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<br />Feedback & Next Steps <br /> By presenting these activities to our peers we were able to gain some valuable feedback <br />and insights that will be helpful in future refinement of the engagement strategies. It is <br />important for city staff or whoever may be conducting engagement to be mindful of the <br />question they are asking and the format they are presenting/gathering community feedback. <br />Both of those things can have an impact on the comments or type of comments that are <br />received. In our activity, we asked a broad, open-ended question - What do natural resources <br />mean to you? It may be more helpful in the future if we add more specificity to the question or <br />add a definition of natural resources. Some people may not know what we are asking since <br />natural resources is a confusing term. By adding key terms or further explanations, we may <br />receive more refined comments from residents. Another thing we should be aware of is asking <br />people to write down their response. In asking them to do this we are assuming many things - <br />that they are literate, fluent in English, comfortable spelling, etc. Another way of getting <br />responses might be to have images - cut-outs of trees, river, clouds, fishing, etc. - that people <br />can use for their response. This might appeal to and reach a larger audience, allowing more <br />community voices to be heard. <br />Appendix A.1 <br />Image courtesy of Liz Scherber <br />Appendix A.2 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />20 <br /> <br />