WCPPA Leadership Team
February 2, 2005
8 am to 2 pm
Lookout Conference Room, Bldg 2

Capitol Campus, Olympia, Washington

MINUTES

Attending:

Amy Shumann, Gwen Moni, Alex Stone, Jane Moore, Don Willott, Charlotte Claybrooke, Clarissa Ruston, Steve Daley, Kyle Unland, Brad Payne, Jim French, Shannon Turner, Liz McNett Crowl, Eileen Finnigan, Diane Evans

8:15 Call to order

Introductions and Round Table

Liz reacquainted us with the purpose of the round table discussion—to share work that is pertinent to WCPPA that others would benefit from hearing (for the purposes of potential collaboration, partnerships). Also, it’s not a time to bring up items on the agenda, which will be discussed later.

Amy Shumann (Public Health: Seattle & King County) reported that PHSKC, UW and King County Board of Health sponsored an overweight/obesity symposium last fall, and as a result of that, workgroups have been formed to work on 3 specific areas: Nutrition, Active Community Environments, and Physical Activity. Amy will be staffing the PA workgroup, of which there will probably be 3 meetings, leading into a follow-up symposium in May. Cheza Garvin (PHSKC) is providing the public health leadership position, and Willie Austin of the Austin Foundation is the chair. One of the tools they are using to do planning is Liz’s Healthy Community Mount Vernon Project plan, which Amy showed to the planners of the symposium, and Amy stated that the obesity symposium should aspire to this model. She said they would keep us posted on outcomes. The Active Transportation Coalition has come together to advocate for transportation policies and funding for AT. They have developed a draft brochure for asking for money for cycling routes, walking trails, etc.

Gwen Moni (UW Health Promotion Research Center ) works in physical activity and serves as the primary coordinator for the Healthy Aging Research Network. They are one of a bunch of centers addressing the aging topics; PA has been a first focus for that group. The Center has been looking for a community PA coordinator to do a 5-yr demonstration in southeast Seattle to promote physical activity on the community level.

Jane Moore (Primary Care Physician in Tacoma) has interests in increasing PA in patients. She also works for the WA Team for Action for Healthy Kids, which she will be talking about later. In Pierce Co Medical Society, there is a project going on which has physicians setting a good example in encouraging their patients to exercise. She also spoke about school district Nutr and PA policy and increasing awareness about it in the public health and scientific arenas.

Don Willott: (Bainbridge Non-Motorized Transportation Advisory to the city) This group has just finished its first year. The Bainbridge city council decided that since non-motorized transportation was so popular on the island, they gave them a budget of $1.6 million, of which training cost $100,000 in the first year. Don has been concerned with access to universal design for the downtown and is currently working on initiatives. He is also working on senior activity and resources for people with disabilities. He mentioned that Rory Calhoun might be able to provide trainings for WCPPA. Rory Calhoun is a recreation accessibility specialist with the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation in Olympia. Don passed around a free pamphlet from US DOT on universal design: Accessible Sidewalks and Street Crossings: On the Safe Side (FHWA-SA-03-017) is a newly released poster-sized brochure that condenses much of the information in the Part 2: Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access: Best Practices Design Guide. One side of the poster has information on the legal framework for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, understanding sidewalk users, sidewalk corridors, sidewalks grades and cross slopes, sidewalk surfaces, protruding objects in the pedestrian environment, driveway crossings, curb ramps, accessible pedestrian signals, and pedestrian crossings. Much of the second side of the brochure contains a map that demonstrates how various ADA treatments look in the roadway environment. (info taken from http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/ped/pedforum/pedforum_winter04.htm ) You can order this (look for the brochure document entitled, “ Accessible Sidewalks and Street Crossings”) for free at http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/walk/order/order3.htm

