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• Build on our strengths, acknowledge positive things we've already done • Agree on an ED path/strategies/tools (or at least move towards agreement) What do we not want to see happen? • Fail to agree on an ED vision • Get bogged down in minutia and word choices • Spend a lot of time writing and re-writing • Allow factions to develop • Focus too much on what critics say • Produce a big picture that gets lost • Talk about what we can't do/haven't done in the past II. Making Progress: Review and Celebrate Accomplishments. What has changed since January 2009? • Organizational changes: department heads have left and not been replaced • Changes in resource allocation because of the department heads retiring • Loss of institutional memory (also means freedom from old institutional inertia • New need to change ideas about what services the county can deliver • Brought new facilities online (this is an opportunity and a tangible achievement) • $1 million to put together a value-added agricultural facility • Recognition and consensus about the importance of communicating with the public • Shift in politics: changing demographics (Changes in Asian and Latino populations), and water issues are more important now • Opportunity to re-examine how we do things internally, because of a new county manager, budget changes, and recent retirements • New comprehensive plan, in the midst of organizational change • Willingness to take advantage of the financial crisis to make good changes • Lost some attachment to this is how we've always done it" • Individual initiative: people wanting to do more • Moving (into new physical spaces). New energy. What are we most proud of? • Education system • We get through our agendas; we make decisions. More positive and forward-moving.