FDOT Session: Project Management Made Easy

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FDOT Session Project Management Made Easy

• FRA Annual Conference October 19, 2006
• Susan D. McGrady, CRA Program Manager
• City of Cocoa, Florida

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Set the Table

• Meet and Greet
• Define and Clarify Expectations
• Determine a Realistic Timeframe

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Get Your House In Order

• Review Your Comprehensive Plan
• Reconfirm the Vision Is It Still Possible?
• Get Your In-House Players to the Table
• Define and Clarify Expectations

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Determine the Formal Process

• City CRA Who Makes the Decisions
• FDOT Who Makes the Decisions
• Other Players Utilities, etc.

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Select a Consultant

• Be Specific About What You Want
• Be Specific About What You Need

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Public Perceptions and Expectations

• Lets Drive A Rolls!!!!!!!!!!!
• Separate Can From Cannot
• Build a Consensus

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Realistic Timeframes

• Be Flexible
• Be Cautious
• Be Realistic!!!!!

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Where Is the Money

• Who in the City Pays
• Where Are the Funds
• Get Your JPA
• Florida Statutes Section 163.387(7)
• Be Realistic Clarify Expectations
• Most of All Be Flexible

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Good Luck It Will Be Beautiful!

• Remember -----
• Be Flexible
• Be Realistic
• Constantly Clarify Expectations