Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance

www.waterfrontalliance.org

MWA’s Mission

MWA is determined to transform the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Waterways to make them clean and accessible, a vibrant place to play, learn and work, with great parks, great jobs, and great transportation for all.

Task Forces – a history• In 2007, MWA brought together

task forces of leading thinkers and practitioners—many of you were a part of this process– 6 Task Forces– 12 Meetings– 250 Alliance Partners– 400 Participants– 300 Ideas– 6 White Papers

• The Waterfront Action Agenda and White Papers reflect the culmination of this process

• In November 2008, the Waterfront Action Agenda was unveiled to more than 500 attendees at our Annual Waterfront Conference

Waterfront Policy: The Waterfront Action Agenda

1. A Green Harbor2. A Waterfront Town3. A Well Designed

Edge4. A Working

Waterfront5. Blue Highways

Who is doing it?

All of us!

and the hundreds of Alliance Partners and others who make up the Blue

Movement

Implementing the Waterfront Action Agenda

Transforming the Waterfront

2000 2050

Task Forces Convene 2007

A short history2000 to 2050

Today

• Generational effort

• Many organizations or agencies already doing the work

• MWA’s role: Defining the agenda and moving it forward with others

Implementing the Waterfront Action Agenda

Implementing the Waterfront Action Agenda

Plans:

Funding:

Waterfront Score Card

$$$$$$$$$$$$

Increasing Funding

• What do we want funding for?– Programs and policies in Harbor

Recreation White Paper and Waterfront Action Agenda, the Comprehensive Restoration Plan, Waterfront Parks, Docks, and other Waterfront Access

In Sum: A Fair Share for the

New York – New Jersey Harbor

Advocacy in the Ideal World

• Clearly Defined Policyiiiii

• Legislative Strategy

• Advocacy Strategy iiiii

• Relationship Building Iiii

• Specific Asks

• Capacity

Advocacy in the Ideal World

• Clearly Defined Policy Parks Department Plans through NYC Water Trail, Action Agenda, White Papers, Strategies

• Legislative Strategy

• Advocacy Strategy Waterfront Score Card, and 2008 & 2010 Waterfront Conference

• Relationship BuildingRecreation Task Force and boating community as a constituency

• Specific Asks

• Capacity

Advocacy Examples

NYS Transportation Equity AllianceUPROSE, Empire State Future

and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign

American Association of MuseumsAdvocacy and legislative strategy for

museums

What Can You Expect to Accomplish Today?

• Update Waterfront Action Agenda and Harbor Recreation White Paper

• Contribute to Waterfront Score Card• Begin to Develop Plans for Better

Funding

Changes and Updates to the Waterfront Action Agenda

and the Harbor Recreation White Paper

-- 30 minutes

What issues or topic areas did the Waterfront Action Agenda not address or not address fully?

Do you recommend any changes or additions to the

recommendations in the Harbor Recreation White Paper?

Developing a Waterfront Score Card

-- 40 minutes

Open Discussion

How do we measure progress?

Waterfront Score CardBenchmark Funds

Great Lakes LISS NY/NJ Harbor

General Waterfront Score Card:      

Federal Restoration Funds NY/NJ      

State Restoration Funds NY/NJ      

Local Restoration Funds NY/NJ      

       

Green Harbor Score Card:      

# of Climate Change Task Forces in NY and NJ      

# gallons of stormwater captured from NYCDEP pilot projects      

# of NYC DEP pilot projects      

       

Harbor Education Score Card:      

Money per kid spent on environmental education      

Money available from governmental sources for NYC only      

Money available from governmental sources for Northern NJ only      

Plan for Improving Funding-- 60 minutes

Follow up on the ideas from the Waterfront Score Card and other places about how to increase regional funding.

Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance

www.waterfrontalliance.org

What you can expect from us…

• Meeting notes• Draft Waterfront Score Card• Plan for funding• Upcoming meetings related to

Comprehensive Waterfront Plan

See the fruits of your labor at the Waterfront Conference in November 2010!

Thank you for coming and being

part of the BLUE Movement!