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14 <br />To keep the community informed, a link was created on the front page of the Orange <br />County Schools' website. This link and the documents included on it provided ready access to <br />the stakeholders and all members of the community to the presentations, agendas and minutes <br />of each Stakeholders Group meeting. Meetings were held every other Wednesday starting on <br />August 27 and running until December 3, 2014 in the Multipurpose Room at C.W. Stanford <br />Middle School. Steering Committee meetings occurred on the off Wednesdays to review <br />outcomes of the stakeholders meetings and develop and discuss the agenda for the upcoming <br />meeting. <br />Additional input to inform the development of the community's vision was collected by <br />all stakeholders from members of their community through one -on -one interviews. <br />Approximately 400 people were interviewed and asked to answer one of five framing questions <br />related to the purposes of public education. This information was analyzed and discussed <br />during the stakeholders meetings to determine the over arching themes and value preferences <br />of the Orange County Schools community. A Framers Group consisting of the two Co- chairs and <br />two stakeholders, Vaughn Compton and Reverend Sharon Freeland, who were also <br />participating as community liaisons to the OCS Strategic Planning Committee, took all of the <br />information developed by the Stakeholders Group and working with the consultant, drafted the <br />vision and this vision document for review and consensus recommendation by the entire <br />Stakeholders Group. <br />At the December 8t" Board of Education meeting, this vision was presented by the <br />community stakeholders to the BOE. Stakeholders were thanked by the Board of Education for <br />their service to the community and hard work on behalf of the public schools and its students. <br />A meeting to begin the work to align the community's vision with the Orange County Schools' <br />five year strategic plan was scheduled to begin the following day, December 9, 2014. Plans to <br />present the full strategic plan, including the community vision for adoption by the BOE was <br />expected to occur in February 2015, in time for the March 2015 accreditation review. <br />13 <br />