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March 23, 2015 (Board Retreat) Page 2340 • Engage all entities - schools, county and municipalities - county plays a convener role • Engage legislators, jurisdictional staff, and business and community organizations • Get non - profit and private sectors involved; whole community broadly defined • Identify new groups and initiatives to establish a collaborative liaison with • Reach back out to summit participants to solicit ideas and actions What • Collaboration is a "how "; let's think about the other four identified themes from the Summit and how to work on them through a collaborative approach • Expand joint development planning between county and each municipality, e.g.: Concord and Harrisburg joint plans, currently working on Midland joint plan which will come back to Board before adoption • Frame economic development as cooperative rather than competitive • Joint Planning: do this between the county and each municipality: ex. Concord Joint Plan and Harrisburg Joint Plan; currently working on the Midland Joint Plan -> it will come back before the BOCC for adoption • Let's look at the cross - jurisdictional opportunities and challenges identified at the Summit and develop some concrete ways to begin capitalizing on those • Countywide agreements - convener role for the county Why • Enhance relationships between cities and county and NC General Assembly • Multiple choices and options mean we must plan together so that jurisdictional plans don't negate each other + NCDOT is a funding mechanism and prioritization for all • Plans and planning have implications for the future - we will need to develop • Some staff more willing to work collaboratively than others - elected officials need to model the way • We want to get to the "how" to implement the goals; staff does a good job but not sure the Board does the "how" well • What can we do concretely to keep the momentum going from the Summit? How • Avoid taking on more initiatives than we can chew on successfully focus first on what we've already got underway • Be intentional with "pilots" and then if successful expand; intentionally and transparently 3 go together as staff and board • Bring topics of discussion to BOC meetings; not just action items • Build trust and relationships • Collective training and education • Coordinate staff outreach with BOC member outreach to other entities, i.e., expand on Concord and County efforts • Coordinated planning discussions M develop a charter and planning process for institutionalizing quarterly all- jurisdiction meetings engage private and nonprofit sectors - county convenes but leadership is shared • Develop and adopt a process for bringing topics and ideas for discussion (not just action items) to elected /board level and defining where and how we want coordination to occur • Encourage boards to adopt a collaboration comment period for staff and elected to share meetings attended and other collaborative work - include public, private, and community efforts • Foster conversations about how to better use boards and staff • Holding actionable and worthwhile mayor /manager meetings • Joint planning and conversations • More meetings, summits, opportunities to discuss, exchange, and learn