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o We continue to meet with the Agency about community outreach and developing action plans for curren t and future Metroplex teams. The Florida D&I team is the most tro ubling to the FAA because of it s size, however last week we developed an action plan that should cover most concerns, however we are waiting for Lyn Ray (VP of mission support) to sign off o n the plan. The impediment to any outreach plan at this time is funding, Jim Davis (NATCA National Airspace Rep), Ed Hulsey (National Study Team Rep) , and I will meet with Lyn on 5/5/2016 to discuss further. There has not been any discussion on community o utreach for any of the 7100.41 projects. o NATCA received a VORMON briefing that left more questions than answers, the agency is looking for SRM paperwork as well as procedure development paperwork on the first 35 VOR's to be decommissioned (these are not co vered under the VORMON program). We are concerned that the agency did not do their due diligence and these will need to be reworked. o We have had numerous discussions with the agency on additional OSG reps needed to complete this and normal .41 activities. Management agrees that this is needed and discussions between NATCA National and the FAA ha ve started. Jim Davis, Ed Hulsey, Jeff Woods , and myself met with Jim Ullman to work out a plan forward for these additional reps. o Submitted by Mark McKelligan , (ZBW ) National D&I Rep • NATCA National Airspace Rep o Meetings continue with the agency to work through all the community outreach issues s urrounding PBN implementation. Our last meeting in April was productive and we are waiting for the FAA to work out the assoc iated funding issues. o Mr. Davis has spoken to multiple managers trying to explain the importance o f a lessons learned database. The managers seem to agree that we need a user - friendly data base but they have taken no action at this point. Mr. Davis will con tinue to pursue this activity because we believe it will be a valuable tool for the design and implementation teams. o We are working to establish a process and resources concerning the VOR MON and integration project s. The VOR MON will create a lot of work for our service center co - leads and we will need to give them additional bodies to meet the desired timelines. We have our first drafts setup for the integration projects and continue to work with the FAA to finalize the process. o Submitted by Jim Davis (PC T) , NATCA National Airspace Rep COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING (CDM): Ron Foley (ZOB) is the Arti cle 48 Representative for CDM. Mr. Foley attended the CDM Spring Session and forwarded the information below. • CDM Spring session - April 18 - 21 - Americ an air lines Dallas Fort Worth. Spring session is a midpoint briefing for CDM where the sub groups brief on closed and current taskings. o FET - Flight Evaluation Team notes - ATD2 ATD2 airspace technology demonstration IADS metroplex traffic management. 3 Ts TBFM , TFDM - terminal flight data management, TFMS