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Notice of open meeting

Originally posted October 26, 1999 (Updates to the original posting--if any--will be shown in red text.)

On October 30 the original posting was replaced by a perfected agenda.  The perfected agenda made no major changes to the original agenda.

Notice is hereby given that the Saline County Study Group will conduct a meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, November 1, 1999 at the Marshall Habilitation Center board room.

AGENDA
Saline County Study Meeting
November 1, 1999
Marshall Habilitation Center Board Room

NOTE
This meeting will be devoted primarily to planning for a land use Public Issues Forum specifically designed for Saline County.

  1. Call to Order, Opening comments - Mark Belwood
  2. Brief background regarding earlier experience with the PIF (Governing America) and decision to proceed with the PIF process to organize issue forums around the questions of land use in Saline County - Mark Belwood
  3. Purpose of this meeting is to begin the process of developing and organizing an issue booklet for the issue forums in Saline County. At the end of the session we need to have a decision and commitment from several folks to assist with the formulation of the materials we will use. We have two national issue forum booklets that we can use as a point of departure, plus access to other approaches in other states.
  4. Overview and review of the booklets, Land Use Conflicts: When City and Country Clash and of A Nice Place to Live: Creating Communities, Fighting Sprawl - Ron Powers
  5. Discussion of the "Issue Framing Process" - Ron Powers
    1. Steps
    2. Choosing a "Problem"
    3. Understand the "Problem"
    4. Frame the Issue
    5. Checking the framework
    6. Assessing the Concern
    7. Naming the Problem
    8. Characteristics of a Good Issue Framing
  6. Resources Available/Needed to Proceed with Saline County effort - Cynthia Crawford

Already Available

  1. The Saline County Study Committee
  2. Saline County Study Web Page with complete record of project efforts to date
  3. Support of the County Commissioners
  4. Involvement of University Outreach and Extension staff/faculty.
  5. Studies that have been completed.

To be Done

  1. Development of the Issue Book
  2. Training of Issue Forum facilitators
  3. Setting the Schedule
  4. Engaging folks in the process
  1. Identification of subcommittee to work on the task of creating the "Issue book" and the accompanying materials, facilitator training, and schedule of meetings - Mark Belwood
  2. Other business items - Mark Belwood
  1. Short report on progress of Leadership Fellowship--Cynthia Crawford
  2. Confirm next meeting date (November 8? November 29? December 13?)
  3. Adjourn

Representatives of the news media may obtain copies of this notice by contacting:

Saline County Extension Center
The Southwest Corner of Odell and Arrow Streets
Marshall, MO 65340
(660) 886-6908

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Last updated: October 30, 1999