The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) enlisted the help of three past capstone program participants through the University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). Between 2019 and 2020, graduate students researched how Michigan Public Advisory Councils (PACs) can maximize their effectiveness and stewardship impact within the Michigan Areas of Concern (AOC) program, a regulatory program established to restore polluted water systems within Michigan. Each capstone participant provided several recommendations to achieve these goals, but converting these recommendations into solutions for decision-makers and practitioners is challenging. To address this “implementation gap,” we collaborated with ten Michigan PACs and EGLE to translate these recommendations into implementation plans. We synthesized the 24 cumulative recommendations from the previous capstone participants into a shortlist of eight, which we used throughout an interview process. We divided this process into Phase I interviews with individual PAC members and Phase II community conversations with multiple PAC members to identify each PAC's priority objectives and workshop their implementation. We analyzed interviews both as individual PACs and as a state-wide program using three main codes: progress, interest, and readiness, as well as an auto-coding process to check our work. These analyses showed that PAC members felt they had made the most progress toward recommendations related to PAC structure, community education, and partner organizations. While PAC members varied in their interview responses, most expressed interest in implementing recommendations where there was the greatest opportunity for progress: community education, life after delisting, and PAC recruitment.

密歇根州环境、五大湖和能源部 (EGLE) 通过密歇根大学环境与可持续发展学院 (SEAS) 获得了过去三位顶级项目参与者的帮助。2019 年至 2020 年期间，研究生研究了密歇根公共咨询委员会 (PAC) 如何在密歇根关注区域 (AOC) 计划中最大限度地发挥其有效性和管理影响，该计划是为恢复密歇根州受污染的水系统而建立的监管计划。每个顶点参与者都提供了一些实现这些目标的建议，但将这些建议转化为决策者和从业者的解决方案具有挑战性。为了解决这一“实施差距”，我们与十个密歇根 PAC 和 EGLE 合作，将这些建议转化为实施计划。我们综合了之前顶点参与者的 24 条累积建议，形成了 8 条候选名单，我们在整个面试过程中都使用了这些建议。我们将此过程分为第一阶段与个别 PAC 成员的访谈和第二阶段与多个 PAC 成员的社区对话，以确定每个 PAC 的优先目标并讨论其实施。我们使用三个主要代码将访谈作为单个 PAC 和全州范围的程序进行分析：进度、兴趣和准备情况，以及一个自动编码过程来检查我们的工作。这些分析表明，PAC 成员认为他们在与 PAC 结构、社区教育和合作伙伴组织相关的建议方面取得了最大进展。虽然 PAC 成员的采访回答各不相同，