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<br />~ Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District <br />220 Water Avenue. Berthoud, CO 80513 · 970-532-7700 · fax 970-532-0942 · \Ivvvw.ncw.cd.or-g <br /> <br />Progress report for Water Efficiency Grant <br />June 1 - 50% completion <br />Cell phone audio tour of the Conservation Gardens at Northern Water <br /> <br />As of June 1, we had reached nearly all of our targets except one, which proved to a bit difficult to deal with. <br /> <br />We set up our service with the Guide by Cell company Wednesday, May 30. We found the technology to be <br />very user-friendly and were able to start recording prompts and testing out the system the very next day. <br /> <br />The script-writing went fairly smoothly. Brent, Brian and Jill met twice as a committee to discuss drafts of the <br />script. By June 1, we had the bulk of the script written with the understanding we could add bits and pieces to it <br />in the coming days. <br /> <br />We had contacted the four newspapers in which we plan to buy ad space to advertise the tour. <br /> <br />Our handouts were designed and printed in-house by June 1 (although we discovered a typo part way through <br />printing and had to redo them. A minor hitch, though). <br /> <br />The signs to mark the various tour stops have been the only problematic part of the process thus far. We had the <br />signs designed and prices bid out by June 1, but when we went to place the order with the sign company, they <br />confirmed a price that was substantially higher than what they had bid to us (and what we included in our grant <br />request.) We weren't comfortable spending $2,000 on the 5 x 7 signs until we did some research and tried to <br />find a better price. As of June 1, we were unsure what we would do in the interim since it would be impossible <br />to get the signs ordered, created and placed by our target date of June 15. <br /> <br />We have received a lot of positive feedback internally about the cell phone audio tour concept. We've publi- <br />cized using several internal communication vehicles (weekly and monthly newsletters, all-employee meetings, <br />etc.) We hope to gather several employees the week of June 11 and ask them to walk through the tour and give <br />us their feedback on both the content and how easy the tour is to use. <br /> <br />We still hope to officially launch the tour June 15, but that will require us figuring out a way to indicate each of <br />the stops without the signs we had planned to use. <br />