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Futures Committee Agenda
Monday, May 11 4:00–5:15pm
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Chair Comments and Approval of January 13 Minutes:
4:00–4:15
Think Tank Item 2-2020
4:15–4:45 The Future of Health Equity
Paul Aldretti, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, Health
Equity Advocate
4:45-5:00 Q & A
Do: Next Steps
5:00-5:15 Upcoming Future Topics
Upcoming Agenda Items
June: Future issues on Youth’s minds (tentatively)
Unscheduled Items
Slow Cities **
Design Thinking **
Livable Cities **
Future of Housing**
Reimagining Engagement **
City as a Platform **
Healthy equity and community health trends
Regionalism (Larimer/Weld county)
University of the Future
Future issues on youth’s minds (Discuss
meeting with Youth Advisory Board)
Futurists (Disruptive
Technology)
Cultural Heritage
Learning (knowledge and
wisdom), Failure and
Risk
Curiosity
Mental Health
Learning (knowledge and
wisdom)
Digital Equity
Committee Members
Mayor Wade Troxell (Chairperson)
Councilmember Emily Gorgol
Councilmember Julie Pignataro
Staff Liaison: Jacqueline Kozak-Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer
Staff Support: Megan DeMasters, Specialist, Environmental Services
**Committee Priority topic
Think Tank Items 2020
1-2020 Becoming Fort Collins:
Regenerative
Approaches for Our
Future
2-2020 The Future of Health
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MINUTES
CITY OF FORT COLLINS
FUTURES COMMITTEE MEETING
Date: January 13,2020
Location: CIC Room, City Hall, 300 Laporte Ave.
Time: 4:00–5:30pm
Committee Members Present:
Mayor Wade Troxell
Julie Pignataro
Emily Gorgol
City Staff:
Jeff Mihelich, Deputy City Manager
Jackie Kozak-Thiel, (Staff Liaison)
Presenters:
Josie Plaut, Associate Director for the Institute of the Built Environment
Additional Staff Present:
Kevin Gertig
Katy McLaren
Nina Bodenhamer
Chief Swodoba
Community Members:
Dale Adamy
Kevin Jones, Fort Collins Chamber
Diane Jones, Formation group
Meeting called to order at 4:05 pm
Approval of Minutes:
Julie moved to approve December 9 minutes. Emily seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 3-0-
0.
Chairman Comments: None
Summary
• Kick-off 2020 Futures with what is the City of Fort Collins becoming?
o Many themes from this meeting will continue to resurface
• Defined regeneration and how it differs from sustainability
• Discussed the importance of Story of Place and elements that make up the Essence of
Fort Collins
o Sheltering Intersections
o Pragmatic Innovating
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o Transformative Reinvesting
• Discussion about how to take learnings from Future meetings and apply them to the work
that is currently being done
o Need to connect with the Reimagining Engagement team and continue to discuss
how we continue to build authentic community and civic capabilities
o Need to consider what it means for all community members to have the
opportunity to regenerate
Think Tank Item 6-2019: Becoming Fort Collins: Regenerative Approaches for Our
Future
Josie Plaut
• Josie begins the discussion by pointing out that the City of Fort Collins is “doing” and
“being” a lot of different things.
• Big Question is what are we as a City “Becoming”? How do we think of Fort Collins on
the path of becoming?
• Considering our community over the next 10, 20 and 50 years, Josie asks the committee
to consider who the City of Fort Collins becomes in the face of change
o Discussion of how in 50 years, City will reach capacity at 250,000
▪ City will be livable, lovable place, setting the example of how to bring all
these elements together
o City tends to be aspirational and pragmatic
▪ Consider how this dualism will allow the City to continue to
accommodate the needs of the community while also be accepting of
change
▪ City is one of the more mature municipalities in Northern Colorado,
which is part of why it is pragmatic speaks to pragmatic piece as
• What is required of the City to step-up to the new challenges we are facing?
o Communication: continue to learn on the best ways to engage with the
community
o Connecting: currently the separation between the “have” and “have nots” is
widening. City needs to step into a connecting role to move away from this
division
o Continue to be a community that is always curious: consider how we can be a
learning community at its core and model what a mature community can look at
o Love unconditionally: City needs to show up in real authentic relationships with
the community and care about community growing for a place where people
want to be
o Move from talking about the Future of the community in the abstract to creating
tangible outcomes
▪ Consider how we move forward with specific programs
▪ How do we develop capability to where the rubber meets the road and
move beyond the abstract?