Charlotte Claybrooke (WA State Dept of Transportation) has been continuing to work on the Safe Routes to School project and asking for funding this year again from the legislature for enforcement projects. She is also continuing to work on the Active Community Environments projects with the WA Dept of Health on projects in Spokane and the counties of King, Pierce, Snohomish, Kitsap, and Skagit. They are updating the Washington State Tranportation Plan. The core plan is called “Health and the Environment” and can be found on the WS DOT website at http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D96590E4-20F7-4172-90D5-0C5FA2A5C4B3/0/HealthEnviro_012405.pdf to see what it looks like; there is an addendum that goes along with it for bicyclists/pedestrians. They’ve had a call for projects around the state, in places where sidewalks/trails are needed, etc. She asked for input from everyone. She is trying to put the input all together by the middle of February, and is trying make a strong case for a realistic representation of what needs to be done around the state.

Clarissa Ruston (City of Auburn Parks and Rec Dept) is also a member of the Washington Recreation and Park Association (WRPA) and serves the athletic/fitness section together with Steve Daley. They try to represent their sections specific to wellness and fitness programs more than on “athletics” per se. She is currently serving on a citizens ad hoc committee for the Auburn School District, and is co-chair of a subcommittee of study of the district’s policy and procedures with childhood fitness and education, which is a huge undertaking. One of the most challenging parts of this is defining what is fitness, what is nutrition, and what these standards do for children.

Steve Daley (Parks and Rec) stated that WRPA and NRPA has a list of grants nationally for promoting health and promoting programs for children and youth (he passed it around), also, the NRPA is having the “Step Up to Health” summit in Tacoma in February which is a program that addresses how NRPA can impact sedentary lifestyles and what they can do to help to create healthy environments. The American Planning Association has put out information about the benefits of parks and recreation in revitalizing communities and dovetails with everything we do in WCPPA, such as improving trails, bikes, and health from a parks and rec standpoint and a with a community focus.

Brad Payne (city of Olympia) is a physical therapist by trade and is interested in learning about resources for physical activity and nutrition.

Kyle Unland (WA DOH, nutrition and physical activity coordinator) stated that they’re in the cycle of grant renewal through the CDC for renewing their Obesity Prevention Grant, this year they are applying for $1.5 million, versus last year’s $1.1 million, to help support increased efforts around physical activity and nutrition. The WCPPA is being targeted to receive $50K of this grant and Kyle is trying to find efforts we can throw into our application for this funding. DOH is also working to create stronger physical activity linkages with STEPS to a HealthierWA, which includes the Seattle-area STEPS projects as well as Clark, Thurston, Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan Counties, and Colville Tribe. The new PA and Nutr plan projects which are funded through the Preventative Health Block Grant (out of DOH) include the counties of Island, Skagit, Grays Harbor, Kittitas, Tacoma, and Cowlitz. Some of these counties have planning grants, and will be doing planning sessions to bring PA to the forefront, coming up with a plan for implementation. DOH staff will be providing technical assistance for this project and would appreciate any outside volunteer technical assistance as well. They are also working on legislation activities, as there are a couple of PA bills that are going through. They are getting close to filling their PA position at DOH, and are also looking to hire a communications person to work on publicizing the State Plan, WCPPA and other PA-related groups in the state.

Jim French (WA State Parks) stated that they have recognized that promoting physical activity is important, but they don’t yet have PA programs in the state parks. He stated that they one of the barriers to people being able to use parks is that there is a parking fee. They recently testified for Senator Franklin’s bill in that their agency was encouraged to find additional ways to provide free and low-cost access to their parks. The legislature has asked them to find new ways to fund the operation of state parks. He believes it is kind of contradictory in that they have to look at decreased general funding for the state parks, so they have to find their own money, but providing additional free access to parks made it a bit of a bind, as they have to increase free access at the cost of being able to operate the park. They were able to talk to Senator Franklin about it, and reached a compromise: Parks could benefit from the legislation, by promotion of the number of people who already have free access to parks: low-income folks, people w/ disabilities and volunteers, (the legislature has provided free park access for these groups). Parks wants to be able to promote those opportunities, as these citizens can bike, walk or take the bus to the state parks. They are also working with transportation agencies to get more parks on bus routes, and are trying to develop physical activity programs for these participants.

