Please join us on Tuesday, August 11th at 4pm at Lilly's Dim Sum meeting room in Little Rock to share your thoughts and advice on how a public forum on Water in Central Arkansas might be able to support your efforts as a leader on water issues as well as help encourage better water policy from state leaders.
The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Arkansas and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel are collaborating on a project to build awareness of critical water issues across Arkansas in anticipation of a new state water plan.
The purpose of our meeting August 11th is to plan a public forum on water with you and other Central Arkansas leaders to be held in Conway later this summer/fall. We need your input on how we can be most helpful in supporting the ongoing work and issues in Central Arkansas.
We want to make sure that our efforts are complementary and helpful to yours. We want this effort to inform and advance new state policy to better manage our water resources, but also help advance some of your goals. Arkansas faces a variety of enormous challenges to providing enough clean water for people and wildlife, a sustainable water future. We are holding similar meetings in other parts of the state as well.
Planning Session for Central Arkansas Water Forum
Tuesday, August 11, 4pm
Lilly's Dim Sum meeting room
11121 N Rodney Parham Rd # 34B
We will have refreshments and expect the meeting to last no more than 2 hours.
Lilly's is just West of I-430 at the Rodney Parham exit, in the Market Place Shopping Center. Here's a link to google maps where you can also get directions. Lilly's phone number is (501) 716-2700.
TNC, Audubon Arkansas and the Panel, will be holding a number of forums around the state over the course of the next nine months to:
- educate people about water issues in their region and across the state;
- listen and learn from participants so we can define concerns, questions, and water policy goals of citizens;
- recruit people to participate in a follow up in-depth workshop on water issues
- facing Arkansas; and
- develop a core group of leaders interested in working with us on state water policy issues.
Please join us August 11th to help us plan a water forum for Central Arkansas.
Please RSVP to Bill Kopsky at bill@ARPanel.org, or 501-376-7913 x 12, or call if you have any questions or comments.
We hope to see you on August 11th and to learn more about your work. Thank you.
Sincerely,
- Bill Kopsky, Arkansas Public Policy Panel
- Tim Snell, The Nature Conservancy
- Ken Smith, Audubon Arkansas
PS: Please let us know if there are others who you think should be invited to this early planning meeting. Thanks!!
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Bill Kopsky
Executive Director
The Arkansas Public Policy Panel
1308 West Second Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-376-7913 x 12
fax: 374-3935
The Panel is a 501(c)(3) putting the PUBLIC back in Arkansas public policy since 1963.
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