DISCUSSION BOARD
PowerCivics Part 4: Discussion Board
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STEP 4: SHAPE YOUR SOLUTION
TAILOR YOUR SOLUTION TO FIT LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND BUILD UPON THE CURRENT POLICY
☐Dig deeper to determine what it took to implement your researched solution, for example, you can look for news accounts about your solutions or contact officials involved with its adoption. How long did it take to put into effect? Were staff reassigned to implement it? Was any staff training required? Was the budget amended to reallocate funds for the new policy?
For this discussion board, see if you can find a news story about your topic and provide a link to it in the discussion board along with a brief summary. If you can’t find a news story, reach out to an official involved with the problem. Share your communication with them in the discussion board. Who did you contact, and what did they say?
☐Review the current policy that you seek to modify or replace and determine if there are any parts of it worth keeping as is or with slight modification.
For this discussion board, determine if there is anything you need to change about your policy, solution, or approach to solving the problem and share it in your post.
☐Consider any feedback or concerns expressed by elected officials or government staff about your proposed policy.
For this discussion board, share any feedback you have received about your proposed solution.
☐Now shape your solution to address the information you’ve collected in the reviews referenced above. The more your solution fits with and positively builds on the current policy, and the more it takes into consideration the feedback of government officials and the hurdles of implementation, the better chance of it being adopted and successfully implemented.
For this discussion board, share your revised solution.
