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From:Eric Veium <
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Subject:RE: Tonight's council meeting Item 8 CCE Governance MOU with Morro Bay
Honorable Mayor and Council,
I wanted to provide some brief feedback and a request regarding the draft MOU with Morro Bay for shared governance
on the MBCP CCE Boards (Policy/Ops/Community Advisory).
In summary, please amend the MOU to include a structure for coordinating strategic communications (i.e position
statements) between SLO City and Morro Bay that encourages community engagement and stakeholder buy-in around
important issues/decisions under consideration by the MBCP boards.
Since SLO and Morro Bay share a seat on MBCP, a larger, more regional, more remote CCE, it is clear that unless we are
active in being heard, our interests, the benefits we accrue locally, and our commitment to being a model of climate
leadership will be subdued. It is imperative that we be proactive and thorough in encouraging and facilitating
communications between the SLO City and Morro Bay community leaders, staff, and stakeholders to make sure that we
are as impactful as possible in our strategic communications to the MBCP boards.
In reviewing the MOU, I noticed there isn't a clear structure for communication between Policy/Ops/CAC members and
also between the community not currently selected for policy board (Morro Bay). Structure creates behavior. The
behavior we want is proactive and coordinated issue positions that have wide-spread stakeholder buy-in. The MOU is
the correct place to create a formal structure whereby we are proactive in monitoring important issues and then
develop position statements that we then circulate to interested stakeholders for comment and buy-in prior to
communicating them through our representatives to the appropriate MBCP board.
Once again, please amend the MOU to include a structure for coordinating strategic communications (i.e position
statement development) between SLO City and Morro Bay that encourages community engagement and stakeholder
buy-in around important issues/decisions under consideration by the MBCP boards.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Eric Veium
Task Force Chair / CCE Working Group Lead
SLO Climate Coalition
eric@carbonfreeslo.org
805.835.3669
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