• How do we have that conversation in a way that evolves and lets
us move forward?
• Being curious can help build capability
• Regeneration is about how to evolve and bring new and vigorous life
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o Differs from sustainability because sustainability is about the ability to maintain
or sustain something which is the way to stay on a forward path.
o Regeneration asks the following questions:
▪ How do we evolve?
▪ How do we become increasingly relevant to our community members?
• Presents the Spectrum of Sustainability practices as it relates to regeneration
o City has different leverage points for when to enter the system—end of it is how
are we actually improving things?
o Regeneration as a leverage point is about the co-evolution with the community.
This involves growing capacity to have hard conversations, to be reflective.
▪ Implied in this work is being dynamic—we often approach issues as
static—reframe can be important—expanding vigorous notion as a part of
the future
▪ Engineering view of the world versus lived systems
• Introduction to Story of Place—
o The Story of Place is not a single truth, or historical analysis— rather it is
looking at the patterns that repeat in a place. In other words, what is unique about
Fort Collins?
• Three main themes make up Fort Collins story
o Sheltering Intersections
▪ Fort Collins has edge eco-systems that make it a fruitful place to live
Culturally, the Innosphere is an example of an edge eco-system.
o Transformative Reinvesting—pattern of reinvesting in the future
▪ Examples of transformative reinvesting include ecological, how
mountains used to be 22,000 feet tall, over the millennia they have eroded
and created aquifers and soil conditions and high abundance of water in
this area—created soil
▪ Fort Collins is innovative in preserving land and investing in land banks
and the Climate Action plan
o Pragmatic Innovating
▪ Down to earth and innovative
• Lambing capital in the world in the early 1900s—made lambs fat
by feeding them sugar beet tops
▪ Irrigation developed at CSU, also had a role in founding the Peace Corps
▪ Role in founding the Peace Corps
▪ of Fort Collins has a history of planning, having an engaged plan for
future and building that plan
• Legacy of engaged planning
• The more we progress, the better we get at planning
• Vocation of City of Fort Collins is Learning Broadcaster
o World time broadcasted just north of town
o If we can do it here, it can be done in other places—share this out with the world
• Sheltering intersections, transformative reinvesting and pragmatic innovating come
together to form the essence of Fort Collins
o As we see these many challenges, we can draw from this understanding to inform
how we respond.
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• The questions are just as important or more important than the problem
o Framing questions are important so that we work on the right things
o We want to avoid spending a lot of time working on the wrong question
o Three is a need to continuously evolve to become the City we want to be
▪ Focus so much on what we are doing, regeneration asks us “how are we
thinking” “what is the quality of thinking to bring to wicked problems”
• Examples of Regeneration in Action
o Commonwealth of Nations—regenerative approach to address Climate Change
▪ Island nations facing disappearance of homes—how do we survive as
community and culture if we no longer have our place
o IBE Projects
o Regenerative agriculture—how do we regenerate viability and vitality of soil
o Regenerative Economics—capital institute—create an economy that is in service
to life
▪ Kate Hayworth
• Regenerative work increases our ability to matter in the world
Comments/Q&A:
• Too often, we think about choices in the form of binaries. Need to be thinking about
more creative approaches to solving problems that people can get behind.
• Discussion about big council priorities such as diversity and inclusion. There is no doubt
that it can be prioritized, just need to explore creative solutions.
o Affordability also continues to be a difficult subject, but group discussed having
confidence in the ability to work on these wicked problems.
• Lots of knowledge and risk associated with regenerative approaches. It is important to
recognize that the process is not linear
o We will continue to see fits of innovation
o Important to recognize that what may feel like failure and setbacks can help us as
a community move forward
• Disruption spurs growth and regrowth—faced with disruption is when we most often
step up—necessary ingredient for growth—potential to take us upwards
o Resilience is about ability to maintain, to rebound and get back to threshold—not
necessarily about becoming more capable because of disruption
• Discussion Additional Discussion: None
Meeting adjourned by Wade Troxell at 5:20.
Equity
Think Tank Items 2019
1-2019 Future of Philanthropic
Partnerships
2-2019 Polarities in data and
smart cities:
connectivity and
privacy, big data and
security
3-2019 The Future of
Community
Architecture
4-2019 The Future of Regional
Transportation
5-2019 Future of a Mindful,
Compassionate Fort
Collins: Learnings from
the Mindful Cities
Initiative
6-2019 The Future of Libraries