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Show Town leaders to meet today A future course for Park City will be discussed and debated today and Friday in what may be the most intensive in-tensive gathering of Park City community com-munity leaders in recent memory. About 50 prominent Parkites were invited by the Park City Chamber of CommerceConvention & Visitors Bureau to a two-day "Leadership Workshop" at the Prospector Square Hotel & Convention Center. Their purpose? To develop a com: prehensive Program of Work a plan designed to map Park City's course during the next three years. Today, Deci V participants will hear a panel discussion about surveys taken among Park City's residents, visitors and potential tourists. They also will hear from Fred Ball, president and chief executive ex-ecutive officer of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, who will talk about Utah business and the roles of various chambers. The panel, moderated by Blair Feulner, will feature city planning director Bill Ligety giving an overview over-view on information gathered by the Park City employee survey; Dr. Timothy Larson from the University of Utah reporting on radio station KPCW's demographic survey; and pollster Tom Parker capsulizing various studies done for the Chamber Bureau and the community. communi-ty. "What this will do is provide the group with a look at Park City and some of the perceptions and trends identified in each of these surveys," said ChamberBureau executive director Bill Clinger. "Then they (participants) will go into four small groups for discussion and goal identification. On day two, a similar schedule is planned, he said, with a panel diseussion involving four resource people invited to the workshop. Clinger Cling-er did not want to identify those speakers. Again, after the panel, the participants par-ticipants will break into four groups and at the end of the day will make a final report to the entire group. "We should come up with about 40 various goal statements," Clinger said. But the process won't stop there, Clinger said. During the next three months, more comment will be sought on the goal statements by compiling those goals into a membership response survey, which will be mailed to designated members. Additional copies will be available through the Chamber office. of-fice. A special Program of Work committee com-mittee will tabulate the responses A and consolidate additional statements and the committee will report to the ChamberBureau board of directors. Designated members will be invited in-vited to a general membership meeting for - presentation of the "Preliminary Program of Work" in March. Additional comments or suggestions sug-gestions would be accepted at that time. The Program of Work Committee then will finalize the preliminary draft and present it to the board of directors for final review, approval and adoption. I I |