MDI Tomorrow Transportation Meeting 09/12/02

Somesville Fire Station

Attendance:Ý Stephanie Clement, Jim Fisher, Bill Haefele, Ann Krieg, Ken Olson

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I. Report from the Steering Committee

Stephanie reported that the Bar Harbor Times and the Mt. Desert Islander have agreed to run a series of op-ed pieces leading up to the November Island Networking conference.Ý The op-ed pieces will be drafted by each of the issue committees and will focus on the scope of the issues and the data collected for the State of the Island report.Ý They will also issue a rallying cry for folks to attend the November conference.Ý The transportation committee has been assigned the date of October 17^th, so the op-ed piece must be completed and submitted to the papers by Friday, October 11^th.Ý Stephanie asked for volunteers to either write or sign our committeeís report.

Stephanie also said that because the op-ed piece is supposed to focus on data collected, we need folks to complete their research, if possible, by September 20^th.Ý She asked for volunteers to compile the information into the transportation section of the State of the Island report.Ý She reported that at a minimum, the committee could simply include the raw data as an appendix to the report and display the op-ed piece up front as the transportation ìState of the Islandî.Ý

Stephanie added that we need to develop a transportation section for the MDI Tomorrow website.Ý Marla Major has drafted a list of needs and Stephanie will try to gather this information for Marla.Ý However, if anyone has pertinent links or reports that could serve as references on the site, please send them to Stephanie or Marla at Friends of Acadia.Ý

II.Ý List of indicators

The committee went through the list of indicators to determine status on data collection and to review who signed up to research these indicators.Ý Stephanie will send reminders to those not at the meeting and will ask others who have not attended the past couple of meetings to share any information they might have.Ý All data/maps can be sent to Stephanie who will forward them to whomever writes the op-ed piece and/or State of the Island report.Ý

III.Ý Next meeting

No future meetings were set until the draft transportation section of the ìState of the Islandî report is ready for review.

Respectfully submitted,

Stephanie M. Clement