PROACTIVE CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT PROGRAMS WORK!

This article outlines how public works officials, engineers, and environmental scientists can reduce costs and improve public relations on a municipal project. A proactive approach to citizen involvement includes several important initiatives designed to answer the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a proposed project. The following is a list of useful activities: posting/sending activity flyers to announce predesign tasks, sending personal letters to invite citizens to neighborhood meetings, holding neighborhood meetings, designing with citizen comments in mind, obtaining easement contacts, holding preconstruction neighborhood meetings, sending monthly newsletters, and maintaining onsite project representatives. Actively involving citizens in the design process and keeping them informed during construction allows them to feel as if they played a part in the completion of the project. By actively soliciting citizen comments, design changes can be made prior to the bid period, reducing expensive change orders and saving time.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Civil Engineering News, Incorporated

  1255 Roberts Boulevard, Suite 230
  Kennesaw, GA  United States  30144
• Authors:
  • Wagner, T R
  • Perrow Jr, EJT
  • Reid, T J
• Publication Date: 2000-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 68-73
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering News
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Civil Engineering News, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1051-9629

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication; Construction; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Design; Easements; Meetings; Neighborhoods; Public information programs; Public participation; Public relations; Public works
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change orders
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00795628
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 10 2000 12:00AM