Hello all I've been asked to help a local seaside town (population 3500) explore options for future child-care services following the closure of a number of services and the consequent loss of population and users of existing services.
We're starting with a one-day OS to explore the issues and opportunities - hopefully bringing many of the key players together and to get a lot of the issues on the table, as well as ID next steps. There's quite a lot of interest in the community - although the concept of an OS process is all but unknown and even though the invitation outlines the process there is still an expectation of a 'traditional' public meeting - 'experts' doing presentations and fielding questions etc. Two or three of the local politicians have indicated they'll be attending for a couple of hours here, an hour there etc (although we asked that people come for the whole day if they can). What experiences have others had of dealing with drop-ins, especially politicians who could turn out to be space invaders (an assumption I know - but I'd rather not be caught off-guard given that this will be this community's first experience of OS). Cheers Viv Please note NEW telephone number Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665, Torquay 3228 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 5261 9498 Mobile 0417 135 406 "Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
