Service First Field Advisory Board
Friday, June 21, 2013 – 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
Attendees
Forest Service
Amber Watson
NPS
Paul Roelandt
Trish Kicklighter
BLM
Chris Moyer
FWS
Cindy Barry
Shaun Sanchez
Topics for Discussion
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Welcome Amber Watson, Service First Liaison
- Amber will be serving a one year term. Phone and FS email has not been
established as of yet. Temporary E-mail: amber.watsonfs@gmail.com
- Amber will be reaching out to everyone to get better acquainted with the team
Discussion of scheduled conference calls
- Group agreed to keep the conference calls scheduled for the 3rd Friday of every
month. If a project requires more time and attention, the group can opt to create
a subgroup, or schedule additional conference calls
Service First Incentivized Program – There was a lengthy conversation reviewing the
3rd draft of the Concept Paper sent out by Paul Roelandt.
- Build it and they will come. The group agreed that it is important to focus on the
program first (goals, purpose, objectives), rather than directing attention to
amount of funds needed to attract attention.
- Clarification of goals to include a focus on both the public and staff awareness of
Service First.
 Examples of types of projects would be good to include
 More emphasis on interagency collaboration, effectiveness, customer
service, and efficiency of requested proposals
- Group agreed that funds should be used to support new projects, or projects that
are tweaked to achieve SF established goals/initiatives.
- It would be a great idea to have a consensus from leadership to commit to longterm projects.
 Everyone agreed that it would be beneficial to have both single year
and multi-year project funding to incentivize ongoing agency
collaboration. Multi-year commitment adds complexity to the
funding/matching process.
- There was discussion as to whether the SFFAB members should be able to vote
on projects that were submitted by their agencies staffs.
 The general thought is that members cannot vote on proposals
submitted by their agency’s staffs, but they are involved in the
discussion about projects submitted (this maintains equity, fairness,
and open dialogue).
 The representatives from SFFAB should serve as the liaison to their
agency’s staffs that submit proposals.
- Ideas were thrown around regarding the logistics of the process.
 How should projects be submitted? (with director approval, straight
from field agents to SFFAB, using SF website, through SFFAB rep.
then to SFFAB)
 SF Website could serve as collection point / Upload mechanism
- Funding: Streamlining fund process
 Possibly assign SF Acct# and track money
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Funds can reside with the National Service First Coordinator / Using
one account code (SF)
For all intents and purposes, all funds would be considered SF Money
– Leaders should use SF to Work Together
Full project may not be up and running by the end of this FY;
however, it would be a good idea to start pooling money for early
FY13.
Action Items:
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Paul and Amber will be working side-by-side to collaborate on notes and provide
updated draft based on this call.
SFFAB members are encouraged to send revisions in the upcoming weeks, leaving
Paul and Amber enough time to make amendments prior to July call.