Community Dialogue about Community Dialogue

During the Spring of 2006 the Board recognized that many in the community felt that the Board's relationship with the community was not seen by many to be dialogical.

As a result we set out to create a process which might address these concerns. 

The first step was to run a community-wide survey about dialogical processes.  Click here to see the results

This survey helped us to establish what the community felt were the critical elements in a dialogical process.

The next step was to design a process which appeared to respect all these elements of dialogue, and then to present that to the community.  The process was called "The Virtual TownHall" and can be read about in detail in procedure 5.5. 

Another survey was run about the Virtual TownHall and it appeared from those results to have general support.

Finally a Phone-bridge was held, where the majority of the Board attended, and the whole community was invited.