Shannon Turner (WCPPA Executive Director) stated that she has recently secured 150 Bicycle Maps of Thurston County from Climate Solutions in Olympia and also put together bags of trail mix with the WCPPA logo and the 30-10-5 message on them for the purposes of advocacy in the legislature. She said that if anyone was interested, she and Steve Daley were planning to walk the capitol campus later that day to distribute our message to the legislators’ offices. She also reported that Benita Veskimets has decided to leave the Leadership Team.

Liz McNett Crowl (Coordinator for the Physical Activity Program Office at Skagit Valley Hospital) is one of the recipients of the Preventive Block Grant that the state awarded. They are continuing to work on coalition capacity, which is building partnerships to increase PA for health in Skagit County, and a new undertaking for them will be engaging and undertaking a Healthy Aging Initiative for Skagit County, they need to gather a group of people that we will apply the Healthy Community Project process of bringing leaders together and then working through an intense planning stage, to create the action plan that they will begin to implement in Skagit County that will make it a great place to age, they are specifically targeting the 50-70 age group. They will be working a little deeper into the Active Community Environments work, that was part of the grant as well. In addition to the Preventive Block Grant support, they also received a grant from DSHS, and they’re in the last third of the Innovations in Aging grant they received, they have trained 18 instructors in Tai Chi from the arthritis foundation, which is a program which has never been offered in WA before, there are no trainers in WA, so they are working with the Nat’l and WA Arthritis Foundations to bring a trainer to WA and train them in 3 counties: Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties. They’ve offered 8 pilots now in these counties, and now have even more classes that are being offered. Liz used grant dollars to provide the training, and gave them startup funds, so they could get their programs up and running, they really met all their deliverables in the first 8 months, so they’re redirecting some of the funds, they had a lot of partners give them manuals, and provide things so they didn’t spend the money, so they’re planning to re-train the instructors in Level 2 training, and are also going to grant the State Arthritis Foundation a chunk of money to subsidize the offering of a Level 1 for the state. Therefore, in addition to these 3 counties, all parts of WA will be able to send instructors to this training. It affects not just those with arthritis, but older adults who want to learn Tai Chi which has other benefits as well. The NW PA Coalition is in their final year of funding from Regence Blue Shield. When the Regence Board gave them their 3 rd year of funding, they required the NW PA Coalition to become a 501c(3), but NW PA Coalition did not see any reason for this due to their strong connections with other nonprofits. When they approached board of Regence Blue Shield about this in December, they did not take the money away, which was really nice of them. So now the NW PA Coalition is regrouping and trying to decide how to spend the $42K in their four counties. They are examining structure closely, and looking at how the NW will continue when it doesn’t have an appointed staff person and project dollars. They are going to include a new coalition that is forming in Snohomish County, which has hired a new coordinator for Nutr & PA at the Health Dept, the proposal has been accepted and funded by the health dept. They hope to have Snohomish County as a partner with the NWPAC. Liz also coordinates the Mt Vernon Healthy Community Project, and on pg 25, their webpage is listed, their plan is listed on their project webpage, if you want a hard copy, you can email Liz and she can send it to you. They are also in the process of printing the executive summary, and creating a logo for the project, and will be incorporating that into their work as well. The Healthy Community Project is now in the implementation stage, and the response is overwhelming from the community. There are working committees now working on specific aspects of the plan, and out of this, there is increasing youth PA and improving Nutr at school committee that is working together with the Mt Vernon School Dist, their board agreed to partner with them, and they have gathered a group of about 40 individuals from Mt Vernon to work on School Nutr and PA Policy, that group has already met once, and they plan to have a draft policy proposal for the school board at their Apr 27 meeting. They have also selected a school as their “healthy school pilot” and Lincoln Elem has been selected, they have convened a Planning Team that has met several times, they are going to put on a community forum, for that school community on Feb 24. This will result in a planning team that will use the policy & procedures they create for the school district to pilot in that school for the upcoming year. At the end of June, they want to have an action plan for that school, with action steps, that the parents, teachers, and staff will be committed to undertaking in the fall. They have also formed an Urban Trail Committee, their priority work issue for the year is to explore opportunities for public access on the skagit river levees, it’s going to be a very exciting group, but is a highly contentious issue. Liz is also a member of the WA state bicyle and pedestrian advisory group, and she represents health—a statewide health position which is new—and they have the opportunity to bring the concept to health to this bike/ped group on a regular basis, so she’s happy to be a part of that.

