Steering Committee Meeting Notes
September 11, 2000
12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Embassy Suites
Washington, D.C.
Jean Campbell introduced Jane Stallman from the Institute
of Cultural Affairs. Jane presented a participatory workshop to help answer the
question: “What concrete solutions can we identify for individual site
specific problems and those problems that are commonly held?” The 3-Steps were: 1)Site issues were identified, 2) problems
were clustered, 3) practical, concrete suggestions were given. ) See Appendix A,
F2F Participatory Workshop, for a complete step-by-step description.)
Sally Rogers noted that there
were two separate things going on in the clusters. One was the dissatisfaction by the CC and the Federal team
about how the group is responding to what they want the sites to do.
The other larger issue is how this is affecting the consumers, the COSP,
and the way the COSPs are working.
Betsy reinforced that the SC does not understand that these
things are affecting the COSP in a negative way. Jane Stallman summarized what Betsy McDonel Herr was saying,
that sites have the right to express themselves in blunt terms that they may
have to withdraw from the study, but they resent having the Federal team tell
them something that is equally blunt, and have it taken as a threat.
Jane related that what she heard was a discrepancy in the venting.
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