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TECHNICAL MEMOS DOWNLOAD LINKS

Ecosystem Status & Trends: A 2009 Supplement to State of the Sound Reporting (PDF)

Identification of Ecosystem Components and Their Indicators and Targets(PDF)

Using Results Chains to Develop Objectives and Performance Measures for the 2008 Action Agenda (DOCX)

Identification, Definition and Rating of Threats to the Recovery of Puget Sound (PDF)

Partnership staff has prepared a series of technical memoranda that detail important advancements toward having the performance management system assembled and informing strategic budget decisions by May 2010. The three memoranda focus on the application of the framework provided by the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. The parts of the framework addressed in these memoranda include:

  • Identification and rating of threats to the 2020 goals
  • Identification of ecosystem components and their indicators, and
  • Development of results chains linking strategies and actions to threats and ecosystem components

We are soliciting feedback on the initial work products presented in these technical memos. Each memorandum includes a set of specific guidance questions that will serve as a guide for focusing the review. While reviewer feedback on the entirety of the content is welcome, feedback that addresses the guidance questions directly will be the most useful and relevant in informing future decisions driving the form and function of the performance management system. The feedback the Partnership receives will be used to both refine the material presented and to help us set a prioritized work plan that will focus our work on building the performance management system.

The work presented in these memoranda is the result of several months of intense work by Partnership staff and numerous contributors from a range of other entities committed to the success of the Action Agenda. The Partnership extends our thanks to these contributors, who are specifically noted in the respective documents, and to their home organizations for making their contributions possible.

In order to facilitate timely incorporation of review feedback into the next steps of the work, comments are due to the Partnership by December 4, 2009. Comments can be submitted to the Partnership at actionagenda@psp.wa.gov. Comments can also be sent through the regular mail to the Partnership at the following address:

Attn: Martha Neuman
Puget Sound Partnership
P. O. Box 40900
Olympia, WA 98504-0900