Eileen Finnigan’s number one priority now is to hopefully enhance sample policy that 7 of their school districts in Pierce Co. will be adopting. Tacoma has already put together an ad hoc committee. They have a lay American Youth Leadership Forum to work with the specific school districts on this policy development. This Leadership Forum is comprised of 20 community leaders which includes business CEOs who will work on a 1-year leadership project. The Senate Bill is 5436, last session, which requires the schools to have policies on file. You can go to the Healthy Schools Washington webpage, http://depts.washington.edu/waschool/ , which has resources and a sample policy you can view. Liz said that there is now federal legislation regarding the Wellness Policy, she stated that for those of us who are just beginning to work with the school districts, this is an avenue that gives us an opportunity to take it to the next level with the federal legislation. If you don’t have that info and want to see it, please contact Liz. Kyle stated that it provides a little bit more incentive for schools to match up with the USDA’s school breakfast and lunch programs. Liz said that as you’re developing policies, this information can save you some work later on.

Diane Evans has started engaging with PTA Councils in Pierce Co, and UW Tacoma nursing students are doing a project in which they are surveying the councils to find out what they know about these policies, and trying to engage their interests in being on advisory committees in the school districts.

A treasurer’s report was not given as Linda was not in attendance. Charlotte said she would give Linda a call later and report on the finances.

Executive Director’s Report – Shannon Turner

The Obesity Prevention Grant Planning Meeting occurred on Jan 12, where key contractors in the state discussed funding for the upcoming year (July-June). WCPPA is being allocated $50K for their work. Shannon will be filling out the Obesity Grant template soon, and asked that if anyone has contributions/suggestions for it, please let her know. She notified Tom Wells about the need to get the Turnkey Presentation and the Minutes from last meeting on the website, which have not been uploaded yet. STEPs projects meetings have also been taking place; Shannon had a conference call with Linda Schwartz and Charlotte Claybrooke regarding WCPPA’s STEPS projects. She has also made contact with 2 schools so far—striving to find 4 interested schools in the Burien/Highline/White Center area. She is hoping to get at least 1 rep from each school together for a training soon. A submission was made to Claire Roach for the 4 th Quarterly Update for the WA State PA and Nutr plan for WCPPA. An Annual Meeting conference call was held on January 28, which will be discussed later today. Shannon also attended a Policy Training meeting presented by the Prevention Institute on Jan 14. On Jan 7, there was a meeting of the Physical Activity Policy Network at the HPRC with Mark Doescher, the STEPS PI; the purpose of these meetings is to build infrastructure in bringing groups together to work on PA Policy issues, to bring people together to apply for research grants, and to cross-pollinate research with the community. Others included in this network are: Donna Johnson, Linda Schwartz, David Levinger, Amy Shumann, Gwen Moni and Cheza Collier. The Prevention Research Centers are funded by the CDC, and this is a special interest project for which there was a lot of competition nationally. The PAPN meetings will occur about every 6 weeks. Amy stated that this is an exciting opportunity for a gray area in public health. Shannon also updated that she has been working on her MPH thesis and she thinks it’s about halfway done.

