Coordination Strategy Development. The Water Department developed a preliminary Coordination Strategy to streamline interactions with outside organizations whose cooperation is critical to Green City, Clean Waters implementation. Target organizations generally belong to one of two categories. The first category includes organizations that have resources that can directly support Green City, Clean Waters implementation. These organizations have a significant land area to implement greened acres, can offer funding to leverage the Water Department’s investments, or support initiatives that are complementary to Green City, Clean Waters. The second category includes groups that can influence the direction and reach of Green City, Clean Waters. These groups make critical policy decisions, influence key policy-makers or otherwise facilitate or present challenges to green infrastructure implementation. For each priority organization, the Coordination Strategy identifies overall goals, policy needs or specific opportunities that could be gained through coordination with the organization. Two analyses completed by the Water Department provide the underlying data to support the Coordination Strategy development. The first is the assessment of policy needs in Section 4.2. High priority policy needs from that analysis are aligned with the organization(s) critical to addressing those needs in the Coordination Strategy. The second analysis evaluated major Philadelphia programs with connections to Green City, Clean Waters. The Water Department identified the lead agency, specified how the program is connected to Green City, Clean Waters, and, if possible, defined specific opportunities to facilitate Green City, Clean Waters implementation. Several key results from this analysis were included in the Coordination Strategy. The results from the Interagency Opportunities Analysis are available in Appendix III.
