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Proposed Group Agreements • Speak Your Truth— Speak from the "I" position, rather than detaching from your perspective (`you ") or universalizing your perspective ( "we "). • Lean Into Discomfort and Lean Into Each Other - By design, authentic dialogue challenges participants. Discomfort signals that you are being challenged and perhaps even growing from the experience. Support each other to participate fully. Step up and practice asserting if you tend to be reserved or quiet. Step back and practice listening if you tend to be talkative. • Expect and Be Willing to Accept Non closure - Embrace the process as the task. While this process might be designed to resolve an immediate question, it will raise far more questions than answers about the larger issues uncovered through the dialogue. Engaging in the dialogue and process of working together will reap far greater rewards than simply making a decision about what "to do." Commissioners who helped craft this goal about the goal/priorities and rationale /intent of this goal and the related priorities) 2. To identify potential strategies to enhance town, • Update /Status (10 minute maximum staff report) Will focus on county, and university relations. how the town, county and University relate to each other now. • Town /County/University Relations -. Carl Stenberg, Institute of Government will share the potential friction points between the three entities and potential solutions based on how other communities have addressed those conflicts. (15 minute) • Q &A/Discussion (20 minute full group discussion) 3.10 — 3.40 Review BOCC Goals and Goal #6 Ensure Life Long Learning The goal of this discussion is to: Priorities (Champion Diversity, Education, Libraries, Parks, Recreation, 1. Provide information about the history /rationale for Animal Welfare) Goal 46 and priorities, 2. Discuss the current status of this goal and priorities 3. Identify if there are existing or new priorities that • Brief Overview/History — (5 minute comments by need to be addressed on future Commission agenda. Commissioners who helped craft this goal about the rationale /intent of this goal and the related priorities) • Update /Status (10 minute maximum staff report) • Q &A/Discussion (15 minutes) • Potential Discussion Items: Next Steps for Park Plan, Southern Library Branch 3:40 — 4:00 Reflection and Next Steps 1. What have you accomplished today? 2. Where should you go from here? 4:00 Adjourn Proposed Group Agreements • Speak Your Truth— Speak from the "I" position, rather than detaching from your perspective (`you ") or universalizing your perspective ( "we "). • Lean Into Discomfort and Lean Into Each Other - By design, authentic dialogue challenges participants. Discomfort signals that you are being challenged and perhaps even growing from the experience. Support each other to participate fully. Step up and practice asserting if you tend to be reserved or quiet. Step back and practice listening if you tend to be talkative. • Expect and Be Willing to Accept Non closure - Embrace the process as the task. While this process might be designed to resolve an immediate question, it will raise far more questions than answers about the larger issues uncovered through the dialogue. Engaging in the dialogue and process of working together will reap far greater rewards than simply making a decision about what "to do."