Minutes from Dec 8: Kyle had a question about the financial report of $9400 that was cited by Linda. The group clarified that this was probably carryover that was allocated to deliverables. Kyle also stated that in reference to the extra $20K pot of money available at DOH, the Preventative Health Block Grant funding will be ending for WCPPA, and the Obesity Prevention Grant funds will be picking up the slack for this next year which ends in September. This $20K was earmarked for PA; the Office of Health Promotion has other plans (uses) for these funds to support the Preventative Health Block Grant and the counties that receive those grants. They have asked Kyle to find out what of that $20K the WCPPA needs. Liz said that we could probably tentatively identify some items after looking at the work plan today. Charlotte mentioned that she’d talk to Linda about this on the phone today.

With these clarifications, the Dec 8 minutes were approved.

Jane Moore – Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) and National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA)

Jane has not taken part in the conference call yet for NCPPA, but is planning to do so soon. The NCPPA has a monthly newsletter they send out and Jane encouraged everyone to sign up for it on http://www.ncppa.org/. She said they do a summary of articles for newspapers regarding exercise and health which are usually very interesting and informative, and they have special groups/programs that are going on about range of other organizations that are available. Shannon will try to get this newsletter posted to the listserv on a continuous basis. They also have a monthly activity report on PA bills in state legislatures. They hosted a policy conference last June at which they reviewed PA policies at state and federal level for the past 5 years, they developed a reference manual of comprehensive policies, which also has a summary paper of the conference, which is seen as a good tool for people who are advocating for PA, you can order these policy manuals for $50. Liz stated that she has this huge manual if anyone wants to look at it. Shannon stated that she was talking to one of the presenters at the Policy Training meeting who wanted a copy of this NCPPA policy manual, but they didn’t want to have to pay the $50 for it. For this reason, Shannon stated that it seems like this manual is probably a pretty valuable resource. Liz stated it is really a survey of everything that’s happened in that arena, so you can see what others have done before you undertake that work.

Kyle talked about the upcoming “Environment Policy Training” in the Seattle-Tacoma area on April 28 and 29, which will essentially take the place of the WA Nutr & PA Plan Annual Meeting. The policy training will be targeted to community leaders who work with Nutr, PA , Tobacco, Injury Prevention, etc. It’s going to promote a more global view of how to move environment and policy in your community. A lot of the STEPS facilitators and employer groups should be in attendance. Liz stated that this should be a great way for everyone to learn more about policy and support the work that we’re all doing.

AFHK has been primarily educating legislators about school nutrition and PE. The AHA, ACS, and ADA have sent a letter to WA school boards regarding PE policy and will be hosting a meeting (the one that Shannon will be going to) “The Cost of Obesity” in Olympia on Feb 17. The Childrens Alliance has also been primarily working on school nutrition policies, the website http://depts.washington.edu/waschool/ has lots of resources for PA and Nutr policy, AFHK team has set up a speakers bureau of experts for healthy policies; there is a new brochure being produced which she thinks is available on the website. A couple of people have been working with Washington DECA to have DECA chapters work on increasing access to healthy foods in the schools. There are 3 subcommittees on PE, wa schools teachers and programs to reflect best practices in PE, one on improving education on PA and Nutr, is developing a collection of user-friendly tools for health and fitness instruction, another Health and Nutr subcommittee working on community projects for school nutr policies. There is going to be a Healthy Vending Fair in May in Yakima for schools. The Children’s Alliance has a Children’s Action Network, an advocacy group system called “Get Active;” information about this is available on the website http://www.childrensalliance.org/actnow/childrensaction.htm. Amy asked for more details about the healthy vending fair. Kyle stated that Monica Dixon from Access to Healthy Foods Coalition has been asked to develop this. Right now there is a disconnect between the distributor for the products available and the healthy products that are available. They will be hosting vendors from not only inside, but outside the state, so connections can be made to get these products into the machines here in WA. They also want to feature the refrigerated companies that can hold the perishable products as well. Another aim is for schools to see how the school policy is coming together. This will be probably be held at the Puyallup fairgrounds, not Yakima. Boeing, Microsoft, schools, employers, communities, anyone with vending machines who wants healthier options will be invited to attend. Liz asked if there is any component that could address loss of funding? Kyle stated that there will probably be a session at this vending fair around loss of revenue, that the Access to Healthy Foods Coalition is currently doing 3 pilots around the state about healthier foods, one at Dept of Energy (Hanford), one at DOH, and in school districts. They are tracking revenue in these 3 pilot projects, and hopefully that data will be available by May. He also said that May is still a little tentative at this point, as there is still a lot of work to do. Amy also mentioned that CSPI’s “healthy school foods toolkit” (http://www.cspinet.org/schoolfood/) is very useful—it has talking points for the media, case studies of CA schools that have actually increased their revenue, and features studies showing that kids do make healthier choices when provided with better choices. Amy said she just utilized this toolkit to write a letter to the editor.

