Again, I think Jo has some very valid points. We have nothing to lose by
building a larger and stronger consensus group to help move this project -
in whatever form it may take - forward.
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> From: Jo Williams <tajs@potlatch.com>
> To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Subject: Consensus 2
> Date: Sunday, March 29, 1998 9:39 AM
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> Visionaries,
> One of the drawbacks of email is that intonations of speech and word
> emphasis are difficult to convey and compensate for in written form. In
> follow-up email after the initial consensus proposal I shared my thoughts
> on the proposed process; problems of
> l)approach; as the PBS speaker pointed out, we often get so caught up in
> defending a position that seeing or admitting other good points becomes
> impossible.
> 2)procedure; given that the Moscow City Council has already voted and
> money has been put down on a specific piece of property, is it too late
> to gather a larger/better consensus?
> 3) is it possible to create a setting with a strong moderator (as others
> have suggested) that will defuse the "immovable object vs irresistible
> force' and change it into a circular or moving/shifting scenario with
> positive input.
> 4)drawbacks of being the 'idea' person ; my picture of this process WAS
> vague; how do you do it? Can we do it? I want to believe we can.
> As an earlier posting of mine (concerning campus computer problems) will
> show, I don't believe that ignoring problems makes them go away. If my
> concerns about the process of building a new consensus were taken as
> defeatist, I meant to convey a tone of seriousness- this process will
> have REAL problems, as Robert Probasco and B.J. Swanson point out.
> A new suggestion that the Moscow Council members join this new process
> helped to relieve my procedural concerns; the possibility that Vision
> 2020 will organize this exercise has helped relieve my problems about
> setting and moderator. The recent posting offering yet another pool
> configuration of leisure and separate lap pool may hook up well with the
> endowment suggestion.
> Am I a group person? No. Am I an organizer? No. Am I a moderator?
> Definitely not.
> I DO have doubts that this can work. But I also believe it CAN work if
> everyone brings their own particular expertise to bear- one more time.
> This is so close, so do-able- so incredibly possible --and so darned
> difficult. Jo Williams tajs@potlatch.com
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