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For the Subcommittees to be most effective, however, we recommend you consider adjustments to input strategies, leadership, and responsibilities as outlined in the next section. These will better allow you to get the breadth and depth of input needed in order for this Visioning effort to he a powerful force for Roseville's future. New: Subcommittee Leadership, Input, and Responsibilities Subcommittee Leadership We recommend you ask Subcommittees to select co - chairs rather than a single chair. This would provide broader and potentially more diverse leadership; more options for engaging a variety of members and other participants; more flexibility in how input is gathered, how decisions are made, and how recommendations are developed; and helpful redundancy across a number of meetings. Subcommittee Input and Responsibilities Separate Subcommittees as outlined in the RFP are superb for allowing deep explorations of topics critical to Roseville's decision making. A fundamental difference from the early 1990s, however, is the deep interdependence and interrelationships among municipal functions, as well as between municipal and other governmental units and major community stakeholders. In well -run communities such as Roseville, the "silo " approach has appropriately given way to much more cross -functional, interdepartmental, and collaborative working arrangements to more effectively and thoughthlly tackle complex issues in our shared -power world. To support that reality and the even greater challenges of the future, we recommend the following for the 2006 Visioning Subcommittees: To ensure a broader perspective and more durable decision making: Include members from both the general and supplemental Brainstorming sessions (see above) e To gain the perspective of related units of government and others: Establish collaborations for this effort to factor in the thinking of the county, school district, and other key stakeholders who would not logically be represented on the Subcomrnittces (see above) e In order for underrepresented groups and stakeholders to contribute their ideas to the various Subcommittees: Create opportunities for these perspectives to be included in the deliberations; this could be easily accomplished by specific times set aside during regular Subcommittee meetings, or by working with the community hostslleaders from the supplemental brainstorming sessions to have them gather input through separate sessions and feed that into the appropriate Subcommittees. Examples include asking youth and elders for their perspectives on transit and transportation; hearing from specific interest or advocacy groups on particular issues related to economic development, housing, or parkslrecreation; inviting insights from technology experts and e -input groups such as E -Democracy.Org to talk about those issues; and so on. 0 Deliverable: Recommended structures and guidelines for all these supplemental input opportunities, and further support as necessary Finally, to address the interdependencies of so much of this work, we recommend the following: Create a venue for the Subcommittees to look across all topics and consider interactions, interrelationships, and synergy This could be done by convening the Subcommittee co -chairs and Steering Committee at least twice Proposal for Roseville Community Visioning SupPoit Page 8 Carroll, Franck & Associates