Liz—Policy Leadership Group Liz did not make their final meeting of NPA-PLG as they met while she was on vacation, but they selected some priorities but Liz forgot to bring it. She said she would post them on the listserv so we can see what they did. Essentially, they will not meet during the legislative session, but ACS, AHA and others will be using these priority issues to direct some of their advocacy work, and are encouraging others to do the same.

David—Transportation Choices —David not present. Amy gave a brief report. There is a lobby day scheduled for Feb 8. Rob Johnson, legislative liaison for Transportation Choices, has gotten the interest of the Transportation Committee, and has asked Public Health for someone to speak to the Transportation Committee about the link between health and transportation. She is hoping that Barbara Wright, deputy director of Environmental Health, will go.

A discussion then followed about the importance of physical activity in the epidemic of obesity. Liz stated that it is more a “physical inactivity epidemic” than an “obesity epidemic” in that obesity is a marker for physical inactivity, and PA should always be addressed in transportation discussions. Liz said she hoped that Barbara will focus on this in her talk. Amy agreed.

Linda – SACEs –Linda not present. Shannon reported that the SACEs section of the work plan has been revised and prioritized by Linda and David; the new copy is in the work plan.

Jim – Operations Committee— Jim not present. Kyle reported that the Operations Committee met to fine-tune their portion of the work plan; there is a meeting coming up next week with Shannon, Liz, Jane, and Jim during which roles and responsibilities will be addressed. Revision of bylaws should be done by the end of 2005. Steve was designated as another member of the Operations Committee. It was also discussed that membership packets need to be developed by a subcommittee eventually, which includes general members.

Shannon Turner & Gwen Moni— Solicit & confirm nominations of new board, discussion of membership commitment— Gwen stated that according to the bylaws, we need to assemble a new Board by March 31. The current board members include: Liz (Pres), Jane (VP), Linda (Treasurer), Gwen (Sec), and Bob Weathers, Anne Schwartz, Alex Stone, Heleen Dewey, and David Levinger are the members at large. Liz stated that we need to solicit new nominations and will probably assemble a slate and send it out via email for votes. Liz said we need to look at the current slate and determine if we need new (“outside”) people to confirm. She also stated that we might think about asking Bob Weathers to serve again this year, and we should also see if we need more board members.

In terms of IRS filings, Jane Moore stated Tom had been working on this, and Jane would follow up with Linda on where we stand.

It was discussed that the nominating committee will probably be made up of Kyle, Bob, and the new PA person who is to be hired at DOH (later it was discussed that maybe Florence Sheehan would be appointed instead).

It was stated that Ruth Abad has the template of the roles & responsibilities for the Board. We need a clear definition of board roles.

Gwen stated that she thinks that everybody on the LT needs to be on a committee and really commit to working on it outside of LT meetings, and that there needs to be some expectations set down. Otherwise, the coalition cannot move forward. Liz stated that we should develop roles & responsibilities for coalition members, which would feed into the Membership piece (outside of the Operations piece).

