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i.b Poor �9 FACE again. The proposal is to do one, with no future commitment, to see what it does, to see if it makes sense and if the participants realize the value and if governmental agencies benefit from it. A determination can then be made whether to do it again. Chairman Eggert recounted that when this project was originally discussed at the Council of 100 a budget was set at $8,000 to $10,000 and Committee Member David Risinger felt that budget could be reduced even further. Mr. Wetzig responded that there is a distinct possibility the budget could be reduced. For instance, the $5,000 is an outside number and could go as low as $4,000. Chairman Eggert described an activity involving every area of the county and involving two committees, the Economics Development Council and the Overall Economic Development Plan Committee, for a review and massive rewriting of the plan where the staff served as facilitators, and they were good facilitators. While it involved government and involved paying staff to do their jobs, which they would be doing anyway, it did not cost outside money. Chairman Eggert was concerned with multi events because education and substance abuse is planning an event which involves all aspects of the community, the Overall Economics Development Plan has their activity, and now we have this possible activity. She asked what we will accomplish with this workshop that is worth contributing the taxpayers' money. Mr. Wetzig thought the value is that the workshop involves a number of issues. He felt each of the activities enumerated by Chairman Eggert is a valuable process but involves a specific issue. The workshop is the opposite. The workshop is to focus on the interests of the community at large and part of that process is to see, within all these choices of specialized areas, what are the areas the community feels are most important to discuss. This is purported to be a broader view and dialogue of all the issues of the county rather than addressing a specific issue, although this workshop format can also be utilized to address a specific issue. Chairman Eggert clarified that the education or substance abuse topics were not specific issue formats. Her real concern is "community burnout" in having so many workshops or conferences or meetings, because the first activity gets enthusiastic response and the next one gets moderate response and the next one gets less and she does not want that to happen. Commissioner Scurlock asked about the process for selection of participants. Mr. Wetzig stated that the selection process was an issue which was wrestled with about six months before the steering 30