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Understanding of Need faith -based organizations will be asked to distribute flyers and publicize the events through their networks. The city will post information on the city website about the design charrette events. Collectively, SAAS nonprofit partners serve approximately 12,000 community members annually. While most of SAAS partners work is concentrated in Santa Ana, their work reaches all of Orange County.-The SAAS coalition has numerous valued partnerships with Santa Ana stakeholders in the education, health, housing, public safety, economic, and transportation sector, including businesses, schools, nonprofit, faith based entities, government officials and agencies such as: Santa Ana's Building Healthy Communities Initiative,The Califor- nia Endowment El Centro Cultural de Mexico Alliance for a Health Orange County Orange County Health Care Agency Santa Ana Police Department City of Santa Ana Community Development Block Grant Orange County Bicycle Coalition Orange County Wheelmen Santa Ana Unified School District St. Joseph's Health Network C & C Development Edison International Outreach efforts will include distributing flyers during meetings, community events, resource fairs and workshops that are already connecting with community or programmed within. Task2.4: Media Outreach KPA will lead this effort with assistance from SAAS and will produce announcements and press releases to be distributed to local media. Information on the project will be included in the city newsletter as well as in newsletters issued by council members. Information will also be broadcast on the city's cable channel. The team intends to use social media, but is also cognizant of its impact for residents and organizations with limited online capabil- ities.To supplement using the city's website resources and NIXEL database, the KTU +A team will utilize its own resources and social media presence, especially SAAS'numerous platforms to inform the public of upcoming events and review materials. Task 2.5: Advisory Group Meeting #2 The KTU +A team will conduct the second Advisory Group Meet- ing, which will be held approximately one month before the Com- munity Design Charrette, to assist with outreach.This meeting will entail the details of the charrette such as date, time, location and schedule of activities. A discussion of" lessons learned "from the Downtown Complete Streets Plan's outreach efforts can also be conducted to initiate additional activities and outreach methods. At this time, the team will get final input from the advisory group and Identify volunteers who can help facilitate the workshop activities and conduct additional outreach with their constituents. Task Deliverables Agenda, Participants List, Meeting Notes, Copies of Outreach Mate- rials, List ofAgencies, Organizations Distributing Outreach Material, Press Releases, NewsletterArticies, Media List, Agenda, Participant List, Meeting Notes Task 3: Community Design Charrettes The KTU +A team will organize a three to five day design char - rette.The purpose of the charrette will be to work with residents, businesses and other key stakeholders to develop a commu- nity- driven plan for improving access and mobility on the five corridors and selected connectors. The charrette will Include a variety of activities to engage residents in the planning process. Task 3.1 outlines a few activities that can be further discussed in the Advisory Group Meetings.The intent of these activities is to develop planning and design recommendations that can help "complete "the study area. Based from experience from Down- town Complete Streets Plan charrette, we have also included two alternate charrette schedules that can be explored further with the Advisory Group. Task 3.1: Community Design Charrette The draft schedule of activities for the multi -day charrette will include: Tour the study with staff and Advisory Group members A tour of the study area will take place with city staff and Advisory Group members. Handouts with basic corridor and study area in- formation will be available for participants to take notes and facil- itate ideas. Information on these handouts may include collisions, road geometry, land use and demographics. Since the corridors are not always connected, the KTU +A team will work with the city Central Santa Ana Complete Streets Plan RFP No.: 15-067 251 -15 12