The playground at Jules Bisson Park in Somersworth, one of the sites on the POP! Summer Recreation Passport (SRPC photo).

Planning The SRPC Promoting Outdoor Play! (POP!) team has been hard at work, gearing up for the kick-off of its Summer Recreation Passport program in partnership with the NH Children's Museum. Encouraging kids to explore a selection of the 300+ recreation sites catalogued in the POP! online viewer, the Summer Recreation Passport will be available for pick-up at various location throughout the region. To take part in the program, visit each of the eight recreation sites listed in the passport, collecting a stamp which will be on-site at each location. The program kicks off in early July. The summer recreation passport program compliments the recently launched POP! digital passport, which allows residents and visitors alike to log all of their site visits within the region. Beginning in July, participants' logged trips will be entered into a raffle for prizes given away throughout the year. The more sites visited, the more entries. More information can be found on Facebook and Instagram, @promotingoutdoorplay! The POP! team also encourages sharing of photos using the #promotingoutdoorplaynh or via email to srpc@strafford.org. Pieces of Interest NHDES Coastal Program and Partners Kick off the Great Bay Living Shorelines Project and Seek Applicants for Living Shoreline Design Teams

Transportation Traffic count season is off to a great start with the data collection team, Stephen and Mark, already setting 22% of the season's total counts. For this year traffic count efforts, Strafford MPO staff launched a data dashboard so that municipal staff and other interested parties can keep track of when counts are set in their communities.   The dashboard will be updated each Monday, after the counts have been set for the week. The online map viewer shows active counts that are in the field in blue, completed counts in green, and remaining counts in red.   This is the third project in which SRPC has utilized ArcOnline's dashboard platform to display live updates during a project, a very useful tool for Strafford MPO staff and its stakeholders.  To supplement this, GIS Planner Jackson Rand recently created and launched a historic traffic counts map, which is now live on SRPC’s ArcOnline page.  Pieces of Interest 4 Ways Transit Can Lure Back Post-Covid Commuters

Economic Development Strafford Economic Development District (EDD) staff met with panelists for its upcoming webinar on Thursday, Jun. 17. Focusing on advancing local projects and preparing for post-COVID communities, panelists will present on how to develop community project concepts, integrate them into local CIPs, and best position yourself to take advantage of expected and unexpected funding sources.  This webinar, being held in place of the traditional SRPC/EDD annual meeting, takes place on Thursday, Jun. 24 from 4-5:30 p.m. via Zoom.   For more information and to register visit https://tinyurl.com/4z3af  Pieces of Interest NH Spring Conference Session #3 on Broadband Planning NH Business Review Business Excellence Awards

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June 18, 2021