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After providing an overview of the agenda, Cynthia Brown asked and received agreement from everyone to adhere to the following Group Agreements (Ground Rules) during the day: • 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." • Have Fun , Take Risks • Think out of the Box/Be Creative (Don't feel compelled to do things the way they've always been done) • Speak one at a time • Accept other's truth –Which doesn't require your agreement but acknowledges the fact that for people their perception is 100% of reality. • Listen for Understanding • Leave your Ego at the Door–Ego That part of us that continues to worry, live in doubt, is afraid, judges people, is afraid to trust, needs proof, believes only when it is convenient, fails to follow-up, refuses to practice what it preaches, needs to be rescued, wants to be a victim, beats up on "self', needs to be right all the time and continues to hold on to what does not work. Taken from the Introduction of"One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days & 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength & Personal Growth" by lyanla Financial/Budget Overview Clarence Grier, Assistant County Manager/Financial Services Director, gave an overview of the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 budget. He said the economy is still weak but expected maybe 2% growth. Budget Dliiscussliion Nighlllliiglhts: • There's potential that the county will no longer administer the funding for the childcare program – it was anticipated that the state would take over the childcare program in June 2012 but did not. Even if the county doesn't receive that funding, the childcare program will continue to operate under state control. • He said preliminary revenues: $180,002,776 • Expected adjustments to Expenditures: $8, 692,572 • TOTAL preliminary expenditures—$188, 695, 348 • Potential Property Tax rate impact to balance FY 2013/14 budget 1.11 cents which would be about$1.5 million. • Fund Balance is at 22% now up from $16.8% last year. • School funding target of 48.9%– not a hard rule –policy only • Relative flow of funds–state reimbursement policy after expenses incurred impacts budgeting practices.