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Report on the Roseville Area Project <br />"Communities for a Lifetime" <br />February 2014 <br />This is a report on the Roseville area project "Communities for a Lifetime," which <br />concluded its initial phase at the end of the 2013 calendar year. The highlight of <br />the project and the main subject of this report was a series of community dialogs <br />set in a focus group format. The community dialogs were fundamental in achieving <br />the goals of the project to date. The dialog process engaged a large number of <br />citizens and resulted in thought-provoking conversations about significant issues. <br />The entire project operated under Roseville Area Schools Community Education <br />Department, Karen Schaub, Director of Community Education and Public <br />Relations. Schaub was joined by partners from the City of Roseville Parks and <br />Recreation Department representatives from area agencies and organizations, and <br />community members. Together, the group formed the Communities for a Lifetime <br />(CFL) Task Force. (Appendix I) <br />The CFL Task Force contracted with an outside consultant (Bridget Gothberg of <br />BG Consulting) to help develop the framework that the community dialogs would <br />use. By using the Community Dialog Toolkit, the CFL Task Force and the <br />consultant worked together to determine the timing, location, and projected <br />participants for the dialogs so as to insure an accurate representation of the <br />Roseville area. Finally, they settled on the four main questions to guide the <br />conversations in each of the focus groups. The four questions were: <br />(1) What a�e the best services in this community, and what othe� se�vices <br />a�e needed to make this your "Community for a Lifetime"? <br />(2) What pa�tnerships, connections, or �elationships can be built or <br />imp�oved to make this community st�onge�? <br />(3) What does your ideal community of 2024 look like? <br />(4) What else would you like to tell us? <br />A number of positive outcomes were realized through this project. Among them <br />were: an increased number of citizens aware of the CFL concept, a potential pool <br />of citizens interested in furthering CFL goals, and a framework for continued <br />dialogs—not only among citizens, but also among members of the partnering <br />agencies. A summary analysis of the focus groups and recommendations which <br />emerged from the process are included on the following pages. <br />CFL Task Force Final Report, February 2014 1 <br />