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order to provide factual information or their professional judgment. The <br />liaisons, resource persons, and facilitator will not participate in Committee <br />decision making. <br />4.Observers are welcome at all Committee meetings. Time will be allotted at each <br />Committee meeting for observers to address the Committee. The Committee <br />will not immediately answer questions or get into discussions with these <br />speakers, although Committee members, liaisons, resource persons, and the <br />facilitator may follow-up with speakers after the meeting, and topics of interest <br />to the Committee may be placed on a future meeting agenda.Observers will <br />not participate in Committee discussions unless invited by an explicit decision <br />by the Committee. Observers will not participate in Committee decision <br />making. <br />5.All of the Committee’s substantive business will be conducted openly at <br />meetings to be announced in advance by the County,so that the community can <br />see and hear how ideas and solutions are developing in this process. As long as <br />it does not conflict with that principle, individual committee membersmay <br />communicate in-between meetings with anyone (e.g., each other, resource <br />persons, the liaisons, the facilitator, members of the community) in order to <br />advance their personal understanding of issues and perspectives, test tentative <br />ideas, resolve interpersonal misunderstanding or conflict, and coordinate on <br />Committee administrative matters. <br />Agenda <br />7:00Convene <br />x Welcome by Commissioners McKee and Jacobs, Board of Commissioners <br />liaisons to the Committee <br />x Introductions <br />x Meeting Overview: The Committee will review the proposed meeting plan, <br />clarify and revise it if necessary, and adopt desired outcomes, agenda, and <br />ground rules. <br />7:30“Where I’m Coming From” <br />Each of the 8 Committee membersand Board liaisons will have an opportunity to <br />learn about the others’ current thinking about firearms safety in Orange County: <br />“What am I personally seeing and hearingregarding firearms safety that is working <br />well in Orange County, and what (if anything) from my own perspective is <br />problematic?”First brainstorm/list without discussion, then full group discussion <br />of the items on the lists.