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I I I I . Maureen Borland, San Mateo County Human Services Agency Director, provided a ---. background of Redwood City's collaborative efforts, Fair Oaks Center in the 1970s, Redwood City Child Care Consortium in the 1980s, and several joint efforts in the 1990s including South County Teen Pregnancy Task Force, Family Focus and the South County Coalition for Prevention of Drug Abuse. Director Borland described past community support, including Kaiser Hospital which funded a Redwood City Team to be trained on how to work with grass roots organizations: Beth Ross, Arlene McCarthy and Caroline Curry. She also described Taft School's Healthy Start program and the success of neighborhood associations, the impact of the Peninsula Community Foundation and reading programs, and how an educated workforce is necessary for a community to thrive. Director Borland said that many of the same community advocates were on the same boards and came to realize that by joining together they could maximize their resources to develop defined outcomes and measure their progress. D. Strategic Planning Process, and E. Composition of Stakeholder Group Beth Ross, Redwood City 2000 Coordinator, thanked Kaiser Hospital for funding the Healthy Action Training and said how wonderful it was to be implementing it in Redwood City. Coordinator Ross described the planning process, Pages 2-7 in the subject report. She acknowledged the fine work of the 25 members of the Redwood City 2000 Coordinating committee and described the Committee's proposal: a 12 month planning process, a facilitated community strategic planning effort, focus on enhancing quality of ---- life in Redwood City, and a process that will include several key steps outlined in the Project Workplan. It begins with a period of preparation going on now, adopting a workplan and time lines, launching a community profile, convening local governing boards, and getting their support and buy-in, and completing a stakeholder analysis. The stakeholder analysis selection would mobilize a 45-member community action team. It would be the core team charged with creating a strategic plan with professionally facilitated meetings with staff support, held once a month ITom 5-8 p.m. Meals would be provided to support the anticipated volunteer effort. Coordinator Ross added that town hall meetings and focus groups would be held and quarterly oral reports would be given to the Coordinating Committee. They are hoping to involve hundreds of community members. The first team meeting will focus on a stakeholder orientation and will develop a working vision of a healthy community. A larger town hall process would be expected to develop a true healthy community vision and selection of indicators. The team will focus on quality of life issues such as, education, economic development, public safety and health care. The team will provide recommendations in areas where the group can: 1) have a positive influence; and 2) does not interfere with other community committees, groups, boards or commissions. Coordinator Ross addressed the concerns of the assembled Council and Boards stating '--- that youth ITom Redwood City attend all the schools in the Sequoia High School District, Special Joint Council Meeting Minutes MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 March 18, 1996 Page No. 125 Page 4