PROJECT GOALS
How are we measuring our success?
How are we measuring our success?
POSITIVE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK & ENGAGEMENT
* We’ve been transparent with local media as a means to engage the community
* January 2024 CRMM initiated a meeting of representatives from each of the six major nonprofit construction projects planned for Astoria over roughly the same timeframe. The Astoria City Manager and Community Development Director also attended. The purpose was for each project team leader to meet and be familiar with each other, that construction timelines were well understood, and to identify potential synergies and roadblocks (e.g. building permit reviews happening simultaneously for several projects with strained City staff). City and projects staffs were complimentary of CRMM’s leadership in planning this meeting.
* Community open house to display architectural drawings, exhibit images and information about construction schedules and impacts, as well as involvement of local subcontractors to keep as much of our funds in the community.
* Normally, we would fundraise heavily throughout out local community; however, because there are 5 other major nonprofit construction projects planned for the same timeframe (Columbia Memorial Hospital; Astoria Public Library; Clatsop Behavioral Health; Yakima Farmworkers Clinic; and Oregon Film Museum) we are striving to accomplish as much of our fundraising outside the community as possible to avoid competing with our fellow nonprofits.
* March 2024 we’ll appear before the Historic Landmarks and Design Review Commissions (public meetings) and will receive public comments. There will also be follow on newspaper articles then which will draw public comment and provide us awareness of community concerns.
* Feature article in Our Coast magazine.
* Article in Our Time 55+
SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION OF THE $30 MILLION PROJECT
Under the leadership of our project manager, great effort has been and is being expended to ensure that the work is being done
collaboratively and transparently to not only minimize the potential for any mistakes, oversights, or inefficiencies, but to ensure the best ideas are brought forward and all ideas are subject to rigorous scrutiny. Our project charter defines our goals and we will compare the finished product to those initial goals and objectives.
MEET BUDGET
Value engineering to provide an array of options to meet budget is ongoing.
OPERATION SUSTAINABILITY
We will carefully monitor projected
revenue streams against new expenses and make necessary adjustments to remain in the black. We will also continue our endowment campaign after Mariners Hall opens to increase our endowment size to provide some of the increased operational revenue required.
VISITATION, PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATIONAL & OTHER PROGRAMS, and FEEDBACK THROUGH SURVEYS
TRENDS IN COMMENTS ON MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA STORIES & FEEDBACK
LOOKS ON THE FACES OF & COMMENTS FROM OUR VISITORS
