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3 <br /> Travis Myren said that the goals are wide ranging and broad, and it would be helpful to <br /> the staff for the Board to identify prioritized policy initiatives through today's process. <br /> Bonnie Hammersley added that she shares responsibility with the Board to provide that <br /> sort of clear direction to the staff, and that this retreat process should help. <br /> 3. Brainstorm Board Priorities through June 30, 2016 <br /> • Prior to the retreat, at the request of the planning committee, Board members reviewed the <br /> then-current set of Board goals and priorities (six goals with accompanying priorities <br /> adopted September 2009 plus a set of five Social Justice goals adopted in September <br /> 2010,) and agreed to use those two sets of goals as the initial framework at the retreat for <br /> generating new priorities. <br /> • The Board worked in pairs and triads to flesh out ideas. The ideas were documented on <br /> post-it notes and stuck to walls for the next step in process. <br /> 4. Clarify the Ideas <br /> • The Board members approached wall(s) upon which post-its were affixed, read the ideas, <br /> generated additional ideas on post-its if stimulated to do so, ask and answer questions, <br /> cluster similar ideas together and/or under existing-goal headings. <br /> • The Board then reconvened in full group for discussion: <br /> o Make sure all Board members understand all the ideas in the same way. <br /> o Any questions about any of the ideas? <br /> o Anyone want to elaborate on any ideas? <br /> o Any revisions needed to conform ideas to a one-year implementation timeframe? <br /> • Discussion shifted to the analytical: identify relationships across the ideas and between <br /> ideas and the current goals: Any contradictions? Any clear time-sequences? Any <br /> redundancies? Any nesting/subsuming of ideas into others needed? Do all the ideas fit <br /> under at least one of the current goals or might new goal statements be needed? Are there <br /> ideas that do not need further prioritizing by the Board because Board already is committed <br /> to it (e.g., it's in progress)? <br /> 5. Choose from Among the Ideas <br /> • Each Commissioner lobbied for his/her top ideas (no numerical limit): "Why I think these <br /> should be our priorities." <br /> • A non-binding poll of group preferences was conducted (each person can choose up to n/3 <br /> priorities, where n = the number of ideas on the menu; no "passion-piling:" vote once per <br /> idea). Poll for priorities, within one goal at a time. <br /> Discussion points <br /> Commissioner Rich suggested putting information on goals/priorities on web. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said there must be talk about land use with other governments. <br /> Chair McKee said his concern that the Board is relying too heavily on Morinaga. He said <br /> the Board should focus on a lot of issues. <br /> Commissioner Burroughs said it is critical to support the values of Orange County and <br /> that would be through economic development. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said agriculture could be added into the economic development <br /> conversation. He said no one has mentioned affordability and how to pay for the social agenda, <br /> which will require fiscal discipline. <br />