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Commissioner Gordan said that if the Board accepts the framework an the fact sheet, then the last paragraph on the sheet would be the answer to the question. Phillip Boyle said that the statement of the problem should reflect the values involved. There are two sets of choices. The first is deciding which value should be the driver. Secondly, given the values that are not chosen, if they are represented, what should be done with them. Chair Carey said that the decision is how much of each value can be captured in the solution, and how this is articulated to the community. He said that it is not an either/or, but a combination. Phillip Boyle agreed and said that the first question is deciding which value is driving. Chair Carey said that he would aim for equality because he thinks that the County should serve people in Orange County regardless of where they live. Phillip Boyle said that the strategic question becomes how much you want of this value and haw much you are willing to give up on some of the other values to get this. After further discussion, the County Commissioners moved more toward "community" as the driving value. Phillip Boyle said that the Board must provide a policy direction for staff with the driving values. This will give staff more than just asking them to write a policy. Laura Blackmon said that one of the things she will be doing today is taking back to staff the vision of the community, and what the Board thinks drives and restrains the vision. She has discussed the public values and choices with staff and the need to identify the values of the Board, and to give the Board recommendations that reflect these values. Next Steps: - Feedback -reflections, observations, and implications far the board Laura Blackmon said that she would like the Board to spend time developing a mission, vision, and core values. From that step, she wants to move to looking at issues, needs, challenges, choices, themes, categories, goal statements, etc., and trying to connect same of the services with the care functions. She wants to pull the County Commissioners back in to define the core functions, and use monetary and people resources to address these care functions. She said that the end of this process would be the beginning of the budget process, moving it up earlier next year in order to be able to budget for these functions for the following fiscal year. Chair Carey said that it may be passible that the County is implementing programs that the County Commissioners are not aware of and they need to depend on staff leadership to ask the Board if a particular program is needed. Commissioner Faushee said that it is critical far the current Board to articulate a mission and vision for the County. She said that, regardless of the composition of the Board in 2008, there has to be a foundation on which to start governing. She said that the Manager is saying that the staff relies on the Board to set the vision, and this is required for staff to be able to provide what is needed to make the decisions that the public expects the Board to make. Commissioner Jacobs said that he sees this a little differently. He said that Wane of the lists include efficiency. Phillip Boyle said that there is a balance of doing the many goad things with limited resources, and tossing out the "bad" things. Commissioner Jacobs said that he wants to see all of the things that are being done in the County so that they can be put into context. He thinks that the County Commissioners are trying to be all things to all people to the greatest extent possible. He thinks that it would be very interesting to have everything listed and see if there was anything that would be thrown out. He thinks that it is very important to make an affirmative commitment on where the County Commissioners are before more members are added.