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Committee advances draft decision-making guide to improve transparency and staff-commission coordination
Summary
Morgan Carlson presented a working draft of a decision-making guide designed to prompt staff and commissioners to clarify objectives, required information, and areas of agreement and uncertainty; commissioners endorsed iterative review with staff and set a target to seek commission agreement by fall 2026.
Morgan Carlson presented the committee’s draft decision‑making project during the Feb. 12 meeting, describing a product built from prior commission tools and designed to prompt three core questions: what is the objective, what supporting information is needed, and where are areas of agreement/disagreement and certainty/uncertainty.
Carlson described how the draft draws on existing tools — the summary (blue) sheet and earlier science-policy materials — and would include practical prompts…
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