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Orange County Strategic Navigation Retreat <br />Friday, February 8, 2008 8:30 am - 4:00 pm <br />Southern Human Services Center - Chapel Hill <br />Retreat Planning <br />1. Board members met in September and December to discuss their vision of the good <br />life in Orange County; issues, forces, and challenges driving and restraining that <br />vision; the purpose of county government and what county government does; what <br />county government believes in and stands for; the values that should guide the <br />actions of county government; and a joint board-staff planning retreat. <br />2. Management team members met January 4t" to discuss the board's mini-retreats and <br />the proposed process for the joint planning retreat. <br />3. Board and management team members identified key issues, needs, challenges, and <br />actions that should be addressed by the county. A consolidated set of issues, <br />actions, and challenges was prepared and distributed to retreat participants for their <br />review prior to the retreat. <br />Retreat Goals <br />1. Engage board and management team members in a collaborative planning process <br />to identify key issues, needs, challenges, and actions facing the county today and <br />create a shared sense of direction about tomorrow. <br />2. Draft a set of countywide goals to serve as a guide for planning, focusing, <br />organizing, and communicating the work of county government. <br />3. Strengthen board and management team member communication, relationships, <br />and sense of connection to county government and to each other. <br />Retreat Agenda and Process <br />8:30 Light Breakfast <br />9:00 Getting Started <br />1. Welcome and opening remarks <br />2. Review retreat goals and process <br />3. Organize working groups <br />9:15 Identify Themes in Orange County Issues, Actions, and Challenges <br />1, Review issues, actions, and challenges and identify common themes: <br />• Example: growth, information technology and communications, <br />environment, planning, land use <br />2. Combine themes into 5-7 categories that can serve as platforms for <br />countywide goals: <br />• Example 1: Planning for and managing growth, impact of population <br />changes and growth, immigration, transportation, access, mobility, <br />expected and needed services, increasing complexity, quality of life, <br />education facilities and operations, service delivery, environmental <br />1