seemingly far-fetched concepts can lead to something doable, consider where you would like to focus your energy and come prepared to share and discuss ideas, and, if you’d like, to lead a work session!
Links for Additional Information
Learn more about Pennsylvania’s work and progress on restoring the health of local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed at:
EPA Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL):
https://www.epa.gov/chesapeake-bay-tmdl
For those who would like to learn more about Open Space, visit:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace
Or view the following video about Open Space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_jhcvCYBbg
Accommodations
Individual Sleeping Room accommodations can be made at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg. No sleeping room block has been reserved for this event, but attendees can make their own reservations.
Radisson Hotel Harrisburg
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Ph: 717.763.7117
Parking is FREE.