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Show Leadership meeting to set long-range community goals I As many as 50 local government, business, education and tourism leaders will huddle in a two-day workshop next December that is aimed at defining Park City's direction direc-tion for the next three years. The workshop, sponsored by the , Park City Chamber of Com-ijnerceConvention Com-ijnerceConvention & Visitors Bureau, will be held Dec. 5 and 6 at the Prospector Square Convention Center and will be headed by ChamberBureau Executive Director Direc-tor Bill Clinger. Chamber President Rob Slettom Monday mailed out an initial set of invitations to potential participants, including the mayor and present city council members, as well as to candidates can-didates for council and mayor. Also invited were members of the ChamberBureau's board of direc-tors, direc-tors, chairmen of the Chamber Bureau's various committees commit-tees and the city manager. "Those were the easy ones," said Clinger, who noted that more invitations invita-tions will be going out in the coming weeks as planners determine whose participation would be helpful at the workshop. Once at the workshop, the estimated 40 to 50 participants will break into four groups and each group will be asked to develop 25 goal statements, based upon a single question that will be asked of all participants. par-ticipants. That question has not yet been drafted, Clinger said. He noted that in his experience in directing such workshops, although c each fgroup has the same starting point, the common question will take each group in a different directions. "One committee will talk more about economic development, another will center on government relations," he said. Yet another may concentrate on tourism. The goals brought back by the groups then will be pared to about 25 major objectives. Those will described in a letter and mailed to the remaining ChamberBureau members, who will be asked to rank them in order of importance. "The key element is this in most situations, ideas are generated by staff," Clinger said. "But in this way, community leadership will set goals and objectives and it won't be us generating the paper." But he said actions toward achieving achiev-ing the goals would be implemented by staff, volunteers and the ChamberBureau committees. Bill McComb, chairman of the I ChamberBureau's Economic 1 Development Committee, was en- i thusiastic about the plan. "That's U neat, because everybody gets to par- 1 ticipate and buy into the process," I he said. - H Clinger has led similar groups in I other communities. Some groups ; come up with only vagqe sets of goals, while others are quite , specific, he said. "In Sedona, Ariz., their number-one number-one goal was to incorporate as a city," ci-ty," he said. "We then ultimately worked through the process to get that accomplished." ! About half of the participants' . time will be spent in groups, said Clinger, Cl-inger, who noted as many as four outside experts on various subjects may be brought in to help spark new I concepts. . The culmination of the research g and deliberation will be presented in j a publication the Park City I ChamberBureau's Three-Year Pro- gram oi Work. jj "Oui- program will be distributed j to all ChamberBureau members so that we can work effectively as a ; team to meet these common Goals and make Park City a better place to work and live," Slettom said. |