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protection and preservation, protecting and maintaining current services <br />and standards, balancing growth and development <br />10:15 Break <br />10:30 Assign Categories to Each Working Group and Draft Countywide Goals <br />1. Reframe categories as affirmative goal statements (25 words or less) that <br />reflect a county-wide focus; <br />• Example 1: Achieve a mix of land uses that is environmentally sensitive <br />and sustains livability in a changing community <br />• Example 2: Achieve community-wide preparedness to protect public safety, <br />respond to routine and catastrophic events, and maintain and restore the <br />well-being of all residents. <br />2. Present goal statements to whole group <br />11:15 Review Proposed Goals <br />12:00 Lunch -Working Groups <br />12:45 Assign Issues, Actions, and Challenges to Goals <br />1, Assign each issue, action, and challenge to the appropriate goal <br />• Example: Preserve and enhance quality of life by addressing growth with <br />sound public policies that sustain resources, provide high quality services, <br />and fund infrastructure needs (1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 13, 24, 21, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, <br />36, 39, 40, 41, 47, 48, 49) <br />2. Assign any items that don't fit to a parking lot and address later <br />1:30 Organize Issues, Actions, and Challenges Assigned to Each Goal into a Set <br />of Specific Objectives/Strategies to Support Each Goal <br />1. Define objectives/strategies and arrange in priority order: <br />• Example: (1) revise land use plan and review and update ordinances to <br />reflect revised plan; (2) develop a formal acquisition and implementation <br />strategy for parks, greenways, and open space; (3) work toward becoming <br />an environmentally friendly and energy efficient community <br />2. Record, post, and report out <br />2:45 Break <br />3:00 Review Countywide Strategic Framework <br />1. Review goals and priority objectives/strategies <br />2. Solicit observations, implications, feedback - modify as needed <br />3:45 Reflection and Next Steps <br />1. What have you accomplished today? <br />2. Where should you go from here? <br />4:00 Adjourn