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workshop orchestrated to draw input from the PARMPUT directly into the planning process during two intensive planning sessions. The details and schedule of each planning session will be defined with staff, but it should occur at a time when most PARMPUT members can participate. It is anticipated that planning sessions will intensive sessions (that is, more than a one or two hour meeting). The first such session would be directed toward exploring the changing park needs of the community and imagining how the parks might fit into an evolving Roseville. A follow-up session would focus on concrete ideas about how the parks can respond to that evolution in terms of facility development, programming, and other changes. This approach offers the chance to directly engage the PARMPUT in accomplishing real work, to resolve directions early (or to identify areas where more intensive study may be required), and, most importantly, to establish a real dialog about the critical issues and opportunities that influence Roseville's park and recreation system. A vision—the focus of Part One—is often defined by words alone. A well-crafted narrative can be compelling, evocative, and inspiring, but words reinforced by illustrations give people real insights about what their future parks might be. Our real challenge in this stage of the work is to frame the vision with words and pictures that people believe in and want to help achieve. Stage Two Tasks 2.01 Conduct Community Meeting 1 to identify the priority issues to be dealt with during the park master planning process. We will share information about the kind of community Roseville is today, based on demographic information collected earlier, as well as the kind of place it will become assuming that certain trends continue. There is a bit of "futuring" in this description, but we've found it helpful to offer this information as the community begins to shape a vision for its future. The focus of this session will be issues—factors and influences (positive and negative) that are shaping the community's park system, and ideas—possibilities for enhancing the park system or the way it functions. This workshop, like others during the master planning process, will be focused on interactions with participants through a combination of large and small group discussions, along with reporting of findings by the groups. As we become more familiar with the community and the desires of the PARMPUT, we will frame a more detailed agenda and review the kinds of questions that we would ask of participants with the PARMPUT. Finally, we would summarize the input provided during this meeting. 2.02 Conduct interviews in an effort to better understand the conditions, issues, and opportunities facing Roseville's park system from the perspective of key stakeholder groups. We will conduct interviews on two days with individuals, groups, or agencies defined by the city (assuming the list of twenty groups identified in the RFP as the starting point). Interviews will be summarized for use by the PARMPUT. 2.03 Conduct Listening Sessions with focus groups or neighborhoods to gain insights that are not program specific (as input from the interviews might be described). While the first community workshop is open to the community and focuses attention toward community-wide concerns, there will be areas of more direct concern for certain segments of the community. We anticipate conducting Listening Sessions with up to six groups. These sessions are not a presentation environment; rather, we intend to create a more "free-form" dialog with Listening Session participants. The input from each session will be summarized for distribution to the PARMPUT, and a general summary of all the sessions will be created for use in the master plan. 2.04 Identify, based on research of national trends, the relationship between the community and economic and social conditions in a community, and to the extent possible (from locally available information) demonstrate the impact of parks on development patterns in Roseville. Research will be summarized in Memorandum #3.