Strategic Planning for the Work Plan

Liz stated that in order to get the Work Plan closer to the implementation stage, we need to 1) approve the work plan, 2) identify leadership for each of the sections (committee for each of the sections) and 3) clear prioritization and sub-action steps so we can begin to see movement forward between LT meetings. The prioritization will be reflected in the final draft that will get approved today.

The document was adopted as the official Work Plan for 2004-2006.

Liz stated that if each group discussed the top 3 items (+ action steps, names assigned, and timeline if possible), they will then be able to report back to the group and we’ll know what can be carried forward.

Lunch: Michael O’Sullivan - legislative advocacy

Michael O’Sullivan (American Cancer Society) joined us and distributed copies of legislative definitions, information on “how a bill becomes a law” and a statewide district map with legislative members. In regards to advocacy, he advised that when talking to legislators, you should strive to become their friends and look for opportunities to open up for more discussion. He also emphasized that if a legislator cannot talk to you or cuts you off, you shouldn’t take it personally. You should, however, be polished, brief, and concise, and review your talking points ahead of time. Don’t run off if a legislator genuinely wants to talk with you; this may be your only opportunity for discussion before the bill goes to the legislature. He also said that follow-up is essential when lobbying. Creativity is also important for “drop-off items” in the legislative offices. ACS and AHA did a “pedometer challenge,” they asked legislators to “walk the talk,” instead of just citing the need to continue funding for public health. This became a great subject of conversation when they later talked to legislators and asked, “What’s your total?” He also recommended that you have a sense of humor about what you give them, and keep it lighthearted instead of insisting “we need this funding now.” He reminded us about “Monday meetings,” where he will be reviewing the current bills (and who is working on promoting them) in Olympia. His email address is michael.o'sullivan@cancer.org if anyone has more questions . The last thing he mentioned was that on March 3 they are having “Celebration at the Capitol,” ACS’ big lobby day. They have the governor and all the legislators coming to the event and will be discussing the breast and cervical health program, tobacco control program, and fitness and nutrition for kids. ACS is bringing in cancer survivors from across the state, hosting speakers in the morning along with trainings, at lunch there will be a governor’s address, and then they will be talking with legislators for the rest of the afternoon. He said you can register at 888-NOWICAN and they will send you info.

Summary of Prioritization of Work Plan Segments:

Member Services

1. Select/maintain Annual Meeting Planning Committee, plan Annual Meeting (need about $3000). Need to designate a Committee Chair—will ask for interest at next King County Physical Activity Coalition meeting. So far we know we can do a half-day format and would like to have Ross Brownson as a speaker. Clarissa Ruston stated we might be able to collaborate with the WRPA conference at the Puyallup Fairgrounds on Nov 2. We will follow up.

2. Select/ maintain Awards Committee

3. Explore offering CEUs

4. Support local coalitions- conduct a survey of their interests and needs (possibly $500 stipend for a grad student)

Advocacy

Legislative Priorities:

1. Safe Routes to School

2. ACEs

3. PA/Nutr school policy

Action Priorities:

1. Write platform for legislature 2. Publish newsletters to coalition during legislative session

SACEs

1. Set up a meeting with Tom Wells, Kirste Johnson at PSRC, David Levinger of Feet First, Linda Schwartz of Bicycle Alliance and WCPPA ED to update all interested parties on STEPS work.

2. Draft and distribute an AL/ACE consensus paper as a follow up to the spring 2004 meeting

3. Identify up to 15 member organizations and then connect each of their mission statements with ACE principles. Pull together as a white paper that can be disseminated among entire membership.

Operations—members not present; still need to prioritize:

-Monitor funding structure, review bylaws

-Allocate resources (volunteer staff) -Membership

Public Awareness and Education (I have a call out to Alex and Amy to clarify these—I didn’t pick up Alex’s voice on the tape recorder).

The next Leadership Team meeting is on April 13 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Seattle Pacific University in the Falcon Room.

2:00 Meeting adjourned.

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