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December 5, 1994 <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> P.O. Box 8181 <br /> Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br /> Dear Chairman Carey and Commissioners: <br /> RE: EMS Strategic Planning Task Force <br /> One of the most valuable learning experiences I had as an Orange <br /> County Commissioner was to Chair the EMS Advisory Council, and, as such, to <br /> participate in the EMS Strategic Planning Task Force. A set of matrices <br /> summarizing the recommendations of the Task Force is attached for your <br /> information. <br /> The Task Force followed a process that produced and is still producing <br /> evolving recommendations and an on-going self-assessment. Many of the <br /> easy-to-do recommendations were implemented as they were identified; others <br /> will be put into place during the next few months; and still others have <br /> been assigned to a new standing committee of the Council for further <br /> refinement. Those which have policy implications or require new funding <br /> will be brought back to the Commissioners for a final review and approval. <br /> The process began informally in 1990, when the EMS Advisory Council <br /> invited Kurt Jenne from the Institute of Government at UNC-CH to introduce <br /> us to strategic planning. Soon after that, the Board of Commissioners <br /> appointed the EMS Strategic Planning Task Force and named Norm Gustaveson <br /> to serve as its Chair. Norm, with the able guidance of Medical Director <br /> Tom Griggs and the support of Carol Lorenz, a Hillsborough Town <br /> Commissioner, assembled a group of citizens and health care professionals <br /> to serve on the Task Force. <br /> Tom Griggs asked the group to try something different. He challenged <br /> them to create, for themselves and the citizens of Orange County, a <br /> different way of thinking about emergency medical services. The focus was <br />