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6. Vision Task Force Sessions The Task Force meets for four, two-hour sessions on successive days and or weeks and is led by the Facilitator. Community Vision and Strategies will be developed for the top six issues identified by the public at the Stakeholders Summit or in the six foundations for a comprehensive strategic plan. · Education ° Economy · Quality of Life · Government · Infrastructure · Private Sector Leadership Strengths and weaknesses will be considered, but Vision will be based on the Task Force participant's specialized knowledge, experience, intuition, dreams, hopes and feelings. While facts, figures and statistical trends are great, they tend to limit thinking and encourage extrapolation. This type of information is best utilized by people charged with identifying impediments and working out the operational plans to achieve the Vision. That, in fact, is what will be done on an annual basis by each Vision Partner. Immediately after each meeting, the facilitator and the support staff will edit the input from the meeting and send the notes to the VisiOn Task Force members. At the first session, the community benchmark series will be reviewed and the five Key Benchmarks will be selected by the Task Force. These Key Benchmarks will provide annual accountability for the overall strategic planning process. In session two, Vision and Strategy will be developed for Education and Quality of Life; session three-Infrastructure and Economic Development; session four- Government, Private Sector Leadership and the Collaborative Implementation Process. After session two, three and four, a ballot will be sent with the meeting notes for voting on the top five priority strategies in each foundation. A Core Value survey is taken at each of the four sessions that ends up with 4 to 7 Core Values. The media is urged to cover these sessions. The diverse and broad-based Vision Task Force stays together for these four two- hour sessions and generates consensus that is representative of the community. The facilitator uses the guidelines on page 8 during the four sessions. This facilitation process has been proven successful in 48 communities in 17 states/countries. 7. Draft Document for Public Input After the last session of the Vision'Task Force, the Facilitator will edit the Vision, and present the document as a draft Vision. The final draft will include the Collaborative Implementation Process. The Steering Committee will review and approve the draft document for public input in at least four ways: 1) the draft Vision will be sent to all potential Vision Partners for their input, 2) each Vision Task Force member will be asked to present the draft document to an organization where he or she is a member, 3) the community newspapers since 1994 have printed the entire document the Sunday before the Town Hall meeting, and 4) a two-hour Town Hall will be held to receive a final public critique of the draft Vision. 5 LPI