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31 • Planning for the work ahead and what needs to happen to accomplish • Look ahead. What's coming in the next few months? (Rolling calendar) • Time for more interaction between us • Training • Calendar of work sessions. Regular updates on activities • INFORM ====� THINK TIME ---+ DECIDE o Amount of `think time depends on familiarity with the issues, can vote be delayed, Board-specific expectations and culture • Communication expectations re: advisory boards and commissions o Reporting back to colleagues. How? When? Where? o Expectations of serving Lydian Altman said the Board will evaluate this retreat at the end to inform future retreats. Chair Price said related to time for more interactions, the Board can't meet outside of scheduled meetings so are limited on when they can come together, so maybe they can change the way they do retreats or work sessions. Lydian Altman asked if that means spending more time together or spending the time they have together differently. Chair Price said if they used their scheduled time differently, there may be more time to interact with one another. Commissioner Richards said if there was a calendar for future work session topics and some way to share information ahead of time, or follow the INFORM 4THINK TIME4DECIDE strategy, which might help things. She said the Board doesn't want to get into a situation where they are always kicking the can on everything because there is work that has to get done, but because some of them have the desire to want to have more information, how can they achieve this. She said even if they establish comfortability in asking for an item to be delayed, they don't want to make that the norm after work goes into establishing a plan and calendar. Lydian Altman reiterated that what topics may deserve more time could be informed by the strategic plan. Commissioner Greene said she agrees with everything Commissioner Richards said. She said she isn't sure items needing more time can be predicted in advance but agrees it wouldn't be everything that is delayed. Lydian Altman said when they come back from break, they will break back out into groups to review what changes might be necessary on specific items to be a higher performing body and then report out to the whole Board to get a sense of where people fall on the scale of agreement. The Board recessed for a break from approximately 2:20 pm until 2:32 pm. The Board continued their discussion on Moving Towards Board Excellence via breakout groups. Group A included Commissioner Hamilton and Commissioner Richards, Group B included Chair Price and Commissioner Bedford, and Group included Commissioner Fowler and Commissioner Greene. Each group was asked to consider what the governing board might have to do differently to move towards the high performing priorities on the slide below. Group A discussed the first three topics, Group B discussed the next three topics, and Group C discussed the last three topics.