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Proposed Meeting Plan <br />Orange County Board of County Commissioners Retreat <br />Location: Cedar Grove Community Center <br />5800 NC Hwy 86N, Hillsborough <br />Friday, January 24, 2020 <br />9:00 AM – 4:00 PM <br />(Breakfast will be available at 8:30 am) <br /> <br />At the table (12): Seven Orange County Commissioners, County Manager, Deputy County <br />Manager, County Attorney, Open Seat for Staff, Facilitator <br />Invited Resource Persons/Staff: All Department Heads <br /> <br /> <br />Agenda <br /> <br />9 am Welcome & Introductions Maggie Chotas, Facilitator, Dispute Settlement Center <br />Proposed Ground Rules - How do we want to work together today? <br />• Begin and adjourn on time <br />• One speaker at a time <br />• Listen attentively <br />• Focus on learning and inquiry <br />• Step up/Step back <br />• Share the time available for discussion <br />• It is OK to disagree…please do so respectfully <br /> <br />Review retreat goals & desired outcomes <br />• Better definition of issues <br />• Better appreciation of problems <br />• Understanding for how systems thinking could be helpful to us <br />• Identification of what we need to know more of and the new questions that are <br />arising for us re: hunger <br /> <br />Parking Lot <br /> <br />9:30 am Systems Thinking introduction & overview with a focus on hunger in Orange County <br />Michael Goodman, Innovation Associates Organizational Learning <br /> <br />Introduction to what we know about hunger in Orange County & an introduction to the current <br />programs to address it <br />Travis Myren, Deputy County Manager & Ashley Heger, Food Council Coordinator <br /> <br />Exercises to explore systems thinking related to hunger Michael Goodman