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Public Solutions
- Salt Lake Solutions - Salt Lake Solutions, based on the PCI Solutions System, is Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker's new initiative to incorporate collaborative governance into decision-making on public issues in Salt Lake City government.
- Lewis and Clark's Fort to the Sea Trail - Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson describes how she convened a project to construct a trail commemorating the route Lewis and Clark took to reach the Pacific Ocean from their shelter at Fort Clatsop during the winter of 1805 to 1806.
Legislators as Conveners
- The Power to Convene - Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe identifies the authority that state legislators have to bring people together to reach a consensus.
- The Keys to Convening - Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe describes how to be a convener.
- The Road to Progress - Texas State Senator and former Mayor of Austin Kirk Watson presents his views on convening a group to address highway planning in the Texas Hill Country. The University of Texas Law School's Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution designed a collaborative process for the project and provided facilitation for meetings of stakeholders.
- Maine's Many Flags, One Campus - Maine State Representative Chris Rector shares how the convening process led to the creation of collaborative educational opportunities in his district.
- Lewis and Clark's Fort to the Sea Trail - Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson describes how she convened a project to construct a trail commemorating the route Lewis and Clark took to reach the Pacific Ocean from their shelter at Fort Clatsop during the winter of 1805 to 1806.
- A Utah Perspective - Utah State Representative Ralph Becker discusses a situation where Utah state legislatures used a collaborative process to address a conflict among local governmental entities over a regional water treatment facility. Here he talks about how that project developed and what he and his colleagues learned from convening it.
For University Centers
- The University's Role in Collaborative Processes - Former EPA director William D. Ruckelshaus speaks to representatives from university centers and programs at the PCI / Ruckelshaus Center workshop in April 2007 about how universities can assist states with collaborative problem solving.
- Working with Legislators in Collaborative Processes - Utah House Minority Leader Ralph Becker speaks to representatives from university centers and programs at the PCI / Ruckelshaus Center workshop in April 2007 about the need for university centers and how those centers can assist state legislators.
Collaborative Governance
John Parr's Thoughts on the Future of Collaborative Governance - John Parr attended PCI’s Board meeting in August, 2007and spoke to the Board about collaborative governance. The current and former PCI directors have sought John’s counsel for many years. John was helping PCI establish a public solutions program with the state of Colorado at the time of his death. PCI was lucky to be able to share this time with John and learn from him so recently.