Group Report: Logan River - Objectives Report

NOTE 1: Class in two weeks will be on THURSDAY October 19. Because that Thursday is Friday and Friday 20 October is Fall Break

NOTE 2: This assignment is due Wednesday evening October 18. I need to be able to review your assignments in order to set up class for THURSDAY October 19.

On Friday 6 October, we had a very productive meeting with key Logan River players. Together, we filled the white board with preferences, goals, concerns of all stakeholder groups. Joe will be posting photographs of the notes. Your job is to capture all of the preferences, goals, concerns, as best as possible, using no more than six (appropriate, local) objectives.  There should be one metric for each objective.

--> You should first do the previous assignment (MCDA Practice) so you have a good idea about how an MCDA works from beginning to end.

Your should review all of the notes from 6 October. Here are my slides Download slides

from the intro. Slide 26 provides a summary of general goals developed November 2014 for the entire reach between Main St and 10th West. Slide 28 is a blank table. But what really matters are the notes from the whiteboard. It would be very helpful if each of you did your own work organizing the notes and then assembled your findings as a group. I would advise evaluating the notes in terms of potential objectives and metrics, which generally fall into just a few broad categories: infrastructure, flooding, ecosystem (plant or animal populations, water quality), aesthetic, safety, or recreational preferences, cost.

Your assignment is to

(1) Present four to six broad goals, with associated appropriate local objective and metric, that provide the most effective representation of stakeholder interests and concerns. For each goal, you should include notes regarding the social, watershed, and ecosystem context and any challenges or opportunities that arise from that context.

(2) You should provide text giving the rationale for your choices. Your text should include discussion of any goals or concerns that are not captured in your objective list.

(3) Package your results in a memo report from your consulting firm. Imagine that you have been retained to facilitate structured decision making for the LRTF and you are providing a proposed set of objectives for moving forward with the design alternatives for the Golf Course Reach.

What happens next? In class on THURSDAY October 19, we will discuss all of the group's choices for objectives and settle on a common set. We will then

(1) bang out a quick set of design alternatives
(2) score those design alternatives against the common objectives (very roughly)
(3) evaluate the weighted scores for different alternatives using different preference weights

This will take you through the first complete iteration of loops 1 and 2 of the structured decision making. A good place to be two months before your conceptual design alternatives are due!