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Meeting with Wilder Research on General Dashboard Requirements

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Al Lun representing Rochester Area Foundation and CNG to meet with Wilder Foundation regarding General Community Dashboard requirements, specifications, scope of work and deliverables.

Bryan gave me a brief overview of the technical architecture of MN Compass: how data is fed in and fan out and what report generation capability exists. I look forward to having more conversations with Bryan on topics such as Javascript APIs and regional profiles customization. I can see that down the road, SE MN (Southern) and its entities could benefit from knowing more about the customization potential (such as what Duluth has done).

2. Projects in flight

In addition to CNG, Wilder is also working on project proposals with DMC EDA and J2G regarding their dashboards requirements and work scope. For DMC, the deliverable from Wilder appears to be static PDF files that reflect DMC Section 2.4 metrics. The PDF files can be then embedded in the DMC website. The project scope appears to be consistent with what DMC EDA presented to the DMC Board in December. Deliverable from Wilder does not appear to include interactive web capability (meaning drop-down selection dynamic user interface).

Action: Agreed that it would be desirable to review at some future point DMC and other Rochester dashboard project proposals vis-a-vis CNG's.

3. SE MN PlanScape:

I briefed you on the planning landscape of Rochester (SE MN). My involvement is to help Rochester Area Foundation and JoAnn Stormer. Rochester Area Foundation/JoAnn has the role of coordinator and fiscal agent for a partnership funding of about $10K. Olmsted County, City of Rochester have both committed 3K each. United Way and Rochester Area Foundation also has pledged amounts. CNG is soliciting support from Rochester-area agencies to support this financially in addition to offering guidance to dashboard requirements. To gain community agencies support, we need a statement of work: deliverables, schedule, costs, etc.

Action: Please continue to firm up the project proposal. We should target it to be ready for presentation to the next CNG large group meeting in April. To that end, as soon as a new iteration of the proposal is available, please send them to JoAnn and me. We should also schedule a call with JoAnn to walk through the details.

4. CNG requirements.

I mentioned that CNG's February 25 meeting featured a breakout session on community dashboard requirements. Assumption was that there would be two deliverables:

A. Static Report: Similar to Compass Point. At first launch, we could be satisfied with similar categories and style as published in Compass Point. Though in the CNG mtg there were additional requirements that we should consider.

B. Website Support.

B.1 We would want to make sure that MN Compass's main site as much as technically possible show metrics for SE Mn (and also if possible be able to drill down to Olmsted County, Rochester level of details). I mentioned that on the Compass site not all metrics shown have data points for SE Mn. 3rd Grade Reading Scores by income is an example: http://www.mncompass.org/disparities/income#1-10428-g

If the current Compass data sets do not provide these local insights, our CNG's local groups will need to supplement the data via our own data collections -- not necessarily in the first release of the dashboard but to be phased in future enhancements.

B.2 Please make clear if a $10K contract could also provide a separate website similar to Generation Next http://www.mncompass.org/generation-next/overview .

Action: Craig to continue to work on the draft proposal. We should target for a draft status for the CNG Steering Committee Meeting on April 6 to be ready for the April 28 CNG large group meeting.

I will schedule a checkpoint call in a week or two.

Agenda

Al Lun representing Rochester Area Foundation and CNG to meet with Wilder Foundation regarding General Community Dashboard requirements, specifications, scope of work and deliverables.

Talking points are:

1. Different kinds of dashboards

- DMC, CNG, Community Health, J2G, openBEAM

2. Data sources

3. Deliverable

4. Schedule

References:

1. Diagrams

Impact Levels

Impact Lvl 1: Best Practice ; Business Process ; Children & Youth ; Diversity and Inclusion ; Economic Development ; Health ; Housing ; Income ; Public Safety ; Sustainability ; Technology Enablement ; Transportation ; Workforce Development

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Related Reports

Other Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) Pinned Reports

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Pinned openBEAM.net organization and project reports

. Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : March 10, 2024 : DMC Dashboard Metrics Portal
Impact Lvl1: Metrics
Impact Lvl2:

In the public comments portion of the May 25, 2023 DMCC Board meeting, Al Lun reminded DMCC Board the need to update the DMC Metrics Dashboard per Tax revenue metrics September 2019 memo

2024-03-10 added YouTube video clip

Sep 20, 2019 Memo to DMCC Board about DMC Dashboard to be updated twice a year

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Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : April 27, 2021 : Minnesota Compass
Impact Lvl1: Education, Metrics, OpenBeam, Public Safety, Technology Enablement
Impact Lvl2:

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Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : May 08, 2018 : CNG Steering Committee working on 2018 Compass Points
Impact Lvl1: Basic Needs, Best Practice, Caring Relationship, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Housing, Metrics, Public Safety, Sustainability, Transportation, Workforce Development
Impact Lvl2:

CNG Steering Committee is working on the next version of Rochester/Olmsted County Compass report.

Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : October 30, 2016 : CNG Releases Compass Points 2016, City of Rochester and Olmsted County
Impact Lvl1: Best Practice, Business Process, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Health, Housing, Income, Public Safety, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development
Impact Lvl2:

2016-10-27 CNG releases Compass Points in today's meeting.

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Impact Lvl2:

openBEAM.net presentations on Community Beam, a community assets portal, to Community for Health and CLF.

Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : February 24, 2016 : Community Dashboard - CNG coodintating funding request to build Community Dashboard.
Impact Lvl1: Aging, Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Technology Enablement
Impact Lvl2:

CNG Steering Committee is forwarding request for City funding.

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