In October we will host a workshop to develop improvement projects for our ecosystem planning and funding system.  Please indicate your interest below.  If you attend, we will support you in developing an improvement project, and will bring your project to regional partners and forums, as we seek resources to support improvements to our Planning & Funding System.

After reviewing a list of 39 claims of waste, our small work group has narrowed our focus at an initial workshop.  We selected a set of improvement suggestions in what we are calling the "Planning & Funding System" for several reasons:

1) Our goal is not to identify the hardest problems, but to be successful in prototyping process improvement.
2) While regulatory claims were numerous, they frequently signaled underlying social conflicts that are not amenable to process improvement.  This doesn't mean we discard these claims.
3) The planning and funding system has resources that can be organized to improve itself; the regulatory system is generally overburdened, and has very narrow authorities.
4) The funding system has an existing coordination group hosted by Ecology and RCO; we are not aware of a regulatory equivalent.
5) Ultimately, the Regulatory System impacts the effectiveness of the Planning and Funding System, and so initial improvements that recover capacity from planning and funding might be used to improve regulatory systems.

We DID create a list of all submitted claims, and they are available for all to see and consider:
https://salishsearestoration.org/wiki/Continuous_Improvement/Claims

If you are a funder or a project developer, we'd like you to consider attending our workshop, to include both grant and planning program managers and project developers.  Our intent is to focus on technical improvements of system processes among programs.  Attending the workshop means that you want to contribute to such an improvement.  This is not a spectator sport.  We will be defining problems that affect our work and that we want to solve.