Table A Flip Chart

Discussion 1

• Need to deal with disparities in equity
• In times of greatest need, less public funding available (structural deficit)
• Decreasing incomes leading to increasing crime leading to more need for $ to be spent on prisons/law enforcement
• Reliance on auto industry means small towns dependent on auto-related manufacturing are suffering - Question now is: How do we re-invent/re-define/re-build our communities as we face their collapse?
• Cuts to education funding (especially K-12) when investment is needed more
  • → look at California to see where don't want to be
• In the face of great opportunity how do we create/maintain a positive attitude?

Discussion 2

Sheet 1

• Concentrated authority produces desired results
• There's enough $ to solve the problems
• Answers are best found through specialization or individual sector work
• Disparities are inevitable
• Class & race define good & bad
• Lumping & splitting is the way to understand our environments
• Gov't can fix is
• More is better
• Every generation will have more
• New is better

Sheet 2

• Inclusiveness is not always a value for innovation
• Constant balance between inclusiveness and individual innovation
• The inter-connectedness of interests
• Regional is a key perspective to hold
• Minority opinions should be sought
• Open to change
• Chase the people, not the businesses
• Preserve & Re-use
• Encourage mixed-use & mixed-income (Rethink zoning!)

Table B Flip Chart

Discussion 1

• Growing racial divide
• Divisiveness/hatred/lack of civil discourse
• Young flight
• Lack of leadership (vision)
• Erosion of family
• Huge holes in safety net
• Blaming victims (poor) (classism)

Discussion 2

Sheet 1

• Was the old Norman real?
  • Or did it have value?
• Econ growth
  • Income
• Pop. growth
• Expanded LU
• Budget ↓ → CUTS
  • Can't go on forever
  • Deter investment for L.T. growth
• Spending mentality
  • → Investment approach
• Need for ↑ ROR
• Smokestack chasing

Sheet 2

Old

• Crony K-ism
• Production as goal (need to produce value)
• Blaming the victim
• Do we really understand the "victims"
• Lack of feedback mech.
• Segregated (racial, income) groups
• Independent rugged individualism
• Regionalism-new norm
• Silo effect
  • "Leave us alone"

Sheet 3

Principles New Normal

• Better spaces for connecting
• New collaborative models & consultation
• More & different people participating

Inclusionary

• Set-asides for innovative projects
• Public transit/smart grid Ø auto
• Lifelong Ed
  • K-16 +
• Sustainability imperative
  • Public sector responsib.

Sheet 4

• Diversified economy
• Rewarding smart growth
• Place-based investment
• Accountability in incentive programs e.g. PA 198
• Equity

Table C Flip Chart

Discussion 1

Most worrisome impacts for MI communities

• * Increase in inequality
• * Public will
  • Change in policy?
  • Change in collective capacity to talk about issue?
• Integrated communities is place where new things happen - challenge to over come nostalgia, understanding
• * Notion not a quick easy fix - long term grand rule
• * Need to capture creativity, leadership of youth into leadership now -bridge intergenerational divides [arrow to "integrated" above]
• Environmental challenges in future & what MI's role & resources
• Family's not able to support selves due to income levels & education [arrow to "increase..." above]

Discussion 2

Sheet 1

• 
  • All of us help each other
  • Dissonance
    • Moderated by
      • Leadership
      • Reframe, Reflect, Assumption, Bigger context
    • Leads to
      • Status quo, Innovate, Nip/tuck
      • Transform, Completely different
• Fear of losing smthng we want/value
• We have strategies - we need to apply them

Sheet 2

Communities assumptions - Old normal

• Fear - changes will take away things we value, losses will be bigger than gains
• More education is better
• Leaders have "the" answer
• We need $ to fix things
• Growth is good
• Consumption should continue to grow for ever
• We must buy our energy instead of make our own
• Expansion to suburbs causes damage to the city
• If you put people together they will get along

Sheet 3

• Public transportation is for cities
• Individual freedom trumps public good
• Individual freedom and public good are mutually exclusive
• What goes downstream won't come back to us
• We have to watch out for ourselves
• World is scary
• Taxes are the only way to provide for ourselves & others
• Government is evil
• You are on your own
  • YOYO
• We are all in this together
  • Wait
• Everything is accounted for in the economy
• We are independent

Sheet 4

Operating principle - New Normal

• More understanding of each other, valuing own & others story vs. building generalizable truths (→ have that inform policy)
• No quick fixes
• No one, right answer
• Build in flexibility, adaptability, responsive
  • Avoid high cost, big, fixed, unchangeable investments
• Wealth will be redistributed - some people will lose smthgs
• Less is more, quality over quantity, all of us help each other lead not just rely on the leaders
• Think locally - strengthen local systems
• Sense of community place strengthens [arrow connecting to "blurring..." below]
• Need new indicators - ex. new housing start vs. reuse starts
• Reuse, no more planned obsolescence
• Blurring of boundaries, esp. people more connected [arrow connecting to "sense..." above]
• Living in moment & not ruining future by our choices
• Slow down
• Think long term
• Being present w/others (won't need as many band-aids)

Sheet 5

• First listen
• Seek to understand
• Consider quality first - not just efficiency
  • Context neighborhoods
  • Community
• Limit/chose bureaucracy careful
  • Eliminate bureaucracy drag
• Listening & understanding as basis of community bldg
• Taking into account one another's perspectives & circumstances as a habit of mind
• Quality over quantity
  • Change metrics
  • Give up quantity efficiency

Table D Flip Chart

Discussion 1

• Fear, protectionism, turning on each other
• We've got a system problem compounded by dysfunctional political dynamics
• Are we having the right conversations?

Discussion 2

Sheet 1

1. Quality of life resides in things & independence of experience
2. Bringing in business & jobs is the path to retaining & attracting people
3. People go where the jobs are
4. Government provides the services necessary for a "good" quality of life
5. People are in control of their destinies
6. Free market capitalism is good for everyone
7. American style of representational gov't allows the best intelligence to inform important decisions
8. U.S. citizens are entitled to consume a disproportionate share of natural resources

Sheet 2

• Small is beautiful
• Appropriate technology is good
• Prosperity should be understood in new ways
• More sharing, collaborating at all levels - neighborhoods, gov't, org's., etc.
• Consider life-cycle ownership costs
• Everyone has the potential to add creative value to our communities
• Civic engagement is central to comm. health
• Mindset change is a possibility or everyone
• Food, shelter, clothing, healthcare are basic human rights

Table E Flip Chart

Discussion 1

• Ignore long term problems because of the immediate seriousness of problems
• Less tolerance and more inflammatory rhetoric
• We agree that policy changes are needed, but not sure how to make them happen.

Discussion 2

• We need to do more & do it better & we'll get beyond this
• Getting to better time benefits all
• Dissonance is time to retrench

Part I

• GM will take care of me for my life
• I'll always have what I have
• Someone will take care of me
• BS but is good enough
• Urban centers are black holes
• We must address my cause
• My belief system is the way to fix things

• Question authority & ourselves
• Is consumption the best way to build the economy
• Think about the greater good
• We need to teach personal responsibility
• We need to get to a common understanding
• Is capitalism the answer

• Listen to understand