Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task Force
Working Meeting Minutes
February 4, 2003
Present: Charner Reese, Lee Medart, Lorraine Smith. Jeffery Siewert, Lisa DeVitto, Rose Petrucha, and Phylllis Pacycus.
Absent: Dennis Cavanaugh (Excused), Shelia Spicola (Excused)
Call to Order
1. Meeting was called to order at 6:40 pm. Quorum was noted.
2. Minutes of January 27th meeting were accepted as corrected. Jeffery Siewert was added to those present at the previous meeting.
Parks and Recreation Study Circle
The floor was given to Charner to begin review of the materials from the Parks and Recreation Study Circles. Charner suggested that any material added should be designated as additions.
March 20 Public Meeting
A discussion ensued as to the objectives of the March 20 meeting and as to ideas for the format of the meeting.
Objectives:
1. Inform stakeholders (SH) of issues that came out of study circles and possible choices resulting from issues.
2. Validate thought processes and resulting values as perceived from study circles. Do SH’s think components we’ve come up with are the important ones? If so use these issues to form vision.
3. Find out SH’s priorities in each area of study.
Format Ideas:
1. Articulate values or issues so that any newcomer would understand their meaning and implications for DI.
2. Have people rank in importance rather than choose or vote.
3. Sticking to issues only will be repetitious.
4. Explain info in a stimulating manner with pictures and graphics. Jeff and Renae’s firms will help with graphics.
5. Have one general info table and 4 areas and a time line on the wall with someone to explain the process.
6. Allow people to circulate from info table to the 4 areas which will each have a 15 minute or less Power Point presentation of components that SC’s felt were important and some of the possible choices for these components and their implications.
7. Give each person a sheet with components listed and ask them to add any additional ones they have thought of and then rank them all as to importance.
8. 4 presentations going on simultaneously and repeated after a 5 minute break until 3 hour meeting time runs out.
9. Prioritize components on a chart on the wall with dots.
10. Have all Power Point slides reproduced and put up on wall for people to peruse as they wish or will waiting.
11. SC moderators will be in each area as presenters.
12. There will be too much material to throw at people.
13. Go through and merge areas, hone them down.
14. Go through and integrate and add implications.
15. Pull out overriding issues, get away from the finite and solutions, go back to broad.
16. Present issues and choices without implications.
17. Choice of verb, should?
18. Sustainability, explain it or don’t use terms you have to explain?
19. For next meeting take Charner’s material and try to develop a Power Point presentation.
20. Manner of presentation uniform for each area.
21. Will physical space at church accommodate all these simultaneous presentations, moving and talking people?
22. Separate rooms? Might curtail mix of people, an important dynamic.
23. Should there be an area for questions and answers with PC staff?
24. What do Land Use and Zoning people want?
25. Refreshments? Yes.
26. Comment box.
Next Meeting
Next meeting Feb 10 at 6:00pm. Loraine volunteers to bring dinner. Each area is to have a draft of a Power Point presentation. Put on disks. Jeffery will bring projector. Rose will call Renae, Shelia and Lisa to inform them. Rose will try to scan all pictures taken to show, also.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30.
Submitted by, Approval Date: ________
Shelia Spicola
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