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Ramsey Final Report <br />Grant No. 05 -1237 <br />City of Ramsey <br />RE SIDE NTL -L <br />EN \TRi_: IE DE' FL 0 ' LENT <br />PT_TI LI(=' INF T_TT ADMINISTRATION <br />E _, : _ AIIC <br />ICEN IENT <br />You will notice we added economic development as a sixth component. There was some discussion <br />about whether residential and economic development should be separate or together, with the group <br />finally deciding to leave them separate to emphasize the importance of economic development. <br />Similarly some group members wanted to merge administration and public input, but after some <br />discussion the consensus was to leave them as separate components. <br />Vision Value Statements <br />Under each component group members then brainstormed the various possible value statements that <br />could be used to describe them. We first used the Rapid OST process for this task, but later moved to <br />using a program called Inspiration. <br />The original list of value statements is included in the Appendix. As those documents demonstrate, the <br />brainstorming produced a wealth of good ideas. In fact, our initial problem became trying to reduce and <br />prioritize these. The Inspiration program was useful to enable the group to see that each list basically <br />broke down into two large areas — philosophy and strategy or implementation. <br />Using weighted voting, we narrowed down the list of value statements over several meetings. This was <br />difficult work for the participants, but their dedication was truly remarkable as they worked through <br />three -hour meetings to get the list refined to one the entire group could agree on. This list also is <br />attached in the Appendix. <br />- 17 - <br />