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Community Advisory Group The Community AdvisoryGroup (CAG) was a group of 12 communityvolunteers from various backgrounds, including city boards and commissions, community organizations, residents, and businesses. The role of the CAG was to participate in a series of workshops to advise the projectteam on community engagement strategies, provide insights on key themes, help develop findings, and help promote the project with the community segments they represent. During phase 1, the CAGjoined a visioning workshop to help identify priority community segments as part of an equity analysis.They also participated in a visioning activity which set the foundation for the themes and outcomes for the project and was used to guide phase 1 community engagement activities. Phase 1 community partnerships Community engagement efforts were designed to prioritize strategies that reach communities whose voices are typically underrepresented in the public processes such as communities of color, people with low wealth, people with disabilities, foreign -born residents, older adults, youth and renters. This was done to ensure all voices were represented in the process and notjust those who have the most familiarity with public processes. A key to this strategy was to partner with the community organizations, neighborhood groups, and service providers thatserve these communities in order to reach people in the places they already go.To begin this effort, the team conducted desktop research to identify potential community partners and made initial contactwith more than twodozen groups. Contacts included an email introduction, followed by a phone call, and in some cases a sitevisit. Community groups were provided a project overview, asked to share inputon the community aspirations from the perspective of their organization, and encouraged to share project promotional material with their networks during both phase 1 and phase 2 of the project. Of these, eight organizations agreed to participate in listening sessions or other engagement events with the projectteam. Specific community partners and the communities they serve are listed in Figure 3. At each event, participants were asked to self -identify their demographics which are presented in Figure 4, along with the demographic profile from the online surveyform. Figure2: Project timeline � N N O N M N O N - - - " START UP • Develop a work plan • Prepare engagement material • Coordinate schedules - PHASE 1 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT • Identify communityvision • Develop aspirations and ' outcomes - PHASE 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT • Reviewvision and aspirations ' • Prioritize outcomes - - - RESULTS • Share the community input collected and vet conclusions • Present community vision and celebrate! FNVISION4bR0SEVILLEISummaryReport Page 54 of 140