preliminary actions - "Planning" in real time

approaching organization

of concerned citizenry

and information

to prepare with communicable accounts

for a digital platform

 

community problem solving

communication beginning at different levels of city or region like peer to peer (degree of separation) discussion and records

- including comparative costs by vendor

- working towards a budget with multiple items

- make use of existing infrastructure like community center spaces and traditional modes of communication like everyday talking, posters, and newspaper classifieds

- continue to keep records in account and collect them to signal readiness for more comprehensive digital platform

- allow larger scale projects to emerge from elimination by practical difficulties like overall costs and competitive procurement

projective accounts to discover and recall desirables

- include items of upgrade or expansion of potential currently apparently beyond budget

- discover new possibilities through travel, periodicals, and internet search including image search

- catalog possibilities before investigating costs, which often are given as an overestimate as negotiation towards mutual and even common benefit is never out of the question

reworking city or regional budgets

to check off smaller doable projects

- prioritize projects by practical urgency or popular support

- include acquisition of tools like street maintenance machinary or tendering for expertise by same manner of prioritization

learning to quantitatively scale a project

- eg. one water fountain = very small; 2500 water fountains = small to medium

        remove asbestos (if many cases of related cancers found in an area compared to standards in other regions, then necessary ie. urgent) in 2000 dwellings and 150 public structures = medium to large

        new road to replace a commonly used dirt road extending 50 miles = medium

        replace all street lights in a region of a state with LED = medium to large

        solar panel power generation for a town of 15000 = large

        new highway system including several new segments and one new stretch = very large

- scale has to do with cost and viability

- but scale is not the same as urgency or importance; 

   therefore, comparing one town's needs and a city's calls is not appropriate - 

   using information about another locale's upgrades
   as a reference to search for new appropriate upgrades for one's own locale
   makes that data relevant and applicable

- some ways to qualify a project -   

   Urgent | Necessary | Required | ToDo

   Important | Relevant | Future-oriented

towards acquisition and or procurement