Plans, templates and tools
Planning
- Project Development-Public Engagement Continuum – guidance on how to engage with the public throughout the project development
- Strategic Framework for Public Engagement Planning – a step-by-step approach in developing a public engagement plan
- IAP2 Spectrum of Public Engagement – used to select the level of participation that defines the public's role in engagement plans
- Public Engagement Planning Process – a tool to clarify goals for participation and engagement
- Business Impact Mitigation Checklist – a tool to identify and address construction impact to area business from planning through scoping and early detail design
- Community Noise Engagement Process – provides a two‐way communications tool between the community and project team
- Conflict Assessment & Management Process - The five-step CAMP process helps MnDOT personnel strategically plan for and address potential and known conflicts that arise during MnDOT work.
Executing
- Traditional public involvement – a menu of traditional approaches to informing and involving stakeholders and the public
- Removing barriers to public engagement – a matrix of outreach tools and tactics to encourage and overcome barriers to public engagement
- Language services – a MnDOT contract with professional language service providers statewide to provide sign language interpretation and foreign language interpretation and translation
Documenting
- Documentation – a tool to record-related public engagement activity
Measuring
- Contact Nate Lassila, Market Research Coordinator, for information on conducting quantitative and qualitative research on the effectiveness on outreach and engagement efforts