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3 <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 members may <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 />The County Attorney,in reply to a question from Commissioner McKee, advised <br />that no more than four of the committee members (“a half of the membership plus <br />one”) is permitted to meet privately to discuss Committee business or to forward <br />recommendations to the Board of Commissioners. <br />Mr. Hunnell suggested that the facilitator’s wall notes be projected from a personal <br />computer and available to remote participants. <br />What is working well and what is problematic? <br />The facilitator prompted group members to begin learning about each other’s <br />current thinking about firearms safety in Orange Countywith the question, “What <br />are you personally seeing and hearing regarding firearms safety that is working <br />well in Orange County, and what from your own perspective is problematic?” <br />The first reply from a group member was that he had no idea about what the <br />County already has in place. Several people agreed, and so the group asked <br />Deputy Sykes to provide some factual information. <br />Deputy Sykes explained what the Sheriff’s Office does when it gets a 9-1-1 call <br />regarding sustained gun shots. If we do not have an exact location then we will <br />respond to the general area and listen in an effort to identify where the reported <br />gun shots are coming from, he said. If we can identify the location, then we will <br />approachwithout sirens or blue lights. We do it quietly because we assume that